Game 45, Padres at Mariners
DMZ · May 18, 2008 at 12:30 pm · Filed Under Mariners
Estes v. Hernandez, 1:10.
What a beautiful day to go see a ball game. Or hang around outside, or whatever.
Lineups when I get ‘em.
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McLaren not actually letting Clement hit lefties like he mentioned about a week ago.
Ooooh, Bloomie in Left, Raul at DH. Now this is a lineup of hurt feelings!
Probably the first time that starting Bloomquist makes sense.
Good to see Raul at DH.
Hopefully Bloomquist will be “razor” sharp today.
4: Aw, clam up
think I’ll turn the volume on Dave up, find my sunglasses, and set out on the deck. Maybe with a nice, cold drink of something.
I’m trying to think of the last time that Johnny Mac put out our best possible line-up.
Julio doesn’t look like he’s stealing much besides cookies these days.
That was hot. Congrats Ichiro!
Ichiro is truly a gifted athlete. It seems like this year he has decided to run how he did his first year and by God he will.
Nice! Lopez has another oddball double play. Great base running by Kouzmanoff.
@ enazario:
I heard that this year Mac wants Ichiro to steal 65 bases. I may have heard it here, can’t remember. He is truly awesome though. Great success rate too.
Good thing we can hit lefties…
Dag Gummit
The King has leg issues
You know,
I am not a proponent of “productive outs”. I don’t especially agree with “small ball” theory or it having anything to do with practicing the fundamentals.
But that being said, I’ll take a productive out over an unproductive one any day.
Should Felix sustain any injury, I would like to formally blame the stupid pants.
Radio guys claiming Felix still showing signs of discomfort. But he is still in the game.
Anybody watching? Is franchise pitcher being endangered here?
What’s with all the fly balls Felix?
Adrian Gonzalez is a good hitter, damnit. It didn’t even look like he hit that one all that hard, but it sure went a long way. I hate guys like that, because they’re always on another team.
Felix isn’t noticeably moving as if he was injured.
Does Beltre often bat second? Why did he and Lopez switch?
can someone remind the Mariners that Estes has been pretty bad this season?
1) no
2) Who can comprehend the mind of McLaren?
fb,fb,fb,fb,fb,slider,fb,fb,slider
These pitches are within 6-7 mph of each other. It’s easy to get the timing down.
Needs to throw more cb’s. That way he can go from 95-96mph to 82-83mph.
Who’s idea is it to not throw is cb often?
Shawn Estes joins the long line of pitchers who look like Cy Young winners when facing the M’s.
Every time this Dodge commercial comes on I can’t help but hear the lyrics to NWA’s “Express Yourself” while they talk about gas prices.
so, when I said I wanted a no-no or a splendind game, I did say I wanted it from Felix, right? I was specific, wasn’t I?
24. Who knows, but Johjima calls the game. I saw Felix shake him off earlier, and he called a curve right after that.
Okay, so I’m out enjoying the weather, then can’t help myself and come in to check the Mariners. Are we really being dominated by Shawn Freakin’ Estes?
16. I think you are right. From watching the replayI think he stepped on his own pants leg and tweaked his ankle.
6/7 pitches in that AB were fb’s. Base hit.
Two unassisted DP’s for Lopez in five innings.
We need to put together some good AB’s this inning. No more poor swings on 3-1 or 2-1 pitches.
Ah, the Bloomquist DP. What a shock.
33: That would exclude having Willie bat, right?
Another lousy swing on a 3-1 count. We have to quit doing that.
Just got a chance to turn on the game, see Willie’s up, making tuna sammich with back to TV, saying, and….he’ll hit into the DP….which he did.
Futility, thy name is Bloomquist. He’s our futility player off the bench.
I mean Estes threw 7 balls out of his last 8 pitches going into that pitch. Force him to throw 2 in a row, especially when a walk loads the bases. Don’t try to do too much with a sinking fastball. Goodness.
Bloomie should never play baseball again. Go be a pro clam digger dude!
Wow. That swing had “bad intentions”. Strike 1.
