Game 48, Mariners at Devil Rays
DMZ · May 28, 2005 at 3:12 pm · Filed Under Game Threads
RHP Aaron Sele v LHP Tony Fossas. Casey Fossum, sorry, sorry. 3:15, radio only.
It’s a stunning day out. No television coverage, Sele coming off a complete-game start… even if you don’t get out to enjoy the sun, take the radio out in the backyard, or on the balcony, enjoy a beer or some iced tea. And please, don’t tell anyone outside of Seattle how nice it’s been this week.
Also: if you’re reading this outside of Seattle, it’s been nasty here. You get so used to the horrible weather that you can’t handle a sunny day with temperatures over 70. It’s awful. Don’t move here. Thank you.
Jeff, by the way is here.
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Willie Bloomquist is my hero.
MLB-TV says I’m still blacked out.
#102
Go to the Tampa Bay Site. It worked for me.
I am concerned about Nelson’s performance these last few games. What does this mean? What are the potential problems affiliated with this? Is the world spinning off its axis? Where is the real Nelson?
I would love to see Soriano back. I still pray they don’t turn him into a closer. I could tolerate long relief (especially just starting him there, until his arm recovers), but I think he has more promise as a starter than Meche.
I (obviously) didn’t get to see Sele pitch today, but the last two games weren’t as good as his ERA looks. He’s still putting a lot of guys on, even if he’s getting out of jams.
To me he looks like the guy who chases bottom pair and open ended draws with pot+ bets time after time. Sometimes he hits a couple in a row and wins a bunch, but you know that in the long run it won’t work.
#102,
Click on one of the other teams’ games. Click on the Oakland-Cleveland game. Once that comes up, then click on the Seattle-Tampa Bay TV icon. You should be able to get it then.
Hopefully this helps. It helped me.
Matt Williams said: “I (obviously) didn’t get to see Sele pitch today, but the last two games weren’t as good as his ERA looks. He’s still putting a lot of guys on, even if he’s getting out of jams.”
but that’s Sele… and it’s fine, if he also has a 6-8 runs per game average, as used to happen for him in the old days
#105 whaaaaaat. 15 2/3 innings, 8 hits 0 walks 1ER on 1HR. The guy is no superstar but give him some credit – his last two outings have been solid, and he could have gone 7 or 8 tonight had bloomquist not opened the inning with an error.
DJC-
Dont ask where the real Nelson is. Someone might go looking for him.
#104-
There is a parallel universe somewhere that is wondering what happened to their ‘ace’ Sele and can’t figure out why the normally stalwart Nelson has gotten all whiney all of a sudden.
One the plus side, Pokey ‘Iron Man’ Reese was still able to play even after getting shot twice and being hit by a truck earlier in the morning.
Q: do you double steal here with reed and ichiro on, up by one with two outs?
Got it! Thanks for the help. I hope I don’t regret turning it on.
Daaaan doh, forgot about that last start (I think I was busy that night). I think the games against NY were still on my mind.
Lou — walk Winn, #3 hitter is 40 pts. worse than HIM…
No
#97 and
Yeah it is pretty funny when he throws a bugs bunny change or goes even slower and strikes someone out, but I meant in between pitches, he’s as slow as they come and that drives me crazy, especially when he’s not getting calls on his location anymore – which is how it is now, he grinds down to a halt.
By the time his career is over, Ichiro may end up owning the record for Intentional Walks per Extra Base hits.
Where is Valdez? Don’t we want the defensive upgrade?
I just have a feeling we have seen Valdez for the last time.
I am VERY comfortable with Reed roaming center field.
phew. ok, I think I’ll go watch the rest of ‘They were expendable’ on TCM, with PT boat captain Robert Montgomery as a PT boat captain in the Pacific…
Mariners win, oh yeah!
Note to Fairly: they did not score 4. Won anyway. Go figure.
Wait a moment…you’re editing those three starts. According to mlb.com his last three starts (including tonight, to cut out that horrible NY start, are:
21.2 IP, 14 H, 7 walks, 2ER. A WHIP of 1 isn’t bad, but with only 10 SO the BABIP has to be very skewed.
If you ignore tonight’s start they were 17.2 IP, 17H, 9BB, 8SO. Not good.
We win and I still feel depressed. I know I’m probably behind the curve here, but today it struck me how Brett Boone has become a pretty darned awful baseball player. Sigh.
This Sele is clogging more interesting pitchers.
