Game 11, Blue Jays At Mariners

Dave · April 12, 2011 at 4:27 pm · Filed Under Mariners 

Doing my weekly 5:15 radio spot with Toby Howell at 1510 KGA in Spokane. You can listen live here.

Romero vs Pineda, 7:10 pm.

The Safeco Field debut of Michael Pineda takes place tonight, and the M’s actually have a chance to put together back to back wins. Needless to say, it’d be nice to see the M’s run away with one early and cruise to an easy victory, but against a quality lefty like Romero, I’d call that pretty unlikely.

M’s run out a different looking line-up tonight. Figgins is out with the bruised thumb, and his absence gives Wedge a chance to reward Luis Rodriguez with a start at third base. The struggling Jack Cust sits with an LHP on the mound, but because of the way the M’s roster is arranged, he’s just replaced by another LH bat. Even getting Gutierrez back eventually won’t change the team’s need for a right-hander who can spell Cust at DH from time to time, either playing there himself or by playing left field and shifting Bradley to DH.

Ichiro, RF
Wilson, 2B
Bradley, DH
Olivo, C
Smoak, 1B
Rodriguez, 3B
Saunders, LF
Ryan, SS
Langerhans, CF

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226 Responses to “Game 11, Blue Jays At Mariners”

  1. Dutch on April 12th, 2011 9:30 pm

    Take that, Canada.

  2. lalo on April 12th, 2011 9:30 pm

    League make me nervous…

  3. msfanmike on April 12th, 2011 9:30 pm

    SWEET!

  4. Westside guy on April 12th, 2011 9:30 pm

    WOO HOO!

  5. timandren on April 12th, 2011 9:30 pm

    Parrotfish locks it down!

  6. Breadbaker on April 12th, 2011 9:31 pm

    Nice. Nice for Michael. Nice to shut up Blue Jays fans.

  7. jordan on April 12th, 2011 9:31 pm

    Were going to the playoffs!

  8. henryv on April 12th, 2011 9:31 pm

    Uhm, 3 runs isn’t really “nice”, Michael.

    3 runs is what we like to call “below average”.

  9. CarpCarter on April 12th, 2011 9:31 pm

    Great ending.

    Out of curiosity, anyone have attendance figures?

  10. joser on April 12th, 2011 9:32 pm

    Wow, the right League showed up tonight. And Pineda gets his win. Now tomorrow at noon… sweep?

  11. Westside guy on April 12th, 2011 9:32 pm

    Smoak is not a good interviewee. Seems like a good guy though.

  12. lalo on April 12th, 2011 9:32 pm

    14, 528 in Safeco tonight.

  13. henryv on April 12th, 2011 9:33 pm

    Out of curiosity, anyone have attendance figures?

    Nine. Seven of them were bored Canucks fans waiting for the playoffs to start.

  14. bookbook on April 12th, 2011 9:33 pm

    So, Langerhans is the M’s offense this year? Despite the big winning streak, I’m still a bit nervous.

  15. joser on April 12th, 2011 9:35 pm

    Man, in the aftergame interview with Shannon on the radio, Smoak sounds like that guy on “King of the Hill” who always speaks in mumbles.

  16. mlathrop3 on April 12th, 2011 9:35 pm

    What year were we awesome in the 8th inning? Was that the same year as ” two outs, so what?”

  17. gwangung on April 12th, 2011 9:41 pm

    Yeah….tie this game with last night’s game and the home opener….and we’re gonna have a very interesting season.

  18. davepaisley on April 12th, 2011 9:46 pm

    What year were we awesome in the 8th inning? Was that the same year as ” two outs, so what?”

    And the year before “two outs, never mind”.

  19. henryv on April 12th, 2011 10:04 pm

    What year were we awesome in the 8th inning?

    I seem to remember that from 2001.

    I even remember a comic in the P-I that showed the score keeper changing all the innings to the 8th.

    I could be hallucinating something.

  20. SonOfZavaras on April 12th, 2011 10:29 pm

    Man, in the aftergame interview with Shannon on the radio, Smoak sounds like that guy on “King of the Hill” who always speaks in mumbles.

    Boomhower! (sp?) And my brother and I said the EXACT same thing.

  21. SonOfZavaras on April 12th, 2011 10:43 pm

    While we’re still working on the concept of being a GOOD team, we have some cool nicknames for our players:

    King Felix, The Condor, Smoakstack, Boardgame and my vote goes to “Tiny” or “Stilts” for Pineda.

  22. Westside guy on April 12th, 2011 10:45 pm

    Uhm, 3 runs isn’t really “nice”, Michael.

    I think our lineup managing to get three runs against Ricky Romero is pretty darn “nice”.

    Although I do keep wanting to call him Ricky Ricardo.

  23. Westside guy on April 12th, 2011 10:47 pm

    King Felix, The Condor, Smoakstack, Boardgame and my vote goes to “Tiny” or “Stilts” for Pineda.

    What can we come up with for Bradley?

    – Nuclear

    – Blow Up (works in a film reference too)

    – ‘Plugs (short for “earplugs”)

    – Voices (as in “the voices in his head”)

  24. SonOfZavaras on April 12th, 2011 10:55 pm

    Shucks, Westside..”Boardgame” was my nickname for Bradley. I also contemplated the idea of naming him “3…2…1…”.

  25. Westside guy on April 12th, 2011 11:03 pm

    Shucks, Westside..”Boardgame” was my nickname for Bradley. I also contemplated the idea of naming him “3…2…1…”.

    *Palm of hand* -> *Middle of Forehead*

    Can I dope-slap myself?

    Ugh… I can’t believe that one managed to sail right by me. And I even copied it in the quote! I’m sorry about that!

    Anyway, it’s great!

  26. OffensivelyChallenged on April 13th, 2011 1:24 am

    Micheal Wineda!

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