It’s like National league ball. There’s one guy in the lineup that you know will be an easy out.
40
C’mon that’s just mean, pointing out something else that WFB is horrible at.
Felix’s velocity is really up in this game. But Clark proves that throwing 97 MPH is not sufficient.
Mel: “… and throw more meatballs.”
Felix: “Meatballs?”
Mel: “Yeah, right down the center of the plate. Challenge ‘em.
Felix: “Um, yeah.”
91 pitches? I guess he was sort of hurting, and I like to see them cautious with Felix, but with our bullpen?
anyone notice on the 3-0 pitch that adrian hit off the end of the bat to the 2nd baseman that it was a curveball? what the hell is he thinking swinging at a 3-0 curveball? what the hell is he thinking swinging 3-0 period?
I’m still trying to figure out how he went for that pitch outside, in the dirt, the other day …
Sean Green looked good that inning. Two days of rest must agree with him.
so, how do we know when the Ms officially replace the Padres as the worst offense in baseball?
msb, to be fair, Jake Peavy is really awesome. Oh, wait, who’s Shawn Estes???
msb- I say when we can’t hit lefties anymore. So, about now.
Raul! Raw Speed!
Ritchie “I can’t catch up with fastballs anymore” Sexson.
Past a flailing Sexson.
50 – right now?
“That’ll do it for the Mariners.” Truest words yet from Sims. So much for turning things around offensively. It’s the typical pathetic, anemic, unproductive, display of “hitting.”
Thanks to the M’s Shawn Estes now has an ERA of 2.03.
Just so you know, the salary of today’s lineup: $62,185,482 + whatever Wlad makes.
Lousy offense doesn’t come cheap.
Now we get to face the all tiem saves leader. Wow…go Mariners.
Anybody notice that back when Felix hurt himself on his bellbottoms Niehuas said it looked as though he were trying to shake of some bees? Is this pathetic display calling forth angry swarms?
Outfield defense!. In left!
59. This is the thing that should just embarrass the heck out of the front office. There are lots of better teams with a fraction of the payroll.
Go Wladdy, embarrass the all time saves leader with a leadoff solo shot!
60; Not yet. Plus, he isn’t what he once was.
DMZ, I can’t find that Dodge commercial on youtube or dodge’s site. Any suggestions? Fun fact: I’ve been told I have a mean mock Eazy-E voice. No lie.
On stochastic processes, random walks, pitch types, and batter pitch anticipation (@ 24):
Is there a model for anticipation anticipation? I mean, is there an iterative process that allows one to more frequently disrupt the anticipation of his opponent? In boxing, is there a punch pattern that leads to more blows landed? In foosball, is there a 3-man shot type pattern that leads to more goals? If you have a nasty jab or a mean snake-shot, then you’re unstoppable (Felix). But what algorithmic techniques can be applied to counter anticipation? Have any been documented?
I know that Dave did a great breakdown in regards to Felix’s use of the FB, but this is more general… In college I was a boxer, and the standard saying of one of my coaches was show the feint three times to build anticipation, and throw the jab on the fourth to connect.
Does this make sense? What are the rules of anticipation when it comes to pitch types? Are any statistically significant?
I just read the chapter in Beyond the Numbers about the folly of signing free agent first basemen. It’s a good way to get expensive, unproductive lineups.
The only thing the front office is ineterested in is making money. As as long as fans keep spending there money at Safeco, Lincoln will still have a job and still hirer idiots like Bavasi. As long as the team stays rich…Lincoln gets to get his job and continue to corrupt this orginization.
Vidro pinch hitting for Bloomquist.
My cup runneth over.
BTW, if Vidro was in today you’d add another $8.5mil to that number, so our every day lineup is roughly $70mil.
@62: Thing is, I really don’t see any embarrassment coming from the front office. They don’t even sound that concerned.
Professional hitting!
I <3 Mac, at least Vidro got a hit.
I was just about to say here comes free swinging Yuni to kill a rally and he got a base hit…
I love that sequence.
PH Vidro for Bloomquist
PR Cairo for Vidro
Is this really the kind of extra flexibility Cairo was supposed to give McLaren?
