Seattle: 42-39
Baltimore: 36-46
| MARINERS | ORIOLES |
EDGE | |
| HITTING (wOBA) |
-48.2 (28th) |
-4.4 (19th) | BAL |
| FIELDING (UZR) |
26.8 (4th) |
-20.6 (22nd) | SEA |
| ROTATION (pRAA) |
3.8 (13th) | -8.4 (19th) | SEA |
| BULLPEN (pRAA) |
-15.1 (28th) | -8.6 (22nd) | BAL |
| OVERALL(RAA) |
-32.7 | -42.0 | Seattle |
We won the series against Boston but did not exactly do it in convincing fashion. Yeah, those wins count and just not getting destroyed is a positive, but the 5-4 road trip is also not as promising sign as some would like to make it and furthermore, it is over. The Mariners close out the first half with seven games at home, three here and then four with Texas in town. We are 4-2 against Baltimore so far this season but 0-5 against Texas, a team we play 14 more games against and a team we are behind but should not be.
Notably, I am concerned about the starting rotation trending toward average. We need them to start heading back toward a top ten unit. Getting Bedard back and healthy would go a long way toward that goal.
Game 1: Jarrod Washburn* vs. Brad Bergesen
Game 2: Erik Bedard*! vs. Jeremy Guthrie
Game 3: Jason Vargas* vs. David Hernandez
Boy, I sure hope the Orioles are not a team that destroys left-handers or anything. I am off to check Baseball-Reference to find out. Hold on... Almost there... Hmm... Huff, Scott and Markakis are all left-handed. Wait, I feel like I looked at this last time we played Baltimore at home. Oh hey, we actually threw these exact three pitchers against them! Well at least we do not have to see Rich Hill this time. God, that sucked.
On the other hand, we get to face Bergesen for the third time! Over his last two starts he has totaled 15 innings, nine strikeouts, three walks, one home run and 32 ground balls against just 13 fly balls and six line drives. He also missed 20 bats in 202 pitches. Eep.
Jose Lopez hit two home runs against Jeremy Guthrie during his start on the 10th of June. That would be pleasing to see again, but really we are watching for Erik Bedard in this one.
David Hernandez is a 24-year-old right hander who has worked his way up a level each year. Running great strikeout rates coupled with walk rates ranging from solid to fabulous in the minors, Hernandez has struggled with batted balls so far in the Majors. We demolished him back in June on the strength of fly balls and line drives turning into hits.
Matt Wieters is up to a .770 OPS. Adam Jones is an All-Star. Let us just get that out of the way now.
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It sure would be hilarious if we got swept here
Jeff Sullivan - July 6, 2009
This could be the new NEW Colorado series!
EnglishMariner - July 6, 2009
If you by hilarious you mean soul crushing, I am with you.
InSpokane - July 6, 2009
It cannot crush your soul if you expect it
Matthew - July 6, 2009
Or if you do not have one.
Eyebrows - July 6, 2009
I disagree
Poochie - July 6, 2009
It cannot crush your soul if you find out you're not as good as you thought you were in time to still trade people
OlSalty - July 6, 2009
If when you expect it, it still hurts.
InSpokane - July 6, 2009
STATEMENT ROAD TRIP!!!!!
ThundaPC - July 6, 2009
I am fully expecting it
OlSalty - July 6, 2009
We need Bedard to be decent and we need a lefty in the bullpen
Hurry up guys.
Jeff Sullivan - July 6, 2009
Bedard could be decent as the lefty in the bullpen!
Poochie - July 6, 2009
Wasn't drafted high enough
EnglishMariner - July 6, 2009
Most relievers aren't high draft picks
Poochie - July 6, 2009
Buh What?
hcoguy - July 6, 2009
If Bedard says healthy and we can't manage to trade Washburn, would moving Jaku into the rotation and Vargas to the Loogy role (and Olson to slop) be the best move?
Jaku’s tRA as a starter (4.58) is better than Vargas’ (5.82), and they’re tRA*s are pretty much the same (a touch under league average). I think Vargas could be an outstanding LH reliever, judging by his solid minor league strikeout rates and his relief work in May.
Decatur - July 6, 2009
Whither RRS?
Jeff Sullivan - July 6, 2009
The return of Hyphen would be great, but he's still rehabbing and his timeline keeps getting pushed back. I guess Hyphen could go into the rotation (since he's better against righties, right?)
