Game 42, Padres at Mariners
Dave · May 21, 2010 at 5:00 pm · Filed Under Mariners
Lee vs LeBlanc, 7:10 pm.
The Padres are about as close to the Mariners as you can get, only their pitchers are more overachieving than legitimately good. I wouldn’t expect them to start underachieving this weekend. These two teams meeting in Safeco Field should theoretically equal a lot of low scoring games.
Ichiro, RF
Figgins, 2B
Gutierrez, CF
6-4-3, DH
Lopez, 3B
Bradley, LF
Kotchman, 1B
Bard, C
Josh Wilson, SS
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Should the M’s really be sitting Saunders on the bench so much?
“Should the M’s really be sitting Saunders on the bench so much?”
They shouldn’t but Wak says he doesn’t want to hurt Saunders confidence. so he is going to sit him vs Lefties.
It’s been quite apparent for some time that Saunders falls on the wrong side of Wak’s belief system.
I’m trying to figure out when to stop watching/listening to this version of the Mariners. I don’t know how much more of Sweeney/Jr./Lopez batting 4-5 I can take. I hate to echo the posts of the week past, but what is the definition of insanity again?
Saunders has been hitting decently, and has range in the field, so I am confused why he has been getting such a long hiatus, while others are not – or even being adjusted in the lineup (which is generally more of a gesture, but still).
Everyone is throwing curves at Saunders and there’s a lefty. That should be reason enough. But I would rather see him and Bradley in the same lineup because it would give the M’s a better chance to score more than once or twice in a game.
Well, at least if Bradley pulls up lame due to owie thighs or calves or something, Saunders is a legit replacement outfielder.
I hated any and all leg problems in high school track, they have a way of lasting way longer than what you want.
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Wak doesn’t want to hurt his confidence, so he is sitting him against lefties because he isn’t good enough and he never will be.
Where is the FURY Dave? I was promised Rath! I wana see heads roll…
Happy to see Bard and Bradley in the lineup.
Bradley’s patient approach would be better suited to setup hackers (Sweeney and Lopez) not batting behind them. I’m stumped by Wak’s decisions this year.
More Saunders, less Sweeney!
yes I am somewhat confused about Saunders not playing as well. So the three theories are a) that coach is trying to ease him in and not destroy his confidence by not playing him against lefties b) Wak just doesn’t like his values or skilset or c) he isn’t very good. Funny his minor league numbers have always been solid .290/.300 with power and speed and so far this year in 33 at bats he has 4 xb hits and 6 rbis which projects pretty nicely and fits with his minor league profile, and from what I can see he plays solid defence and adds much needed speed…so guess I am saying none of the above are adding up for me other than maybe d) Wak just loves his vets.
It seems to me sitting young players, who you think might someday be every day players, against same handed pitchers would hurt their development quite a bit. At some point they are actually going to have to hit against same handed pitchers, but by the time the team lets them do it it’s been a season or so since they’ve last had a consistent chance to do so (in the minors) and now they are being asked to do it rusty in the majors. Seems like a good way to guarantee someone will have a bad platoon split.
Sad thing is that I don’t even know who 6-4-3 is referring to anymore — it could be one of around 15 people on the team.
Promised Rath? You’re missing a W there, but then the M’s are missing a bunch too so we’ll call it even.
Speaking of replacement former-Rainiers outfielders, Shin-Soo Choo hit two HRs today (despite which the Indians are still losing, though they’re playing the NL Central-leading Reds as an excuse). That gives him 6, as many as this line-up’s 4-5-6 hitters put together. Choo also had a .380 wOBA coming into today, which would make him easily the best regular on this year’s M’s. And he’s generally regarded as having had a slow start so far this year.
(Because I’m tired of raging against the usual suspects and I want to go back to hating on Bavasi again.)
Josh Wilson–.353 OBP
Nicely done. I noticed that but elected not to comment on it because (unlike you) I had nothing clever to add. Maybe ‘e should start leaving out all our ‘W’s until the M’s start giving some back to us.