No, this Sele is increasing his trade value at the July deadline so we can see interesting pitchers AND maybe get someone back. (That being said, I’m still skeptical this will last, but hey, enjoy it while it lasts).
A SP with a decent ERA making 700 K is someone even a small-market team can pick up at the deadline…
Welcome to Aaron Sele – staff ace
Sheesh…
Drayer was just saying on the postgame that Hargrove has been hinting heavily that come the arriveal back in Seattle, changes are a-coming. At the least, a line-up change, and poss. something involving AAA…
#127 oddly enough Doyle is not in the Tacoma lineup for the second straight day. Would be nice if he was meeting the M’s on Monday.
The Mariners, by slugging percentage:
Wiki Gonzalez (DL)
Richie Sexson with .519
Pat Borders with .500
Raul Ibanez with .454
Ichiro! with .452 (Raul, btw, hits home runs in his batter’s box, while Ichiro! hits singles)
Wiki Gonzalez,
Pat Borders,
in the Top 5,
is a sad sight.
Just to correct those — there was no blackout in Japan. Our schedule runs different than yours. I saw the game and it was real boring on the offense side. The pitching was not exciting either — barely an K’s. In other words, nothing to talk about.
Was no one else appalled by Rick Rizzs calling a long fly ball that Ichiro! caught in the late innings, “He had a long way to go, and a short time to get there!” ??? Did we have to go all Bandit?
#123, sorry you’re right. somehow i forgot espn put the hr column between er and bb, and dropped a few of his walks.
Bret, your official Delta Tau Chi nickname is “Rallykiller”.
Watching a struggling batter swing at the first pitch thrown by a reliever in the middle of a rally is painful. Any manager worth his salt would bench that guy. Plus, Grover’s publicly stated that he’d like to see more patience from his “hitters” (can’t use that term literally of course). Is Boone openly defying his manager? The guy can’t even have the decency to put up some tradebait numbers.
I applaud Rizzs’s use of truck drivin’ music, there. I grew up with a lot of truck drivin’ music, and will always have a soft spot for it.
I heard rumors that the Blue Jays are shopping Vernon Wells. Any potential? Desire?
Re: (# 71) HELLING’S IMPALING – I think we’ve had a serious safety concern for some time, and it has finally been brought to our attention. (Now that we’ve been hit over the head with a hammer, maybe we’ll do something.)
It seems to me that the reason we see so many broken bats these days is that their handles are of a smaller diameter than formerly–so they’re lighter; so the batter can swing them faster.
There is (according to the rules) a maximum diameter that bats can be. To prevent something like this (or worse) happening, there should also be (IMO) a minimum diameter.
YMMV.
#126: that was my first thought when I saw the score on ESPN. Heh.
#58: Rivera’s a good example of one of my favorite things about college softball – the crazy stats. As of today (don’t know if the last two games are included) she was hitting .362/.593/.913; 1.506 OPS with 60.9% of her hits for extra bases.
Does anybody ever bother fact checking articles over at ESPN? Gammons’ latest article has the followingfun little tid-bit.
“Remember Ryan Anderson, the 6-foot-10 “Little Unit” and former no. 1 pick of the Tigers?”
Aaron Sele now has the best ERA of all the starters, and is well below his career ERA. Pat Borders apparently knows how to call a game better than Miguel Olivo, and I wonder how much bad pitching can be attributed to Olivo’s inexperience (and deference?) behind the plate.
Looks like Rob Szasz, our favorite heckler, works at “Del Mar Development LLC”:
http://www.clearwater-fl.com/gov/depts/official_records/notices.asp
More info:
http://www.sunbiz.org/scripts/cordet.exe?a1=DETFIL&n1=L02000007304&n2=NAMFWD&n3=0000&n4=N&r1=&r2=&r3=&r4=DELMARDEVELOPMENT&r5=
138: I noticed that last night. But I figured it was Gammons, so it wouldn’t be exciting. If it were Art Thiel that said that, I would’ve pointed it out.
#139
I’d bet it has some impact. I think Olivo is a poor catching player and this weakness of his shows up when it’s time to call pitches. He isn’t going to call for the pitch down and away if he knows he can’t catch.
Another awesome start by Sele. I thought he had nothing to offer the team????
#143
At this point, wether he pitches well or not, he still doesnt have anything to offer the team. Well I take that back…He’s been building trade value. I’m not trying to knock Sele, or what you are suggesting. Thats just the state of the team. If the offense turns thigs around AND Sele keeps pitching this way then I’ll say you’ve got a point.