Game 158, A’s at Mariners
DMZ · September 30, 2009 at 6:31 pm · Filed Under Mariners
Mortensen v Morrow.
Saunders in left, Hannahan at first. Johjima gets a turn behind the plate. Griffey DHs, so prepare for another night of will-he won’t-he commentary. If we’re really lucky, we’ll get to see Branyan pinch-hit. And Batista. Just to make things exciting, you know.
Saunders! Did they finally decide Hall was too hobbled, or is it just finally a righty?
Morrow needs to fricking pitch deep into this game and show that he is worth keeping around in a Mariner’s uniform next season and beyond. The kid has had so many ups and downs in his career… I dont know if that is his fault or the M’s (Front Office) fault. I just hope he can establish some confidence tonight and show everybody a glimpse of his potential and future.
If Griffey doesn’t retire, how many “I told you so” posts can we expect? He didn’t even meet the worst case projection you made back in February.
were the projections based on playing part-time?
Batista pinch-hitting? That I want to see.
Projecting new Mariner Griffey’s offense
thanks– I completely forgot about that topic
How did Jamie Moyer tear his groin muscles while sitting in the bullpen? Have the Phillies been using him?
Then again, he has all those kids; perhaps it wasn’t a sports related injury.
“Phillies pitcher Jamie Moyer will require season-ending surgery to repair two torn muscles in his left groin and one in his lower left abdominal region.
Moyer had sustained all three injuries in the seventh inning of Tuesday’s 7-4 win over the Astros. He told team doctor Michael Ciccotti he felt a sharp pain on his inner left thigh after throwing his final pitch of the game.”
Fly away! #18 for Griffey.
He might get to 20 for the season after all.
I <3 Griffey
OUCH.
You know what they say– if you watch him in batting practice he hits home runs all the time, and could hit them any time he wanted, but that just isn’t his game.
I noticed that while jogging to first, Johjima only had one arm swinging.
How fast will it swell up so he can’t bend it?
who in the crap are these guys batting right now
Griffey now has an OPS of 5.000 against Mortensen.
Apparently, Griffey was bouncing around (in between his traditional Make A Wish duties) announcing to one and all that they should just go ahead and win all the remaining games.
If only the entire league was made up of players that the shift is used against. Then we wouldn’t need to worry about replacing Adrian Beltre.
If teams put the shift( right handed batter shift, of course) on for johjima i swear to gosh he would bat under .200
Only the second?
Goodness, this is going to be a long game unless the hook comes out for this guy.
Ichiro has run out of other things to do so now he’s going for the cycle?
Ichiro with a cycle brewing? Now my evening plans are set.
WE: 93%? Miguel Batista will have something to say about that.
How selfish.
Remember when the M’s had games like this? Against the A’s? Starter gets rocked, errors advance runners, everything goes to hell and you’ve turned the game off before the 3rd inning. Yeah. Payback is a bitch.
Damn, the M’s will be shut out from now on. How will Ichiro get his cycle?
It has been a year of so many firsts for Ichiro; why not the cycle?
Kilby’s Gameday picture is hilarious due to the background and the cap he’s wearing.
Kilby has the damnest delivery.
Which would be completely awesome, of course.
Forgive me for asking, since I’m sure it has here a number of times before, but did Ichi ever hit for the cycle with Orix, I wonder?
Have the A’s applied too much oil to their gloves tonight? Talk about some butter fingers.
Man, Saunders is fast for his size.
Bets on the A’s walking Ichiro the rest of the night?
Maybe we’re all just used to seeing Richie Sexson run the bases.
Fixed.
So, did they choose the wrong guy to “pick to click”?
Adam Moore with first MLB home run! Other way! Nice!
Opposite field power from A. Moore. Good Stuff
Oh, God, they’re referring to the guy in Tampa as a petulant child. Please drop it, Sims. It’s nice that the hometown fan was being cooperative and happy. The other guy was entirely within his rights, okay?
I wonder if Sims missed that part of the story– someone would have had to show him the blog story
This game is plenty exciting.
Plenty.
No Batista ever again. Four more days until the official “No More Batista Day”!
ehhhhhh i want to see a replay of that last play with Ichiro.. it appeared to me that he was safe
I rewound it and advanced frame-by-frame on my DVR. Yes, he was safe.
Morrow has recorded 18 outs. Of those 18, 5 are K’s and 6 are ground outs. That’s a 39% flyball rate, grouping “line drives” and “pop ups” as fly balls. Good, bad, neutral?
^well that is a shame the ump doesn’t make the right call just cause the M’s are up big.
Did anyone notice Griffey’s Home/Away splits? Is this just sample size noise or has he really been circa-2000 Griffey at Safeco? Has anyone ever had a home/away platoon?
For those who didn’t see, Griffey at home:
273/388/539 in 182 PAs, not including tonight’s homer.
Memorabilia is a strange thing. When Adam Moore got his first hit, Sims was talking about how he would be getting a ball back with his name misspelled, the wrong date, etc. (They also showed a clip of Sweeney throwing the ball into the stands). It would all be a joke though, as he would eventually get the real one in due time. For all Moore knows, the first ball he got was the real one.
oh Brandon Morrow… such a tease. Where has this been all year?
I <3 this version of Morrow and want him to stay.
Is it just me, or is the strike zone all over the place tonight?
As long as the strike zone is all over the same places as Morrow’s command, who cares?
Apparently Henry Rodriguez can throw the ball really, really fast.
Holy crap I love Brandon… I wish he’d always love me back in this way.
Morrow’s actually had great command all night, and the strike zone is fairly consistent: PitchFX
If anything, he’s been a TINY bit squeezed on the edges of the zone.
anyone know the maximum velocity a baseball can travel that is thrown by a human?
WE: 100%. Apparently no team has ever come back from being down 7 runs in the 9th inning on the road.
Practically? ~110.
pitchcount?
Okay, I don’t want to rehash it TOO much, but I’ll just say this:
“Within his rights” or not, there is a right way and a wrong way to handle situations like that, and by all accounts, Mr. Muscles in Tampa handled it in about as wrong a way as possible.
I must have missed this Tampa thing…link?
yes… link to the Tampa uhhh… thingy
Farmer Cam–
Morrow’s pitch count? 105 pitches/70 strikes
Congratulations Mariners! *Winners*
Jose Lopez hit his 25th home run in Tampa and wanted the ball back. The local crew tried to persuade him to hand it over, but he wouldn’t budge. Sims was saying how he should give it up and made a joke while he was being escorted out of his seat that it was going to be removed by force behind the scenes.
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Jose Lopez hit his 25th home run in Tampa and wanted the ball back. The local crew tried to persuade him to hand it over, but he wouldn’t budge. Sims was saying how he should give it up and made a joke while he was being escorted out of his seat that it was going to be removed by force behind the scenes.
Blog: Rays fan told to give homerun ball back
M’s over .500! Woo!
Wasn’t there someone posting earlier in the season that he had a bet with his bro-in-law to get free drinks for every game the M’s won over 60? I assume we haven’t heard from him recently because he won’t be sobering up until November.
That’s me. 28 beers and counting. I’ll be collecting at Halloween.
(bet was, he gives me a beer for every win they get over 54, I give him one for ever win they get under 75.)
I fear I’m going to be giving some back, though. I bet him a six-pack for every win the Huskies got over 3, and they’re already at 2.