Elcome to Seattle, Ashington. Home of the oeful Mariners.
I think Sweeney takes a little too much heat on this board. Sure, he isn’t great and is part of the problem, but it’s hard to think he is even one of the biggest problems on this team.
Looking at the stats going into today and Sweeney has a higher OPS than Lind, Kubel, Matsui, Quentin, Lowell, Johnson and others. Compared to the other DHs in the league, I don’t think he has been horrible.
Wow, Blowers said the reason we won that game yesterday was Griffey…
What was driving folks crazy about Sweeney was his insistence on swinging at every pitch, usually resulting in a weak grounder to the infield (and a double-play if by some miracle there was a man on base ahead of him). There was one game a couple of weeks ago where in his first 3 plate appearances he made four outs…on 3 pitches.
He seems to have cut back on that lately, and not coincidentally his results have been better. If he can keep that up, that’s great, and at some point he might even be able to justify his place on roster. But if he struggles at all I expect he’ll start hacking away again with predictable results –both in the boxscore and the game threads.
Did Ichiro loaf on that foul ball? It looked like it to me.
Well that was false hope that a lineup error was made.
Padres Small Ball.
Brilliant! Then that stupid PR campaign from a couple years ago becomes:
“Say Ahhhhh”
Do you think Ichiro should dive for the ball and collapse with Figgy and Kotchman?
The reason some of us (well, me anyway) rag on Sweeney so much is he’s not very good, he’s old and (hopefully) has no future with this team past this year, and yet he’s inexplicably being given at bats that should be going to young players who theoretically DO have a future with the club, who are already better than him, and yet need to get regular major league at bats to reach their potential.
If we were talking about Manny Ramirez then maybe it’d be a worthwhile tradeoff – but we’re talking about a guy who isn’t even as good as Saunders is now and additionally is incapable of playing the field (heck he’s incapable of playing DH for more than a few days in a row). Saunders isn’t going to get any better sitting on the bench, and he’s likely already learned everything from AAA that he’s ever going to get out of it – I think he needs regular major league at bats. Otherwise it seems the M’s are just pissing away yet another high-level prospect.
MX, he had the best angle and in that situation should have called for it and made a better effort to catch the ball. We’ve seen him do it in the past.
I feel like the game is over before we have a chance to bat.
we do all realize that sweeney is 3 months older than ichiro right?
Nice hit by Sweeney, with Guti on 1st….Nice dribbler to Short Jose.
The Blowers comment is still bugging me. I still don’t think we won that game as much as Gregg lost it. I’m happy for the win, but… etc.
Bard is a career .260/.327/.390 hitter, and he’s a catcher. Why did it take us so long to call him up?
But he plays way, way older. And until we see evidence to the contrary, Ichiro is apparently immortal.
rally time fellas. we can’t let these chances go by – to state the obvious.
C’mon Wilson
What’s the percentage the Mariners come away with no runs here? 95%?
Sweeney hasn’t hit well for a DH since 2005. Ichiro’s still hitting well for a RF, and he can play defense, and stay in a lineup. So yeah, Sweeney sucks. Next.
good rally, cmon figgy
single em to death (or to….pain – I don’t think the word ‘death’ can be applied to our offense in that way), whatever scores a run or two you know. Ok, a sac fly….w/Old Man Bard running. I like this guy Bard already.
what is “well for a DH” because his numbers look pretty good, or at least decent every year. Hes a career .300 hitter with an .850 ops. Most DH’s arent guys hitting .330 with a ton of homeruns, they are guys that are decent batters, that are a little older and cant really play the field anymore. And that is exactly what Sweeney is. Im not comparing his skill set to Ichiro, Ichiro is obviously a much better baseball player, but you cant just say “Sweeney is old”.
Nicely done, gentlemen.
Theoretically.
