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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Possibly ugly in the way we might not initially expect. Every once in a while, Schilling just get flat-out killed.
I don’t know about that Schilling hasn’t been his best lately.
Hmm, 3.84 to 3.88. Caveat sample size, all the problems with ERA, etc… they’re still pretty close, just looking at that number. BB to K rate is brutal, though: 160/23 vs 41/37. I’ll let you figure out which is which.
No Manny is kind of a “6 of one, half a dozen of the other” — on the one hand, Woods catches a break not having to face him. On the other, we miss his antics in the outfield (pointing: yo, Coco, the ball I didn’t catch is over there!) which will cost the M’s at least a couple of bases….
Well, he’s not a rookie pitcher just called up from AA, so at least we won’t get shut-out.
Well played.
Jake Woods walks 5+ hitters tonight. Any takers?
That’s one!
I say he walks at least one.
Lauren, you stole my line!
I say he walks nobod…D’OH!
I say he walks three.
Boston starts 4 “regulars” – probably the weakest lineup of the series. But Schill vs. Woods sort of balances it.
I say he strikes out at least one.
I hope he’s around long enough to walk 5.
Yeah, but one of those “regulars” is Ortiz, who’s really an “extra large” (in every sense).
What comes first – 5 walks or 5 hits?
Jake Woods, invoking the same Voodoo God who helped out Washburn last night.
Good job getting out of the inning.
No, Porn Mustache, YOU stole MINE!
(You got your porn mustache in my token chick! No, you got your token chick… oh ugh. Never mind.)
Sooo… did anyone else wonder for quite a while, back when, who this Mo Pena was and why he was so damn wily as to deserve the moniker?
DOYLE
You got your porn mustache in my token chick!
There are so many things I could say here…
PS: DOYLE!!!!!!!!!!!!
What pure unmitigated joy it is.
wtf? Now Hargrove loves it when his hitters work the count on the starting pitchers?!
I love the 2 out RBI
The ground-out with a RISP, I don’t love so much.
Seeing Doyle round third like that made me nervous.
27, I’m sure they’ll make sure he’s ok after his daily total-body MRI.
Wow, Barry Zito is currently no-hitting the Rangers.
Dave Meyers is in Everett, it’s okay.
Does anyone have any idea what Hendu is talking about?
31
I believe he is talking about how averages tend to average out.
That was a scrappy infield fly!
Schilling has thrown 12 pitches and is losing 1-0. Jake Woods has chucked almost 40 already.
This game is weird man.
There were three different dialects just being spoke on that mound, but only one language.
32 – Thanks for clearing that up for me.
49 pitches through 2 innings I see Pineiro in the future?
Broussard just swung at two pitches in the dirt. Oh Choooooooo.
Yo Joe Go!
37
I hate your futute
Me too!
wtg Willie Ball Game!
“Anyone can make the easy play, Bloomquist made the tough play!”
Jesus Christ.
“Bloomquist made it a tough play” is more like it. Don’t want to get caught dissing the Ignitor, though.
Ladies and Germs, Jake Woods only used 8 pitches that inning.
Bizarro World has been reached. Don’t forget your overhead bags.
guess we better watch it Hargrove might come after us!
Zito’s No-No is No-Mo.
Doyle has seen 11 of Schilling’s 41 pitches. That leaves 30 for everybody else.
Didn’t Ben Sheets have a huge strikeout game?
Yeah, and was Kerry Wood’s big game in 2000?
Woods pitches by inning:
25, 24, 8, 10.
Am I the only one noticing that the Red Sox bats are just sitting on their shoulders until they get two strikes on them? Except for Wily Mo, I don’t think anybody’s swung for strike two.
Oh the anticipation is killing me!!
How soon we forget: Jake Woods replaced the unspeakable Pineiro. He may not be great, but would anyone really want Joel back ont he mound tonight?
50:
No, it wasn’t
The amazing thing about Zito’s one hitter (through 8 so far) is that he’s only got 2Ks… and it’s in Texas. Talk about tightrope walking…
#53
NO
Ball bounces in front of the plate: “A little low.”
Understatement or idiocy?
I just tuned in.
And Jake Wods is owning?
Schilling:Big Sexy::homeowner:home
Just not a Mariners ballgame unless Sexson strikes out.
Schilling is making us look even sillier than usual tonight.
