Game 54, Orioles at Mariners
DMZ · June 3, 2009 at 6:37 pm · Filed Under Mariners
Bergesen v Vargas. Wait.
So what’s the best option for a lineup against a right-hander, given the M’s current composition, and Vargas on the mound? Standard L/R alternation preference, Chavez for the defense… I’m thinking:
RF-L Ichiro!
CF-R Gutierrez
1B-L Branyan
DH-L Griffey
C-R Johjima
LF-L Chavez
3B-R Beltre
2B-R Lopez
SS-R Betancourt (can I use Cedeno? Is he still alive?)
Hmm. Having written it out, I don’t like it so much any more. Go nuts, Wak!
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Win expectancy at 83.0% after the triple, dropped to 82.6% after Ichiro’s walk then increased to 83.6% after Branyan’s walk.
It was two years ago in an August home game against Tampa Bay. Seth McClung did it in the bottom of the ninth to bring Sexson to the plate.. double intentional walks with one out in the ninth.. a tie game.
And Richie hit a grand slam.
c’mon! that 3-1 pitch was a BALL! at least it was on my radio.
this guy throw anything but fastballs?
Beltre’D
Beltre!
that was just sweetness.
Anyone else see the look on Silva’s face as he was chasing Beltre? He looked hungry.
I love walk-off wins.
haha, I love how Felix was kicking him
And Sims with another overlaugh at Yuni chasing down Beltre.. That never gets old for me.
Awesome. And Ichiro’s streak continues, too!
We’re going to shatter, it seems, the all time-record for walk-off wins + losses in a single season…
Anyone else see Betancourt, and Felix kicking Beltre? What is that all about?? haha
Is that the new “thing” for the Mariners…pummel the guy who gets the game-winning hit? I can’t see how that could go horribly wrong or anything.
we can still make a smart trade on friday. right? we can still do that, I think. you can do it Jack!
I think it’s hilarious
WALK OFF!!
All we need is for Rob Johnson to get one of those walk-off hits…
In particular, someone needs to tell them that a kidney punch can be extremely hazardous.
I’d settle for a hit of any variety from Mr. Johnson…
And for Silva to trip and fall on him.
And that’s just one small reason why Beltre has value. Be it that they trade or keep him, that man can flat out play.
Why ask him to do something he’s not capable of? I’d settle for him to just walk off.
All we need is for Rob Johnson to get one of those walk-off hits…
And for Silva to trip and fall on him.
preferably after he crosses the plate considering that Silva may see the plate and think the buffet table is nearby.
So tonight’s game marked the 1/3 mark of the season. Putting us on pace for 78 wins. I do believe that number sounds familiar from our projected wins before the season.
That’s very true, Scottdids, but let’s remember that Zduriencik and Wakamatsu have both had to do a lot of improvising on the fly. We’ve had three guys start who weren’t projected to start, four starters go down for one or more starts, had a closer meltdown to nothing and had to put Aardsma, White and Batista into roles they weren’t projected for, gotten almost nothing from the aged DH tandem that nonetheless have clogged the no. 3 slot in the lineup most of the year, substandard production from three infield spots (including atrocious defense), almost nothing from behind the plate (including two Kenji DL stints) and yet we’re on pace to meet our projected win total. And we didn’t have Ichiro for eight games.
We’ve had more than we could have expected from essentially all the starters except the never-mentioned Burger Chef (Bedard and Washburn are doing nice salary drives, thank you; we’ll be cashing that in before you do) and somehow survived a bullpen made up almost entirely of right-handed fastball guys with control and command problems. The outfield defense has been superb, Balentien has developed some and Gutierrez has demonstrated that there are right-handed hitters who can tire out pitchers. Branyan has made a fine pact with the devil and Ichiro! has been Ichiro!!
The pluses and minuses add up to about what the projection was, but is there a guy on the roster other than Felix and maybe Gutierrez who’s about where you expected him to be? Okay, possibly the Doublemint twins. But the point is that getting to a pace for 78 wins in the circumstances hasn’t been easy and the guys who have outperformed their expected performance have been doing so with lead weights around their necks from Silva, Morrow, Betancourt, Lopez, Griffey, Sweeney, and, offensively, Beltre. Not to mention the zero from the catchers offensively. Wak has had to juggle like crazy to get us here.
I like this team (they’re 3-0 in the games I’ve attended and I get to see Felix on Friday). I enjoy watching a manager with the balls to have an all-right-handed bullpen, and unafraid to experiment and innovate. A year ago we had Vidro and Sexson. I’m happy.
“I like how Jones can chew gum and slam into walls at the same time.”
I actually saw a highlight real catch earlier in the season where Jones was running way back and near the end of his run he blew a bubble and then it popped a split second into his dive and he started chewing again mid-air (and caught the ball incidentally). It was pretty crazy.
That’s…awesome.
All we need is for Rob Johnson to get one of those walk-off hits…
Somehow I interpreted that as Rob Johnson being hit (beaten down) until the Mariners had to find a replacement…
Somehow I interpreted that as Rob Johnson being hit (beaten down) until the Mariners had to find a replacement…
Yeah, that’s what I was going for…
Even better!
It is. It’s also apparently something some people in Baltimore complain about. (This sounds exactly like some of the bitching about Ichiro you hear around these parts).