“To the pain? I’m not sure I’m quite familiar with that…”
Prince Humperdinck was, obviously, not an M’s fan.
(But nice to see some runs tonight!)
Remember: the Padres have the best record in the NL West. Not for the first time, I’ve wished the Mariners were in the other league.
Because he had a terrible spring, and spring training performances apparently matter more than they should (cf Sweeney, Mike). The org loves Moore, and Wak loves Johnson. Reapply most of the comments from “Westside guy” about Sweeney (young guys with futures, etc), mix, and serve.
Bard is a switch-hitting catcher, to boot. And he apparently can actually, you know, catch pitches in the dirt. On any decent team he’d be a backup at best, but on this one…
That’s the first time a close play at the plate went the M’s way in what seems like forever.
I think the Padres screwed up throwing to home instead of second or at least to first.
I think we should give Sweeney his name back.
Sweendog! 3-run BOMB!!!
Welcome to the roster all season Sweeney.
Man, LeBlanc is LeSuck.
Fucking. A. This is fun.
406 ft home run by Sweeney
7 RUNS!!
Lopez is still the old Lopez.
Nice pop up Lopey.
Wow. I really hate to say this, but Sweeney is hitting the ball really hard now. And I am desperate enough for offense to say we may need to ride it for right now.
The problem of course is that you have to know when to pull the plug on that, and I don’t know that Wak will.
I’m speechless.
I’m without speech.
See how good these Mariners CAN be? My, oh my this is beautiful!
I don’t understand the emotion that I am currently feeling. It’s not a feeling that I’ve recently associated with watching the Mariners. What’s going on?
I can understand throwing your back out hitting one that far.
Sweeney maybe not the best hitter in the M´s, but he
makes your work clean up hitter, very well
I thought Sweeney was supposed to suck…
Despite everyone’s hatred towards Sweeney he has hit very well the last week and a half.
6-4-3? More like Five for three…runs. Three runs? Get it?
I just turned on the game… who are these guys and what did they do with the M’s??!
You know what folks are going to say: this is all because of Griffey’s walk-off. And Wak is a genius to have the patience to stick with his lineup until it started paying off. That’s the narrative until further notice.
Who are these guys and what have they done with the Mariners? Holy crap!
Holy cow…a seven-spot…in one inning!!!
I was wondering what that thunking noise was over the air, but it’s apparently hail hitting the roof of the Safe…now, I’m seeing those locusts jumping around outside my window…now waiting for another sign… :O
What do we do with that big of a lead?
Crap that little Tetley Tea Folk folk dancer is annoying.
Well, I don’t think he was particularly aware of it. I mean, it’s not like I stopped by his house and yelled at him to “take an effing pitch” while he was in his slippers on the porch getting his newspaper.
As much as I was tempted.
now if only Clifton Lee would get his shit together!
Cliff you are a great pitcher, please dont waste the
5 runs advantage
Jeff earlier on David Eckstein,
Then Dave Niehaus calls him “that little nat” after his double. Right on Jeff.
What is wrong with Lee?
Seriously? We score 7 fucking runs in a single inning, and that’s what you come up with? O-kay.
uh oh, spoke to soon?
Sigh. My stomach is starting to twist. WHY would this night be Cliff’s potential worst outing of the year?
Cliff has some runs he needs to buckle down.
Hahahahaha, this is SOOOOO The mariner’s luck this season.
Good god. Well at least we’ve scored a bunch of runs when it’s apparent we’ll be needing them.
That’s only the second air-mail throw Lopez has made this year, by my count. Just a terrible timing.
So, should Lopez be back at 2nd with Figgins be at 3rd?
(Sky is falling statement)
Yeah…one step forward and about three steps back!
Lopez, hacking and chucking his way off the roster bit by bit. Ackley at 2nd and Chone back at 3rd next season? One can hope.
Damnit a blockquote somehow got put at the bottom of that. Sorry.
I’ll take Bard for the block.
C’mon guys regroup and get your stuff together.
