Game 94, Mariners at Tigers
Jay Yencich · July 22, 2009 at 3:58 pm · Filed Under Mariners
It’s Felix Day! And Hyphen Time approaches.
Finding a fifth starter might be more problematic. We have until Saturday to figure that out, but neither Vargas nor Morrow are particularly appealing options. Vargas’ command has been off and Morrow gave up four runs in the first his last time out. The reports coming back were not all that positive.
In the meantime, FELIX.
RF Ichiro!
1B Branyan
2B Lopez
DH Griffey
LF Balentien
CF Langerhans
C Johnson
3B Hannahan
SS Cedeno
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I think Vargas is the easy call. He’s pitched just fine at Safeco this year, where his flyball problems are minimized. He doesn’t have to be Jamie Moyer to fill the #5 spot.
Apparently the game has been delayed until 4:15 Pacific, according to Rizzs on KIRO.
If the game was starting in a few minutes, I don’t think Dave Niehaus on FSN would be saying that they didn’t know when the start time would be.
Griffey, reflecting on Gutierrez crashing into the wall and his similar play in 1995, according to Baker’s blog:
“I caught the ball and drove myself to the hospital.” Priceless.
Sims just said on KIRO that the tarp was being taken off the infield, and that the next update on KIRO will be at 4:28 Pacific.
I love that the Mariners added a roof in the city that probably gets less rainfall than almost any other ML city during the season, and then get screwed by rainouts and snowouts constantly on the road. They should be able to fine the other clubs if the game doesn’t get played! =)
just said game time is 12 minutes away. Hopefully rain wont screw up Felix in a few innings…
I’m looking forward to getting home and noting that FSN via Verizon has once again managed to black out the game, even though it’s out of market and so am I. I’m sure Verizon will say it’s FSN’s fault. And FSN will probably blame Verizon.
BTW, anybody else seeing this, or is it just us Oregon folks?
Since we were in a rain delay, I decided to check into that. You’re right that the rainfall total is less in Seattle than in most other AL cities. However, it’s tough to find data for the amount of time that rain is falling on average. That’s the real probability we’re after. In most of these continental cities, storms come in and blow right through the city within about an hour. Usually when it rains in the northwest, it hangs around for hours or days.
Anyway, rainfall data, April-September, by AL city:
Tampa Bay 30.80
New York 25.88
Kansas City 23.95
Chicago 23.69
Cleveland 23.00
Baltimore 22.80
Boston 20.70
Minnesota 20.67
Detroit 18.80
Texas 18.10
Toronto 17.56
Seattle 9.29
Oakland 2.56
Anaheim 0.90
I live in Hillsboro, have FiOS, and I’ve never had an M’s game blacked out. Must just be you.
Well crap. I’m also in Hillburrito. It’s not so much a blackout as a blank screen with audio. That’s on my DVR. On my other STB, it works fine. Mostly. I just can’t pause or review. Which I like to do when Felix makes somebody look bad.
Well, they could demand that the make-up game always be played at Safeco, which would amount to a fine (no gate) plus the loss of home field advantage.
At least in the Cleveland snow-out games, I thought the league should’ve been punished for scheduling games in the snowbelt in the first week in April. There are plenty of sunbelt teams, and there are several teams that play in parks with roofs. Would it be so hard to schedule Cleveland and Detroit and (soon) Minnesota to always start their seasons with a ten game road trip? Sure, the fans in those cities will bitch — but if they don’t like it, they can just pay for roof.
So, uh, the game is on (is anybody out there?) and Felix managed to load the bases (despite 2Ks) and then got out of it without giving up a run. Hopefully that’s the last baserunners Detroit sees, and the spend the rest of the game lamenting the lost opportunity they had before Felix settled down.
Whoo Felix, get out of that jam!
Red Sox vs. Rangers coming up. Ugh, I can’t root for a tie?
Well, when Boston and New York play, I secretly root for Ebola.
Nice job by Langerhans to work that walk after Junior and Balentien saw 4 pitches and made 2 outs.
