Game 9, A’s at Mariners
Dave · April 13, 2010 at 5:47 pm · Filed Under Mariners
Fister vs Anderson, 7:05 pm.
Round two of the mismatch of doom, as the A’s ace faces the M’s seventh starter. I wouldn’t bet the farm on the M’s tonight.
Ichiro, RF
Figgins, 2B
Gutierrez, CF
Lopez, 3B
Mascot, DH
Bradley, LF
Kotchman, 1B
Johnson, C
Wilson, SS
So we have 2 homer calls in the last 2 years.
Do we have the market cornered on that?
Everyone hates Johnson because he’s a bad catcher and a bad hitter, and starts about 2/3 of games.
I’m sure he’s a great guy. I just don’t want him having that much of an impact on the Mariners.
🙁
We still got this though!
(Sorry guys. My fault.)
Splendid DP, guys.
Thanks for picking me up with the DP, Griffin!
Jack looks like hell at the plate, but sure sends nice feeds to Chone…
It still seems like pitchers have good games when he is in. Maybe that is not backed up by numbers or maybe it is but he sure seems to call a great game most of the time.
Your apology worked MrZ. It could still be 1,2,3.
[“It almost looks like a real baseball team,” he whispered to himself]
If you don’t understand why we don’t like Rob Johnson, this must be your first time visiting USS Mariner.
Ever.
Or not.
My fault now. Sorry.
DA-
Kouz was unable to hit a 3-run HR there. Didn’t really need to walk him.
I’d be really curious to see some analysis on how many first signs from the catcher pitchers actually throw…something to try to find out how much a catcher truly “calls” a game.
Felix was good buddies with Silva and Cedeno last year, should we have kept them too?
YAY!
Good Game fella’s.. Way to restore faith.
My blood pressure is at least 10 points lower than it’s been the past week. Feels kinda nice.
Nice game, guys. Welcome to Seattle, Milton.
Go M’s.
Good win against a good pitcher.
What a game from Fister and Bradley! Whooooooooooohoooooo!!!!!!
Thank (every) god Sweeney chose to be a serial hugger. The body count would be staggering.
My kingdom for Milton to get pied in the face by Sweeney right here.
Yes! Sabermetrics, the Mariners’ front office, Dave, and everything that is good and true all validated in one game! At last the long stats-v-scouts argument that never really existed is settled forever!
Was anyone really nervous about MB’s post-game interview? I was!
IB4 Derek gets called a condescending elitist.
This game was obviously won due to Griffey and Sweeney making Milton feel comfortable. Stats be damned!
I’ve just burned all of my Minaya / Dayton Moore paraphernelia. Good to see my trust here hasn’t been misplaced!
Why nervous about the MB interview?
Not at all. He’s very well spoken as noted by the Mariner reporters. (Also has done some before during Spring training)
Plus Dave gets to keep his house.
C’mon, Carson, you’ve been here long enough to know that we don’t allow people to root for Mariners players to get killed, here.
(yes, I’m kidding)
I have to watch on MLB.tv so it cuts out after the game. Did Milton Get Hugged or the pie??
Nothing out of the ordinary.
Cheer up guys, we just passed the A’s for last in the West (they lost to the Yanks).
I know, I’m surprised there haven’t been any pies this year (at least that I know of). I mean I know there hasn’t been that many opportunities, but we have (or had last year) such a high win to pie ratio you know.
I just figured Milton would have got the pie. He’s the new guy and he had the big game winning HR. Thought they would want to make him feel welcome.
“Here, you do it.”
“No way, dude. You do it.”
“Yeah right. I have a family to think about.”
Here you go Mrelli,
I almost forgot what it was like to get a big win like this. As for the homer call, while most people heard Bone’s call on the tv broadcast, Mr Niehaus on the radio called it without actually saying it, i believe his exact words were, “if theres any pitch milton can handle its this one at 2-0, look for fastball in the zone.” I was yelling in my car, great moment in this young season