Game 107, Mariners at Royals
DMZ · August 5, 2009 at 4:22 pm · Filed Under Mariners
Washburn 2 vs Davies. Can he out-perform Washburn 1? Shouldn’t be hard.
Bedard’s going badly, per Baker.
No lineups yet, which is annoying.
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And he says that Aardsma is not available tonight. For a medical reason that sounds painful.
From Rototimes:
Erik Bedard, P, Seattle Mariners Wednesday 8/5, 6:31 PM CT
Erik Bedard will undergo an MRI Friday after experiencing soreness in his ailing left shoulder during Tuesday’s pen session, according to the Associated Press.
Our View: Skipper Don Wakamatsu noted that the soreness in Bedard’s shoulder is not as severe, but he will have an MRI as a precaution not to risk further injury. He will likely require a rehab assignment once he is deemed fit to pitch.
Very excited to watch Wash 2.0 tonight, and see how he does.
The Mariner’s twitter account always posts the lineups before the game. I subscribe through RSS to get the latest news from them.
Today’s lineups:
http://twitpic.com/cw5bs
Suzuki
Branyan
Lopez
Griffey
Beltre
Gutierrez
Wilson
Johnson
Saunders
Apparently Washburn 2 and Washburn 1 also have the same personal catcher.
I really didn’t need to read about tickling and butt boils. But I might re-read it about the time Lowe comes in to close. Love the guy when he’s on, but he gives me a case of nerves.
Really hope French’s slider is ‘on’ tonight, because when it is, he can be straight-up NASTY
Wash 2.0 > Wash 1.0
Oh, Griffey, how you make me want to pull my hair out.
MLB banned the bullpens war helmets…. how freakin’ stupid.
91 mph fastball? I thought he couldn’t get it up that high? Not bad…
yep, and now they go back to being all generic and whatnot.
Yeah, I remember the reports saying he was a soft-tossing lefty who topped out at 87. I haven’t seen a fastball under 90 so far and hes even hit 92 a couple of times…….What’s up with that?
I thought the helmets were pretty dumb, but I wonder what their justification is.
With a 92 mp fastball, that certainly changes my opinion of him a bit…can’t really call him a soft-tossing lefty
I’m more curious if it was something the league looked into on their own(not likely) or if another manager/gm/owner complained(more likely).
Well you knew Yuni would be first-pitch swinging…good to see he hasn’t changed any
I probably just have a filthy mind, but the advertisement behind the Royal’s home plate for Lumber Liquidators featuring their toll-free number (1-800-HARDWOOD) strikes me as potentially less than family friendly. I definitely want one of their t-shirts, though.
I think the Royals gun is a little off. Didn’t they have Batista throwing 95 last night, Lowe throwing 99, and Aardsma throwing 98?
What the hell was that?
I got a good chuckle when Dave talked about Yuni’s abilities to draw walks.
Did Yuni really just have a 9 pitch AB? Pigs can fly…
Yuni didn’t swing at pitches out of the strike zone.
There must be an airborne pig somewhere.
This is the type of offense I was expecting from these 2 teams.
nice piece of hitting there
Take that all you Rob Johnson haters!
I find it strange that R. Johnson only hits doubles. If he was only better, we’d think of him as Edgar… wait…
Here we go, beating the Catcher ERA dead horse again.
I know he was for sure home, but could Rob have ran home any slower?
Saunders! Coming around big fella.
We may have our answer for left field.
that was a great Curveball.
I had to change the channel for those minute. I don’t want to kick my TV in.
So he’s just as leery of a collision at the plate as a runner as he is as a catcher?
3 consecutive AB’s w/ RBI’s foir Russell, says Niehaus, ignoring Branyan’s first AB today.
Like I said last night ‘So much for that lead’
I hope this game isn’t like last nights(well, I’ll take the end result)
Doh, that looked like Washburn 1.0. C’mon Luke, right the ship and keep your pitches down.
I know, a little stupid. What’s their justification?
That Butler has been on fire the last couple of days. Why couldn’t he save that for the Angels.
I thought the article just said they couldn’t wear them. I’ve always thought that helmet schtick was okay for home games, but just inviting ridicule on the road.
Corcoran just signed with the Astros and has been assigned to their AAA club.
Yay! Beltre’s first return hit.
nice!
WOO!
The M’s bunting had been superb this series.
Let’s go death, steal that base.
we’ll gladly take it.
Wow, what a sloppy game.
who needs an offense when you have friends like KC?
nice approach Saunders
It’s fun playing teams that will beat themselves if you let them.
I know this is KC, who, by definition, suck the proverbial fat one, but it’s nice to see consecutive games where the opposing starter has thrown a TON of pitches early.
The M’s are stringing hits and good ABs together (until Lopez and Griffey). Is it the opposition or something more?
