Game 133, Mariners at Blue Jays
Dave · August 31, 2007 at 3:30 pm · Filed Under Game Threads
Washburn vs Marcum, 4:07 pm on the West Coast.
In what I expect to become something like the new standard line-up for a little while, at least, we have the following:
1. Ichiro, CF
2. Vidro, 2B
3. Guillen, RF
4. Ibanez, DH
5. Beltre, 3B
6. Broussard, 1B
7. Johjima, C
8. Jones, LF
9. Betancourt, SS
Jones essentially replaces Jose Lopez. The outfield defense gets better, the infield defense gets worse. On a night with Jarrod Washburn starting, that’s the right way to do it if you’re going to punt defense somewhere.
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And so the annual late-season implosion continues. Guess this is a new
tradition started last year. Sigh.
Ichiros magic singling ability seems so quaint in this situation. . . .erggggggg
Thank you astroturf and Aaron Hill’s shoddy defense.
perfect thru eight. but the royals are sending up buck, german and pena, jr. so it’s no sure thing.
would be great to get to Ibanez, these are the type of pitchers he can hit. Ibanez could be the hero tonight if he gets a chance
UW 28 Syracuse 6
Lets go Singling Brothers Guillen and Rauuuuuuul Circus!
Yes please.
Time for Proven Veteran Grit to show its true magical abilities with Raul at bat.
That was an awesome DP…. wow.
I can’t even believe that.
wow, Sims just psyched us out.
LOL so sadly predictable
fantastic way to end things, m’s! only 30 games left to lose.
Guillen’s HBP got the WE up to 30% for the M’s.
Oh well.
Grrrbllllghhgah.
i’m with everyone else, all i can do is just shake my head and laugh. …i’d love to be positive, but how else would this game have ended?
216: Richy White walking another bases loaded bottom of the nineth tie game?
The only “positive” thing is that the Yankees lost, so the Mariners didn’t lose any ground.
do we get any supplemental draft picks for having two seven game losing streaks after the all-star break?
Baker starts off 9th 2-0 uh oh
Woah, how much does that suck for Baker? Still could get the no-hitter though.
boo he suks lol i wish any of our pitchers sucked like him
219 – We don’t get any supplemetal draft picks, but we might get to rid ourselves of Johnny Mc!
2 outs to go.
There goes the no-hitter
I love the Twins announcer on Sweeney, “I never liked him anyway”.
you just knew hed mess it up
Well at least he got the shutout. Good for him! CG 1-hit shutout, I’d take that from Batista tomorrow. Or, is that too much to ask?
I’d take a 1-hitter through 2 innings from Batista.
wouldn’t it have been nice if Baker had been gettable at the start of the year ….
my, those are some sad Orangemen fans.
Neihaus, moments ago: “Well, there’s help on the way…”
He was referring, of course, to the call-ups of Feierabend, Parrish and (Little) White.
However, Larry Fine, Curly Howard and Moe Howard would probably be better.
Why was Felix out throwing in the pen?
233: Probably ‘cuz he’s one of the few semi-effective pitchers we have at the moment.
isn’t it his throw day, between starts?
Wow, what a debacle. I kept expecting this to happen sooner or later but I got lulled into a false sense of security or something thinking this might be the year where divine intervention played a part in Mariners destiny.
235 that’s what I was hoping, rather than some new strange McLarenism.
Time to pull the plug and play the kids?
235 & 237: Actually, I heard Neihaus mention during the radio broadcast that it was, in fact, his throw day. Post #234 was merely me being a smart arse. 🙂
ThomJim: What if “playing the kids” is the best way to not pull the plug at all?
Seems to me that this game, unlike the last few, was lost on the field rather than in the dugout.
The DP that ended the game was remarkable.. all you can do is shake your head and come back tomorrow.
Yuppers. Not that many late game brain-lock decisions. A few inches to the left, the ball skips off the glove and at least one run scores (and this is the sort of luck that happened earlier this year).
OMG, the math is contagious:
The Mariners are in the fourth major slump of the season. This is the second streak of seven consecutive losses. They also lost six in succession two other times. That’s a total of 26 losses.
Seattle is 73-34 when it isn’t in a major losing streak, making for a .682 winning percentage in those other games.
“When you take away those 26, we’ve really put it all together in the rest of our games,” Jose Vidro said after taking another turn at second base for Jose Lopez. “And yet the only way to look at it is after all those losses, we’re still in pretty good shape. This club will come back, there’s no doubt about it.”
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/baseball/330003_mari01.html?source=rss
243- HAHAHA, Vidro actually said “when you take away those 26…” I thought it was a joke! OMG, Johnny Mac has really f’d with this team’s mindset.
When you take away the times they suck, they don’t suck!
237–Actually, in the post game interview, Mac said that if the M’s either tied or took the lead that Felix was going to come into the game as the next available arm…and that Eric O would have been called on if Felix couldn’t close it out.
At this rate, it’s only a matter of time before the murmurs about “if Ichiro really cared about this team, he’d agree to the move from center to the mound” start up.
246: Thanks for passing that along. Though I missed McLaren’s post-game interview tonight (actually, I can’t stomach sitting through Huttyler & Valle — especially after a loss when the team is playing brutal), that pretty much further confirms to me his chilling ineptitude as a “manager”.
But, I guess on the bright side, at least Felix might have accidentally lucked into the gift win that Mac screwed him out of against Johan Santana a couple of weeks ago when he brought in Parrish to stink up the joint.
from the Toronto Star:
“Smart base running, smarter defence, adequate pitching and ruthless hitting drove Toronto to a 7-5 victory over Seattle.”
yup. it takes ruthless hitting to golf meatballs out of the park….