Hopefully Cliff can pull it together and get through 5 so we can at least try to get him a win.
Ackley is only in AA, still learning a new position. And how to hit pro pitching with a wood bat. Expecting him to break camp with the team next year is expecting an awful lot.
Bard looks like an allstar compared to those other 2 AAAA catchers we have on the roster.
I can just imagine Cliff Lee on the mound thinking..
“About that lack of run support, I’ll show you a lack of pitching support you bastards…. “
I have a man-crush on Bard.
A real catcher!? CAN IT BE!?
Maybe we found a catcher
Buh Bye RoJo, pack your bags for Tacoma
OUR OFFENSE ISN’T OFFENSIVE TONIGHT!
GO BARD!!!
Bard for FT Catcher please.
Keep Josh Bard. Switch hitter and hits the ball hard. Plus he can catch.
Old Man Bard strikes again!
Go Josh
Bard should be the starter until further notice. Johnson can be his Sunday replacement until Moore is back.
Bard must never tread On Tacoma.
He is a catcher who catch and hit very well
Talk about making the most of your opportunity, Mr. Bard.
BARD SERENADE US WITH YOUR LOVELY MUSIC, THE CRACK OF THE BAT NEVER TEASED ME TO FEEL SUCH SWEET DREAMY EMOTIONS!
(sorry)
I hope Adam Moore has some restaurants he really likes in Tacoma. He may have the opportunity to spend some more time there than he was planning.
I swear to god if Rob Johnson becomes the regular starter again over Bard I’m going to go to a game and rush Wak until they taze me.
Bro.
Well, considering that either Tom Bergeron or Whoopi Goldberg could probably stop a pitch in the dirt better than RoJo, I’ll second that Hollywood Squares reference!
Baseball is not a game for the weak of heart. Its an emotional rollercoaster that when all seems lost she some how seduces you to come back just for one more show. //sigh//
Is it questionable of me to wonder what Ichiro! looks like shirtless? Is he all skin and bones or cut muscle or what?
Adam Moore must be feeling decidedly Wally Pippish at this point.
Yes, it is questionable.
I’d rather keep Moore and ditch Johnson.
IwearMsHats – Think Bruce Lee from Enter The Dragon.
I thought both teams struggle at offense. WHat the hell is going on tonight???
Why Cliff Lee sucks today??
It happens.
Cliff is a struggling and the Mariners are scoring runs. Oh Brother!!
The vortex of batting suck has opened a wormhole and we fell through to another reality.
Quit complaining about the weather Sims! You should have done some research before you signed a contract with the Mariners.
Every time Bard blocks a pitch I smile.
Bard and Sweeney hitting gives this team a completely different look.
Who can substitute Cliff Lee when hes over 100 pitches??
Is there a second baseman we can bring up from Tacoma?
At least it’s an excuse to style the chapeau collection…
what the? am i reading this right? … and i had wade leblanc starting in my fantasy league… go figure!
Figgins is in a serious funk. They should be sitting him…
What in the…
Sweeney #2!
holy shit mike sweeney! save some for tomorrow!
lol
What the fuck?
He’s going to be in traction for a month at this rate!
Who are these guys? 10-4!!!
I believe Sweeny, I believe!
Hey Mike Sweeney, Albert Pujols called…he wants his power back.
SWEENEY DOES NOT SUCK
I love Mike Sweeney!
The Hugmeister’s on fire tonight…WOOHOO!!!
The key factor isn’t strength, it’s bad speed.
Speaking of bat speed. Sweeney is going to be around deeeep into the season now.
Are you shitting me?
Anybody want to lay odds on Griffey being the DH tomorrow?
Lopez is just hilarious.
Are you sh*ttin me??!!!! Let’s get everyone to agree that the season started yesterday!
Yeah…Lopez needs to go bye bye….
That looked like a golf chip.
Way to go Lopez, swinging at the first pitch in the dirt.
Bard to the five spot?