Langerhans does a fantastic job of making the USS Mariners folks look smart there.
Also, is Wlad really batting 5th? That really isn’t a good sign of offensive health, I think.
Wlad in the five hole is only half as embarrassing as Johnson hitting seventh.
Felix has been learning too much from Bedard the last few days.
Any actual word on how long Franky is going to be out? He certainly didn’t look happy last night. No breaks is good, but will we see him tomorrow?
This gave me about a 30 second chuckle.
Immediately followed my uncontrolled crying.
Drayer says we could see him tomorrow, though that would surprise her based on how beat up he was. He’s day to day.
Then please do not check out the M’s DH production!
over / under on total runs scored this game is 3. Place your bets.
Stats Inc is reporting that Branyan is going to get Sunday off. Weird.
By the M’s or total?
By the M’s, going under.
Total… Over. I don’t think Felix lasts long enough to keep the Tigers from winning.
should have gone with a 3.5 o/u. this game has 2-1 or 1-0 written all over it.
Wait a minute–Mike Blowers didn’t know that Ty Cobb was ‘nasty’?
Are the guns at Comerica slow? Gameday is reporting Felix in the low nineties with the four seamer.
Lopez was about two enchiladas with extra guac away from catching that little bloop by Polanco. Remember when he showed up to spring training having gained weight? He said it will improve his power. Guess not. He needs to lose about 20 lbs.
I can’t believe we’re hitless. Arrrgh.
That single by Polanco turned into the first run of the ballgame by the way.
oh no. felix?
Ugh, Felix, please don’t be hurt (at least not worse than that ankle has been all season). Also, if you’re going to break their bats, make sure they don’t actually get a hit in the process.
That was last Sunday. For some reason they’re carrying old news for him.
Anderson is Detroit’s Rally Killer. Bavasi would’ve traded for him.
Pitch FX shows him hitting 93-94.
And Russel is way due for a long ball.
This game has potential no-hitter written all over it. I’m not even sure half the team wants to be there today.
I was wondering.
However, it is dated for today. Maybe the just messed up and resent the info.
Looking at the scoreboard there are a lot of donuts and 1 error. Not good…
A lot of donuts and an error.
Anyone else think of Kevin Mitchell when Hud said that?
Watching this offense makes you ALMOST miss Kevin Mitchell…
“Nice clean inning, four retired in a row.”
Uh, not how I see it. Mr. Sims.
I have noticed that Felix gets charged with a lot of wild pitches because Johnson is really bad catching and blocking balls in the dirt. If they call the position “catcher” because one should supposedly “catch” the ball, maybe we should refer to Johnson as the “misser” since he seems to miss a lot of pitches.
At least he threw out the runner. Good job.
I wonder if the Tigers either believe they can run on Johnson or that Felix is slow to the plate?
Felix can sometimes be a little careless and slow to the plate.
Woo! A single!!
I love the buzz kill.
Sims: “Mariners got something going here with two outs…and here’s Ronny Cedeno.”
At least he’s making this guy throw some pitches, even if he’s going to strike out…right…about…now….oh, got a piece of it!
Cedano has had more pitches in this AB than Yuni saw in a week.
Wow, that’s one abysmal lineup we’re trotting out. I don’t think I’ve seen a lineup with 6 hitters under .240, 5 under .220, and 2 under .200 in a really long time, if ever.
Including Yuni’s stint on the DL probably a month.
Galarraga has a one-hitter going with zero strike-outs. Balls are finding gloves, but that’s not going to continue forever (though of course it could last 9 innings). Meanwhile, Felix has 8Ks already but is still losing. Sigh.
Meanwhile, Felix has 8Ks already but is still losing. Sigh.
Yeah, Detroit’s tremendous broken bat hitting keyed their go-ahead rally.
Between our offense and defense these games go by quick.
Is there a bobblehead curse going on?
For Morrow’s bobblehead, hadn’t he just been sent down?
And now Gutierrez will be lucky to be on the field for his bobblehead night.
