127 Responses to “Game 38, Red Sox at Mariners”

1. naviomelo on May 17th, 2009 3:41 pm

   He’s been consistently 97-98 before today to. We haven’t seen this out of him since before his injury. Last year he occasionally hit 96 or so but was usually 93-94mph.

   Could be that last year he was afraid to let it go when throwing.

   He was throwing 93-94 earlier this year too. We’ve only seen this from Lowe the last 3 or 4 times out there. It would be awesome if he could regain his form as a legitimate relief ace.

2. cdowley on May 17th, 2009 3:45 pm

   Pay attention, boys… this is how you work the count

3. bilbo27 on May 17th, 2009 3:56 pm

   Was there any doubt on that 3-1 count they were going to throw Beltre something low and away? And was there any doubt in anyone’s minds that he was going to swing for it?

   When Beltre’s going bad, he’s very predictable.

4. cdowley on May 17th, 2009 3:56 pm

   ARGH! Two inches! Two more inches and he had that!

5. cgmonk on May 17th, 2009 3:57 pm

   That was right at the wall.

6. jmb13 on May 17th, 2009 3:57 pm

   Branyan sure tagged that ball.

7. cdowley on May 17th, 2009 4:07 pm

   WTF was that? Talk about random…

8. bilbo27 on May 17th, 2009 4:07 pm

   Anyone know how Branyan is at third defensively? I know it’s his normal position, but is he any good at it? Beltre will be gone at the half way point or next year and it’s starting to look like Branyan might just actually be a good hitter when given a chance to play every day.

   Having a lefty in Carp at first and a lefty in Branyan at third might be nice. 🙂 Throw in Ichiro and then put Clement at DH and the M’s would have a tad bit more balanced a line-up (just a little, but every little bit counts :-).

   Trade Jose and get a good lefty second basemen and we’d be set. 🙂

9. hark on May 17th, 2009 4:14 pm

   bilbo–

   Granted the sample size is small, but Fangraphs has Russell’s fielding at just south of “fuckin’ terrible”:

   http://www.fangraphs.com/statss.aspx?playerid=370&position=3B/OF#fielding

10. bilbo27 on May 17th, 2009 4:15 pm

    “Russell’s fielding at just south of “fuckin’ terrible””

    Well dang. Maybe he’d be another good one to trade at the deadline then if he can keep this up. 🙂

11. naviomelo on May 17th, 2009 4:16 pm

    Yuni’s swinging at pitches out of the zone again.

12. bilbo27 on May 17th, 2009 4:18 pm

    ugh, denny stark coming on. Please score here M’s.

13. Lauren, token chick on May 17th, 2009 4:19 pm

    A little high. Yes, that throw was indeed a little high. Yay!

14. naviomelo on May 17th, 2009 4:21 pm

    Yeah!!!!!

15. jmb13 on May 17th, 2009 4:21 pm

    Beautiful! I like Guti regardless of what people say.

16. Scottdids on May 17th, 2009 4:21 pm

    DFT how I love you!

17. cdowley on May 17th, 2009 4:22 pm

    GUTI!! HELL YEAH!!

18. Lauren, token chick on May 17th, 2009 4:22 pm

    Yes! I had an unfounded feeling that we would pull this one off. Results-based analysis would say this feeling was founded, but I know better. :>

19. Flowin on May 17th, 2009 4:23 pm

    GUTTTTIIIII!!

    That man is my hero.

20. bilbo27 on May 17th, 2009 4:24 pm

    Wow, our number 6, 7, and 8 starters just managed to win a series for us against the Redsox… What a funny game this is. 🙂

21. jmb13 on May 17th, 2009 4:27 pm

    Wow, our number 6, 7, and 8 starters just managed to win a series for us against the Redsox… What a funny game this is.

    To take from Lauren, results based analysis would say we have about 6 to 8 great starting pitchers.

22. bilbo27 on May 17th, 2009 4:27 pm

    And now we get the limping U.S. L.A. Angels of Anaheim on Earth in the Milky Way coming in. Hopefully Bedard’s hammy will be good enough to go in the series.

23. mln on May 17th, 2009 5:38 pm

    I have two things to say:

    Mariners win.

    And I’m glad that … I’m not from BOSTON!!1!

24. dingla on May 17th, 2009 6:21 pm

    wtf? lol, but id like that 1:57 of my life back.

25. Breadbaker on May 17th, 2009 7:00 pm

    On the postgame show, Drayer said that Yuni told her that he doesn’t like hitting ahead of Ichiro. It took Drayer and Hasselman a long time (including a commercial break) to even come up with a plausible theory why that would be true. They said that since the pitcher would rather not face Ichiro, Yuni thinks they will throw him nothing but strikes. They weren’t buying it, as well they should not, because they knew the word was out that Yuni would swing at anything.

    The one thing they didn’t point out is that some of the worst games he played were the ones he was batting seventh. I don’t think anyone was worried about Rob Johnson hitting behind him.

26. Admiral Adama on May 17th, 2009 7:55 pm

    Isn’t Maddon supposed to be the smartest manager in the game or something like that?

    Maybe it’s less professorial and more prophetic: Sonnastine capped their big inning w/ a RBI double and got the W.

27. msb on May 17th, 2009 8:07 pm

    Idiot Sims. North to Alaska did not have Maureen O’Hara as John Wayne’s co-star, it was the ill-fated but lovely Cappuccino.

    Did spell-check fix Capucine there? 🙂

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