Decatur - July 6, 2009
The last time I checked he was in Tacoma getting the shit beat out of him
Poochie - July 6, 2009
At no point was that happening.
Matthew - July 6, 2009
I only checked after his first start
Poochie - July 6, 2009
His first start
4IP, 1K, 0BB, 1HR, 1RA, 0LD, 10%SwStr rate.
Matthew - July 6, 2009
Sorry, 1LD, 8% SwStr rate
the 0 and 10% were from his 2nd start.
Matthew - July 6, 2009
They didn't how K/BB numbers on tv.
Poochie - July 6, 2009
So his 39% GB rate and .083 BABIP must have been terrible to watch.
Matthew - July 6, 2009
I think I must mean the first start I remember then mentioning
because he surrendered many runs
Poochie - July 6, 2009
This subthread is awful
Poochie - July 6, 2009
Only because you are getting owned.
Matthew - July 6, 2009
True
But if you are owning someone who as never trying in the first place, you just wasted the last 20 minutes of your life on a snipe hunt.
Poochie - July 6, 2009
Now who's the dean?
Poochie - July 6, 2009
Superman.
PositivePaul - July 6, 2009
Wormer.
pdb - July 6, 2009
That's where my brain went.
abender20 - July 6, 2009
Dean Yeager!
tootthekazoo - July 6, 2009
Dizzy!
marc w - July 6, 2009
Neal Cassidy.
aka Dean Moriarty.
katal - July 6, 2009
GO TEAM VENTURE!
Eyebrows - July 6, 2009
I'll get off your lawn now...
(aka — good call!)
PositivePaul - July 6, 2009
Not really because I have tRA game logs bookmarked
so it takes me about 15 seconds to look this stuff up.
Matthew - July 6, 2009
I can think of at least a dozen times where a 12 second delay has infuriated you.
Robert - July 6, 2009
Did they all have something to do with you?
royalcurve - July 6, 2009
At least he doesn't have the twelve hour delay involving witting things to say in conversation with the fairer sex
Graham MacAree - July 6, 2009
Snip snap!
royalcurve - July 6, 2009
Witting?
Kirsten Schlewitz - July 6, 2009
I wasn't going to say it.
royalcurve - July 6, 2009
Maybe witting is the infinitive verb form of generating witticisms.
abender20 - July 6, 2009
I thought he was implying that while Robert says witty things,
he does so unwittingly.
marc w - July 6, 2009
I thought it was Queens English for pillow talk
Kermit. - July 6, 2009
Oops
Graham MacAree - July 6, 2009
Insults work better when executed properly.
Kirsten Schlewitz - July 6, 2009
My soul was still wounded none the less :(
Robert - July 6, 2009
So it would appear that my bullpen regression fears both manifested and did not manifest over the road trip
Jeff Sullivan - July 6, 2009
Yes... or they manifested consistently
but some had pitched worse than their peripherals would suggest, and others better. So we got that bizarre flash of 2008 Corcoran, but sadly a flash of 2008 Mark Lowe as well.
marc w - July 6, 2009
2008 Mark Lowe was better than 2009 Mark Lowe
:(
Jeff Sullivan - July 6, 2009
Please would you ask where Mark Lowe's changeup has gone at the LL meetup in August, because I miss it. :(
EnglishMariner - July 6, 2009
God damn it.
marc w - July 6, 2009
So, can someone give Scrappy a spare labrum to chew on for the next few months?
I was thinking Carlos Silva isn’t using his.
eponymous_coward - July 6, 2009
So with Bedard coming back, who is leaving the rotation?
PattyB - July 6, 2009
Bedard, four days later.
Matthew - July 6, 2009
Well that's not very optimistic at all
OlSalty - July 6, 2009
Bedard is made of glass.
And not the cool glass that old cathedrals have but the crappy glass Yugos used for windshields.
13194013 - July 6, 2009
People who live in glass bodies shouldn't throw baseballs.
PDXTai - July 6, 2009
Nice.
Terminator X - July 6, 2009
With Bedard the glass is neither full nor empty: it is broken.
