Game 36, Mariners At Orioles
Pineda vs Arrieta, 4:05 pm.
If you were hoping David Aardsma was going to be back shortly, you can forget that – Shannon Drayer reports that Aardsma has a “grade 2 sprain of his UCL”, which is the ligament that gets replaced in Tommy John surgery. He’s going to see Dr. Lewis Yocum, and while I’m certainly not a medical expert, it seems like surgery is probably on the table. There’s probably a pretty good chance that Aardsma’s season is over.
As we talked about below, the M’s have a new line-up today thanks to Bradley’s release. Justin Smoak is your new #3 hitter.
Ichiro, RF
Figgins, 3B
Smoak, 1B
Olivo, C
Cust, DH
Kennedy, 2B
Peguero, LF
Ryan, SS
Saunders, CF
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shit!
Should’ve left Ray in, the way he was dealing!
Get in front of the f#$%ing ball Jack!!
wow bad call that saves us
Thank you Brendan Ryan and Miguel Olivo!!
not crap!
jack wilson…the gift that keeps on giving…
At least Angel Hernandez got that call correct.
God dammit.
We just got lucky…
this is bullshit. god this game sucked
Nice tag Olivo.
Not so much the second time.
Shitty shit shit
Damn. Talk about high to low.
Nein.
And it’s close to the last at-bat. Great game.
Sad that defense faltered at the last second.
Game over??
CRAP.
League just doesn’t have a good history (as a Mariner) in Baltimore, does he. GODDANGIT
Well shitski. So sorry League
If I were Pie, I would have Delta Force soldiers around me tonight. Possibly even Chuck Norris checking up on him cause Smoak just may try and kill him tonight
Aaahhhhh lame.
Wow that was a pretty lame ass ending….ugh
THIS BLOWS
You hope gas won’t be $2.59 a gallon? Sorry, but I’ve got to disagree with you there.
Mariners designate Jack Wilson for assignment
Seattle Mariners Executive Vice President & General Manager Jack Zduriencik announced this evening that infielder Jack Wilson has been designated for assignment. Seattle now has 10 days to trade, release or outright the contract of Wilson. Jack Zduriencik noted Wilson’s continued poor defense, lack of any ability to hit and theft of salary as the primary reasons for the change. Wilson was given $24.00 for a cab and a Greyhound bus ticket and was escorted from Camden Yards by security and advised never to mention he was a part of the Mariners organization ever again.
Frustrating game…also, I know hindsight is 20/20 and League blew the game, but League over Ray with 2 on and no one out in the 12th seemed like the right call, he’s been our best reliever so far this season and Rays been one of the worst. I hate the concept of a “closer” and saving your best reliever for a lead that may never come. Again, I know Ray got the outs and League ended up blowing it the next inning, but it seemed like the wrong move.
I’m curious what anyone else thinks about Wedge’s ability to manage a bullpen?
I think he does just fine. You can’t just run the “good” relievers out day after day until their arms fall off. Wedge has no control over what crappy pitchers we end up with, I still blame Bavasi for that one.
Um, that’s exactly what Wedge does. David Pauley pitches every day that Bedard does. Jamey Wright pitches if the game is close in the 7th or 8th. Dan Cortes has 1 IP this season. One. Wilhelmson rarely gets the call, too.
I’m not happy that we lost, but I’m not going to complain about Wedge’s bullpen management tonight. The Mariners made some mistakes, Baltimore made some mistakes, and it was the M’s who ended up losing. Them’s the breaks, as my mom used to say. Yes, Jack Wilson didn’t make that one play; but he’s also the guy who doubled at the top of the final inning and ended up scoring.
This team is still 99.5% more watchable than last year’s group.
BTW Condor’s at bats were interesting. His actual hits were pretty pathetic; but a couple of his outs were well stroked. It’d be nice if this wasn’t just a one-game blip.
If Kennedy had come up with that short hop, then it’d had have been an whole other ball game. Just the simple fact that we kept battling back all night speaks volumes about this club.
They were and unfortunately, they usually are. If he would swing at the good 1st pitch strike and lay off of the “in the dirt crap pitch” that he inevitably swings at and misses for strike two, he might actually give himself a chance and not be in a perpetual 0-2 count. It’s probably a pitch recognition issue. He is basically lost at the plate and he can’t seem to ever hit an outer third pitch (again recognition) that is up. He might be one of those guys that would be better served by not attempting to work a count (can’t believe I said that), but to be aggressive early (but selectively aggressive). There is a book on him and every opposing team seems to have read that book. The pitch selection sequence for his at bats is repeated over and over again. He needs to make an adjustment and write a new chapter for that book. Swing at strikes. Lay off the crap. Easier said than done, but it has been done before.
Dead on. I also remember a younger John Olerud and Justin Morneau going through the same thing. Time after time, the pitcher knew he was getting strike one for free.
I’m not saying that The Condor will eventually be in that class, but they are lefty batters I can think of that had a similar problem when they were younger major leaguers.
There are times to be patient, it’s a fundamentally good philosophy at the plate… but if it’s being used against you, just as many times to NOT be patient.
I wanna start seeing some hacks on the first pitch by our young Mr. Saunders here. These pitchers have got to know they ain’t getting a freebie on the first pitch.
Of course, in a game like yesterday – it doesn’t help when the home plate umpire’s strike zone is… vaguely rhombus-shaped. When a ball is six inches outside, and gets called for a strike, what are they supposed to do?
I used to be dead-set against the idea of machines calling balls and strikes; but for some reason it’s been driven home to me this season just how awful some of these umpires are with regard to judging balls and strikes.
I don’t think it had a physical shape. I think it randomly fluctuated.
Maybe I should’ve replaced “vaguely rhombus-shaped” with “amoeba-like”. 😛