Game 147, White Sox at Mariners
Danks vs Morrow, 3:40 pm
Well, this should be interesting. With a lefty on the hill, Wak goes to his anti-LHP line-up that features Lopez at first base, but instead of Hall replacing him at second base, we get our first look at Matt Tuiasosopo, Second Baseman. He played a lot of second base in Tacoma after returning from the disabled list, with reports ranging from “he’s worked really hard and its paying off” to “he’s worked really hard and he’s still awful”. Everyone agrees that he’s put in the effort, but he had a long way to go, so he could make big strides and still be pretty rough. It will be interesting to see how he handles the adjustment at the big league level.
From Wak’s pre-game comments, it sounds like they’re not expecting much either. In other words, don’t read too much into this – it’s pretty unlikely that Tui ends up at second base long term, and especially not for a club that values defense as much as the current administration does.
Adam Moore makes his major league debut behind the plate, too. Also, Morrow pitching. The White Sox offense isn’t good, and especially lacks good LH hitters, so this is about as good a matchup as he’s ever going to get. I’m already not overly optimistic about his future, but maybe he can open some eyes today.
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Maybe this is the day Morrow pitches well enough to net us a nice trade offer in the off-season.
Alex Rios is hitting 9th in the order for the White Sox. Man, he has had a rough year. I know some of it is bad luck, but I wonder if he will ever become the player so many of us thought he would. Doesn’t look good at this point (at least offensively).
Maybe this will be the outing where he decides to become a reliever again. I still blame Hargrove for his horrid developmental path.
We also get one Mr. Adam Moore behind the dish.
I just hope Moore doesn’t take playing time away from Joh (whose OPS is now over .700…woot!).
Awright! Tacoma vs. Chicago.
And not Bavasi?
“Going to have to throw some strikes today.”
As opposed to the days when he doesn’t.
Blech. Morrow sucks.
Maybe he was talking about going to Sunset Lanes later.
I’m not able to watch or listen. Is Morrow “juuuust a bit outside” or getting squeezed?
They could line up three plates side by side and he still couldn’t throw strikes.
For some reason, I just got a picture of you sitting in a bar next to Chris Farley wearing a Mariners jersey saying “What if all the Mariners were miniature, but Wak was full size, then who would win?”
Yow, that one sentence replaces many moments of trying to catch up with what has happened so far in the game. Sounds like a ’nuff said situation.
Sunset Lanes has been CLOSED for like TWO YEARS so no one can throw strikes there. DAMMIT. Bitter? Moi?
I think I’ll just hit up Skyway Park Bowl and Casino. That place still around?
Shows you how often I bowl!
That’s the Morrow we know!
They closed Sunset Lanes? Really? Jeeze, I must be more out of touch than I thought…
Morrow lives in Kirkland during the season, right? He could always bip over to Tech City, right near where Kirkland, Bellevue, and Redmond meet. Good bartenders, too
Blech. Morrow sucks.
I’ve got a good feeling about Tuiasosopo. This kid is going to be a star. Mark it down.
Whee.
HALL!!!
Everybody gets a free Arby’s burger!
Haha! Awesome!
I don’t know whey they pulled Jr. back there… let him PH for Wilson and try to wrap the game up. They can move Hall to SS and put Langerhans or (God forbid) Saunders out in LF… I feel like going to extra innings is just pushing their luck.
It’s just a good thing I’m not the manager. I woulda done something dumb like pinch hit for Hall with Grif or Carp. Wak, you are cosmic!
Nice play by Tui! Don’t know about range, but his reaction time looked pretty good…
Wow!
Dang. I wish Tui could have bent it by Beckham. I just had to say that.
Why was that a double? Gameday showed it out of the park.
It was an automatic double, Dirk. It actually hit the warning track and then went over the wall.
Okay, Thanks JerBear. BTW what is four walks in a game? The golden fedora?
Ha, good question. Glad to see you at least got your gameday back.
I love extra innings when it’s an afternoon game and I have to work.
