Game 69, Giants at Mariners
Jeff · June 16, 2006 at 7:24 pm · Filed Under Game Threads
Apologies for the delay. Let’s see how many pitches Noah Lowry can throw before getting an out.
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Why are they playing Star Wars music for Mike Morse?
we need a sweep to clean out any memory of our last series.
bottom of the 1st is a good start.
I wonder how many grand slams morse has?
They probably though his name was “Mike Force.”
*horff* Well, the Ms couldn’t do a thing with the Eastbayers down there, but up here they’ve got the Westbayers in a headlock, after Ichii hits a stinger. Let’s give them a quick twist, just for fun.
Morse grand slams = 0
Anyone notice that the lousy record the Mariners have against left-handers are the same games WFB is in the line-up?
How many innings will Lowey make it through?
Whew! I didn’t think we were going to get another run there, considering that the RBI double play wasn’t an option.
how? what?
Sexson stole a base? is it the Apocalypse?
What? Did I read that right? A stolen base for Sexson? That’s taking aggressive baserunning to another level!
Guy with nothing — swing at the first pitch, Willie! Geez.
OMG, Rangy Sexy nicks a bag! *hahaha* When the stars run backward like that, it _must_ means the Ms are gonna bomp on somebody for a win. 40 pitches for Lowry. —A POPUP?!! Yup, that’s m’ team.
Seriously, swinging at the first pitch there is just inexcusable.
WFB… swinging at the first pitch after the pitcher walks in a run. Classic.
WHAT Bloomquist SWINGING AT THE FIRST F’ING PITCH! Lowry obviously has nothing and is really struggling WHY. DSJLFAKJDSLKFJDSLK GOD I hate WFB so much.
yikes
What? I though Bonds stopped hitting homers a long time ago.
He-Who-Shall-Not-Be-Named goes yard. *rrrallllllllllphh*
Nah, we don’t want him next year.
I think we’re in for a loooong game.
Those leads of ours; they never last long.
A couple weeks ago I dangled Felix in my fb league.
Trades were offered, to be denied. The closest I had to something coming through was Felix for Jered Weaver. After his last two starts, I broke off talks, deciding I’d have to be stupid to trade Felix.
Felix must’ve heard the news, and is so overjoyed he’s rewarding me with this start!
Arrrrgh, Bad Felix tonight. Establishing the fastball against a fastball-hitting team.
Longtime reader, first time poster, I don’t get to see the M’s much anymore living in the bay area (born and raised in Seattle), quick question: Is it just me or is Felix throwing his slider tonight? The strikeout to green looked like a slider away at 90, not his normal curve.
I was out during the 2nd inning– was it poor pitch selection, Felix sitting for 40 minutes waiting for Willie to do what Willie does, or just a pair of 300+ HR hitters? I really like the way the guys worked over Lowry in the bottom of the 2nd, there.
Felix was pissed. It was quite obvious after the Finley homerun. Maybe he just gave the M’s the middle finger and decided to throw the slider.
Isn’t the Safe supposed to be a pitcher’s park?
Felix…
prostate research is all very well, but that’s enough contributed by the Giants, thank you very much.
So, what’s up with the gun reading 88-89 mph on the curve? Seems like it’s getting his FB (95-97) and changeup (83-84) right.
9% of Sexson’s career stolen bases have come in this game.
This is not the game to watch if you want to see outstanding left field defense.
so, there is what, one good arm out of both outfields?
Let’s go for the sac flies record (5).
Thank you Michael.
I’m going to stick with my theory that Morse should be the full-time DH.
morse must be high on life!!
Kenji-chan is pretty damn good.
Joe-Jimmmmm’s got WAH!
A string of doubles sure beats our usual string of singles!
Wow, Rizzs just called out Bloomquist from swinging at the first pitch when the bases loaded. When you lose Rico …
IGNITE~…. god damned aggressive baserunning.
WFB delivers!
and fawks it up due to ‘aggresive’ baserunning…
$%#^&($!
Willie!!!! (seconds later) WIIIIIILLLLLIIIIEEEE!!!!!
Ohhh, but he’s SOOOO _(s)crapppy_!, he gets runs in even while making a total ass of himself on the basebaths. Whadda guy, our Willie, hey??
WFB couldn’t stand to NOT make the last out in the inning, so he tried extra hard to do so. Good effort.
