Game 112, White Sox at Mariners
DMZ · August 10, 2009 at 6:00 pm · Filed Under Mariners
I so hope French beans someone to start the game. Just to make the series spicy. Get Guillen suspended for 100 games for having his whole staff thrown out for retaliation and seeing Podsednik start the second game against Felix.
Anyway! French, who is performing like Washburn while Washburn performs like… not even like French, really.
NEW LINEUP ALERT
RF-L Ichiro!
CF-R Gutierrez (“To Tony!”)
2B-R Lopez
DH-L Griffey
3B-R Beltre
1B-L Branyan
SS-R Wilson
C-R Johjima
LF-L Saunders
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Guti in the 2 hole! Yeah. Hopefully he stays there more than a game or two.
Now about Griffey and Branyan….
Wow, Gerald Laird must be a terrible catcher! There’s no other explanation for the Bus’s performance.
French beans are the best. So continental.
VIVA FRANCE!!
…1983 Rick Honeycutt, as a Dodger.
I love this lineup. Can only get better if Langerhans was starting DH over Griff.
Also, anyone else notice Morrow’s last two starts? Notice the walks..
7IP, 2ER, 7H, 1BB, 5K, W
6IP, 1ER, 5H, 1BB, 8K
Langerhans as the starting DH would leave Griffey as the backup outfielder, unless Seattle was willing to forfeit the position to move him to the outfield.
What’s this? Joh two days in a row? Inconceivable!
But if Luke hit someone, and Ozzie charged the mound, wouldn’t French immediately surrender?
I think I’d prefer it if Luke threw way up and inside, once… and then proceeded to strike out the next 15 guys or so.
“wouldn’t French immediately surrender?”
Haha, that gave me a good laugh.
That’s what I call a turn around, go from a man on, no outs, to two outs and the bases empty in two throws.
A pick off, nice.
Two runs already for the Rays against the Angels. Yessssss!
“Two runs already for the Rays against the Angels. Yessssss!”
At this point, aren’t we kind of rooting for the Halos in that series? Only 4.5 out of the wild card and TB being one of the teams we need to leap frog.
I really am excited about French. I think he is gonna have a way better career than Washburn has had.
I guess there wasn’t much to talk about today, the big story in the pregame show and in the first inning or so it just the latest crazy talk from Ozzie Guillen.
Nice play, Jack!
nice DP
The Sox just aren’t going to get someone past first with their baserunning mistakes. Let’s see Ozzie have a meltdown tonight, please.
Wow, nice throw Jack. Very nice.
God how I hate rooting for the Angels, especially against a very likeable Rays team. And I’m actually happy the Yanks swept the Red Sox…erk (though I’m not a Sox fan, just hate the Yanks more).
At this point in time M’s fans should wish for the Angels over the Rays.
This eve the Red Sox held on to beat Detroit. Boo.
And Toronto is back in the wildcard race with three wins in row. But the Jays have the most difficult schedule for the rest of the month. Will they regret offing Rios to the ChiSox?
And the Twins have the leat difficult schedule for the rest of August.
So SEVEN teams in hunt for a single AL wildcard position. May the best team from the Pacific NorthWest obtain the wildcard!
leat = least
Perfect hat weather Sims, and you’ve disappointed me yet again.
Wow, Ichiro’s been arguing balls and strikes this year. Just wow.
According to CoolStandings, we have a better chance of winning the division than the wildcard.
We have a pitching battle. Floyd is sharp. French with 54 pitches in 4 innings. Hoping to rest the Gladiators in the bullpen.
Gut is on base. Should he steal?
The umpire made the right call according to pitchfx, so the players aren’t always right when they complain.
There went the perfect game.
Rays and Angles tied 3-3
I think Griffey reads USSM and just decides to hit when people are harshing on his DH role, and then gets a week’s grace period…
Nice piece of hitting by Lopez and Griffey. Keep it going Adrian!
Lopey!
I hoped Gut would score on that play.
Floyd is no longer sharp!
USSM WordPress blog is very sluggish as of late, and likely the site needs to move to a better tuned host. At the USSM pow-wow did anyone ask Z if he or the M’s could help out?
Nothing like inexpensive Washburn.
Is it just me, or does Lopez look really comfortable at the plate. Totally different from earlier in the year.
Good one Hark. Just what I was thinking.
Thank you for your amazing insight into the issues facing USSM, H@11. I’ll go hit the M’s up for support immediately.
After four innings Floyd is at 74 pitches. So who do the Sox have lined up in the bullpen?
Look at the numbers(!)
OPS+ by month
April 80
May 56
June 145
July 123
August 123
I really, really hate when that happens.
Get a lead and immediately give it right back.
Ut oh. Who’s up in the bullpen?
Nobody.
Come on Joh. Make something happen.
Pretty much how all the AL games with any significance have have gone down today. Expect more of the same the rest of the season.
Nice stroke, Ichiro! But that was pretty clearly a base running screw up on your part…
How did Ichiro! get caught off base? He wasn’t more than a few steps from the base.
What the…he’s so fast he almost ran out of his pants.