Weird fact about Sexson, though: “Since June 3, he’s hit 21 homers in 255 at-bats, one HR every 12.1 at-bats, which is a better pace than in either of his 45-homer seasons (2001, 2003).”
It’s not just Beltre whose SLG has been climbing the last few months.
Oakland just scored 6 in the top of the ninth. That Texas bullpen… not so good.
While that stat is “weird,” I think it falls into the “he hits .390 against left-handers in day games after night games on grass” category.
In other words, don’t read too much into it.
Woods for Cy Young in 2007!
What the hell is that hat doing on my TV
Weird hat camera shots: a sign the game isn’t generating a lot of scoring.
Yeah, Sexson is really just averging out for the year, which is pretty much what you expect of an established hitter. But he was such a kitten early in the season people were writing him off, so it’s good to see he’s normalizing again.
So is Hendu saying that Boston fans are racist? Shocking!
“The first black African-American ballplayer.” As opposed to the first white African-American ballplayer? Comedy.
Well, there were some white guys on the South African WBC team, and I suppose if they immigrated to the states and got citizenship…. oh, forget it. It’s just Hendu.
3-1
Come on Jake!!
I think they’re called European-Africans or something. haha
Speaking of white kids playing little league, I just caught it out of the corner of my eye but weren’t the Saudi kids all wearing normal, average, American names? And white.
RE 72:
WRONG! You fail.
70
The first American League “black African American pitcher” was the greatest of all time.
And Woods makes it out alive.
Yeah, that’s what you want to do, put a couple of guys on so you can pitch to Ortiz. No pressure…
75. Those kids are the children of Oil Company employees living over there.
Jake Woods, your 2007 #5 starter!
80 – That’s what I was thinking, but I wanted to make sure. Thanks
The “Saudi” LLWS team is all kids of American ex-pats, mostly oil workers. They’ve been to Williamsport something like 11 of the last 12 years, or something. That huge kid is the son of the coach. Methinks we’ll see him in the minors or college ball, at least…
75/80. And we wonder why they hate us.
23 more pitches there for Woodsy.
#75 — They’re mostly kids of American oil workers.
A 6’8″, 250lb, 13-year-old.
He’s not scrappy like our Willie though. You can’t teach that!
I love this photo so much I’m linking to it again…
I have to admit – I’m proud of the fans at the game tonight. Paid attendance is 40,817, and there are a good number of vocal Red Sox fans here. But everytime they start up a “Let’s go Red Sox” chant, Mariner fans are smothering them with “Let’s go Mariners!”
If only the Mariners fans would start it up without being provoked by the enemy — but hey, I’m not going to get greedy all of a sudden. The fans are a work in progress.
Go Mariners!
Methinks we’ll see him in the minors or college ball, at least…
You mean he’s not already?
Rofl.
I’d like to read Dave’s thoughts on him.
Bloomer time!
Why is David Wells so successful in big games? He shows up drunk. That’s why.
89… in the stands, the Red Sox chant is much louder.
Bloomsday!
They won’t let Mariner fans wear shirts that say “The Yankees Suck”, but they’ll let 50 year old 300 pound men wear muscle shirts.
What a scrappy error!
90
Imagine what he could do in football and basketball:
Already big enough to be a power forward in the NBA and a powerFULL guard in college football. Heck, in his age group he could just be whatever side of the friggin’ line he wants to be.
I called it.
#84, Well, I don’t know why that would add any fuel to the fire. I don’t think there’s any misrepresentation, and I doubt your average Saudi cares. They don’t consider sports haram — they’ve sent a soccer team to the World Cup a couple of times.
You can have some odd misunderstandings about sports, though. Early on the hockey games in Dubai were kind of… interesting (the mostly-Canadian expat team was playing like, well, Canadians, and when they played the local team the local fans didn’t quite get the concept of “leaving it all on the rink”).
Coco Crisp is no Mike Cameron.
how did we get Willie to field center while he was batting?
How about a nice splitter in the dirt….
Squeeze?
I like this, man on, one out, Ichiro! and Doyle! up…
Little Willie Dynamite. I root for him when he’s in the game, but I’d rather not see him in a game. Still though an RBI triple. I’ll take it. Boost that SLG Wilbur.
I think I heard Ichiro yell “fore” when he swung at that last one.
That was about as sorry of a play as you’ll see. Ichiro hits it precisely where you can’t. The infielder doesn’t play it clean at all and the runner doesn’t score.