Not to mention there was no sign of Edgar on the Edgar Baseball night a couple of weeks ago. It’s a conspiracy!
Well, Manny Ramirez just missed his tonight as well…
It’s time for some Jack Hammer-han!
Well, at least Ichiro will get to bat this inning. Bloop and a slam from Branyan is all we need. Great short inning by Felix!
Ball 4!!! Here we go!!
Hey, does anyone notice that Jack Hannahan resembles Don Wakamatsu?
Gotta pinch hit here for Cedeno though.. I like Shelton here.
**sigh**
BRANYAN!
BRANYAN!!!
YESSSS!!!
WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
I called it! SWEET!
It’s magical!
Wow.. we could steal this one.. With only 2 hits.
Branyan’s homers are anything but cheap….
I love Branyan and I love Niehaus’ call on it.
Then he true Lopez fashion, he flails away at the second pitch…
I truely love Branyan! Big crush there.
(I know it doesn’t work like this, but…)
Branyan’s worth one win with that one swing!
If only the M’s had a simulcast with Niehaus/Rizzs like the Sonics had with Calabro (before them foreigners bought ‘em and eliminated it so nobody would listen on radio).
Looks like this non-sellers charade is going to last another day.
good gosh. Felix has to have a love hate relationship with the offense. Let’s finish this S
Biggest win of the season if this holds up.
Royals just took a 5-2 lead on the Angels too
Ok. So Branyan really may be this year’s Carlos Pena.
You better chase that guy down, Johnson. I don’t care if you have to run all the way to the outfield, get the damn out. Catchers catch.
Aardsma is aawesome.
Let’s add an insurance run anyway.
Mark Lowe, Mark Lowe, Mark Lowe! (those of you watching the telecast know what I mean)
I think there must be a typo on the mlb.com scoreboard. It says that Oakland won 16-1 and I’m pretty sure that’s not possible.
Solid inning for “Rob Lowe.”
Tim Kurkjian, over at the World Wide Leader, lists the 9 biggest pitcher trades in the last decade.
Bedard makes the list, as USS Mariner gets name dropped.
Sorry, forgot to mention Derek gets mentioned.
The KIRO feed is dead on MLB Gameday Audio for me. Listening to the Tigers radio now…
It’s so amazing to have some players who will take pitches. I see the ball going towards the plate, then beginning to tail away from the plate, and yet, this man in a Mariner’s uniform, his bat does not move!
<blockquoteand yet, this man in a Mariner’s uniform, his bat does not move!
And you could easily insert “does not touch the ball!” at the end of that phrase as well.
Sigh. I miss ‘edit’.
Come on StAardvark! Has there been any more buzz about dealing Lowe? That showcase looked mighty good. Wow. That pitch didnt miss by much. Is it just me, or does Aa never get much slack from the umps?
Okay, ONLY because I’ve seen it pop up thirteen million times in the last few days:
The edit function went away because certain people were abusing it. No, I’m not giving details. If you want to campaign to get it back, send the authors an email; until they decide to do so, complaining about it in every comment thread isn’t particularly productive. Proofread your comments before clicking submit.
Wickkkkked.
Close the door double A! Good W on Felix Day. Now for some irony, Yuni can do more for the M’s chances in Royal blue.
Aardsma made that look EASY.
Also, Angels down 6-2 in KC.
Easy as pie.
Just another 1 run win that cut a month off my life.
The D.A. is a great nickname.
Case closed!
Is Sims’ “Case closed!” new? Cuz I actually dig it.
You won’t see many wins on only 2 hits.
Great win. This is a battlecry for a 12 game win streak!
I come home to a Felix win. Hell yes! I’m gonna go eat a Klondike.
The last two games where we scored after Felix was done pitching sort of make up for the ones the bullpen blew earlier. The constant is that he has been just pitching lights out for so long a stretch. I’m fairly certain no one in Mariner uniform under 6’10″ has ever pitched so consistently well for this long. Add another couple million to today’s post.
Aawesome.