#46: He wanted to atone for his failure to pop out.
Mariners batting .571 so far today
where the *bleep8 was this the past few days? hay-zeus!
Felix is really grooving his fastball…
Ha ha. That heckler was louder than Niehaus.
you, know, Bonds has an excuse for poor play rattling around in the corners of left field….
Slow thread tonight.
Niehaus’ gravestone epitaph:
“And that is NOT a stop by Beltre!”
Well… I think most of us are paying close attention to Felix. Felix threads tend to be slow because we’re really “watching” the game.
If only Felix were watching the game.
and then in between there is that wierd thing, I think they call it ‘hitting’? or something?
It didn’t used to be like that, if you recall. When Felix started last year, we’d have 300+ comments, crash the server, and drive Derek to drink (more than normal).
I’ll drink up all the Hennessey you got on your shelf,
Now just let me introduce myself…
#58: That’s Esteban Loaiza’s line.
How long has Beltre had 9 stolen bases?
hmmmm, Hennesseys.
No, Jim, that was Humpty Hump.
Round Three goes to Felix.
Hail to the King, baby.
Phelicks!
That’s better.
Hendu??? “The prostrate”????
Felipe & Moises reminds me, I was startled the other day for some reason watching Cincy highlights at how Jr has acquired Sr’s physique… nothing like hitting your mid-30s…. ooops, gotta go turn on the radio and get away from Valle & the prostrate foundation
of course, my dad was kinda prostrate after his surgery….
ah, Omar, like we haven’t seen that before.
Like Rizzs is so much better. “This time Vizquel USES his GLOVE!”
Just because a baseball player barehanded the last one does not make it shocking when he uses his glove on the next play.
So, back in lovely Phoenix for the weekend. Besides what I can see of Felix’s line, how has he been throwing? Are they hitting good pitches or are they hitting grooved heaters?
They are just waiting for the fastball and starting their bats extremely early.
They act like they are hitting off of Frankie Rodriguez for 9 innings.
Wow, the Long Ball Lounge.
I wonder if they’ll also be featuring the Bunt Bar and Pop Fly Pub.
Tonight’s like WFB’s Greatest Hits, isn’t it?
Third mental mistake by Bloomquist tonight.
Hi, I’m Aggressive Baserunning. You may have seen me in such outs as Willie Bloomquist getting tagged at second.
Yuggghe, the San Francisco Butcher Boys flub it up on Willie, so like a gentleman he wanders out there in no-man’s-land and hands them the out back. Whadda guy, our Willie, HEY??????
Evil Rick Rizzs just choked to death on his own laughter.
Willie Dynamite gets pegged by Uncle Rico.
More do-well-but-still-get-out from Bloomquist.
and there is no excuse– for petesake, he grew up watching Omar just like the rest of us.
So much for the lead … it’s time for Eddie Dynamite.
Why Eddie G?
The fantasy gods must be conspiring against me to get a win tonight.
Self-imposed moratorium on talking about Rizzs after this one, but just when I’m sure I couldn’t respect him less, he goes and can’t pronounce Soundgarden.
Slow thread = catching up on the World Cup.
Next “celebrity” sighting: Artis the Spoonman.
I suspect the thinking is to get Guardado some work and see if he can demonstrate some minimal level of value so the team can trade him.
… but a leadoff walk to Winnn is not helping.
Eddie + Barry = HR. I have to agree with Grover on the IBB.
But an HR would have been the fan-friendly thing to do.
ok, I can understand prostrate, I mean I’ve done that myself, but how do you mispronounce Soundgarden?
They can’t trade Eddie, because he’s the clubhouse prankster.
Omar passing the torch to Betancourt? Yeah, with 31 shortstops in between. Including a couple of all-stars. They sure do stretch it sometimes.
nah, they have JJ as back-up for that, too
#92– was that Rizzs? He can’t let go of Omar, either … I was amazed at how many times he brought him up during the Oakland series
We don’t have to worry! Vin Scully just said the Mariners beat the Giants. I assume he’s talking about these Mariners.
Wow. That heed is like a virtual planetoid.
well, if Vin says so….
Use up that bullpen, Grover.
ok, so another run about this time for the Ms would be nice.
A’s just won = bad.
Padres just took lead over Angels = good.
That was a SNARKY fastball.
And here we go.