Maybe Doyle can clean up that mess.
We talk about ‘working the count’ — Ichiro seems like he might help out there.
Starts changing “Raul”…
I smell a double
Chanting, even.
103
That takes strategy. You know how religiously Hargrove avoids such things.
I smelled wrong.
There is no justice when Willie triples and then Ichiro and You Know Who can’t bring him in.
So much for that lead.
I’m liking Julio Mateo to ‘hold’ this lead.
Speaking of the Yankees Suck kerfuffle, I went to an M’s game not long afterwards that year and lugged along a banner that said “We respectfully dislike the Angels.” I found it amusing, but as we were sitting like one row from the top of the stadium I’m sure no one ever saw it.
I think the Red Sox could kill any other team in a bar room brawl. I mean, cmon. Wily Mo Pena, Gabe Kapler, David Wells, David Ortiz, Manny Ramirez, Mike Lowell, Jason Varitek… Nobody wants any part of that.
I would just like to point out that I promised myself I would marry the first woman I ever saw type the word “kerfuffle”.
A co-worker tossed out the idea of a banner saying “I’d rather lose 11 more in a row than be a Yankee.”
118. I think a scrappy player could kick any of their asses.
119 – aww… our first USSM romance.
Unless, of course, Lauren promised herself that she would NEVER marry a man named “Typical Idiot Fan.”
I’m on pins & needles on this one.
121. I’d pay good money to see Willie Bloomquist vs. any of those guys, 1v1. Maybe I’m paying money just to see Bloomie get the bajebus knocked out of him.
Coco Crisp has been watching too many A-Rod highlights.
118 & 121 — I say that to bring some interest to baseball in the offseason, we have a 64 man Toughman (TM) contest.
And for the really crazy, an 8 man ultimate fighting with weapons contest. Ugueth Urbina would win that hands down. Or hands off, once he chops them off with a machete.
I would think TIF would taken Lauren’s last name. Token Chick >>> Idiot Fan.
121. I’m guessing that after the game, Sexson gives Willie a swirly.
“The next time I call for a ball, you just let me have it, okay scrappy?”
125. I can’t believe that movie isn’t on DVD yet. Dennis Quaid was gold in that movie.
WOO!!!
Love it.
Wow. Are we playing the Sox, or the Bad News Bears?
BUSH LEAGUE RBI!
Nice to see those guys having fun in the dugout for a change.
holy crap, that wasn’t exactly the way the BoSox had that scripted…Laughing
126 – So that would make his name Typical Token Chick. He might have some explaining to do.
Not as much explaining as I have to do when I wear my “Gay Paleontologists Created My Team’s Designated Hitter” t-shirt to Fred Meyer.
It’s all kerfluffle out there. And, I’m already married, thank you.
131. Who named a league after Dubya?
I believe the technical term is “owned.”
I would think TIF would taken Lauren’s last name. Token Chick >>> Idiot Fan.
“Typical, token chick”?
I’m torn.
I noticed that despite Julio finally having a decent month, lefties are now hitting a staggering .406 (practically Ted Williams like).
Lauren’s Porn Mustache has an… interesting ring to it.
Once again, Broussard makes me happy he’s in the line-up.
this game is getting kinda fun for a change. I like it
Is 4 runs enough? Or will Mateo find a way to blow the lead?
Is this the 2006 Mariners I’m watching? Or have I been transported to a parallel universe or something.
BENUARDO!
Is there a lead so great that Mateo Himself cannot blow it?
140. I think the Taco Del Mar mascot has a porn moustache.
How in the hell can they possibly charge 4 ER to Schilling? The lack of outs when the play happened?
Don’t get too excited. At this rate, Hargrove won’t get the axe til 2010.
Hendu: “Try and figure out baseball. Nobody can.”
That’s a helluva slogan for a blog if anyone’s ambitious.
Jaysus. We must be putting illegal substances in the outfield air.
Oh, as to names, I don’t really believe in taking the man’s name. Especially when it’s Idiot Fan. (But maybe his last name is just Fan, which wouldn’t be as bad.) However, Typical Idiot Chick is RIGHT OUT.
5 runs still worry me when it comes to Mateo. Call it the lasting effects of watching the Indians overcome that huge lead in 2001 against us.
Schilling needs to call upon his Lvl 60 Dark Elf Coercer to get him out of this jam.