Michael Saunders is quickly becoming yet another man-crush for me.
Joh’s BA at the end of this season is moving in the direction of being worse than last season. Argh.
He’s sound, and he seems to do something new and positive each night
Saunders has some skills. If he gains some power, watch out.
Floyd is at 102 pitches. He has to be done for the eve.
Saunders is doing a great job and I can’t wait for him to start hitting with some power. That’s going to be fun to watch!
French has seemed to of pulled a Snell and lost his control…uh oh….
Whoa it took some serious balls to drop a curve on Thome like that!!
Takes even bigger ones to leave him in against Konerko
And it took some serious talent to drop a curve like that on Thome! It was a good looking pitch.
Yow. Ball 4 to Konerko looked like strike 3 to myself and PitchFX…
Crap I love French but he really needs to cut down on the BB’s. Another long night for the bullpen.
Dispatches from Chicagoland…
Just you all know, in case you didn’t already, despite all of their homerism, the White Sox broadcasting crew has a lot of respect for the Ms. Nice to hear once in awhile from someone else.
Just SO you all know… sorry
Ugh
DAMN DAMN DAMN DAMN DAMN DAMN!!!!! >:(
Way to bounce back
That could’ve been a LOT worse.
Well it could have been worse, hopefully the guys can knock around the White Sox bullpen.
Angel Hernanadez has called a (ahem) generously inconsistent strike zone tonight, it seems…
But Jesus, he hits ‘em big…
HOLY BALLS WHAT A SHOT BY RUSSEL THE MUSCLE!!!!
Big Bob, are we the only two left…?
Russell the love Muscle makes daddy proud.
Sims said that was 423 feet. Are there any asterisks when listing distances when they hit off a sign or foul pole?
I don’t know if there is anything more satisfying than seeing Branyan actually connect on one of those hellacious swings of his. He just looks like a bad-ass when he hits a HR!
I think the tracking calculation takes such things into account, but I could be wrong.
As a straight man, let me declare that that Russell drive was the sexiest solo HR I have seen in a while.
KENJI!!!!!!!!!!! Finally!!!
Thanks, Kenji.
Kenji!
There you go Joh!!!!!!
A Kenji home run, even rarer than a Johjima sighting.
Wowsers! A Johme run!
Sometimes the dudes love the long ball too, fifty-one?
I felt good for Joh after that one.
Say it ain’t so, Joh…
Well, when he gets a pitch to hit, he takes advantage.
Sweeney giving out home run hugs.
obligatory Die Hard quote
I wonder if Russell keeps those sun flower seeds in his back pocket while batting too.
oooh, nice effort by Wilson. Would have been a web gem
Someone needs to step on the Soxs’ throat. This is getting tiresome how they keep coming back.
Then again, if I had Ozzie waiting for me back in the dugout, I’d make a full effort too.
Hilarious juneau. When you gasp when he connects and your wife calls from the other room to make sure you’re all right, what can ya say?
This also would have made a better ussm night at Safeco.
I dig ground balls too. (4-6-3!!)
Nice to see Tony Pena again. If you recall, he was the pitcher when Junior hit his most memorable homerun of the season against the Diamondbacks, and then Rob Johnson hit the triple to give the M’s the lead in the 8th.
My brother and I have decided that Jack Wilson would definitely be a member of the All-Generic Name Team.
“Nothing, honey! Nothing!”
*Fiftyone quickly flips over to the Playboy channel for a few moments put everything back in its proper alignment*
Add Jose Lopez to the All Generic Name Team please.
Rob Johnson is pretty generic, too
This game seemed to be going really fast, and now it’s dragging. Win, come on, win!
Please be the good Lowe…keep the momentum going.
French had a really good, fast pace going for him early on.
Practically unhittable. More please.
God damn, when Lowe is ‘on’, he is great.
BIG WHIF!!
On GD those 4 sliders in a row looked nasty. Was there just as much filth live?
Yes, Enchantment, there’s a lot of Bugs Bunny cartoon swings going on.
yes, possibly more filth
In the words of White Sox commentator Ken Harrelson:
“Be gone!”
Now THAT is how you set-up a victory. Great inning Lowe. He has now officially completely won we over.
One bad pitch (the next-to-last 98 heater a little up and a little outside) all inning from Lowe. Outstanding work.
Dotel California time
Actually, “He gone!”
Jr. needs to see video of that at-bat before he makes a final decision on retirement. I love the guy, but…
Ah, Dotel…It always makes me feel better when I see an MLB player who unquestionably looks worse in a baseball uni than I would.
What he said.
Let’s go Jack. We could use another run.
Close this baby out DA.
I live in Indiana and I have never liked The “Hawk” (the sox announcer). Now For the series I am blacked out so I have to listen to him say HE GONE and The Bad Guys are winning (which I hope to hear a lot of this series) I wish he would retire!
AA’s starting early at getting his obligatory base runner on.
6-4 -3 please!
Do. Not. Let. This. Fucker. Beat. You. AA.
Tell us how you really feel, juneau
Now get this guy out, Aardsma!