Sweeney must have some incentive clauses in his contract…
Every time it rains, it rains…Sweeneys from Heaven.
Lopez…its called TAKING A PITCH!!! wow…
in other news ! nice piece of hitting Sweeney!
Lopez made 3 outs on 4 pitches. WTF!!!!!!!!
Gotta love the consistency…Lopez first pitch swinging after both Sweeney dingers. Two pitches, two outs.
So, yeah, about Sweeney sucking. Perhaps if he had gotten the full timer role starting out of spring training and not Junior he wouldn’t be getting shit on so much.
Mariners = Hits o plenty
Milton starting to hit… now all we need is Kotchman and Figgins to do something and we could salvage our season… but this is wishful thinking.
FINALLY HITTING! Bradley is looking good as well….. These are veerry good signs
Sweeney, your new Mariner home run leader.
So Mike, apparently you can still hit, why did you take a fucking 2 month break after spring training?
I wonder who these new players are, and I wonder if they mind having to wear the jerseys of the old Mariners players they replaced.
I know JLo has been playing good defense, but can we please give someone else a try at 3rd. I’m really wishin we had traded him in the winter. Oh well.
No kidding! When one is a native of Philly — a city which has been known to have its fair share of winter — one should probably not be throwing rocks in a glass house.
Figgins has finally started to turn it around the last week or so. I predict him to be back on track within a couple of weeks
Miltehn. On the comeback trail.
If he’s in there, at least bat Lo 8th or something.
Please Milton, don’t hurt the hammy on a cold night taking an extra bag in a blowout.
They should have a Sweeney bobblehead night. Instead of an action shot like Jr sliding into home, it can just be standing there with it’s arms open, waiting for you to hug him.
I dont think he took a 2 month break, any hitter needs a chance to get consistant at bats.
I’d be shocked if Lopez is a Mariner next April. He’s so not a Zduriencik kind of player.
Your Seattle Mariners: More Runs Scored Than Outs Made.
(Well, since the ninth inning of yesterday’s game, at least.)
BTW, if they have a Sweeney bobblehead night I’ve committed to getting one for Dave
We play a game at my house where we guess how many pitches he will see during each at bat. It brings humor to a sad situation that will thankfully be coming to an end with Lopez’s contract.
Tui to 3rd and Bard behind the plate as the main starter.
Bard is a baldy baller!
BARD!!! where have you been all my life!!!!! if this doesnt solidify him as our starting catcher then… i have no faith that Wak wants to win…
Bard is awesome
Can the Mariners move to the National League?
OMG…double digits finally!!!
And another great AB by Mr. Bard!!!
So who do you think is in a greater state of shock: San Diego or Cliff Lee?
When was the last time we has 12 runs by the bottom of the 4th inning?
I just looked it up, Josh Bard was born in Ithaca, NY. “The Bard of Ithaca” has a nice ring to it.
The Bard of Seattle!
Bard! I love you!
When was the last time we has 12 runs by the bottom of the 4th inning?
2001 probably
You know, looking at Bard’s stats, he hasn’t had a terrible career. It seems like there’s a pattern of a good year or two, followed by a bad one where he changes teams and it starts over again.
Maybe we can get a good year or two out of him.
WAY too early to get excited after all the suck. . .
But this game has me wondering, could the season be saved IF Figgins and Lopez ever start hitting? What is wrong with those guys?
i worry that all our offense for the season is being used on this one game…
I love our lineup right now, this is the way it should be. Obviously we wont score 10 runs a game, But Sweeney should be our full time DH, with Junior getting the occassional start. Junior has also been a great pinch hitter. I would drop Lopez down to seventh though and move everyone else up a slot.
Save some runs for later Augustus!
I think Cliff Lee has just touched cotton….
Bardicus.
Aaaaaand, after a five-run inning, Ichi, of all people, makes out number three…go figure!
I go with the people of the good ship U.S.S. Mariner…
If only Wak had been thrown out of a game sooner this season. It really worked.