Niehaus said the same thing last night — “Somebody figure this game out and call me.”
Holy Crap! Woods comes out and the Mariners star whuppin’ on Shilling.
P.S. IDIOT FAN– R U CUTE?
150. Bavasi was quoted today in the P.I. saying the number one candidate to replace Hargrove this winter is Hendu. Imagine the possible slogans for the 2007 season.
157. I AM BRAZIL CHAT ME PLZ KTHX
147… yeah, it is vaguely reminiscent of one.
I haven’t eaten at Taco Del Mar in quite a while… the one near me has staff that is overtly surly. I’m sure the local French establishments are in awe.
re: 158
If it gets him out of the booth (and off my TV set), I say go for it.
Who knows what evil powers Hendu could bring to the job of manager?
158: WHAT? you have got to be kidding.
A/S/L?
163. Moi? Kid?
lulz 164.
163… no, I heard that too. Also, Ron Fairly would be pitching coach.
“Now, son, I want you to keep the ball down.”
“Yeah, whatever.”
Re: 157
LOL UKNO IT! I MAKE UGLY PEOPLE LOOK UGGGGGLLLYYY…
Fairly to Pitchers: “you know, if they hit a ball over the fence it’s a homerun!”
-Player: “No S… coach? That’s newes to me!”
Al Martin will be named the hitting coach.
P.S. IDIOT FAN– R U CUTE?
lol
170… ziiiiiing.
This game IS insane. Mateo with a 1-2-3 inning[interobang]
So, how exactly are we going to blow a 5 run lead in the 7th?
Well you SOUNDED serious. Normally I pick up on these things.
Hrmph.
WTF? Where’d my spelling and grammar go… UGH. I hate when I do that…
1, 2, 3 For Mateo? wow that new arm angle is helping him.
“He used to be a baseball player before he became a pitcher.” – Hendu
174. Leave that to Hargrove.
Any idea when Beltre will be back? Did that slide hamper him that much?
I’m calling it now: In 2007, Hendu as manager, Cam Bonifay as GM, Yuni dealt to Detroit for Neifi Perez.
Also, in 2007, war was beginning. All our base are belong to Beane. We move Putz for great justice.
Doyle!
I love that young man.
Doyle is a great golden god!
Chris MF’ing Snelling. Friggin’, word.
Actually *I* am managing next year, and I’ll be choosing the starters like Madeline Kahn chose her slaves in ancient Rome. Or Greece. Or Egypt. Wherever the fuck it was.
DOYYYYYYLLE!!
DOYYYYYYLLE!!
I’m inserting my obligatory Doyle post here:
DOYLE!!!!
I’ve been waiting for this for years.
Sumeria.
Does this mean we’re going to be shutout the rest of the series? No wait, Moyer is in Philadelphia now. Nevermind.
185… are you taking applications?
Snelling is the Greek God of Kicking Your Motherfucking Ass.
At the Storm game people were chanting “Aussie Aussie Aussie oi oi oi!” all over the place.
I suggest we not take it up, I found it irritating. Go Doyle!
Who says Snelling can’t throw, Hendu?
If my 2007 Mariners don’t feature Doyle in the starting line-up I will cry.
Going by the Gameday photo it looks like Boo Radley is pitching for the Sox.
LOPEZ!!!
195 – The Gameday photo is flattering.
193: I say that all the time when Snelling is up. My girlfriend finds me obnoxious.
193. Do they have Foster lager at Storm games?
I see the score and wonder if I’m watching Seinfeld or Sealab 2021.
Foster, Australian for piss.
I think Mateo’s going to command a 4-year, 30 million contract after this outing.
I don’t know about Foster’s, but I can assure you they sell very bad pork fried rice. (It wasn’t my idea to get it.)
Julio Mateo is no Chris Wilcox.
196- That bad huh? Must have been beaten with a Mateo stick.
Wow, how about that Gameday picture! I feel like I’m watching the game.
202. That’s not pork.
Darn, Mateo out. I had a bet that the Woods-Mateo combo would toss a shutout tonight.
O’Flaherty’s gameday pic rules.
“We don’t know what happened to Wily Mo Pena.”
I think sucking is what happened…
Crap – I wasn’t counting. How many Walla Walla’s so far?
Yeah, but pHing a lefty vs. a lefty?
Apparently Francona just really hates Pena’s plate discipline. Hinske, therefore in perfect humorous timing, swings and misses for strike three.
