Game 112, Royals at Mariners
RF Ichiro!
2B Figgins
1B Kotchman
DH Branyan
CF Gutierrez
3B Lopez
C Bard
LF Langerhans
SS Jo. Wilson
The repeat of Friday’s lineup last night yielded one of the most boring games in recent memory. This one has Saunders still out and Bard taking over for Moore, because Moore’s stiff back is apparently worse than Bard’s stiff neck.
The news for today is that Shawn Kelley is out for the rest of the season. Divish says that there was no stress fracture, but exploratory surgery will be needed at the very least, while Larry Stone quotes Wak in saying he could be ready in spring training or he could be out a year. So, Schrödinger’s Elbow basically, and we’re just waiting on the wave function to collapse. Nothing new here, no sir.
More positive news is that Wak, in spite of various managerial flaws, is still kind of cool. This is important for the team going forward.
LHP Jason Vargas vs. RHP Kyle Davies. There’s a non-zero chance we could win this one.
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Woodward??
He sounds like the most likely candidate.
Woodward to Seattle, Triunfel to Tacoma???
Rest easy, boys. The DA is on the case.
Uh, you were saying?
Case closed. That bat ran right into Aardsma’s laser beam. Pure luck…
And Vargas at least gets a win out of his effort for a change…
Two out of three from the mighty Royals…woohoo!
What … how can that be? Why would we need him? We have the great Tui in tow. Why would we need someone who can actually field his position?
However correct the Woodward prediction is (and I think it probably is) – it sure speaks volumes about organizational “depth” at a critical position. Yuck.
Alex Gordon has some 9th inning luck…last week I was in Kansas City and saw him striking out the whole night…only to come back on the bottom of 9th for a 2-out, 3-run walk-off homer…
I doubt it. Saw him last night at West Tenn…he made at least one error, another one scored as a hit. Went 1 for 4 and didn’t look very focused.
What a boring game. I ended up fast-forwarding through most of it…
*makes standard complaint about trading/losing/not drafting a good player—again—and sighs*
Oh c’mon, Westside…how could you not enjoy the riveting drama of baseball excitement that was this series?
Though I’ll have to admit that I couldn’t find any syncronized swimming on TV this weekend as an alternative. 🙂
Meanwhile, Pitman just rhetorically asked on the post-game show if this was a “big” win for this team…sheesh.
Pineda, 2 walks 3 strikeouts so far…Ackley hit a triple.
Pineda 5 strikeouts through 2 innings lolol
This team never should have thought it was contending this year. Complete joke!
Well, given the relatively small number of wins to choose from, it’s as good as any I suppose…
The M’s have exactly 50 more games to play, and they need to win 21 of them to avoid 100 losses. Can they do it?
I don’t think they can Westy. I think they are a lock to lose 100+. Probably around 105 +/-. The over/under is being informally set at 105.
Matt Pittman is a rhetorical question.
Pineda came out of today’s game after the 3rd inning. Does anybody know why?
Also, Woodward is playing today in Omaha, so does that mean he might not be the guy that is called up to replace the injured Jack Wilson? This would probably be the time of the year that Jack Hannahan (yaaaawn) would have been called up – if they had not already traded him.
Freakin’ Matt Pittman.
Matt Pittman is a rhetorical question.
Good God.