Will Don Wakamatsu ask Ryan “Death to Extra Innings” Langerhans to pinch hit for Josh Wilson, so he can hit a solo bomb and finish this one off?
I would hope that Shawn Kelley or Luke French get in before Carlos Silva if this continues to the 13th inning.
Sims left too long a pause there.
“Beltre had that testicle…….injury.”
He truly is disturbing sometimes.
Regardless of the outcome, I’m just glad that Wak used Aardsma in a high leverage, non-save situation. Not that we could reward that by scoring a run to win it, but happy nonetheless.
Nice time for Adam Moore’s first major league hit.
C’mon Adam…you know you want to get hugged, tickled, kissed (eeeew!) and pied.
Three solo homers — shade of the ’90s!
Aardsma was already up and there can’t be a save situation for the home team in extra innings. He only has 6 appearances in September, so Wakamatsu has not used his best reliever in critical situations.
Reference Dave on Fangraphs. I have always contended that the save is a BS stat.
Did the announcers just say that one of the Umpires was busy fetching a foul ball and just got back in time to make a ruling on the check swing? They should put some additional people on the field to do that.
Sims just said that Jamie Burke has been traded to the Nationals.
Speaking of David Aardsma, has anyone else noticed him developing a hitch in his giddyup that looks like a tribute to Ben Weber?
BOOOO!!!
Jamie Burke cleared waivers?????
j/k
14th inning and only 48 comments.
There’s a sick, sick, sick part of me that wants to see Silva come into the game.
Just to see how bad he can be.
and USSM continues to time out when I submit comments.
I think he will be next up after Shawn Kelley, Luke French can going multiple innings so they’ll probably save him for last.
Nooooooo. Not Carlos Silva. Nooooooooooooo.
Please pinch hit Johjima for Moore.
Okay, they did. Maybe Wak got Silva up throwing to concentrate the minds of the Mariner batters this inning.
Joh takes one for the team.
Ow! Way to take one for the team, Joh…
Silva would probably demand that Johnson come in as his personal catcher.
Liam, I find if I restart, it’ll stop kicking me out, but that’s a pain in the ass.
Oh good, the fan who was screaming, Ichiro, Ichiro all during Hall’s at bat last inning finally gets his wish.
Okay, we have a runner in scoring position and the best hitter in baseball history is up with the threat of Carlos Silva coming in next inning. This has to end well.
Ichiro!
That was a very satisfying ending.
I like how Ichiro ran out to center. Also that he acknowledged the crowd afterwards.
Very sick.
Ichiro! knocks in “DTEI” Langerhans and Sweeney runs pell mell for the ice cream machine. What a great ending to an epic confrontation!
Now, I can concentrate fully on the Mavericks in the first championship game.
Silva has complained about Ichiro selfishly ending the game before Burger Chef could get his work in.
Special thanks to MLB.TV for going out just before Ichiro came up in the 14th.
I tried to post this shortly after the first inning but kept getting a system time out. Not sure if anyone will read it now. oh well.
*note – this is not a criticism*
I noticed since Ichiro has hit his 200 Hit, he’s unintentionally walked 3 times in 3 games, vs. 12 times in 128 previous games this season. I’m starting to believe that, like hitting for power, Ichiro can walk more if he wants to. I suspect though, that like hitting for power, more walks for him will mean more SO. Whether or not that would improve or reduce his OBP or not I’m not sure. My suspicion is that Ichiro knows what he’s doing. Bottom line, I’d much rather watch him hit line drives and get infield hits than take more free passes and SO more.
Well, Dirk, the obvious response is SSS, but I’ll offer the hypothesis that Ichiro!, like every other half-decent major-league batter, will play away from his known tendencies, just to keep pitchers honest and perhaps make them throw fewer pitches a foot outside or at his ankles. Remember how Edgar would look at the first pitch for nine straight PA, then drill a double off the wall in the tenth one because the dude thought it was safe to groove a 91 mph fastball down the middle… same thing.
Only one game and all that, but Tui sure didn’t embarrass himself at 2B.