Game 71, Phillies At Mariners
Dave · June 18, 2011 at 6:24 pm · Filed Under Mariners
Hernandez vs Worley, 7:10 pm.
Happy Felix Day!
After a pretty awful night last night, Chone Figgins is back on the bench, and Adam Kennedy gets his first start at third base this year. That opens up the DH spot, which goes to Mike Carp. Carlos Peguero keeps rolling out there in left field despite the fact that he’s getting exposed by good pitchers again – hopefully the team doesn’t toss Jack Cust overboard before they realize that Peguero doesn’t belong in the big leagues, though that seems to be the likely path at this point.
Ichiro, RF
Ryan, SS
Kennedy, 3B
Smoak, 1B
Olivo, C
Peguero, LF
Ackley, 2B
Carp, DH
Halman, CF
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Can’t even have a touching moment without throwing “R%%T SPORTS” into the mix. Good grief…
Just how would you slide feet first back in to first from a standing start about 10 feet from the bag?
Say it with me:
“Olivo has earned Sunday off…”
There, that wasn’t so hard, was it?
Peguero! You’re supposed to hit the ball over the fence not the bat!
Is it just me or does Olivo look completely lost today with the bat…
Hey I made damn sure to bite off a fresh side. I was only the third participant. Though my buddy sent me video and the guy right after me bit off the side that had been bitten even though there was plenty of fresh side to be had.
Wonder if this one will go to extra innings?
That is kinda Olivo in a nut shell.
One bat he looks like he doesn’t even know which end to hold, the next he’s hitting a 450 foot home run.
It may be that he has a very strange type of amnesia.
Peguero actually did a good job of tracking that down and getting it back in.
Ahhh dammit. So close to being foul.
4 out of the last 5 outings by Felix have been mediocre for what he usually does.
He has more walks than he usually has (14 in 4 games) and his velocity seems to be down a little bit.
That is worrying to me.
Rally fries need to die now.
Those guys are great.
More entertaining than the M’s offense, for sure.
Is Victorino wearing a mouthguard in the outfield?
-No mouthguard, he took a bite of that leg as well. What you’re seeing is what got stuck in his teeth.
Wow, that was bizarre, I don’t think Ichiro would have beaten it out though.
Nice to see Halman get to third on that.
As much as I love Felix, he is not having a CY first half.
It’s a curse that seems to strike every Cy winner except for Halladay.
He just gave up three runs in seven innings against one of the best lineups in baseball. Two of the runs scored on a surgically-placed ground rule double. I’m not worried at all.
I would like a new phrase added to the Mariners drinking game:
“Professional hitter” or “professional at-bat” when referring to Adam Kennedy.
WORST strike call of the year, that strike two call…
F****** BULLSH**
I’m confident that any amateur could have struck out swinging there.
Ya, that was a damn bad call.
Second pitch to Kennedy wasn’t even close. It was closer to hitting him than being a strike.
Henry-
And you pound your drink every time Peguero breaks a bat! (For those that have those sort of resources… A tiny sip everytime for the poorer folks.)
I don’t think that the M’s should be doing a “back to the 80s” promotion.
Anyone else get the feeling that Ackley is going to end up in a big time pressure situation?
Yeah, but MX, if you remember, he didn’t have a Cy Young first half last season either.
Felix actually has pretty solid numbers this year, just not off the charts… And he (strangely) doesn’t have the best stuff on our staff currently which feels really really weird.
It tells you how their promotions department is not made up of people who know anything about the Mariners before 1995.
HenryV-
I thought “Back to the 80’s” was just what they call the next game with Vargas pitching, after teams face Pineda and Felix back to back.
Is this some new “how to hit Felix” technique– you lob the end of the bat at the ball and doink it over 2nd base in front of Halman?
PAULEY- with a wicked CURVE… Wow.
Is there a really nice hotel in downtown you guys might recommend?
