Game 122, Twins at Mariners
Mike Snow · August 19, 2012 at 1:24 pm · Filed Under Mariners
A little late on this, Blake Beavan vs. Samuel Deduno (who?), 1:10 pm.
Ackley 2B-L
Saunders CF-L
Seager 3B-L
Jaso C-L
Montero DH-R
Smoak 1B-B
Thames RF-L
Robinson LF-B
Kawasaki SS-L
Okay, Deduno is not a command/control lefty. Judging from his track record, he appears to be a rather wild journeyman righty, hence the heavily lefthanded lineup.
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Poor Blake Beavan, doesn’t even get a game thread…
Sunday’s line-up:
Ackley 2B
Saunders CF
Seager 3B
Jaso C
Montero DH
Smoak 1B
Thames RF
Robinson LF
Kawasaki SS
Beavan is perfect through one!
Ackley seems to be enjoying Twins’ pitching!
Good day to show a little patience, guys…
I was really hoping for a run there, but apparently is was not to be.
We’re just a little slow today.
Totally agree, djw. We let Deduno off the hook.
Hehe Mike, “who?” seemingly fits a number of Twins pitchers this year!
And thank you for the game thread – apologies for the tongue-in-cheek editorializing.
Unfortunately, Beavan is being less-than-perfect in the second…
We should not rush him up, but I think Hultzen could do better.
Ugh I think I jinxed Hultzen. Did not know he was pitching today
The Detroit Tigers had a lot of trouble with Deduno last week, but that’s no reason for the Mariners to follow suit!
Charge!
COME ON JASO!!
That works…
Smart move to pitch around Jaso
COME ON MONTY!!
Deduno is just borderline too wild for his own good.
Good on the I’d for being patient.
Nice!
That was actually a difficult walk to take given how close those were on the outside corner. I’m skeptical any other Mariner could have taken that walk.
Jaso gets a Jack Cust RBI!
lol, texas
Miguel Olivo RBI
Argh, Monty, you are really maddening at times!
+1 Waco, you nailed it.
It’s only a matter of time before Montero hits into a triple play.
Hehehe djw.
Felix has always been a perfect game waiting to happen.
Montero is a triple play waiting to happen.
Gah. Can’t fault Thames there. Crap luck.
That this guy’s ERA is 3.3 is a testament to what a lousy stat ERA is.
The Angels are losing again – we could be just four back of them after today!
This Twins team has some good pieces. Jack Z would be able to take them and build a pile ‘o pitchers in the off-season and they’d be contenders.
I think Robinson held up there.
Morneau is pretty darn busy today – quite a few sharp hits have gone right at him.
That HBP looked like it was going about 30 mph.
Hector Noesi no hitter in to the eighth last night, so thats good.
What a great pitch by Beavan to induce that weak ground ball by Mauer. Perfectly placed pitch.
Monty just got robbed! Crap!
Gotta admit that was a NICE play.
Smoak popup to an infielder – how many times have we seen that now?
So many offensive pportunities today wasted.
Why do they keep running “Project Runway” ads during Mariners games?
Saunders streak as the active ML leader with most career AB ‘s never been HBP is now over.
Ding-dong-ding it’s the infield pop-up king!
Muenori… Hilarious
I’d jokingly say something like “it’s only been recently that pitchers have seen any reason to throw at Saunders”, but that particular HBP was pretty lame. If he’d been ten feet further away, the ball probably would’ve died before it got there.
Come on Carter, I know you’re getting squeezed but – you can throw 100mph! Throw strikes!
BTW did anyone else see this pitch by Zito yesterday? hahahahahahaha
http://www.baycityball.com/2012/08/18/gif-e-is-for-eephus/
According to Gameday every one of those pitches was a strike in that last at bat.
So he leaves Capps in in a high leverage situation and look what happens?
I think we need Sandy Alderson to come back and get on the umpires’ cases again about calling the correct strike zone.
Jeff Gray sighting!
All right, let’s do better with our baserunners this time!!
CONDOR!!!!!!
Nice to see Saunders start to do that sort of thing again.
Except Alderson is now a Mets Executive – exclusively – so he would be biased. Besides – all the strike zone info (for every ump) is evaluated via electronic means as well as in-person evals/grades. They are scrutinized constantly, but we know very little of what goes into that process or how it is governed. Apparently it is not governed with enough scrutiny to fix the Joe Wests of the world.
Hey … Saunders!
The one thing I was worried about with Saunders was how he’d handle a slump, since every player slumps – would he let it get inside his head and undo all the stuff he’s worked on? I’m glad it appears he didn’t let it get to him too much.
It’s not quite KC pitching, but the Mariners seem to be enjoying Minnesota pitching.
