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Game 71, Padres at Mariners
Morrow, still up, still in the rotation.
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prediction: 85 pitches, 4.2 innigs
Giggity?
I’d rather have Jak back in the rotation and Morrow down in AAA or AA, but whatev…
At least this kid the Padres are throwing isn’t very good… wait, he’s a sinker/slider righty? Who held us to a handful of hits and 3 runs just a week ago? Crap…
Is it me or do all the female FSN reporters have to be slighly chubby with D or DD cup sizes?
I can live with that start from Brandon.
thank you Mr Niehaus for telling Cedeno to catch with both hands
Do the on air folks give the likes of Eckstein the tongue bath because they’re truly excited by scrappy/gritty white guys–reminds them of their own generally less than stellar career–or do they think the casual fan identifies with the Willies of the world?
Heh. Love those cream-colored pants. I just looked up while doing something and thought for a moment the guy was pitching pantsless.
We find more ways to get out….
Looks like Beltre broke up the double play by letting the ball hit him.
It would be typical of this terrible lineup to actually BENEFIT from Beltre getting hit on a batted ball. (Still not scoring of course)
Yes, I think that is exactly what Beltre did. I think Niehaus or Krueger should have suspected that.
So they made Ichiro go back to third on that? I remember reading about a player doing that many years ago, and I though it led to a rule change that the ump could rule it a double play. I’ll ee if I can find something on it.
Not cream …. I believe that is offically “sand”.
just like last night, padres capitalize after we had the bases loaded in our half
Man that ball got outta here in a hurry. I mean anything travels that far oughta have a damn stewardess on it, don’t you think?
Rule 7.09 – You are out. The batter, if the umpire feels you deliberately let the ball hit you, is also called out. Double play. It is interesting to note that Jackie Robinson was noted for getting away with this manuever – he was a good actor.
Reggie Jackson stuck his hip out on a run down and got hit. They gave him second base if i remember correctly.
Tie goes to the runner? Guess not.
Slowest, freakin’ runner on the team with no excuse of being old and beaten up. It drives me crazy when they say Yuni’s a fast runner.
And yet we’re losing another run by freak chance.
Arrrgh! However: Another PA, another amazing Ichiro performance.
With only 1 out, I’m not sure why you send the runner home on that shallow of a ball.
BRANYAN!
Christ almighty.
1) That was a terrible send by Hines. There’s no way he should have sent Yuni home.
2) Despite that, Yuni was safe. Alfonzo clearly missed the tag.
3) BRANYAN! Oh. My. God.
Muscle Manyon!!
BEASTMASTER!!!!
Adrian with a two-bagger! Nice hitting by the man with bone spurs in his lead shoulder…
Lordy, even Griffey’s plate appearance music is old.
They seem to be alternating between the old song and some of that new hippityhop music.
That looked like a terrible call
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Bad call aside, I loved Griffey’s response to that appeal. As he turns to go back to the dugout, he just waves his hand down the third baseline as if to say “Whatever, man.”
Now who’s old?
The new stuff is probably some shit his son recommended.
Mind you, Griffey’s still younger than me, and I’m an OG hip hop fan from back in the day.
Morrow! Nice D, Brandon!
Morrow just ran faster there than Yuni did, coming home.
Morrow’s got some speed huh?
OK, my mood is affected by the delicious calzone I’m consuming, but damn this game is fun.
Things didn’t get off to a great start tonight, as my beer had a widget which widgeted a fair amount of the beer over the countertop.
But the evening has improved.
BTW, Mauer’s down to .394. He and Ichiro’s paths will be crossing soon.
…that was a decent play by Yuni. No way.
I will give credit where it is due. His hitting still sucks but Yuni’s defense has looked good since the benching. Nice double play.
Could Morrow last long enough to qualify for the win?
leon-
Brandon is at 55 pitches. He’d have to throw something like 35 pitches before recording three outs in the fifth to meet his (assumed) pitch count. I project that he’ll last long enough to be eligible for the W. Of course, it doesn’t mean he’ll get the W…
Gameday has Morrow getting squeezed on the strike zone. But Pitch F/X indicates it’s not extreme, just occasional. Inconsistent strike zones are no one’s friend…
Branyan’s page is not sponsored
I know what I’m doing this weekend.
Is that going to be a groin pull? Ouch.
That slider looked more like a curve. And it was bendy and pretty… That, Brandon, is your out pitch.
Strike ‘em out, strike ‘em out, waaaaaay out.
2 legit! 2 legit 2 quit!
I hope you performed the little hand motion business with that after you typed it, Lauren.
That poor kid’s wearing a Snuggy.
Speaking of which, did anyone ever figure out who the orange cultists were in yesterday’s game?
if they were all wearing dayglo orange baseball caps, they were likely one of the ST tour groups at their reunion game.
Speaking of which, did anyone ever figure out who the orange cultists were in yesterday’s game?
I feel like we’ve talked about this before, but I must have gotten the wrong impression. I thought that the tracer used on TV, the MLB Gameday tracer and the ESPN gamecast all got their info from pitch f/x. Clearly this isn’t true, because on the same pitch, they’ll all show something different. Does anyone know what they each use?
galaxie: heh, no. But my coworker went through it the other day when we had another Hammer reference.