1-1 tie going into the 9th down in Sacramento; it was a 1-0 lead for the Rainiers, but Green couldn’t quiiiite get out of the 8th.
so, out of the various heartwarming returns to Seattle, which will capture the hearts of the broadcast team this weekend … Ishikawa? Ellison? Omar? Randy?
Stand up, lazy fans.
Man, it’s fun watching JJ challenge him like that.
I should of figured we’d be in this situation.
yowza!
#104– of course, whenever we’d stand up with two outs & two strikes for Kaz, he’d inevitably throw a ball….
And here we go!
Filthy!!!
Oh yeah!!!
WHAT A PITCH! FROZEN PIZZA!
Split-tastic!!!!
Did you see J.J. react to that??? I think he just won the World Series.
My man crush on JJ has intensified in the last 45 seconds.
Wow – I think that last K there was the first thing I’ve gotten genuinely excited about with this team in a long long time. I spontaneously whooped right here in my living room. Thank you JJ.
wow, wonder if Vin has any investment info he’d like to pass along….
Sometimes we have to strike out our own Barry Bonds. Who, in this case, is the actual Barry Bonds.
I’m guessing JJ won’t be willing to hand back this job anytime soon, no matter how much he looks up to Eddie.
JJ was Dy-no-mite!
#119…Eddie who?
Thank you, El Guappo
At the park tonight, there was a much larger security detail than normal, including cops and alcohol enforcement.
It really looked and felt like an NL park tonight. It might have been because the beer lines were 4 times normal length. I think I saw one non-drunk Giants fan the whole night.
I think we should start calling WFB “The Rally Killer.” Man, what an idiot.
He ain’t no Putz!!! That pitch sequence to He-Who-Shall-Not-Be-Named in the 9th to end the game was prime, and J. J.’s holding out for another splitter on the last pitch best of all. With Putz shaving three digits above and off the plate, the batter couldn’t hit the split if he tried, as Nameless showed on the one swing he took at it. The batter isn’t going to swing at the split, so you get a free try at the strikezone. J. J. split a beauty to carve the dish in equal halves, which leaned to either side to form a ‘W.’
Putz was shaking Johjima off a lote in the 8th and the 9th. I don’t know it that says anything about Kenji, but the good side of it is that Putz has a very clear idea of how he wants to set up his pitch sequences, and it looked good, both on the K to Winn in the 8th, and to Nameless in the 9th.
Pitching is why I’ll always love baseball.
That was the most amazing game I’ve ever watched live.
The excitement was just so excited when Bonds got K’d looking.
Now I have to wait in line for 1.5 hours for a goddamn ferry.
For all the controversy surrounding Bonds, his presence does bring more drama and fan interest to the game. His home run and subsequent strikeout in the 9th inning gave the game an excitement that Safeco has been missing for most of this blah season
I hate to say that Barry Bonds makes a game more exciting, but it really does. It’s funny
You think the wait for the ferry is long — just wait until you see how long it takes the boat to get from Seattle to Idaho!
Awww, Corco was there and I didn’t get to meet him? I am so sad.
That was a really fun game. Wearing a Yomiuri Giants shirt around the stadium was pretty priceless, though not as priceless as the extremely drunk dude sitting a few rows behind me in section 148 yelling his lungs out at Barry Bonds, who would just smile and wave.
And I was at the game, too, and I didn’t run into either of you guys. Jeez.
I wasn’t at the game, and I didn’t see any of you.
I was at the game and missed all of you guys too.
What fun it was. I couldn’t remember if I had seen Bonds go yard at the Kingdome, but now I know that I saw him jack one. I also saw the King make him look stupid.
I was happier seeing Randy Winn’s homer. I still like Randy Winn, even if he still throws like a girl.
I’ll be at tomorrow’s game (Saturday) too, wearing yet another Yomiuri Giants jersey (I had Takahashi #24 today, I’ll have Uehara #19 tomorrow).
Oh yeah, surprised it didn’t get mentioned on here, but Brandon Morrow was at today’s game. They showed him on the screen at one point with a big “MARINERS WELCOME BRANDON MORROW” thing.
132: Bonds has never gone yard at the Kingdome, so you never saw him hit a home run there. Since you were at the game, you didn’t see the Aflac trivia question, which listed the Kingdome as one of three parks in which Bonds has played in but never homered.
