Game 128, Red Sox at Mariners
Dave · August 25, 2006 at 6:45 pm · Filed Under Mariners
Schilling vs Woods. This could get ugly in a hurry.
Reasons to watch: Doyle, Ichiro in center, and, umm, Doyle!
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Re 248 yes, I’ve written five books (see http://www.pauloeb.org) and my grammar stil lis lacking…
Back from my beloved baseball addiction to some work where what I do may actually have an impact on the outcome
Good lord, man, you can’t even spell your own website! You’ve got it bad. Try http://www.paulloeb.org!
Sorry, typed too fast. Yes, thanks…
man, what I missed tonight– Jake dancing out of trouble, a shut-out going the M’s way for a change, love in the air and a kerfuffle…
Ugh, Arizona and the Dodgers are into extra innings. LA used its closer for the 12th, so they reached into their bag of …something… and who did they pull out to pitch the 13th? Our old friend, Aaron Sele. The NL, where marginal AL pitchers go to extend their careers…
Really good conversation with Assistant to the GM, Dan Evans on KOMO 1000 after the game. Interviews like this re-assure me that this team is heading in the right direction.
#213 said: I’m going to Walla Walla next weekend. Anything exciting to do – especially good wineries, etc.?
There’s some great wineries out there. These are some
of the better ones I’ve been to. Most places let you
taste for free, but some places you have to call ahead
to see if they’re tasting that day.
Russell Creek
Isenhower
Three Rivers
Morrison Lane
K Vintners
Colvin
And Lauren channelling the spirit of Max Boyce (#193)… what more could we want from a blog?
This is hilarious.
In case they fix it, it’s a recap of tonight’s/last night’s game and how the M’s beat the Co-MVP’s of the “2002”[!] World Series back to back.
Bad John Hickey, bad.
Was at the game last night and the whole Yankees series. It’s AMAZING how much better this lineup looks with Doyle and Broussard/Perez instead of Reed/Jones and Everett.
We aren’t the 1927 Yankees (or even the 2006 Yankees) but Ichiro, Doyle, Lopez, Ibanez, Sexson give us 5 solid hitters at the top. When Beltre is healthy, we legitamately have Lopez hitting eighth, though that would be more exciting had he not left his hitting shoes at the All-Star game.
Re: TIF in #236 – get over yourself, defensive Red Sox Boy.
When it comes down to it, the M’s beat the Red Sox by sending out Jake Woods (Jake Woods!) against Curt Schilling. I’m sure Red Sox Nation were expecting a massacre (as were M’s nation, too, I guess, given the recent past), but it didn’t quite turn out that way.
#213 – I went to college in Walla Walla in the late 60s. Seeing a request like this “anything interesting to do?” is stupifying. In those days, the answer would have been simple: “No.” or maybe “Only if you bring plenty of dope.”
Beautiful for a brief time in the spring when a billion lilac trees are blooming, though.
#235 How much makeup do you suppose is involved in Valle’s television eyebrows? Anybody seen him during daylight hours on the street?
Or, how about that plug job? Someone should tell Dave Valle and the many men like him who go bald early that SOME women like their men bald, some women like their balding men to wear what hair remains short and well-trimmed instead of long and greasy, and just about NO woman likes an obvious hair transplant.
As for the game last night (getting to this blog late, as usual…life interfered), my jaw was hanging open in disbelief nearly the whole game long.
There’s already been quite a few comments on one Red Sox message board about Coco Crisp not being quite what they expected defensively. It’s speculated that he’s gunshy about damaging his body any more than he did in April, which put him on the DL for a considerable length of time.
Re: TIF in #236 – get over yourself, defensive Red Sox Boy.
Deh huh what? “Defensive Red Sox Boy”? I have no love whatsoever for Boston nor any other team not from the city of Seattle. That doesn’t change the fact that the shut out isn’t AS big an accomplishment if we’d have shut out the lineup full of Boston’s regulars.
I mean…
Coco Crisp – .266 / .321 / .382
Mark Loretta – .307 / .363 / .387
David Ortiz – .287 / .400 / .630
Wily Mo Pena – .300 / .345 / .516
Mike Lowell – .285 / .343 / .465
Gabe Kapler – .219 / .321 / .370
Doug Mirabelli – .182 / .308 / .227
Dustin Pedroia – .133 / .133 / .133 (rookie)
Alex Cora – .278 / .361 / .325
I mean.. What? Does that lineup, aside from Ortiz, really frighten you? Wily Mo Pena is an all our nothing swing, so he’s easy to strike out. And I’m not convinced Mike Lowell has had a resurgence from last year’s debacle. 3 guys in that lineup slugging over 400. Three. Only three guys in that lineup with an OBP over .350. Three!