WIN! And the Rays are down at the moment
YES!!! Just what the DA ordered!
how many are we out of the WC now?
nice win
That’s what I’m talkin about.
What about 4-6-3? Do we really care about the specifics?
Okay all you wannabe announcers. The way Niehaus called the game-ending DP is how you do it. Class dismissed, see you tommorrow.
Hee hee hee…..Meaningful games in August, Winning baseball. Beating a competitor in the wild card race. That’s just enjoyable.
Nice dub Mariners! Still 4.5 out of the WC, keep it up tomorrow. Let’s hope Fister is masterful in his first start.
If there’s ever a “Mark Kotsay Story” filmed, Stephen Baldwin is a lock for the role.
Still 4-1/2, but picked up a 1/2 game on TEX (idle) and a game on TB if they lose to LAA (behind 8-7 in the 7th right now)
I would think that Kenji should have the post-game dugout interview, but I guess not. Too many uncomfortable questions possible?
Kenji is the White Sox broadcast’s player of the game…
DA hasn’t given up a run since July 8th. + Kenji had a freaking bomb. if only we had a regular hitting catcher.
Really think FSN would ask uncomfortable questions?
I think I need to order a Saunders jersey. I have a feeling he’s going to be around, and fun to watch, for quite a while.
I’m excited about Saunders too. I hope they don’t trade him off like they did Adam Jones.
msb, I was just thinking it might be accidental:
Angie: “Boy, Kenji, haven’t had a HR in a long time! Why do you think that is?”
or:
“What’s helping you get your swing back?”
Kenji seems like the nicest guy in the world, but it would be funny as hell if they had given him softball questions, and he’d just have gone all Apeshit on them, ranting on management and RoJo.
Sam, if Saunders gets traded, it’s because Ackley has proven himself. Not a bad outcome either. And Jack-Tony said Saturday night, in not so many words, that you can’t have too many OFers. So there’s that.
Fister starts tomorrow…is it me, or is Seattle a magnet to unfortunately named players? First Putz, now Fister?
Yeah, if they trade Sainders, it’s because a) Ackley has come through and b) they’re gonna get something really good for him. This management team is REALLY shrewd….
Has Ichiro! done any post game interviews this year?
Why would that make any difference, Liam?
I’d like to see post-game inteviews done with sock puppets.
If Ichiro hasn’t done any post game interviews this year, perhaps a translator that he or Johjima might want to have is not available.
I see the translator (Ken? Kevin?) in the dug-out all the time during games; I think he stays there every game.
Second, as Kenji was chatting animatedly with AA after the last pitch, I really think all this crap about him not speaking English well is just that. Does he use a translator during interviews even? Ichiro is only using it as a shield anyway, but I got the impression that Kenji spoke English better, as he needs to communicate with the pitcher more than “I got it!” that Ichiro needs in the outfield.
“as a shield”?
Um… no. No.
Kenji: “Well, Angie, I think it’s like…an inferior catcher is getting all my starts, so my actual consistency is off. But that could just be the fact that since coming off the DL, I haven’t even made 1/3 of the starts. Completely illegitimate thinking on my part.”
Kenji and Ichiro! both speak English just fine. They use a translator in interview for a few reasons, not the least of which is the subtlety of expression they have mastered in their native tongue that they may not know how to put perfectly in English. For communication on the field, it’s “your leg kick is a little high, stay down.” Pretty simple vocabulary compared to my above sarcastic quote from imaginary Kenji.
I’m aware that Kenji and Ichiro speak English well, hark. I wasn’t sure if Liam was, since he suggested that Kenji would want a translator to do an interview. That’s why I asked.
I’m not sure what part of shield is rubbing you the wrong way, Derek. Ichiro understand English well enough to begin answering the question before the translator can translate for him. I don’t begrudge him this, hell, 98% of the questions are idiotic, and who wouldn’t like some time to make sure your reply doesn’t sound just as idiotic.
And a big shoutout to gwangung for this. Remember how frickin’ miserable baseball was last summer? Here it is August, considerably into August, and it’s still fun, interesting, and enjoyable (and of course, when it goes badly, horrible, irritating, and agonizing). Sure, chances are our M’s are not going to the post-season, but there’s a seriously non-zero chance they WILL.
As Travolta would say, “Yeah. Ain’t it cool?”
Mariners: 6
White Sox: 4
Obscure “Broken Arrow” references: 1
And yeah, it IS cool. I still don’t really think the Ms have any serious chance of winning the wild card (just too many good teams in the hunt). But there’s hope that just maybe it could happen. And there’s extra super hope for next year.
One year ago it all seemed hopeless. Now the possibilities for the future are bright. Maybe the best part is this: it’s easy to really love baseball in Seattle once again.
If anyone saw it on tv, I was the idiot who tried to catch A.J’s foul ball in the 9th inning with my bare hand, and yes, I do think its partially broken.
Fun game to watch though
“shield”
O, sweet irony.
In July Johnson had an OPS of .810. So far in August his OPS is .940. Seems like we have one. “A regular hitting catcher”, that is.