Game 118, Red Sox at Mariners
Felix vs. Beckett, 7:10pm
Happy Felix Day, and joyous Wily Mo gloaming.
Another shake-up of the roster, and the M’s again add a bit of power. The loss of Smoak hurts; I was looking forward to seeing how he finished his season. But given the injury, it’s pretty tough to complain about calling up the red-hot Wily Mo Pena. Pena homered in his first PA with the Rainiers and hit a massive HR the other day in Round Rock. The M’s haven’t had a guy who the opposing team wants to watch in BP, but they’ve got one now.
Jack Wilson returns to the line-up in time to face Josh Beckett, who was sharp against the M’s a few weeks ago.
1: Ichiro
2: Gutierrez
3: Ackley
4: Carp (1b)
5: Pena (DH)
6: Wells
7: Bard
8: Rodriguez (3B)
9: Wilson (SS)
The other big news of the day is that the M’s came to terms with their 5th round draft pick, Tyler Marlette, a prep catcher from Florida. He signed an over-slot deal, and has a higher ceiling than the other catchers that the M’s drafted. Nice work; I was beginning to think he might head to Central Florida. Now go get Kevin Cron!
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I suspect MrZ is going to love Willy Mo Pena. Heck, I’m looking forward to watching him myself.
Ichiro!!!!!!
Great start! Lately Guti has been smacking the ball.
Could not ask for a better start! Especially against one of the most obnoxious teams in sports.
Well this is fun! Square up ball … watch ball go … score some runs.
It really is easy when broken down scientifically.
Or in Wilson’s case … hit a flair, get lucky, get on base – don’t get hurt or tired.
Still fun, though.
So THIS is what it’s like to have Major League hitters on a team… Only one batter below the Mendoza line when you discount Willy Mo’s small sample for AZ.
Great throw by Ichiro!
Better play by Bard!!
Reversal on the call?
Make it happen, boys.
Sweet!!!
took ’em long enough, but they got it right
That was pretty awesome.
That was pretty awesome. A good bit of drama for a 5-0 game.
Amazing!!!!!
Awesome to see the call reversed and made right. Don’t see that often enough.
Bard held onto the ball! Most impressive play all-around.
The only thing the home plate umpire had to look for was whether or not Bard hung onto the ball- because the throw easily beat the runner. The umpire will tell the catcher “show me the ball, show me the ball!” – then he will (or at least should) make the call.
Bad mechanics by the ump in rushing/missing the call to begin with – but what a nice course correction. Weird, but necessary and nice.
Wells made what should have been an easy play into a hard one.
I think Wells’ glove hit the wall earlier than he expected.
It was sad to see.
To say that M’s catchers are bad at catching the ball is to say that Uranium is a dense element.
That, however, is just about the most perfect throw a catcher can make.
Bard!
Great win! Josh Bard MVP!!!
He put up some good numbers in Reno and was pretty fun to watch. Hope he does well in Seattle. I’m looking forward to the Tacoma series down here next week – I have tickets to Sunday, Monday and Tuesday.
I don’t worry much about having Bard behind the dish as I do with Olivo, that being said, I’m glad to see we stuffed one to the Sawx.
That was quite a game – seemed like it was going to be an easy win, and then it became a nail-biter.
I don’t normally mind close games, but is it too much to ask that the Mariners win at least ONE game easily? 😀
Furbush versus Wakefield tomorrow. If Wakefield is on, it could be a long afternoon. But you never know with knuckleballers…
Go figure. The first time I’ve ever been late to an M’s game and they score five freakin’ runs in the first inning. And I was sitting smack-dab in Masshole Central.
Masshole Central brought to you by Schick Shadel Hospital, where the drinks come free to Seattle fans and courtesy limo service after the game to detox.
LOL nvn8vbryce.
Stoked about Marlette. Depending on who the PTBNL is, looks like we’ve pulled 4 or 5 decent looking “Catcher of the future” lotto tickets this year. Hopefully one of these guys will actually pan out this time.
I agree. I’m stoked about Marlette and give he and Littlewood the highest chances to be something special. But Hicks, Dowd, Guarnaccia…any one of them could take over and become our pre-eminent prospect at the position.
The PTBNL scuttlebutt is that it’s gonna be RHP Chance Ruffin.