Game 105, Mariners at Rangers
DMZ · August 2, 2009 at 4:08 pm · Filed Under Mariners
Get excited!
RF-L Ichiro!
1B-L Branyan
2B-R Lopez
DH-L Griffey
3B-L Hannahan
SS-R Wilson
CF-L Langerhans
C-R Bloomquist II: The Catchinator
LF-L Saunders
2B-R Omar
3B-R Young
DH-L Murphy
LF-R Byrd
1B-L Blalock
RF-R Cruz
CF-L Hamilton
C-B Saltalamacchia
SS-R Andrus
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Hannahan 5th? Brutal.
Not sure why Branyan just doesn’t hit 3rd permanently and then Wilson could hit in the 2 hole or Guti.
This is the lineup I would like to see:
RF – Ichiro
SS – Wilson
1B – Branyan
2B – Lopez
DH – Griffey
CF – Gutierrez
LF – Saunders
3B – Hannahan
C – Johnson
When Beltre comes back you could slide Guti to the 2 holes and Beltre to 6th…or move Beltre to 5th and slide Griffey down to 6th.
Oh well…
The Catchinator? Heh. More like the passedballinator.
I’d certainly wish for a better place to return to the big leagues for Snell than Arlington. Sure, you have to get back on the horse sometime, but it would be nice if it was a nag like the Royals instead of bucking bronc like the Rangers.
And no Gutierrez out there to help, either. Though Langerhans is sure a better back up CF than we’ve been used to seeing the past few years. Speaking of which, holy crap is this team lefty-heavy in this configuration. Remember when there seemed to be nothing but righties after Ichiro? Zduriencik can certainly transform a team in very little time.
For the record, platoon splits for Marty, er, Scott Feldman:
vs LHB: .266 / .344 / .440
vs RHB: .267 / .337 / .404
Not much, but you take what you can get.
I am looking forward to seeing what Mr Snell can do.
I was looking forward to seeing what Mr. Snell could do, too-until I saw that once again Major League Baseball is not of normal eptitude, and has the God awful blackout rules.
Somebody fix this shite.
Ian Snell is black? The More You Know.
Hannahan has been hitting .265 since joining the M’s with an OPS around .750 so he really has been a nice fill in for Mr. Beltre. But 5th is a tad high for him.
Can’t wait to watch Snell pitch.
P.S. This mobile version of the site is incredible. Looks really slick on my iPhone.
That’s the kind of stuff we work on here at USSM Labs when we’re not trying to desperately hold the tide of horrible comments back (and so on). Sigh.
Oh, Snell.
Why can’t I watch this game on MLB EXTRA INNINGS?
I’m shocked that a lefty took him yard in Texas. How unpredictable.
The slider looked good, though. He’s definitely going to be tough on righties.
Chris C, I feel your pain on the blackout rules. The wife is out of town, I just got the 2-year-old to bed, and I settled down in front of the television to watch, uh, nothing.
– Stranded in Virginia
Was just about to post how Snell was looking good, and then he gave up the HR to Murphy. Dang.
-Stranded in Indiana
Snell’s pitchfx toolification, for everyone’s enjoyment.
You can see he gets about 10″ of drop on that compared to his fastball. Brutal.
I hate not being able to watch the game. BLACKOUTS ARE STUPID!!
“Ichi-Flo” sounds like a… feminine hygiene product.
I wonder if Snell got word the Rangers were sitting on the first pitch — he’s just attacking the middle of the strike zone to start almost every at-bat.
Nice throw out to second by Bloomquist II!
IS Ichi-Flo on youtube or something?
-Stranded in Michigan (I might just go watch Washburn on Tuesday)
“I wonder if Snell got word the Rangers were sitting on the first pitch ”
Isn’t that somewhat typical if you haven’t seen a pitcher before?
Would it make sense for the Mariners to take more pitches than normal, and making the at bats last longer since Feldman is working on six days rest? Then again he only went 2 1/3 against the Tigers on Wednesday so I guess he wouldn’t be too tired.
Is it? Have I just been watching the Mariners hack for that long?
Sorry 3 not 6 days rest
FSN show-hot-girls camera philosophy backfires when girl PICKS HER NOSE!! 4 dead, 16 injured in control room explosion.
Snell is getting squeezed on the strike zone.