Thanks Wak. (Scratching head with utter confusion…)
(Also, I’m admitting I only logged on to see the reaction here to Sweeney hitting his second dinger. *laugh*)
Lopez looks like a sad puppy.
Well, if AGon laces six doubles tonight, that would be entertaining too… fans are getting their money’s worth as it is.
September 9, 2007.
A quote from that game:
Who would be saying that about us today? Ichiro? Sweeney? Griffey?
I love how everyone loves the lineup all of a sudden. We’re so easy.
Nice hustle Figgi!
I think Sims reads this blog. He just said the answer to my question that was just answered. Ok maybe not but it was a crazy coincidence.
Now if only some other Mariners would learn from that AB…
Finally Figgi hits, great
Though he was nothing like Cliff Lee, this almost reminds me of one of Aaron Sele’s games from about 2000 in which he’d give up 3-5 runs and still get the win because the M’s would score 10-12 for him.
Baseball has a way of doing that to people.
Go to the HR Sweeney
What are the chances that Sweeney gets an IBB here?
I’m getting a new pair of boxers out of the drawer just in case Sweeney gets a hold of one here.
I love the fact that they’re hitting tonight, but one game does not a trend make…
Paul L – What I love is how we’re finally scoring runs. Lineup be damned really. We’re doing what should have been happening since opening day.
hat trick?
I like these new back exercises the team has Sweeney doing.
Would it be legal to open the roof so the game could be called at this point due to rain?
Sweenster!
Mike Sweeney is ESPN’s top performer. Anyone see any flying pigs recently?
And the best thing is that it’s against the hated Padres.
I have a new nickname for Lopez; Lolopez.
According to LiveATC.net, they’re being cleared for takeoffs and landings at Boeing Field…
Does anything think it might be possible to trade sweeney during the 7th inning stretch? I hate to say this with him being one of the few that can hit, but surely we can parlay this into something for the LONG TERM…
Or how about Lol-pez.
i’m starting to think this is a sick joke
Go Kotch!!
milton with the single again. I dont know why but I really have been rooting for him to just do well. I’m thinking about going to the Safe soon just to wish him well.
The Padres lead the league in era too. I guess that’s NL style, but still, these pitcher aren’t bums. Bradley hit another bullet, I like it.
Even Brumley’s having a great night!
For those eager to bring up Dustin Ackley to replace Lopez, he is sucking big time at the plate in AA baseball, barely hitting .200 with an OPS under .700.
Holy Crap!!! This is an amazing night but for me, one of the biggest positives for the future is Bradley having 3 hits. If he, lope, figgi, and kotch can turn it around…. we may get back into this thing
According to LiveATC.net, they’re being cleared for takeoffs and landings at Boeing Field…
yeah, cleared ILS, NDB, VOR, Visual and any other way possible. This is nuts.
that little kid can take Jlo’s place! He looks like he can concentrate.
Wak is such a great manager…
Bard looks pissed.
Where the frick has bard been all year??? What the hell?
Yay, 16-26.
I think that the Mariners would have
some explaininga riotno stadium to play in if the thought of sending Bard back to Tacoma even enters Z’s mind.Gotta love Dave’s pregame post. I am reading it at the same time that we can not stop scoring.
Lee is getting close to 100 pitches.
Ha ha.
was it a strike? I’m listening on radio.
Jerry Hairston gets ejected. That’s the second straight game with an ejection for the Mariners.
I find it fall out of my chair funny that everyone’s BA has gone up except Lopez’s. I understand that Ackley is not hitting in AA, but I honestly think that Lopez is about that level of hitter. At least Ackley might see more pitches and actually you know….learn to hit…or walk, or stay the hell out of the DP
HA! That was priceless. Go take a shower cry baby!
Are we really going to get on Ackley? Seems totally unnecessary.
At this point Sweeney has an OPS of .905, which I think is first on the team.
