Game 36, Angels at Mariners
DMZ · May 17, 2007 at 6:44 pm · Filed Under Mariners
Colon v Washburn! Good Washburn Good Washburn Good Washburn
Ichiro – Turbo – Guillen – Sexson – Broussard – Beltre – Johjima – Betancourt – Lopez
v
Willits – Cabrera – Guerrero – Matthews – Quinlan – Hillenbrand – Izturis – Molina – Aybar
I was going to note which Molina, but Molina about covers it.
Also, the PTBNL in the Jason Davis deal has been named – 18 year old RHP Gregorio Rosario. Don’t lose any sleep over it.
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gonna be a great game! let’s go Ms!
Nice to see Raul get a day off.
Nice to see Ellison continuing to pick splinters out of his sphincter.
Switch Turbo and Kenji and that’s not a bad lineup especially when Richie and Adrian start hitting.
Evil motorcycle Rizzs!
“Evil motorcycle Rizzs!”
God, yes. I just know there’s a red Corvette in the parking lot with plates reading: RIZZLE. The new sexy toupe obviously gave him all sorts of ideas.
Gregorio Rosario, the next Francisco Liriano.
Fo rizzle ma nizzle.
Nice to see Raul get a day off.
Per Rotoworld:
Raul Ibanez had to be scratched from Thursday’s lineup because of a sore back.
“He felt a little twinge when he dove last night,” manager Mike Hargrove said. “We just want to give it a day and hopefully get it taken care of.” Ben Broussard is filling in.
The M’s suck at walking. So the key to the game is “Swing first and good things will happen!”
Are you mad?
And the key to the game is to win? How does his partner say “Thanks for the insight” with a straight face?
#7: More like the next Oleg Korneev.
does Rizzs have a new toup? I was entertained the other evening by Neihaus’ teasing him about needing to use some hair coloring to darken his beard (a la Jose Mesa, apparently) to better match his hair … Rizzs kept crying ‘I have grey in my hair!!!’
Dave refrained from saying, ‘but not in your rug’
i. hate. vlad.
Regression to the mean! You can’t fight a decade of consistent history. That dinger was predestined in 1998.
[Rizzs]
Dave was also expressing great interest in seeing Valle’s new hair
Ah. A baseball game and time to watch it. Life is good even though we’re down by 2 after the first. Go Broussard!!
Make that, top of the first. Don’t want to jinx Ichiro.
Speaking of bad hair–My god, what does Colon see when he looks in the mirror? And how does he keep his cap on? I can’t keep a baseball cap on my head, and I don’t have curly hair.
Sweet, sweet infield hit, Ichiro! Thank god for Colon’s big belly holding him to earth!
me, I’m still trying to get my heart rate down after dealing with the cat, who managed to actually catch a hummingbird. Inside the house.
It came in, couldn’t get back out, and while I was dithering about how to get him outside he dipped low enough that the cat managed to pin him against the window, tuck him in his mouth and head off down the hall for a nice game. Thank goodness the cat was planning on playing with his dinner (and has very few teeth), so that when I shook the bird loose, it managed to fly away.
Colon’s hair always looks to me as though it is attached to his hat, rather like Chico Marx’ …
Did Colon just pitch around Sexson?
Darn, there went our chance to even things up.
Salad, meet Mr. Colon. Mr. Colon, meet salad.
hmm. after I post, the screen flips to http://ussmariner.com/wp-comments-post.php rather than re-displaying the comments screen. Good thing I’m not Corco.
Colon most resembles:
a) Engelhard from “The Bad News Bears”
b) Former Panamanian dictator Manuel “La Pina” Noriega
c) “Hurley” from “Lost”
d) That kid who ate marshmallow fluff straight out of the jar in fifth grade
Ichiro getting on base to lead off the inning and ending up not scoring… how new is that
e) a weeble?
Width tweaked
What the heck is going on with that?
Now even Dave’s obsessed with Colon’s hair.
The problem’s fixed now.
Wow, a run!
I liked how Dave told us Yuni was unlikely to take a walk.
Cool — I’m trying to get a quicktags plugin to work, but it’s just not happening.
Sosa.
I’d say Sosa too, only that seems to obvious; a trick question.
I’m still laughing over Krueger’s “Keys to the Game.”
* Swing
* Pitch
* Win
Ron Fairly on line 1, Bill.
Colon most closely resembles e) Andre the Giant.
Well we knew J-Wash would regress, I was hoping it wouldn’t be so soon though.
nah. Colon couldn’t make the Brute Squad, let alone BE the Brute Squad.
Again: Meanwhile, Jason Ellison rots on the bench. Sigh.
That was nice of Ben to make the face of the franchise look better.
Yeetch.
Lordy, you people, one mediocre/bad outing does not a regression make. Let’s not all rush to be right at the Ms’ expense, alright?
