Game 57, Mariners at Rangers
Dave · June 7, 2010 at 3:00 pm · Filed Under Mariners
Lee vs Lewis, 5:05 pm.
Scott Feldman was supposed to start for Texas tonight, but he’s been replaced by Colby Lewis, so they can relive the classic that was their last match-up.
Finally fed up, Wak has blown the line-up to shreds, and we get something entirely new tonight. If you needed another sign that the M’s season basically depends on this series, here you go. Carp getting a start is interesting – that he’s hitting fifth directly after coming up from Tacoma is kind of depressing.
Ichiro, RF
Bradley, DH
Gutierrez, CF
Lopez, 3B
Carp, 1B
Josh Wilson, SS
Johnson, C
Saunders, LF
Figgins, 2B
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Wow Paperboy with a great play!!!
nice play….
I believe there is nothing BUT doubt about it in that universe, actually.
And, the Paperboy, having recovered, fires a perfect strike to
the front porchfirst base!What’s the big deal praising Carp for covering the bag? WTF is he supposed to be doing? You don’t leave th efield until you KNOW it’s an out, for gosh sakes.
The ever-positive nature of Sims’ and Rizzs’ broadcasting is a little too much.
Hey, that Tanatalus Field down in “evil” Wak’s office comes in handy in case you want to zap something out of existence!
…….you WETHEADS would bitch if they hung you with a new rope..!!!!! “”get a life””
nice play for Lopez
You know, we only have the M’s word that Griffey retired…
Recipe for success for the 2010 Mariners; Starting pitchers must pitch complete game shutouts for this team to win. Boy, sad when there isn’t a single reliever that we feel confident in.
If the M’s had access to the bizarro universe, I seriously hope they would have brought over the humorless, tickle-averse Griffey who hit the shit out of the ball and was a defensive wizard.
3 hits in 9 hole
in 2nd hole, = 3 double play
Figgins 3-4… they have to pitch to him because he gets tons of walks with having a good eye, and they don’t want to have him on with Ichiro up without him putting the ball in play… not sure why it took Wak so long to see this?????
How does it feel, Figgins? Out at second, but at least you can break up the DP.
Who knows anything about Taijuan Walker? I can’t find info anywhere.
MLB.com’s draft board has a spot for you to click to check him out. He’s a 6’4″ Righty 17 year old pitcher that hits 95mph.
True that, Lauren.
Actually, to use another sci-fi context, I pictured Griffey a short while back in a scenario similar to the original Rollerball where — like Jonathan E — he gets called into HowChuck’s office one morning…only to arrive to a room full of video monitors playing highlights of his career. Lincoln and Armstrong then walk in and say something like: “Ken, you’ve had a marvelous career…but we’d like you to retire from the game.”
http://mlb.mlb.com/video/play.jsp?topic_id=8080130&content_id=7604329
oh boy….here we go.
whoops wrong guy
C’mon Cliff…hang in there!
Took Wak a long time to try this lineup because the man doesn’t have a pair to tell his players “this is what it is and this is how it goes.”
Drop. Oh no.
This is hilarious. Just curious… did the city of Seattle do something wrong? Why are our sports teams so pathetic? I know many here probably aren’t soccer fans… I’m a massive one, so I thank the lord that at least a team is doing something worthy of buying a ticket to go see. And thank god for the World Cup, because June through July is going to be nasty in Seattle.
whew.
At least Wak didn’t take him out… if that happened and Aardsma gave up a walk off, this team would have hung Wak.
YEAH!!!
Good move by Wak. He argued with the umps and bought Lee a little bit time to cool down.
I wish Cliff Lee could stay because it looks as if he has the moxie to be the undisputed leader of the clubhouse. I agree w/Charlie, this team needs one because the manager is not it.
Cliff effin’ Lee
Or, use the Tantalus Field on him! 🙂
good win. savor the time we get to watch Lee in a Mariners uniform cuz he wont be in one for much longer.
Sadly true, Uncle Charlie.
Aardsma as a motivational tool?
Rojo: “how ‘ya feeling Lee”
Lee: “damn, my arm’s like jello, I ran out of gas two hitters ago”
Wak: “Ok, we’ll get DA up just hang in there long enough to let him get warm.”
Lee: “Fuggit, I’m good skip!”
The sad thing is, this win doesn’t matter. Even if Felix wins tomorrow, Ian Snell and RRS are just going to give up 20 runs between them and the best we can hope for is a 2-2 series split and a net gain in the division of precisely nothing.
Enjoy the victory tonight, for it does matter to us who have a measure of optimism.
7 back…..it could be worse…far worse.
Lee was so good the home ump was missing strike calls all night. It was like he didn’t believe anyone could pitch with that much command.
Joser –
Thanks for the info on those less-than-27 perfect games, BTW! I knew there had to have been at least a few over the years…and, come to think of it, I remembered that one that Dave Palmer threw for the Expos when you mentioned it…but, man, that was a while back, and I couldn’t remember one since then. I remember the one where Pedro pitched nine perfect innings, though — a total masterpiece it was, but another of those strange, “asterisked” footnotes in the history of the game, indeed.