Not enough AB’s? Sweeney had a grand total of 28PA in April, and 32 going into tonight in May. You could say that Sweeney never cooled off from spring training, but the SSS kind of fooled you.
Sweeney’s season OPS is now .905, that almost what he had in Peoria. Well maybe not that high his slugging in Peoria was .854, so his OPS must have been north of 1.500.
That ball was a tad inside, but it’s pretty marginal. Two strikes you need to defend the strike zone. This is Cliff MF Lee pitching here.
What did he get ejected for? Gameday shows that Cabrera was ejected, so I guess it was Hairston instead… did he pull an Ichiro?
New Batting Order:
1 Ichi
2 Guti
3 Bradley
4 Sweeney
5 Bard
6 J Wilson and/or J Wilson
7 Kotchman
8 Lost Lil Lopey
9 Figgins
The only problem is, 7-9 collectively are hitting
about .020 — other than that, it’s gold, baby, gold!!!!
Lopez is 4AB – 8 Pitches or 2 Pitches/AB
Rest of Team 27AB – 134 Pitches or 4.96 Pitches/AB
Keep in mind lopez’s average went way up with a 4 pitch AB his last go round.
Lopez is 0-4 on a night that the M’s seemingly can’t stop scoring runs. If tonight isn’t proof he needs to be buried at the end of the lineup, or outright traded, then I don’t know what else can be done.
Gotta love the 15 runs (and counting). Nice way to break the doldrums of a bad season. Who had Sweeney with 6 RBI tonight?
Cliff Lee: 6 innings, 100 pitches, 4 runs.
Great!!!
I guess 6-4-3 has a different meaning.
6 RBI’s – 4 Hits – 3 more than Figgy.
The pitch was inside and a ball, Hairston was justifiably mad, but who cares???? The ump had been calling that pitch a strike all game
Anyone still worried Junior may get the start tomorrow night, for the “Griffey retro shirt” night?
Maybe Sweeney needs to hit one more … just in case…
… and Sweeney proceeds to have a 6 RBI day the day I say he sucks…
Eat it all you Sweeney haters!!!!!!!
If the ump has been calling it all game he should be aware of that, so he isn’t justified at all. It was way too close to have an aneurism over.
I keep thinking that I will wake up from this beautiful dream.
I agree. I apologize.
Bard sucks, letting that one get by him. Bring in RoJo
This is the team I thought we were getting. Opening day seemed like this was the case. Patient, taking pitches and running decent pitchers early in the game. I was hoping for this all season. Work the pitcher get to the bullpen in games 1-2 of the series and hope you can get one or both of those games with a chance to hurt a taxed team in game 3. Runners on base. At one point we had 6 hits 2 walks and 8 runs. Make a team pay for the free pass.
This is the exact situation in which I want to see Wak use Colome.
Yes. I agree. Of course, we could use RRS so as to give DA a chance at a save.
I’d vote for “not tonight”.
Hey, that Gonzalez guy is pretty good. Maybe JackZ should look into acquiring him!
It feels so good to give up 6 runs and still be able to win.
No worries Rick L. We all have high hopes for him; I hope he starts picking it up soon.
Cliff Lee had a difficult game. Thats alright. He’s still Cliff MF Lee so theres not much to worry about.
This is the 2010 Mariners we are talking about. If any team can gag this away, they can. They are cursed.
The thing that pisses me off about Gonzalez has nothing to do with him personally. It’s that the Red Sox and Yankees fans casually debate amongst themselves as to which of them will sign him. They act like the rest of the league is just a feeder system for their two teams, and they’re so matter-of-fact and fucking smug about it.
This game isn’t over. Jesus is in.
One thing I like about interleague play is that the national league DH’s have similar batting averages to ours.
I was sarcastically saying that maybe Lee wanted to stay in because he didn’t trust the pen with an 11-run lead.
I’m close to saying cancel the sarcasm.
San Diego Pitcher Colome comes in to close the gap (maybe he just confuses pitching with being a part of the offense?).
