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97 MPH cutter there in the shadows. Forget hitting that. Isn't Wilhelmsen their new closer now? Have a lot better chance against him than this guy. 92 MPH change-up.

Well, one thing's for sure. They don't have League as their closer, so this game is far from over. But you have to be pretty surprised they could score 3 runs in late afternoon shadows. And we definitely can't afford to give away any of our bullpen depth via trade. It's shaky enough, as is. And we need to find a better solution at 3B.

9 blown saves.... Luckily we've won our last three. Hudson once again showing why he's not going to stick as the solution at 3B in all likelihood. Absolutely have to block that ball...should have been out by a mile.

Crain, Sale, Floyd and Humber...when they're on, you're not going to find four better curveballs on one team in the majors.

Once again, for the 20th time. Zach Stewart had an ERA of 7.88 against all major league teams last year not named the Twins (and reality, their AAA affiliate with all their injuries). Good he is not. Serviceable depends upon your opinion.

You'd almost swear that West did that intentionally to test Selig's nearly blanket protection of the umpires.

QUOTE (fathom @ Jun 2, 2012 -> 04:14 PM) Mariners have him lunging to cover the outer half. Fukudome will probably get a start in LF tomorrow. Millwood the way he's going is not a great match-up for Dayan, but he doesn't have the super high velocity, so you never know. We win again today, he might only change out Flowers...and that's not even a sure thing with back-to-back day games. 6th time in 7 innings the leadoff man reaches for the M's. Joe West with the balk call. Cue Hawk rant? Did his knee go behind the pitching rubber? Went for the controversial call when it was far far far from clear that it was a balk.

QUOTE (Jake @ Jun 2, 2012 -> 04:09 PM) Zach Stewart has a good sinker and a good changeup. Mix in a breaking ball and consistent command (he's been fairly good in this area, really) and he should be an innings-eater starter SHOULD being the key word of that sentence.

Quintana would still be more effective as the long man, but perhaps he's going to have to go down to BIRM/CHAR and continue starting as our primary insurance policy. We don't want Stewart as our 5th, that's for sure.

QUOTE (MAX @ Jun 2, 2012 -> 04:03 PM) He did throw a curve. 3-2. Was fouled off. Plus he doesn't call the pitches. It wasn't a curve. It was something like a cutter/slider/spinner, but it most definitely wasn't a curveball. Really hard to call Stewart's pitches because almost all of them are 82-89 MPH these days.

How the hell do you lose a 0-2 count to Brendan Ryan? Jesus. Stewart sucks. Just had to throw a curveball, but no. And Hudson needs to learn he's playing 3B, not SS as well...almost starting to miss Morel's defense, because they should have had a DP or at the very least the forceout at 2B.

There's going to be more than 10 homers in this game. Shades of 2000.

Thankfully Jaso got thrown out or it would be a 3 run lead. You can't really blame Ventura 100% there, you have to try to get at least 4 innings from your starter....and the game was tied for the 2nd time. If ever there's a game that was meant to go to the Mariners, it's probably this one. But we're still just one big swing away from the lead or a tie game.

Why would you go with Ohman over Santiago? Doesn't make sense. Santiago can go 2-3 innings if he has to, Ohman can't. And mid 90's heat against their top four hitters (Montero's the one to watch out for, quiet so far)...is what they need more than high 87-91 MPH.

Please put Santiago into the game. Thanks, Gavin!

Please put Santiago into the game. Thanks, Gavin!

QUOTE (iamshack @ Jun 2, 2012 -> 03:02 PM) Have you missed Ichiro's career? Nope. I'm just saying what was the right play FUNDAMENTALLY. Whether he could or should have gone, that's another issue. Farmer and DJ both pointed the same thing out (watching tv feed with radio on).

QUOTE (Jake @ Jun 2, 2012 -> 02:59 PM) No. He did what he was supposed to. Go halfway between 2nd and 3rd and then have to turn around and bust his butt to get back to 2B? Hmmm.... The ball drops, he still doesn't score. If he does the right thing fundamentally, he at least has a 50/50 shot to get to 3rd on Ichiro. As it turned out, we scored the run anyway, but he didn't do what he was taught to do in the minors.

QUOTE (TitoMB @ Jun 2, 2012 -> 03:00 PM) Wow, their left fielder is awful! Thank you! And he can't hit, lol.

Beckham continuing to pick away at the middle of the diamond. Very close play at 2B. Great baserunning there by Beckham...the opposite of Hudson's play.

More bad baserunning by Hudson there. Should have been tagging up...he wasn't going to score from 2nd even if that ball had dropped anyway.

They always say how Ichiro could hit 20-30 homers if he wanted to...at this stage in his career, why doesn't he try to load up more often? Legitimately, he can hit the ball about as far as anyone in batting practice, so what does he have to lose? I guess they did try to move him to 3rd in the order, it didn't take, Seager took off with the bat and Ichiro was quickly moved back to leadoff again.

QUOTE (BigEdWalsh @ Jun 2, 2012 -> 03:44 PM) Now you know that's not what I was alluding to. But if i must......They should ADVERTISE the fact that they're releasing $5 upper deck ticket for TOR series. Actually, it wouldn't be the worst idea in the world to let fans bring drinks/food in (maybe for Mon-Thursday games)...but once you started, it would be a pain in the ass to stop or reverse. Or maybe they could let fans who sit in the upper deck do this...to make them feel poorer or cheaper, like steerage class on the Titanic or the current trend in "economy/budget terminals" like they have in Singapore.

QUOTE (sunofgold @ Jun 2, 2012 -> 02:42 PM) Nice hr by 'zynski Two to two Hope we win this one 18-9. They hit solo hrs, we hit two run hrs NO NO NO Just brings back nightmare flashbacks of the 1983 playoff series against BALT. If it's not Tito Landrum, it's Jerry Dyb......

With Avila struggling a bit the first half and now out for awhile, AJ definitely has a great shot to make it as the back-up. And he's one of the few guys on the team with a lot of national name recognition when fans outside of Chicago are filling out All-Star ballots. Of course, many of those fans dislike/boo him. Other than that, you've got Sale and Konerko. Viciedo and Dunn are pretty much long-shots.