Game 131, Twins at Mariners
DMZ · August 25, 2008 at 6:10 pm · Filed Under Game Threads
Oh man, Liriano v Batista? This is going to be so awesome!
It could, of course, be a fine pitching matchup. But I can’t be the only one who looks at tonight’s game with some degree of dread. Batista facing a good-hitting Twins team? Ugh.
Mark Lowe was optioned to Tacoma, and Randy Messenger is up in his stead. Lowe’s foot is injured after taking that liner off it Saturday, and he was reportedly on crutches yesterday, so there you are.
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Jose looked so frustrated after getting two strikes with these freakin’ bunts. “Now I get to hit???” was written all over his face.
Cannot bunt. Cannot bunt. Cannot bunt.
Jose Sucks (at bunting). And at playing for the team. I-team.
Looks like I chose a good time to tune into the game. Let’s see if we can finish them off here.
dang it.
don’t these guys know they are supposed to have given up? stop playing hard? need to be not making an effort to win here? not giving 110%?
I guess I have to be excited about the game being tied, but what a waste
Hmmm not sure if I should cheer the DP or not.
Interesting that the Twins played back and allowed the tie.
58: They were probably just following the scouting report that put the least likely time for the mariners to score a run as a situation with a runner on third and no outs.
And JJ comes on….to give it up!
Is RA Dickey really the best pitcher to go to in this situation? Someone who’s likely to walk, then wild pitch a guy to third?
61, at least Burke is catching rather than Clement.
No many options left – isn’t it Jiminez, Dickey and ?
Jayson Stark was opining this morning that should the Nats earn the first draft pick, that due to payroll concerns, they wouldn’t want to pay Strasburg what he might be ‘advised’ to ask for, and if the Pads get in there, Alderson might not be likely to want to pay, either, being a good soldier in Bud’s Army.
of course, that doesn’t take into account that the Mariners are really good at following orders when it comes to slotting…
Two out, no one on? Swing for the fences Ichi!
…or hit a soft ground ball, whatever… I just wish that, “Ichiro could hit 40 homers if he wanted to,” thing the announcers say would happen in relevant situations.
god i love beltre
The crowd at the game is as thin as it is here.
I need to know who’s pitching next inning for the Mariners so I can make another crack. I seem to be successfully reverse cursing them.
I like the people who are still in the bleachers. Why not move to one of the empty cheap seats…
BELTRED!!!!!!
Weeee!
That was a vintage “Swung on and BELTED” by Dave!!!!
dammit, Adrian. why do you have to be so Adrian-like.
Jamie says this was the best he’s seen Batista this season — reminding him of the way he threw last year.
I think Jamie attended the Dan Wilson School of Catcher Speak.
Wooohooo! Rauuuuuul, AND BELTRE !!
Breaking news…Batista changed his mechanics! Again! Woo-hoo! I’m sure he’ll be lights out the rest of the season, right? Heck, with that “new arm angle” he may not allow another run.
Nope, never heard talk like that before.
Breaking news…Batista changed his mechanics! Again! Woo-hoo!
You sure he didn’t talk to his high-school coach? Or changed his glove postion to stop tipping his pitches? Or got some pointers from little green men?
In the post-game press conference, Riggleman just called Beltre “Belly”
“Belly?”
This is the exactly the kind of exciting, late August baseball I’d really be able to appreciate if my baseball team were PLAYING FOR ANYTHING WHATSOEVER.
interesting line to open Larue’s game update:
“Miguel Batista has made it clear to those who listen to him – he’d just as soon be somewhere other than Seattle.
The irony is that he waited most of the season to pitch well enough to make any other team want him.”
he’s been called that for a long, long time. Sadly.
msb:
“Jayson Stark was opining this morning that should the Nats earn the first draft pick, that due to payroll concerns, they wouldn’t want to pay Strasburg what he might be ‘advised’ to ask for, and if the Pads get in there, Alderson might not be likely to want to pay, either, being a good soldier in Bud’s Army.
of course, that doesn’t take into account that the Mariners are really good at following orders when it comes to slotting…
Isn’t Strasburg the consensus best player in the draft? In that case, I don’t quite understand the slotting problem–shouldn’t he go at the top and get the most money?
No.
If a player wants $10m and the top slot number is $5m, he doesn’t get drafted up top for $5m.
He either doesn’t get drafted, or some team pays more than they’re supposed to to get him with a later pick.
And Strasburg will have the option of returning to college for his senior year (I hope I am right on this), so, unlike the M’s pick Fields, he will have some more leverage to demand money over slot.
yup.
Shhhhhh! He has a new secret. Don’t tell anyone.
As far as Riggleman calling Beltre “Belly”, how could that nickname not be used for Sliva/Yuni/Lopez?
Then the Ms, with this current management, won’t be getting Strasburg. With HowChuck, they won’t go that much over slot for a high draft pick.