I’m going to Walla Walla next weekend. Anything exciting to do – especially good wineries, etc.?
Not that it matters at this point, but why not have Perez bat for Broussard against a lefty? Yeah, 6-0 lead but… that IS the platoon? I suppose it doesn’t matter. Maybe Broussard will learn something against a lefty.
Bobby, A guy I know just toured some wineries there. He said there are a ton of them, and they have some good reds. I have no specifics, though.
213 – you can, uh, go to the local high school and see of O’Flaherty’s jersey is on display in the lobby.
How many dancers are there on the Sonic dance team? Geez.
Just one. But they have a great wardrobe guy.
213. Go to the Brew Pub, great burgers.
216. I doubt it is, but a Drew Bledsoe autographed poster is in the library.
you can go see the graphics guy’s house, the guy who keeps putting up the bio info on him every time he pitches.
Do they have Foster lager at Storm games?
Foster’s is as Australian as Man United is Mancunian.
(If you don’t understand that, the people of Manchester have no affinity for Manchester United; they’re mostly Manchester City fans.)
He just has the audio off. He can’t stand listening to the announcers either.
Let Offspring be your guide to Walla Walla.
A well deserved salute to Cougs by the broadcast booth. I’m not a Coug, but I’m financing one, so I get honorary status.
Don’t be counting chickens, Rico.
Nice pitching there fellas.
Wow, nice.
As a Sox fan, I’m not happy, but shutting out the Sox is quite an achivement. Good job, Ms!
Ballgame.
Wow.
Shut-out the Red Sox by Woods, Mateo, O’Flaherty.
Who woulda thunk it.
That lad O’Flaherty is looking pretty likely out there.
Whew! It feels like June all over again.
Lots of M’s doing weill this game, but somehow when I log on to the Mariners site, it says “Bloomquist hits triple to pad M’s lead.” Never mind that 4 M’s had two hits, and scored more or drove in more.
But he’s our home boy
Clearly, the M’s could be better served by moving to the AL East.
Hendu looks like Schwarzenneger. Without the brains. (hahaha)
How much make-up do you suppose is involved in Valle’s television eyebrows? Anybody seen him during daylight hours on the street?
As a Sox fan, I’m not happy, but shutting out the Sox is quite an achivement. Good job, Ms!
Oh get over yourself. Shutting out an injury plagued, backup laden lineup is expected. But it’s not like you can safely say we shut out the “Red Sox”, more like the “Red Shoehorns”.
Willie time!!!
You see some Fosters around in Australia, but it kind of depends on where you are. Beer is pretty regional there. In Melbourne and Victoria, you’ll mostly see VB; in Queensland XXXX. In Tasmania, Cascade or Boag’s, and in NSW it’s probably Tooheys. I dunno what they drink in Western Australia. My favorite was Boag’s, or some of the fantastic smaller brews like Little Creatures. All of it is pretty great on a hot, hot day, even Fosters.
232 – And guess who’s the lead interview on the post game…
Seriously, makes me want to friggin’ puke.
Good game nonetheless. So three out of four so far from the Yankees and Red Socks, beating Randy and Schilling. And we won 4 out of 6 from those teams the previous series.
We can’t we beat our own division, but maybe it’s hope for the future, esp if Doyle stays healthy. On a given day I wish for that almost as much as I wish for the Democrats to actually take back the Senate and House in 2006 and begin returning this country to sanity.
angie says willie could’ve been curt’s 3000th strikeout–history denied again!
And speaking of eye makeup, Angie’s well provided tonight. Very hot.
Re 239,
It’s Raul on the Radio side. Playing “Count the Cliche” with Raul is fun.
He adds and subtracts? But can he multiply? That’s the real question.
Bill Krueger likes Woods.
ANy wins are good…but seeing Doyle out there playing like we knew he could is especially sweet.
(And I dare say he’d make a better interview….)
Is it my imagination or have the Ms announcers suddenly discovered ‘working the count’? Coult the tail wag this particular dog?
240 – I am a little concerned that you may actually be me. Which would be disturbing because I’m right here. If I am also there, wherever you are, I feel like that’s something I should be aware of. Tell me, do you also occasionally dangle a preposition?
245 – That’s becuase he’s a “crafty” lefthander.
Wow! Tonight (against the Angels) A-Rod is 0 for 4…with 4 Ks!
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?