Have you guys noticed how unlucky Beltre has been this year (seriously look at the numers)? Hope luck is on his side this AB.
Yeah, even just watching Beltre tattoo the ball around lately you’d think he’d be hitting… I don’t know, .300/?/.550 or something, but instead of being hot, the results are really bad
WTF Strike?
Are you kidding me?
The ump blows
Well. Not Beltre’s fault really…BS Call on the first pitch and now he has to wing at everything…looks like his luck isn’t going to turn around at all.
OMG Lopez saves us. F*ck you umpire…seriously
Putz warming up.
Make them pay, Kenji.
Another ND for Felix, though.
Raul getting 4, that will bring up Joh…uh oh
Split screening with the end of Celts/Cavs. All sorts of excitement right now.
Padres got crossed up
Jose! The Mariners have the lead.
Great time for a grand slam to shut up all the naysayers, Kenji.
Can you really blame them? I mean really his start was just horrible. And at the point when he was just looking like a little league hitter he gets paid 24 million dollars. That was very frustraiting. Granted he is starting to turn is around, his start still burns in the back of our minds.
Please let this be the real JJ, not Bobby Ayala in a JJ mask.
This umpire is pissing me off. His late inning strike zone is just completly inconsistant.
Splitter!
JJ’s problem this year has just been location and he is looking better and better each run out there.
Ichiro: Let me take this, bench boy.
Stand Down Cairo!!!!
And why the hell is Cairo in the outfield? Say what you want about Raul’s defense, I have more confidence in him than in Cairo. It’s not like we need the DH.
ohhhhhhhhhh, barely touched that
Whew.
Freakin’ ponies. A comeback win? Wow. Way to dominate Putz.
OMG A WON SERIES
Is it possible?
Thats only 5 series won thsi year
Poor Felix…another ND
Well done, team. Let’s hope we can go on a little run. Not, I repeat NOT, to get back into the race, necessarily, but to just see some baseball worth watching.
A couple of one run wins recently. Amazing. I’m trying to get excited, but still, it’s only the Padres, ya know?
So DMZ as you said we’re not superstitious or anything but would you mind putting up Felix Day wooooooooooo with exactly 11 O’s at the exact same time you did today on the next Felix Day!? Thanks in advance. And on a serious note, whoo hoo we won a series!
Clement sent down…
Who’s comin’ up???
My lunch is comin’ up, I think. Vidro is back to being the every day DH. According to Mac, Clement was “pressing” so it’s back to T-Town.
Maybe they should open a damn dry cleaners.
We can hope its Reed up to play LF and Raul to DH?
They mentioned that Reed was at the ballpark today, so yes, he’s probably being called up.
Reed has a .970 OPS in Tacoma, a bit better than Wlad when he was called up. Do you think they will play him in left and let Raul DH, giving us a decent defensive outfield? Sit him and go back to Vidro at DH? Play him in place of Wlad?
There’s a whole new post on this subject.
Silver lining to Clement being sent down:
Doesn’t this now mean we get that extra year of team control we were losing by calling him up when we did?
As dismal as things are now we head to Detroit, which has slunk past the M’s to be the worst team in the AL. At least we knew the front office forgot to tighten the lug nuts and the wheels were likely to come off at the beginning of the season. Detroit fans must be gobsmacked.
So this is obviously late, but I was away from a PC all day until now.
But I was listening to the Mariners post-game on the radio, and they indirectly brought up this site. And they talked about Felix’s fastball, and said something along the lines of “Some blog guys talked last year about how Felix needs to use his fastball more, and throw his curve less, and I’ll agree with that because Felix’s fastball is just so dominating.”
It ran completely against the “Open Letter to Rafael Chavez” post, and just seemed to summarize the M’s problems this season. There are moves they can make that would improve their chances to win, but they’re obstinately refusing to make them. They’re actively choosing to ignore those options. And it’s frustrating to watch.
This was the M’s first win this season when scoring fewer than four runs and first win when trailing after seven innings. Sad.