I’ve seen Barry Bonds play in person three times in my life: 1993 in Denver, 2001 in Seattle, and tonight.
In all three games he homered. In the Colorado game, he homered three times.
Outside of Thomsen, who wasn’t at the game tonight? Sounds like we should have had an impromptu pizza feed.
Another thing I’ll say about SF Giants fans: They were lit on BALLPARK BEER. They may have been hitting the bottle before the game, but they were drinking $7 ballpark beer at an insane rate.
If I’m paying $7 for a cup of some alcoholic beverage, it better contain single malt or port.
Oh, and one more thing before I go to bed:
The booing and hate toward HHMNBN was nowhere near the hating on ARod that happens in a normal Yankees game, much less that night in April 2001.
I love Safeco Field. I was sitting in RF today in my normal 16-game plan seats, and after Bonds’ home run and 75% of the people were cheering, I decided to pipe up and say “…you guys have got to be frickin (verbatim) kidding me. He’s a cheater.”
Now whether he is actually a cheater or not is obviously unproven, but not a few minutes later a Safeco Field usher came down to my seat and said, “we’ve had a complaint about you using abusive language.”
“I said, ‘frickin.’”
(guy behind me): “No, you did not.”
(usher): “there are different definitions of abusive language.”
me: “I said ‘frickin.’ Does it really matter? Whatever.”
I love Seattle fans. I’m from Seattle, but honestly…this guy behind me didn’t have the guts to simply ask me to not use such “profane” language in front of him and his kid, instead having to go to the usher?
Give me a break. God, I love Seattleites sometimes. And I AM one.
Seattle definitely has a certain passive agressive problem. I love the town and the people, but as an east coaster sometimes the indirect way in which people go about things drives me nuts.
Wasn’t at the game—work—but went out on my break to watch Putz put paid to the SFers on a TV set through the bar window. Great night for a ballgame though. Just wish the idjits who decided to schedule basketball and hockey through mid-June would take a reality break and push those petty pursuits back into the rainy months where they belong.
Seattle fans are to nice to ‘relate to’ HHMNBN as they should. Happy Town hasn’t got it in itself.
138.
Nobody’s probably checking this anymore, but even if he were regular-human sized, does that ball not clear the fence?
Oh ho! According to the Times, it was Johjima calling for the late splitters from Putz, and J. J. repeatedly shaking him off before giving in and throwing ‘em. Well, kudos to Kenji then, it was totally the right call. To all those who have been wondering if Joe-Jim’s pitch calling ‘has been a problem,’ this one is Exhibit A for the defense.
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I expect that kind of language at Denny’s, but not Safeco Field!
9-5 midway thru a month….could my M’s fantasies and dreams become reality (well ok not the one about Jennifer Anniston, the bullpen at Safeco, a fullmoon and that oh so romantic train whistle)? Could the M’s record their first month with a winning record in their history (it seems that way at least….)?
Just win 5 more baby….
#138: if you couldn’t keep yourself from paying $4 a cup for burnt tasting cofee on a daily basis, you’d have issues too that might bubble to the surface as passive aggression…
it’s an often-discussed topic, including a Pacific Magazine piece last year talking to newcomers about the distancing techniques (including passive-aggresiveness” used:
“One theory points to the cloistering effect of cloudy skies. Another has it that the Seattle Nice/Ice phenomenon is rooted in a historic intersection of Nordic-Asian reserve. It may be the influence of weekend mountain men or the influx of socially disinclined tech workers. It could be a trapping of mid-sized citydom  small enough to manage on your own but too big to care about your neighbors. Or perhaps it’s all of the above: some confluence of factors that has created a perfect storm of antisociality. Some element of our antisocial streak, at least, seems to go back to the frontier days, when the prevailing ethic was: We’re in this together, but I wish you’d go away.”
A buddy and I were told to turn down our small radio at the Kingdome during the 95 Yankees/Ms game 5.
145: That basically sums up my feelings about Seattleites.
call me at 208-315-2254 if you are bummed about not meeting corco at the game because he will be at the entire series!
and I managed to catch an earlier ferry so I only waited like 15 minutes
Aw geez, Corco, you posted that pretty much exactly when I was walking into the gates at Safeco today, so I didn’t see it until now — I was there super-early due to Race for the Cure. I won’t be there tomorrow, so oh well.