I wonder if this comes into play –
“So two separate teams of economists recently studied baseball umpires. And they learned something pretty startling: An umpire is more likely to call “strike” than “ball” when he’s of the same race or ethnicity as the pitcher. And as a result, your team is more likely to win if the umpire is the same race as the pitcher.”
http://tiny.cc/k2UYc
Could Ichiro have robbed that HR?
As a result of that shot, wife and I were discussing the camera crew’s collections of out takes that must exist somewhere — nose picking, boob adjusting, junk scratching, crack tugging, the list goes on and on.
Wow, nasty slider to end the 3rd by Snell. I like the way this kid looks.
Since I live in Indiana i got to see Snell in AAA. He found something. At one point he stuckout 17 straight. it was crazy
A narrow survival by most of the crew.
Besides the couple of walks, Snell has calmed down nicely since the HR.
All you have to do to Branyan is throw Fastballs up. HE WIFFS EVERYTIME!
Vizquel did that on purpose!! He knew Lopez couldn’t score from first to save his life like Ichiro can. Smart move!
I think both pitchers are being squeezed. Ball/Strike ratios are pretty bad.
I’m sorry Omar, some might call that a smart baseball play. I call it pretty cheap.
What did Omar do?
1 out, Ichiro on first, popup to second base.. Omar drops the ball and forces Ichiro at 2nd to get him off the basepaths and replace him with Lopez.
Let an infield pop-up hit the ground so that they could get the faster runner out via force at 2nd.
Omar dropped a pop up on purpose (it was just a little too deep to be called an infield fly rule). He then threw Ichiro out at second, so the M’s then had Lopez at first instead of Ichiro.
It was exactly the kind of play that M’s announcer Ron Fairly used to call for, often several times in the same game.
How come no in-field fly rule?
Nice time for the dp…
It wasn’t an infield fly becase only one runner was on base.
BTW, the hater-mail has started w/r/t the Yankees.
I noticed that the Texas PA system plays the same music that FSN NW does on inning changes. I wonder if the FSN affiliate in Texas also plays the same music.
Oh please Derek, do share those emails. Irrational Yankee fan rants always bring a smile to my face.
What is there to complain about? I read the story earlier on Larry Stone’s page and I had no doubt that the Yankees story didn’t make any sense.
Well, you did sort of wave a red flag at a drunken bull.
If I can use such a metaphor to describe a seemingly high proportion of Yankee fans.
I think its just the generic Fox Sports music. I know the New York affiliates use them,too
You’re assuming Yankee fans need a rational basis to lambaste people.
I once wrote something not-flattering about Chuck Knoblauch (I think I said his defense in left was not good, or something) on ESPN.com and I got dozens of emails about what a moron I was, how Knoblauch was really trying, and on and on and on. And I didn’t even say he sucked. I just didn’t rave about it.
Maybe Jack feels the same way “SCREW” the Yankees. We do not have to trade with them just because they are the Yankess. If they want to trade they can have Silva or batista.
I wish the alien brain worms that infested the Mariner lineup last night would have stayed on for this last game. Take away the CNS parasites from Draco VI and this team can’t hit a lick.
Yikes. Someone drew on that man on the right’s face with a Sharpie. Disturbing.
Hi, Snell!
damn, Snell is giving us a visual demonstration of “hard-luck loser” right now.
Yankees and BoSox fans are so used to having their asses kissed by the ESPN morons that they couldn’t handle being told that their team will do anything besides win the World Series and capture Osama every single year.
I imagine ESPN gets hundreds of emails each day that read something like this:
“YESTURDAE U SHOED A HI LITE OF A TEEM THAT WUSN’T THE YANKEES ! AND IT WAS STOOPID CUS THE YANKEES ARE THE BESTEST TEEM EVAR! JETUR IS THE BEST PLAYUR IN BASEBAL EVAR!”
They normally would receive more hate mail from Red Sox fans, except that by the time the Sox fans have finished the email, they’re usually too drunk to click “Send”.
Anyways, Snell is looking fairly good, and his offspeed stuff is looking great.
Too bad we’re making a mediocre pitcher look like Satchel Paige.
Rob Johnson with the first hit out of the infield for the M’s today.
So sad, on so many levels.
Tonight’s a treat. We got to see the rarest thing is sports. A hit in the bottom of the Mariner’s lineup.
Rob’s an ignitor. He brings something to the lineup every day. He’s clutch.
Any thoughts on a big bat we might acquire in the offseason? If I wanted to watch a team not score, I’d be a soccer fan…
Ichiro, we can haz homerun?
FSN is going all “Major League” for their stats today. “AL leaders with 3 hit games”. Good stuff.