ITA, red_devil. I came home to Wilson striking out, but after 10 pitches. Thank you! I’ll take that over a groundball out after two pitches any day.
I keep having to tell myself to ignore my thoughts that our team is amazingly good, and remember that we are playing the Royals
I know! We are completely burning through KC’s pitchers 1 and half games into this series.
I think we are picking on Willie F. in right.
Well aren’t we looking uncharacteristically offensively potent. It’s safe to say Davies sucks but our offense has done worse against worse pitchers. Fun stuff!
WOW, stick a fork in Davies, he is done. The problem for KC is that the bullpen is worse. Let’s hope Branyan goes on another hot streak.
I’ll be interested to see whether or not this “new approach” can be continued when we meet real pitchers. We’ve had a few guys with good approaches all year, and we appear to be adding more as it goes along. It’s strange to see, but I like it.
I watch these Royals and it brings back memories of the M’s the last few seasons.
I am so glad we have a front office that gets it.
Nothing like a series against the Royals to pad your run diff numbers. What a depressingly terrible franchise, almost makes Bavasi…no I won’t say it.
nice inning Seattle!
Did we really just bat around? I didnt know the Royals were that terrible.
We need a real cleanup hitter.
I can not believe Selig banned the spartan helmets, someone beat him down PLEASE!!
I’m so irate about this, at $17.5 million per year, he’s broken the 3-way tie as to who the worst pro sports commish is.
What a loser.
At least the M’s are piling it on against the Royals.
Griffey would be the person to go 0-2 in our big inning.
I didn’t expect this much velocity out of French. He looks to have a pretty decent change as well.
WOW! 8 runs in 4 innings! Have we done that at all this year? The uh… the Royals um… the Royals are baaaddd. (In a bad way.)
Should have been a meaningless solo shot
…unbelievable. First Guti loses it, then Ichiro slows down, resumes pursuit and calls for it AFTER Guti had re-acquired it and looked on track…SAD.
Washburn 2 looks a lot like Washburn 1… only with run support.
That was unfortunate and very weird.
I sometimes wonder if playing a sloppy team makes you play sloppy.
I think French had to sit too long during the top half.
That is not pretty first the outfield shenanigans then French not keeping the fastball down. EWWWW
I have this feeling that the Angels are going to have a monumental collapse via Guerrero´s return.
On the plus side, has anyone noticed the M’s offense isn’t nearly as bad as it was not too long ago? I’m not just talking about what’s happened against crappy KC the last two days. I’m talking about in general. They still aren’t good, but are now seeing a ton more pitches. In addition, Ichiro!, Gutierrez! (Yes, he gets an exclamation point too), and Branyan obviously are good. Wilson is a major upgrade over Betencourt and Cedeno. Beltre (once he gets his timing back) is good. Johnson has somehow started to hit the last month and a half (and has a very nice OBP over that span). Saunders/Langerhans are both major upgrades over Wlad. Lopez contributes and Griffey, well, the opposing pitchers are afraid of him for some reason…
I think offensively we’ve gone from ultra-suck to looks good compared to ultra-suck, but not so much compared to many others. Still though, a nice improvement mid-season. I love the JZ era.
Good ol’ Kingdome memories!
That was a Bobcat. Glad nobody picked it up.
Where’d the cat come from?
His mom?
That was one absolutely terrified and panicked cat.
Once that cat found itself out on the field, it was scared from all the noise, and it had nowhere to hide, there being nothing on the field to get under or on top of.
Good thing they opened the outfield door.
In other items, why is Jack’s adventures in a warehouse store supposed to make me want to buy his burgers? Never mind, don’t bother explaining it, probably better that I don’t get it.
pretzelspretzelspretzels.
“Pretzel party at Jack’s house!” …I think it’s kinda funny…
Haha. Big barrels of anything are funny.
That was no bobcat, puhleeeeze. But an amusing interlude.
Whitesox now up 5-1 on the Halos
. Looking like TB is going to knock off the Redsox. Possible 8 and 6.5 out respectively on the division/wild card after today. Playoffs here we come. 
*waits for inevitable cougar joke*
Where can I listen to the games via radio?
Corcoran just signed with the Astros and has been assigned to their AAA club.
Roy is such a good ol’ Southern boy, I figured he’d like to be down there.
Isn’t it possible that his agent had feelers out to teams as soon as he was DFA, if not earlier? WQould that be kosher, even though the M’s still owned him?
I know, you say that Roy isn’t worth any team talking about before he’s a free agent.
“Where can I listen to the games via radio?”
If you mean the radio broadcast on a radio receiver, then any of these radio stations here. Otherwise mlb.com has a nice package for about $15 a season to be able to listen to all mlb radio broadcasts online.
Olivo V.S. Ichiro! hmm I wonder who’ll win.