And in the WTF category, Sweeney also raised his batting average to .281 tonight (so far).
6-4-3
Six RBI… Four hits… Three more months as a Mariner.
Wak, Colome sucks, send to Tacoma at the end of the game please
If this team loses this game…… you can guarantee the season is over. They seem to feel better and hit better after yesterday’s win… but if they lose this game… dang! There isn’t a game this year that will negate the negativity this game would have caused with a blown loss…. please, for everything sacred, don’t give this one up.
- Your (sometimes) adoring fans at U.S.S. Mariner
Okay, big lead. Wak could put some of the kids in. Like Griffey batting for Sweeney.
Rally fries? This could not be a more inappropriate time for rally fries.
That pitchers windup and delivery is insane.
How many times do you think this guy has sprained his right ankle during his pitching career (ow!)?
Tough luck, Lopi.
Jesus
ColomeKillinme!Good grief, I picked the right pre-game to rant and rail against Sweeney… I decided not to even watch the game.
Way to go Big Mike! My hat’s off to you.
Earth to Wak!!! change pitchers!!! this isnt good….
Suffice to say, Colome no doubt counts both Jose Mesa and Bobby Ayala amongst his idols.
Mike Sweeney is my hero. Its official.
Who are these guys, and what have they done with the Mariners?
I think Moore needs to stay when he comes off the DL. Bye bye Johnson (one can hope). Bard/Moore seems much more acceptable.
They’ve switched places with their so-called “evil” counterparts from the mirror universe.
Holy crap. I’m on the train to LA, just logged in to check a few things and… what the heck?! Seeing Dave’s prediction that this would be a low-scoring game is the icing on the cake. Hee.
My wife brought up an interesting point: It seems that when the M’s get a solid lead they get a little complacent. The opposing team starts scoring more runs and getting more hits. With the huge lead the pitching (everyone has an off night) needed to be a little more solid.
Bard now leads the team in OPS. 1.274
Is it me or has this team started playing better ball the minute Milton comes back? Weren’t we 10-10 when he was still with the team before his meltdown?
And who do we replace him with?
Wow, Milton sure can’t be blamed for not hustling huh?
Milton may have grounded out, but he took nine pitches to do it. There is no downside ever to making the opposing pitcher work hard.
Bard lifts his OPS to 1.300
I knew there was nothing wrong with the Mariners, we just needed to play in the NL!
Don’t blow it in the ninth noobs.
PBS – That would mean something if Cliff Lee got a few hits. But since we’re playing at the Safe they have a DH. It seems to me that the Pads cant hack it in the AL. =D
If I’m adding this correctly, we saw 201 pitches in this game. That was three games’ worth last week.
It’s not complacency, it’s inexperience. They never have the lead.
Paul L – Touche
cha-ching. 16 wins, yay.
That was teh ownage. Hopefully Mike can continue to hit like that and give us a decent DH. He’ll still need time off though, so hopefully he shares time with Milton and Saunders gets more time in left.
Hopefully these guys get rolling now! Bard is looking good! hitting is contagious!!
Is it time to start spelling Sweeney S-W-E-E-N-E-Y instead of 6-4-3?
Adam S – I think its Mr. Sweeney today. LOL!
I have to temper my post game comments. Before the game I questioned Huggy Bear and Lopez batting 4-5. Sweeney proved me wrong tonight and pretty much for the last week and a half when he’s been playing. I’ll take that. On to Lopez—both AB’s after Sweeney dingers he swings at the first pitch and makes an out. The first time against a pitcher who was pressing just to throw strikes. No wonder Cockrell got fired with ridiculous plate approaches like that. tonight isn’t the first night he has done this. Get rid of the bum
That was nice, while it may not make sense, I think we’re a much better team with Bradley. Look what’s happened since he’s come back. Two feel-great wins. He really works the other pitchers! Not to mention aggressive swinging which we generally lack.