Game 159, Indians at Mariners
Byrd v Baek. With McLaren supposedly assured of retaining his job, it’ll be interesting to see if his… Clement’s DHing? And Ibanez is… really? We’re going to have a whole other year of this?
Cleveland shows their respect for the rest of the league with a sub-tastic lineup.
Game 157, Mariners at Indians
Sort of. 4:05, Safeco Field! First game of an actual, no-joke double header, folks. Wooooo! Beer sold all through the first game! Feierabend v Carmona! And the Indians are the home team, thus screwing up all kinds of Gameday-type features (Yahoo hasn’t been able to figure it out yet, for one). And future studies on home field advantage. Possibly park effect calculations. Good times.
Seriously, though, this is bargain baseball. Don’t miss it.
Game 156, Indians at Mariners
Felix Day! Woooo! The Indians are playing for the best record of any playoff team, and the Mariners are playing for the honor of.. uh… not being eliminated from the wild card race today? Veteran pride?
I don’t know, but check it out…
CF-L Ichiro
2B-R Lopez
LF-L Ibanez
DH-R Guillen
3B-R Beltre
1B-B Vidro
C-R Johjima
RF-R Jones (WOOO)
SS-R Bloomquist (IGNITION)
Game 154, Mariners at Angels
Batista v Colon! Wooo! 12:55, which I totally did not see coming.
Bloomquist at 3rd! IGNITION TIME
Game 153, Mariners at Angels
Washburn v Saunders! Joe Saunders. You know him, right? He’s that one guy.
Jones in left, bats 7th. Ibanez takes over at DH, Vidro takes first.
Also, Dave adds that Jorge Campillo was suspended for four games, and John McLaren for tonights game, as the result of Campillo throwing at Vladimir Guerrero last night. Honestly, I’m not sure four games is enough – what Campillo did was ridiculous and petty. Don’t like Vlad showing you up when you gave up a HR on your 85 MPH fastball? Hit him in the back. Message sent, move on. Throwing at someone’s head shouldn’t be tolerated, and honestly, if Vlad had charged the mound, I’d have been rooting for him to get a few good shots in before everyone broke it up. It’s basically inevitable that a Mariner hitter is going to get drilled in the next few days and we’re probably going to see a fight. Let’s just hope no one gets hurt because Jorge Campillo wanted to be an idiot.
Game 152, Mariners at Angels
Wooo! New starter! Feierabend versus Weaver!
Standard old new no-Sexson, Vidro-in-#6 hole lineup. The Angels’ magic number is three for the AL West title, so they won’t clinch tonight — and it’d be nice to force them to do that against some other team. Call me a grump.
(I believe New York’s number is 5, and they’re not playing tonight)
Game 150, Mariners at Athletics
Weaver v Gaudin. 7:05, FSN. Pretty boring M’s lineup. Pretty bad A’s lineup — check this out:
LF Stewart
1B Barton
RF Cust
DH Johnson
2B Ellis
SS Scutaro
3B Hannahan
C Suzuki
CF Davanon
That team’s hurting something awful. And yet the M’s are all but mathematically eliminated from the playoffs – do we really have to wait for them to be officially knocked out before they do any kind of reasonable playing time distribution?
Game 149, Mariners at Athletics
Batista v Haren! 7:05!
Ichiro/Beltre/Ibanez/Guillen/Broussard/Vidro/Johjima/Lopez/Betancourt.
Interestingly, in the “would you swap ’em” game, the beat-up A’s only really have one guy I’d take (Barton) without a second thought over the M’s version, and then you’re into Ellis v Lopez, Johnson v Vidro (yeah, I guess I take Johnson…)
Hey, while you’re waiting, did you miss today’s other posts, like “Horacio Ramirez, a historical perspective” which shows how Ramirez and the team’s inability to see his lack of value put him in select company that still makes him look bad? Or what about “Horacio Ramirez, a retrospective” featuring a cute and yet depressing graph of his suckiness?
I know, I’m feeling lonely because they only got a couple comments each.
Game 148, Devil Rays at Mariners
Here’s a game the M’s should have a chance at: Sonnanstine v Washburn.
Losing resets our second baseman to Lopez, or possibly it’s just giving Bloomquist a chance to regenerate his magic pixie dust or whatnot.
I have nothing new to say about the new Jones-to-winter-ball comments.
Game 147, Devil Rays at Mariners
6:05 start, KSTW. Kazmir versus Horacio Ramirez, who is being given another start because our manager values loyalty over winning games.
However, the defense gets upgraded a little with Jones in left over Ibanez, who DHs, and Vidro gets a start at first. Bloomquist loyalty wins out over Lopez loyalty.