J. Lo! RBI monster.
Heh, Mr. “Clutch”
Classic Lopez junkball RBI
I’m guessing…flyball to right field.
Watching Junior bat makes me ask why Guti is batting sixth while Junior is batting fourth. I am sorry to pile on the topic, but it does not make sense to me.
Just so y’all know, Kansas City might have made Baker go off his rocker, egad.
What’s the difference between the Cougars and Cheerios?
Cheerios make it into a Bowl.
You’re right it was inevitable
Cmon wheres your faith. Cheap 10ft. infield hit. DUH!
So much for the six run lead. What is this man doing on a major league roster?
You could also ask why Beltre is batting 5th when, as bad as Griffey has been, Beltre has been slightly worse offensively this year. And of course Beltre is likely to be awful for the next week or so while he gets his timing back anyways. Gutie should be ahead of both of them.
I’m just amazed he got to first before three different guys could throw him out.
Baker gold:
This game has slowed down so much with Batista in.
Would it be considered rude if I showed up on Saturday with a “Please DFA Beltre” t-shirt?
Yes.
Ack, I meant Batista. Batista. Not Beltre. Never Beltre. God, I miss edit.
Batista…gotta love that “watching paint dry” excitement.
In that case, no.
Red Sox lost, Angels now down 6-1, Rangers down 2-0. La la la.
Well, Lauren is here, and so’s Yuni….
I guess Batista was just going to wait for everyone to fall asleep, then he’d sneak off the mound back to his hotel room.
I believe you might even be met with open arms should you wear the amended shirt.
Dave made a good argument before the season that the Mariners should just cut Batista loose. It’s now August and he is below replacement level. Are we still hoping that someone is going to take him off our hands?
What’s the scoring there? 1B FC?
I kinda dig our new little shortstop.
Jack Z is hoping to put off having to run to 7-11 for a six pack.
Angels lost. *blissful sigh*
That was some wild baserunning and throwing there. I thought the Royals were going to get a baserunner at second, nope, then at the plate, nope, then at third, nope!
Laugh out loud funny.
“Are we still hoping that someone is going to take him off our hands”
Well, he’ll probably clear waivers and JZ did manage to get something for Yuni so…
HAHA What the hell is the guy behind home plate rubbing his belly for! HAHAHA
Batista and now Garrett Olson?
Yikes, we’re going to need all these runs!
This might be the only game for awhile that we’re winning by more than 2 runs. Gotta get those guys innings.
Hannahan at short!
Intriguing!
Hannahan in as the SS!
And of course the ball finds him and goes on by.
Ugh to Garrett Olson.
Any general manager who claimed Miguel Batista off waivers would immediately be institutionalized. “Probably”????
Batista is bad, but Yuni is waaaaayyyyy worse.
We used to have a shortstop who couldn’t make that play.
What the heck is Olson doing out there???
AEEII!!
Yuniesky Betancourt is the last hope for the Royals.
Hahahahahaha, that’s a good one.
What the heck is Lowe doing warming up with the game won?
ok Yuni…this is when you swing at anything, no matter how far outside the strike zone it is…
We used to have a guy who batted like that.
Oh. It’s over. How anti-climatic.
Only 8 back everyone!
…or you could just stare at them as they zip past you…that worked too…
But what happened to the cat?
He’s pitching on Friday.
“Only 8 back everyone!”
6.5 out of the wild card and it looks like it’s going to be 3.5 back from Texas. Would be nice to finish second (or obviously have the odds go out the window and see the Halos tank and the M’s take the division
). But I’d settle for 2nd and that one just might be do-able.
Classic Niehaus quote tonight:
“Whoa look at that……A Squirell,…..no, that’s a CAT”
Small sample size of course, but Betancourt is now at 154/176/277 since the trade (70 plate appearances). I hoped the the trade might clear his head, but it looks like he’s two months away from being out of major league baseball.
“I hoped the the trade might clear his head”
He was too far gone to just flip a switch and have everything turn around for him. They are working with him on having an actual approach at the plate and he’s buying into it now (he see’s the writing on the wall finally). And supposedly he’s being diligent about putting in extra work both defensively and offensively off the field. However, he can’t change overnight.
Best case scenario for him is to keep putting in a lot of work for the rest of the season then go down to winter ball (if he can, given visa issues with being a Cuban defector and all; not sure what his residency papers look like and all that), then keep working on stuff there, then hope he has a good spring training and he can re-claim some of his former defensive prowess. They aren’t going to just cut him loose given the money owed, so he’ll get his chances. Assuming he puts in the work, he has at least a chance of salvaging his career.
Our offense looks a thousand times better on paper now with Beltre back and Wilson for Cedeno. We might be able to make a run at this thing, though I would like for Wak to find a way to get Hannahan consistant playing time since he was just getting hot as Beltre came back.