Hey, I’ll take my victories anyway I can get them. But no Manny (.328 / 443 / .632), no Youkilis (.290 / .386 / .490), no Trot Nixon (.294 / .396 / .426), no Jason Varitek (.243 / .331 / .411) and, heck even if Varitek isn’t your cup of tea, Javy Lopez (.262 / .307 / .404) is having a better year then Doug Freaking Mirabelli
I’m just sayin’, if the Bosox are going to run out their version of the lineup that has WFB, Rivera, Bohn, Reed, and DFA’d-Rex, the first thing that happens after a shut out isn’t going to be a resounding “BOOOOOOYAHHHH!!!!”. It’s more like a “Good. That’s how life is supposed to be.”
and when your own broadcast team wipes its brow at only seeing Ortiz, you know its a universal thought 🙂
Let’s see, the Mariners lineup did in fact contain the aforementioned WFB (.622 OPS on the year, .611 post AS break), plus Jose Lopez (he of the mighty .618 OPS since the break), Ben Broussard (a mere .681 as a Mariner so far) and Ichiro Suzuki (sporting a robust .611 OPS post break, matching the offensive output of WFB).
So really, the Red Sox have nothing to brag about in terms of weakness of lineup. We can match them all the way down the line, crap for crap, and we don’t have anyone remotely resembling Ortiz in the lineup (performance-wise or physically).
Hey, a win’s a win. And that wasn’t some some AAA scrub out there pitching for the Sox (that guy was starting for the M’s). Schilling may not be in his peak form at the moment, but he’s still Curt Schilling, and this lineup got 5 runs out of him. Pretty much the same lineup won against RJ the night before. Now, RJ may no longer be the dominator he once was, either, but even knowing that would you have predicted back-to-back wins against those two?
Yeah, the Red Sox lineup has changed over the course of this season. So has the M’s. If the Red Sox had been missing so many key people all year they wouldn’t have been contenders (until recently); perhaps if the M’s had had their current lineup all year they would still be in the race for the AL West. The Red Sox had some inopportune injuries to some key bats; the M’s finally got a healthy Snelling back. The M’s get a couple of ugly and costly errors from a team that usually doesn’t make them, yet they don’t get any (or enough) from teams like the Angels that often do. Luck and injuries are part of the game too — that’s why they play a full season. The M’s — the 2006 M’s — just won a series from the Yankees at home, something the 2001 and 2002 teams didn’t (or the 2003-2005 teams, either). It’s a crazy game.
If Dave doesn’t throw up a new thread, this one will take the server down once it crosses 500 posts.
No Doyle. Sad face.
Good to see Beltre back though.
Doyle is what, 1-4 this season against lefties? That obviously calls for a platoon. I mean, we wouldn’t want to give him a shot, right?
Let’s see, the Mariners lineup did in fact contain the aforementioned WFB (.622 OPS on the year, .611 post AS break), plus Jose Lopez (he of the mighty .618 OPS since the break), Ben Broussard (a mere .681 as a Mariner so far) and Ichiro Suzuki (sporting a robust .611 OPS post break, matching the offensive output of WFB).
Jose Lopez, Ichiro Suzuki, and Ben Broussard are, on the year, performing better then a majority of the Red Sox hitters in that lineup. Don’t mince in small sample size where you find it convenient. But, yeah, Willie sucks. Ichiro and Broussard don’t.
So really, the Red Sox have nothing to brag about in terms of weakness of lineup. We can match them all the way down the line, crap for crap, and we don’t have anyone remotely resembling Ortiz in the lineup (performance-wise or physically).
You’re missing my point. I never said jack about beating Boston. I said shutting out a pathetic lineup is hardly a surprise. If you take into account how many times our regular pathetic lineup has been shut out this year, why is this such a tough concept for you to grasp?
OK, last time.
What part of “now pitching for the Mariners – Jake Woods, Julio Mateo and Eric O’Flaherty” are you failing to grasp?
For crying out loud, do you have to piss on every ray of light that comes the team’s way?