They seem to have a pattern of losing the first game of a series and then winning the next 2 or 3 to close out the series lately (6 of the 10 they’ve won since 6/1).
Oh my; I left my computer when it was 1-0 heading to the 8th. A grand sight it is to which I have returned!
Woooo!
When’s the last time we won with only two hits?
I was thinking the same thing…we all know how great Felix is, but he truly has the potential to be epic over the course of his carerr. He makes being an M’s fan much easier, so Dr. Z…sign him now, sign him long.
I got home from the store (listened to Dave on the radio on my way home… Jose “Baez” (Lopez)? The Washington Senators? Continuously referring to Gerald Laird as Rob Johnson? Oh, Dave…), turned on the BBQ, flipped the TV on, started getting the burgers ready, and turned around just in time to see that mighty swing from Russell.
My, was that a thing of beauty…
god damnit, why won’t the angels lose!!!!!!!
All those ex-M’s in KC are sticking it to the M’s right now.
Don’t fret Yuni is comin up :p
Joser. Nice call on Branyan’s homer. Lucky win. I’ll take it.
We are 5 out of the wild card now and 5.5 out of first place. I am starting to think that catching the wild card is more realistic than catching up to the Angels unless the Angels start regressing to the mean at some point…
Ha! Damn Angels. Stupid, stupid Royals. Since the AS break Kansas City’s allowed something like 1,200 runs in the final three innings.
GoMariners, you think the Mariners have a better chance of catching and overtaking the Red Sox/Yankees/Rays?
I say no.
Oh, how god awful those Royals are.
juneau_fan,
Yes, if the Angels keep on playing at this pace, catching the Red Sox is much more realistic. We don’t have to catch the Yankees. They are in first place in the AL East.
Yeah, but you think we’re better than the Red Sox or the Rays? That’s all I’m saying. Or Texas, for that matter? I wish we were chasing a stationary target, but we aren’t.
Anyway, on to tomorrow’s game. Thank goodness the IT geeks don’t realize I can access Gameday through Yahoo at work and have just blocked the MLB sites.
The difference between the wild card and the Angels is that we can beat the Angels head to head.
Hate to break it to you, but you know all this winning the Angels are doing right now? That’s the regression to the mean for them, to make up for the excessive losing they were doing at the start of the year.
Yeah, I was a couple of AB’s early. But 8th inning dramatics just in time to salvage a win for Felix seems to be this team’s modus operandi.
No he didn’t, he was just setting things up to make it more memorable: as a pinch hitter in the 6th inning, he swung at the first pitch from Cincinnati reliever Nick Masset and hit a tie-breaking grand slam home run into the “Mannywood” section of the left field seats. I can’t make this stuff up, folks.
How’s that for a bobblehead tie-in?
Manny’s real head actually bobbles too. The way his hat just flies off sometimes is all bobblehead.
Fifty wins by the age of twenty-three. Only 250 to go, bud. Should have it by the time youre Thirty-three if you keep this up. (Hyperbole)
Barring major injuries through his career Felix is going to make all those idiots who say “there will never be another 300 game winner” look really stupid. The really amazing thing is that he can afford to miss a few years here and there due to injuries and still has a good shot.
The only thing id say to that is there was a certain pitcher for the mets some 20 years ago who many thought the same thing…but, I’m going to guess that Felix isnt going to have the same problems that guy had (or pray to God he doesnt anyway)
Yeah, yeah, everybody went through the Doc analogies (and a couple of other, more obscure ones) when Felix first came up. It’s not impossible, of course, but it’s pretty unlikely: times are different now, circumstances are vastly different, Felix is already a father (and appears to be maturing a lot, especially this year — whether that’s fatherhood, Wakamatsu, and/or a bunch of other things). This isn’t New York, and especially not the cocaine-fueled “Studio 54″ / “Big Lights Big City” New York. And the league (slowly, belatedly) figured out a few things too — even when guys start going down that path, they’re doing a better job of detecting it and trying to do something about it. Just ask Hamilton.