Thames!
I love it.
Good for him.
Whenever “the River” comes to bat, I briefly think of Benny Hill.
The Mariners are on quite a roll. Can it continue?
Robinson has had some bad babip luck – with several “at-em” balls since his callup. He looks quite a bit better than he did last year.
I wonder of London Mariner fan has any difficulties pronouncing the name of the river when referring to the name of the player.
Between Marcus, Eric and the actual River itself, there are 3 different ways to pronounce the same name.
Ackley, Saunders, even Smoak…
The Twins cure all ills!
He looks better because, so far, he’s cut his strikeouts almost in half!
Wedge sure pushed a number of the correct buttons to get his defense through the past 3 innings. Good job by him.
BTW I wasn’t disparaging Eric with my “Benny Hill” comment – it was because the show always started with the Thames Television graphic:
http://www.dannyjpalmer.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/Thames_Television.jpg
And on one episode, Benny Hill’s head popped up over the graphic and he sang “THAMES!!” – which is burned into my brain permanently.
Michael, that was ball four you swung at!
Nice pitch though.
Nice to see Ackley has extended his hitting streak.
Can anyone tell me how Smoak has generally looked lately? I can see he’s getting some hits, just wonder if he’s still hackin’ at crap.
Smoak has made an adjustment with his hands (held lower) and with his “load.”
It appears to be a more efficient looking swing but still a work in progress. He is still trying to pull outside corner pitches and rolling over/popping up – but any improvement is a step in te right direction. It didn’t help his bat speed, but it adjusted the swing “path” a bit. He doesn’t look completely comfortable with it yet, Steve.
Come on Kinney. Get it done. Not sure why you are still out there, but get it done!
I’m not as impressed with Smoak as Mike is. Other than the one homer, he’s hit like 200 popups to infielders in the last week.
Hopefully when Carp comes off the DL, Smoak will be given more time at AAA to work on his swing.
BRING OUT THE BROOMS!!
When did we start playing well? This is awesome.
Well we sure kept Mauer in check, despite giving him lots of opportunities to drive in runs.
Great job by the staff.
Take 3 of League’s blown saves and pretend they were successful conversions by Wilhelmsen and tho team has a .500 record.
Amazing and surprising. And … Amazing. But mostly, it’s amazing.
Thanks for the Smoak report. Somehow, I kind of expected that! But maybe there’s a little hope for him, eh?
It sure does seem like we’re getting to see more of the young guys’ potential again lately!
Westy, I am not impressed with Smoak. I have noticed his adjustment and what appears to be a slight improvement, but I have not seen anything “impressive”. The adjustment does provide a glimmer of hope, though.
Steve: Mike, having played, is a better guy to judge the changes in his swing than I am. And I’m not going to write off Smoak – it’s just not his fault they had to bring him back up right away. He just needs to be given more time to keep working on his swing.
Hi Mike, I didn’t phrase that very well. I know you were focussing on the changes you’d seen. I just meant that – relatively speaking – I was even less impressed than you were.
Of course with Smoak, I can certainly be accused of “results-driven analysis”.
I’m somewhat hopeful for Carp.
The Mariners are inching towards .500 for the season.
They now have played .500 ball since May 4. Three and a half months of .500 ball. I guess we are seeing that they don’t like playing in the cold marine air, but warmer days are making them play better.
I’m just grateful for a little insight! The box-scores don’t say much!
I’m in the Carp camp as well. I’d rather see Smoak continue to work on his adjustments in Tacoma when Carp is able to return. Assuming he’s able to return! But I’d still like to explore possible outside sources for next year.
So maybe the answer for Safeco isn’t moving in the fencs, but instead, replacing the standard lighting with heat-lamps, maybe even convert the roof into some kind of portable hot-iron?
There is an electric heating cable that’s sold for garden use – you bury it a few inches down, and it warms the soil significantly.
Maybe the Mariners need to invest in a few hundred of these cables for Safeco Field.
I have a better idea (for me)… Why not move the home games to Sao Paulo, Brazil, for the months of April and May? It will be summer here and the city is an hour away from any possible marine-layer in the air. Almost certain the attendance wouldn’t be any worse!
Right now, the Mariners are just 8.5 games out of the playoffs. Pretty late in the season to be able to say that.
It would be real progress if they could finish the season less than 10 games out of the playoffs. If they can keep up this second half pace, then it will happen. Still a big if.
I’m not too worried about how far we fall short. Just want to see competitive baseball and fewer dumb decisions!
BTW Ichiro hit two homers today. I’m really glad he’s doing well – just as I’m glad the young Mariners are playing exciting baseball.