Looking at the Fairmount Olympic, or something like that. Something good for an anniversary.
Going to the games on the 2nd and 3rd for our anniversary, and figure I should go with a nice place to make up for me getting to go to the game.
Guti pinch hitting for Peguero…. and strikes out too. Perhaps it’s that spot in the order now that’s doing it.
Great pitching is good to have, but it won’t come out ahead consistently against a real playoff team like the Phillies. In my estimation the M’s are still two legitimate bats (and probably a good bullpen arm) away from being a team to take really seriously.
Henry, go for the Inn At the Market. Amazing place right in the middle of Pike place. I took my fiance there when I proposed to her. Usually if you mention that it is an anniversary they give you an upgrade as well.
Henryv, there’s a range of hotels downtown. The Fairmont Olympic is your old style first-class hotel, famous for being in films and famous guests. If that’s your and your wife’s cup of tea, they in fact serve high tea. That kind of place.
Jamey Wright’s pact with the devil clearly has expired.
Oh Jamie Wright…
Jamey Wright is baaaaaaaad, yet he still is getting the ball over Ray, who has been gooooooood of late.
The going price that I can find for it is nearly $380. Not sure I could afford that…
Just when you thought Red Sox fans were annoying.
Sorry Henry, it was half that but I guess it was because in the winter. Probably better rates.
Carson, what did they do now? Beat the shit out of a few Canuck fans?
Oh and the rates are gonna be horrible since its the weekend of July 4th
August 2nd and 3rd, not July 🙂
I’m just guessing but based on Dave’s unrelenting dislike of Peguero, I’m thinking that Dave fears big black cock. and btw, I don’t respond to comments on my comments. Just here to say some shit and get TF out. Peace… of…
Not trying to quarrel, but wasn’t Peguero a 2 time minor league All-Star, and an Arizona League all-star, and Player of the Week multiple times in the minors? We don’t value those things as meaningful assessments?
http://www.baseball-reference.com/minors/player.cgi?id=peguer001car
One season of good SLG at rookie ball, one at High Desert (read: complete joke of a ballpark/league for hitting, basically figure it’s Coors Field league-wide, so completely discount that).
Jose Lopez has better minor league stats. No, really (.500+ slugging in AAA, 3 years YOUNGER).
Carp is the better hitter of the two, and Carp and Cust should probably be in the lineup as the LH DH/LF options, and Peguero should be in Tacoma until he actually proves it’s time for him to be in the majors (based on what he has done so far, it’s not that time). Is it a huge deal that they are playing Peguero instead? No, it’s just a dumb, Willie Bloomquist over (insert name of not so good player that’s better here) move that has marginal value of maybe a win over replacement over a full season (which, while unfortunate, is probably not going to kill your team, though in a close race, you need every win you can get)… unless it’s a symptom of a manager who likes hacking and ignores the value of a walk, in which case, the M’s are going to have this problem for a while- plus it would suck if we started turning our kids into Lopezs and Yunis because they realize that’s how our MLB manager plays you- he likes hackers.
I think Peguero is in the lineup simply because the crowd likes big power guys who swing from their asses, every once in a while they will hit a homer and placate everyone. Management probably feels he puts more butts in the seats than starting Cust would.
Cust is still better to have in the lineup, imo…as are Carp and Halman. Gutierrez not hitting is really complicating things, since an outfield of Guti, Ichi and Halman would be very good defensively.
I think Peguero is in the lineup simply because the crowd likes big power guys who swing from their asses, every once in a while they will hit a homer and placate everyone. Management probably feels he puts more butts in the seats than starting Cust would.
So the crowd would rather lose 4-3 with dingers than win 4-3 with walks?
That’s your argument. And it’s disproven by, well, everything. Fans want wins (you might notice we don’t draw 4 million fans any more, because we don’t win any more). If management thought that, that would be criminal incompetence. Thankfully, I don’t think they are that stupid.