Nobody said anything about storming any castles. I’m talking pure facial resemblance.
shouldn’t that be Face of the Franchise ™?
Hi Wells, you may know me as Kettle. And you are Pot I presume?
#41: How about nine average seasons?
Did Dave N. just call Izturis…’Caesar’?
crap. get the pop-up you want and it falls in for two runs … you know it isn’t going to be your night.
What do you expect? He’s working up in the zone, his location is so-so and his velocity is a non-factor. You can’t be a Cy Young contender pitching like that.
Hey, stop picking on Hurley! His dad is Cheech Marin.
The Colon look alike in my book is Princess Leia.
GET BROUSSARD OUT OF THERE. Good Jesus.
Dave N. just pointed out why Colon looks like a cartoon character. He makes 16 million a year, he could where a toilet seat around his neck while singing “Henry the VIII I Am” and still get tail.
Wow.
Has anyone explained why Broussard is in the outfield?
Good God, HoRam versus Maddox.
wash was due for a bad one…and a few “hits” were just bad breaks…although big ben has looked terrible in left…
Haha, bold move of the game is apparently Washburn just pitching to Vlad.
I would agree, pitching to him right now is pretty bold!
This is one of those games that feel like it surely has to be in the 8th inning, but you look, and it’s just the 4th. Everything feels soooo slow….an hour between every pitch, like somehow, if he waits long enough, Washburn’s arm is going to hurl the ball 95 mph or sink it, or anything but what’s happening, but no, he throws it, and another hit, or another bloop, or another walk.
Then again, the Mariners batting seems to go much more quickly.
Well, when you give up that many fly balls, you’re eventually going to get hurt no matter how all-world the defense is. Maybe as bad as tonight, granted, but not good.
Paging Mr. Broussard… please report to the baseball game.
somehow, i haven’t managed to see ellison play much. is he a decent outfielder ? if so, does broussard’s bat really warrant his inclusion in the lineup today, instead of giving washburn some extra defense.
No, don’t feel like ribs.
No, don’t feel like steak.
Yeah, a 10 pound burger!
at least we didn’t pay ben 50 million to not catch the ball…
Hit or Error?
So it is possible to walk a guy twice that’s only batting .174
Ellison isn’t a member of Banner Bank. ’tis that simple.
Error all the way. Matthews was wrong to play Beltre that shallow … did he think Neifi Perez was at bat?
I find it difficult to believe that a ball that goes firmly into a glove, and then bounces OUT of the glove…can be called a hit. But that’s just me. Reminds me of my mom as a child: “If your glove can touch it son, then you should catch it.”
As a side note:
Sexson’s line before the game: .171/.271/.366.
Worst USSM community projection for Sexson: .220/.297/.411
In other words, you, the guy who thought Sexson would suck? You were wrong, he sucks more.
And he probably just shot close to the top of the most-untradeable list.
Well, on the plus side, the guy did guess the isolated slugging about right…
What a freaking hack. Geez.
We should get that kid from American Idol to play first. At least he could play defense.
I cringe every time Richie steps up to bat…
Where is Bucky Jacobson when you need him haha?
Want to know why Ichiro is on pace to set an alltime record for putouts?
You just saw why. The ballhog effect is very real.
What’s the record and what’s Ichiro’s pace?
I think its 549, and he’s on pace for 552.
No one has said more positive things about Ichiro’s defense than me, but there are a lot of reasons to not care about that record.
#74
Sorry, I don’t have the opportunity to watch the games at all. I’m just watching it from Gameday from Australia.
So, I’m guessing Ichiro called off Yubet/Lopez on that play? Coz from Gameday it looked like the ball was hit into CF
Our flyball pitchers being a good one.
Not trying to start an argument but just need some clarification on the play. Im an Ichiro fan
Get Ben more ab’s
Well Ben got one of the runs back he gave up.
Gameday needs a Mariners patch that flashes Funk Blast across the top instead of Home Run.
Lopez was under it, Ichiro called him off anyway. It was what’s often referred to as a discretionary play, or a ball that’s going to be an out no matter who catches it.
It’s not a criticism of Ichiro – I was just pointing out a real-time example of the ballhog effect.
Yeah… and it should play “Who Let The Dogs Out” during commercial breaks.
Steve Physioc just said “The wizard of OC! He has been special in this series!”. I do not feel well.
Doesn’t the centerfielder have “discretion” there though? Isn’t that fundamental baseball?
Gotta luv our M’s. On I think less than 10 pitches, they manage a hr, double, a single and only two guys make outs…and still manage just one run
Geeeeez
I HIGHLY doubt Ichiro cares about that record…
Yes, everyone is taught from a young age that the outfielder has the right to any ball he can get to.