Give that cute baby some rally fries!
And a little bit high there, Yuni.
Maybe that could be Brandon’s mound music then?
“Can’t touch this…”
Highlight of that kid’s life so far. Ball Player Sweat on his hoodie!
Guti!
Guti! Dang.
GUTI!!!!! Death to flying things’ hidden power strikes again!!
DFT with another clutch hit!!
[no]
yuni is hurt?
DL-style?
Oh crap another infielder down.
THERE IS A GOD!!!!!!
Faker.
That’s pretty tacky, marinerfan4life.
[no cheering injuries]
Actually, I was thinking: ‘Please, Brandon, don’t walk them’.
“He’s been rock solid” says Dave… If by “rock solid” you mean “worst baseball player in the history of the game” I would agree. Good analysis Dave.
I’m still pissed at Yuni for destroying Endy’s knee…
Paging Infielder Chris Burke, please pick up the white courtesy phone for an important message. Infielder Chris Burke to the white courtesy phone please.
The Red Zone is for loading and unloading only. No parking in the Red Zone…
Marinerfan, don’t be an asshole. You’ll make me be his fan again just out of contrariness.
it would be better if this was decided by management, and not by an injury
No need to ever wish harm on any player. I mean, I’d rather he not be in the lineup – but come on, people.
What does every MLB organization gain if they have more All-Stars? Publicity? The ability to say they have x amount of all stars?
Not only is it stupid for every team to encourage fans to vote for all of their hometown players… I don’t understand what purpose it serves.
Oh, sweet Jebus, RJ.
Have you seen there is a ‘team option’ on MLB.com where you tell them your favorite team and it just fills in the ballot with all that team’s players??
DA is the man.
[tacky]
I cannot, in good conscious, vote for
sh****undeserving hometown players.Maybe the Mariners will trade one of our pitchers for a shortstop now.
David Ardsma is an All-Star in my book. No question about it. I have NEVER seen a pitcher dominate like he has by throwing one pitch at one speed.
But hey, more power to him. Whatever works.
[enough]
(Dedicated to all the injury wishers.)
Aardsma’s obligatory walk.
So…the M’s bullpen song needs to be Aerosmith’s ‘Livin’ on the Edge’, yes?
Woot!
He did it again. A relatively quick 9th inning with 1 pitch, that 95 mph 4-seam fastball.
If DA isn’t an All-Star, I don’t know who is.
Sadly, other team’s fans disagree. The Phillies have a top 5 votegetter at every position, even Pedro Feliz and Carlos Ruiz.
Which shortstop should we wish for?
Who’s left to be the short stop? I guess Lopez will be back tomorrow, jetlag damned, and Cedeno goes over to SS? That’s assuming no one else gets injured…Woodward’s injury recovery coming along?
They should have favorite type of player. So I could just vote for whoever has the most home runs per position. Or scrappiness… I would totally log on to vote scrappiness 10 times, or whatever the limit is.
Yeah. For a time, Jimmy Rollins, who is having a below-average year was leading the All-Star voting over Hanley Ramirez. Kinda ridiculous..
Here’s your Leverage Index leader of the game:
3.52
Mr. White getting Scott Hairston to pop out with two men and two out at the bottom of the 8th.
whew. a one-run game. whooda thunk?
good job guti, branyan, DA…
if we can sneak a win tomorrow before the “Road Trip”… maybe take some momentum with us?
Call up Mike Morse.
Psh, Albert Pujols, duh.
Yeah, wasn’t it Montreal’s fans who messed up the NHL All-Star voting? *checking* Ah, yes. Stupid, Les Habs.
Link
Bees!!!
Josh Wilson better get hella good hella fast.
So here’s my little numbers investigation of the year, probably. According to my calculations, we’ve played 32 one-run games so far (with a record of 19-13); that puts us on pace to finish with 73 one-run games, just below the most ever… at least as of 2002, when Bill James wrote this:
http://www.diamond-mind.com/articles/james_onerun.htm
Actually, according to Baseball Reference, the ’71 Astros 75 one-run games are still the most ever.
Still not sure how to determine what our expected number should be, though, and expected outcome in those games.
Ah, Baseball Reference, truly you are a place of wonder! We’ve played the most one-run games of anyone so far (closest is the Brewers with 34) and before tonight’s game, had outperformed our .520 Pythagorean winning % by .061.
http://tinyurl.com/lmymr9
Um. Brewers with twenty-four, sorry.
5,000 words for this conclusion:
Ugh.
Fangraphs shows Cedeno moving from second to short, but they don’t list anyone other than Cedeno for playing second.
So what happened, did Cedeno play both second and short in the 9th?
If we were going to clone someone, why did they pick Cedeno?
There is a use for the old-fashioned boxscore yet! Chris Woodward moved to second and Cedeno to short.
Speaking of Niehaus and Krueger, they were too busy blabbing to notice Balentien’s marked grimace of pain on a check swing. In fact, Wlad had to leave the batter’s box for several seconds, visibly shaking the arm.
I suspect Balentien’s lack of power is in no small part due to the hyperextended elbow injury he suffered several weeks ago, on a check swing. He is also wearing the sleeve over the elbow again.