Still would like to see them pull off the AL Batting Average leaders on Sundays, Tuesdays, and Fridays with men on second and third in a town west of the Mississippi River.
That cracks me up… probably the worst color man in M’s broadcast history. He always made me mad when he suggested that the M’s hitters take a peak at the signs the catcher was laying down – several times EVERY game. Got old fast.
You forgot “He’s a good clubhouse guy” and “He’s due”.
But still made me laugh for 30 seconds.
woo. tie ballgame
I want a Big Fly.
Do we make a run at Blaylock, or Branyan?
“In day games, at retro style ballparks on the east coast, during odd number games and when a lefty is pitching the M’s are undefeated.”
Wow a nice weaksauce RBI for Lopez, but I’ll take it!
On days where the pitcher ate chicken for lunch
God damnit Griffey.
Ugh.
We’re going to have (in theory) a big bag of cash to throw around in free agency…I’d love to see Blalock in an M’s uniform…Frankly, I’d love to see anyone that can hit in an M’s uniform…
I swear, I’m going to start a drinking game with the recent infestation of ‘we need a big bat!’ posts, but then I’d kill my liver.
I just laugh now when Rob gets one of his weird, funky hits. Obviously the baseball god was a frustrated end of the bench scrappy little catcher before being deified.
Facing the Royals on Tuesday…
Or better known as “The player’s the M’s didn’t want any more.”
Are you saying that Wak is the Baseball God?
Snell is looking good out there.
He might be somewhat fragile mentally, but he sure doesn’t look like a Steve Trout.
That’s the satisfaction we were looking for.
Except they’re oxen, not bulls. Bulls have intact testicles.
Crap that ball carried like crazy!! Snell needs to stop pitching up or he’s gonna get burned!
so much for that lead.
How many of Young’s HRs have been off M’s pitching this year?
OMG, if Sims doesn’t do something about his hard-on for Michael Young, I’m going to kill myself. I guess I should just pray that the Mariners never acquire Young, or I’ll be very uncomfortable every single game.
You know, it’s kind of appropriate Snell ended up with the M’s because there’s a weird connection between him and one of the M’s owners.
Bill Marklyn, former Microsoftie and member of the Mariners ownership group, used to be known as Bill Bader. He married Holly Bass. When they were expecting their first child, they decided to both change their last names to Marklyn, which is a combination of their middle names.
(Humorous aside: when Bill walked into a meeting at Microsoft and announced that he and Holly were going to change their names so that their child’s name would be a combination of theirs, one wag in the room immediately responded, “Bader… Bass… what are you going to call the kid, Badass?”)
Blalock or Branyan?
I’m sure pretty sure we’ll all be frightened what Blalock gets in free agency.
I mean if you were to offer them at the same price, they it would be Blalock, but that’s not going to happen.
*snerk* Only if they end with a winning record.
BTW, does anyone else have a young woman showing off her 21 Brazilian Ju-Jitsu titles as their ad? And we thought that freaky ass video game ad was a tad undignified. Bring back the red meat ad!
Yah, I was mildly curious as to what that ad was selling.
I mean, financially. Using sex to sell, yes, but sell what?
Snell had 84 pitches.
Why didn’t he go another inning?
I’m sure pretty sure we’ll all be frightened what Blalock gets in free agency.
I mean if you were to offer them at the same price, they it would be Blalock, but that’s not going to happen.
I know if dollars are eI’m sure pretty sure we’ll all be frightened what Blalock gets in free agency.
I mean if you were to offer them at the same price, they it would be Blalock, but that’s not going to happen.
I know if dollars are even you take Blalock, but the question is does he make the team so much better you spend the money on him? I read the article about how much we might spend next year, but we all know they can spend more if they want. Is his bat and fielding worth the extra money? I would say no, but there are much better baseball minds here then me.
I did some quick math on what it will take the Mariners to make the playoffs, and it is not as hard as you might think. The Angels are currently at a 99 win pace, obviously the M’s are not going to be able to catch them if they keep winning at that rate, but say the Angels come back to earth and play out the rest of season at a .500 clip. That would put them at 92 wins, and it would be possible for the M’s to catch them then.
To get to 93 wins the Mariners would have to play out the season at a .655 pace. Now the cynics out there would ask, how are the M’s suddenly going to become a .655 club. But when you break it down it comes down to two things scoring runs or preventing runs. I think it’s safe to say with Bedard on the DL, and the new and improved Washburn a Tiger its going to be hard to do better than there already league leading 448 runs against.