However, since Ichiro covers more ground than most outfielders, he gets more chances to call for the discretionary balls. So, his number of putouts is going to be inflated because he’s catching balls that would be caught by another fielder.
In other words, he’s not turning as many potential hits into outs as a “all time record number of putouts” would suggest. He’s just turning more putouts from the 2B/SS/LF/RF into putouts by the CF than most of his peers.
McClelland’s slow strike calls are really obnoxious, except when the ball Kenji rolls back out to the mound is halfway there by the time he signals the punch-out.
They should do a series of PSAs using that anti-gambling logic.
“Kids who snowboard are twice as likely to experiment with skiing, three times as likely to ride a bike, and four times as likely to take up skateboarding…”
Ichiro Caught…. nooooooo……
Wow, uh… that was quite a steal attempt. Willie Mays Hayes!
I’m still waiting for the sabermetric version, DMZ:
“Batters who take a walk…etc”
I have no idea why the M’s would try to steal there.
Sure glad Ichiro felt that was the right time to go, one pitch before Vidro walks…sigh
Now that Washburn is regressing to the ol’ mean, maybe Sexson will follow suit. (Yeah right)
Maybe I shouldn’t be so hard on Sexson. I mean he is only a mere 50 points from the Mendoza line.
Remember the good ol’ days when he was hitting above .170?
Are more outs made in the air or on the ground?
Before long we’ll be asking ourselves: which is higher? Sexson’s IQ or Batting Average? /shudder
Kotchman just hogged that.
I wouldn’t worry as much unless it was near Grover’s IQ
Good point, 101. Can Averages GO in the negatives?
What do you know about how smart Sexson is?
Initially I thought, “Wow, Broussard is a well-paid bench warmer”, but at this point I think I would prefer Sexson as an even-better-paid bench warmer.
Well, that’s the first time “semen” has ever been mentioned in a broadcast.
Sims just said “semen”
And all of a sudden we are 3 games back.
Its nice to know that after the biggest series of the year, we can look back and see how badly we crapped all over ourselves.
I wonder how many of those “firsts” Sims has had this year? Seems like quite a few.
We’ve been spoiled by Washburn so far. He’s earned the right to rubber-bands back to reality. How many games until Felix pitches again?
That’s what you want to do when you haven’t played for a week, Willie … swing at the first pitch.
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Exactly
Bloomie PH’ing for Broussard. Apparently white flags come in a more scrappy form these days.
Ron Gagne’s scouting report on Ichiro was very informative.
Willie watched the keys to the game and was inspired
Someone please explain to me, statistically, how it is we always get 2 guys on base with 2 outs. C’mon Raul, don’t be a statistic.
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I mean, who wouldn’t have been?
A dinger here would be sorta cuddly. My fantasy team be damned! I don’t care of Shields gets lit up!!
Yea, that was a strike.
When do we get the Dave Vallesque Happy Hour drink special based on Sexson’s Avg.?
doh
Well, at least Raul tied a MLB record: Swinging and MISSING three times in one at bat.
Pathetic
That’s a pretty huge fork sticking out of Raul’s back.
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He’s got a ways before he catches Valle’s widely celebrated .129 low mark. At least he “rallied” to hit a robust .194 that year.
The record for swings and misses in one AB is four.
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Even for our line up, that would be hard to top
Seattle being the Depression/Suicide capitol of the country that it is. The Mariners Organization have a social obligation to put out a product that does not contribute to those statistics.
Ok, is that the 3rd time in the last 4 games that a ball has got past Guillen? Seriously, that’s got to be some new record of sorts.
Ugh… Inter-league play can’t come soon enough. And I don’t even really like inter-league play.
Ok I just want to say that I just found this website and its good to know that there some Seattle Mariner Fans out there that care as much as I do. Great day everytime they win, horrible with every lose. Go M’s
The Angies are better at putting all their sucking into one game. The Mariners tend to spread things out a little more.
Late to the game, but is there any rationale to PH WFB for Broussard or Ibanez for Lopez tonight?
Man, can Ichiro please take a ball there…
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need bloomquist to be the tying run at the plate with sacks juiced, that’s why
WALK-Rod?
good thing ichiro swung at ball 4. :\
GROAN… sorry for the lack of optimism but who could blame me?
Good thought process Sexson, swing at the first pitch after two walks. That has to be one of the most common mistakes made this year by Mariner hitters, and one of the most annoying possible.
Rally killer struck again
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You mean swinging (and not producing a positive result) on the first pitch in virtually ANY situation?
man, you go away to watch an Academy Award(tm) winning motion picture, due back tomorrow, and all heck breaks loose. Semen? sure it wasn’t Seamen, as in Los Sailors de Seattle?
in case anyone was wondering why Bavasi was treading so carefully on the subject of Mateo yesterday, the MLBPA has filed a grievence