So that leaves scoring runs, and that pretty simple calculating how many runs they would have to score to get there expected winning percentage to .655 means they would merely have to score 2 more runs a game to get their runs per game from 3.9 to 5.9, and then we can start making our plans for October.
So to summarize we only need two things to happen: the Angels need to start losing half their games, and we need to start scoring 5.9 runs a game.
Hmmm maybe Wak should’ve let Snell go out there for the 7th.
I hate Texas. Anyway.
I very warily googled MMA, and it’s good old Mixed Martial Arts, so this young woman is trying to get us to watch her beat the crap out of some other young woman. But MiddleEasy.com does suggest that something else entirely will be going on.
It’s those kinds of distractions that keep us from scoring those elusive 2 extra runs a game.
That was about as bad an Ichiro at bat I’ve ever seen.
Has this field always looked this bad, or is it to save money? I do not remember it looking so ugly. The grass is filled with bare spots. A Pro field should not look like this unless maybe it is shared with a football team.
Ichiro¡
Summer. Texas.
I’m pretty sure the “Ballpark at Arlington” hosts regular equestrian events during Ranger away games. That could also explain some of the big brown lumps I’ve seen scattered about the outfield.
I think I dislike CJ Wilson on appearance alone?
I am the only one?
Oh c’mon, pinch hit. (Do we even have anyone who’s a realistic pinch hitter?)
Come on now Griffey, LETS DO THIS.
Franky is on the bench, but I think he’s considered unavailable today.
Outfield assists, one of the few positive stats that shows no one is afraid to run on you.
As DMZ said once, Wak is not a guy to PH.
Tuesday Beltre is back!
Please deliver Jack Wilson.
Okay, Jack, lets make some new fans!
Man, with Gutierrez out this team is pretty damn white. We were dissing some teams for lack of diversity a while ago, but now I guess we’re the pot calling the kettle white.
OTOH, if Jack gets on, you gotta go to FG to PH.
Holy shit!
The right hand batters box is considered in the strike zone, apparently.
What the? Wow.
Wow bullshit calls by the umpires.
Shit strike zone for Wilson on that at bat and shit call to end a game.
Pretty bad call there.
Two shit calls by the ump there, Jack was just screwed!
Well, put that crew down as one of the shittiest in the league.
What a joke. Darryl Cousins’ had a horrific strike zone yesterday, and lets that occur today.
Apparently they wanted to get out of Texas just as any other sane person.
A pitch nearly behind the hitter called a strike.
And a clear foul ball.
Apparently MLB umps have been training with the NBA guys again.
The replay seems to clearly show the ball changing direction off his bat. Of course, they don’t have the replay (I guess they would be allowed to check it in situations like this but extremely disinclined to do so?)
Instant replay is only for Home Runs.
Oh. Huh. I guess that makes sense, because otherwise managers would be pushing for it every other play. But ouch.
Clearly a foul ball doesn’t matter for MLB umps.
They want to know who Selig wants to win, and that’s all.
Seriously. Fuck. The. M. L. B. and their ownership at Yankee Stadium, too.
I’d ask Bud Selig to consider looking at this series and this crew, but that’s a little like having Dick Cheney look in to Enron.
I can only hope that type of game ending call happens in a high-profile (NYY/BOS or WS game) situation to get MLB thinking about expanding it’s instant replay coverage.
The technology to replace umpires is almost 100% available. Getting the right call is much more important than honoring the game’s long-standing commitment to human error.
That call was about as bogus as I have seen in a while. And making matters worse is the called strike just moments before when Wilson almost fell over himself trying to get out of the way.
If we were 3 games back I don’t even want to know how pissed I’d be.
Wow. What a botch job in the ninth.
The fact that the catcher had to be told to tag Wilson is a clear indicator that the ball was fouled off. The catcher knew it was foul.
Here’s the proper cite for that study, which was done two years ago.
had we got the 2nd part of Daves plan.
But Michael Young is one of the more underrated players in baseball. Dave said so the other day.
Try this for Daves 2nd part
Ahhhh … but you forget the signature Yankee fanboy catchphrase in that letter: “COUNT TEH RINGZ!!1!”
Why is Griffey still on the team? He has nothing left. That homer he hit was just pure luck and aided by the bandbox of the stadium and the heat.
An improved offense starts with DFA’ing Griffey for Carp and Sweeney for Shelton. Make it happen. The dead wood has to go.