EnglishMariner - July 6, 2009
What about sweet Morrowind Glass?
joof - July 6, 2009
He is made of glass vaginas
Bearskin Rugburn - July 6, 2009
Nobody knows it yet, not even Erik
Poochie - July 6, 2009
The amazing part is when they make it retroactive to last week
Kermit. - July 6, 2009
Clearly you have insider trade info you're withholding
Nate Dogg - July 6, 2009
Haha... that was pefect.
wadswerth - July 6, 2009
I cherish you
royalcurve - July 6, 2009
Don't care too much about what happens in this series.
But I want a four game Texas sweep. In fact, if they forfeited every O’s game to rest up and gather strength for the Rangers, I’’d be OK with that. Provided they sweep.
Bearskin Rugburn - July 6, 2009
That's an interesting mindset
Jeff Sullivan - July 6, 2009
I'd be cool with losing every game for the rest of the season to rest up and gather strength for the World Series.
Provided that the Mariners sweep it.
abender20 - July 6, 2009
If we play 4-3 ball the rest of the season we will most likely win the division
Poochie - July 6, 2009
Let's face it we're not going better than 4-3 to close out the half.
I’d rather the 4 come at the expense of the Rangers and their lobsterback uniforms.
Bearskin Rugburn - July 6, 2009
That's racist against Crustacean-Americans.
Eyebrows - July 6, 2009
SEE WHAT PAIN YOU'VE CAUSED HIM!
Eyebrows - July 6, 2009
His face makes me happy
royalcurve - July 6, 2009
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BrianL - July 6, 2009
I always wondered how a Jewish doctor could live with being treyf
abender20 - July 6, 2009
I think 5-2 would be realisticly possible
gregrabble - July 6, 2009
Yes, running a .714 winning percentage is an easy thing to do for an average baseball team.
abender20 - July 6, 2009
Oh you stat geeks and your silly decimal points
Kermit. - July 6, 2009
I can only assume the decimal point after Kermit is there for matters of accuracy.
abender20 - July 6, 2009
Zing!
royalcurve - July 6, 2009
He's a quick one
Kermit. - July 6, 2009
Guys - apparently, this is Birdland. Just thought you'd like to know.
Eyebrows - July 6, 2009
Welcome back
abender20 - July 6, 2009
Hello, sailor.
royalcurve - July 6, 2009
And by sailor, I mean
royalcurve - July 6, 2009
I don't know who that guy is.
But I hate him.
katal - July 6, 2009
You don't?
abender20 - July 6, 2009
That, sir, is Erik Bedard.
royalcurve - July 6, 2009
Clearly katal is a misogynist.
Mariner John - July 6, 2009
Hush, you.
royalcurve - July 6, 2009
Fishogynist?
pdb - July 6, 2009
Shit. You're kidding.
He looks like a douche!
katal - July 6, 2009
You're in trouble now, mister.
Eyebrows - July 6, 2009
And what is he doing holding Mike Carp?!?
Oh, wait…
PositivePaul - July 6, 2009
Buh!
royalcurve - July 6, 2009
We might get to see Kam Mickolio this series.
Guy’s been called up, replacing Chris Ray.
katal - July 6, 2009
2.89 tRA for Norfolk. Damn it.
marc w - July 6, 2009
At least Tony Butler probably won't be good. Hah!
Fuckmikereilly - July 6, 2009
Suckers!
MFAN - July 6, 2009
We robbed those bitches!
Slurvey - July 6, 2009
It would be nice, just this one time, if one of our discarded ex-pitchers did not come back and dominate us.
EnglishMariner - July 6, 2009
Fuck Matt Thornton
marinerdan - July 6, 2009
Baltimore will do that to us.
http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/SEA/SEA200605230.shtml
MFAN - July 6, 2009
We threw our GS52, Soriano and Putz back to back to back in that game.
Fuuuuuuuuuck.
EnglishMariner - July 6, 2009
John Halama what the hell?
Slurvey - July 6, 2009
Haha Mystic Tan.
Eyebrows - July 6, 2009
Felix Hernandez is the youngest player on either All-Star team
No matter how many times I hear how young he is, it still surprises me.
Fuckmikereilly - July 6, 2009
Justin Upton?
russak - July 6, 2009
Yessir.
Teej - July 6, 2009
Okay so that article lied.
Youngest on the AL team?
Fuckmikereilly - July 6, 2009
Lineups
ORIOLES
Brian Roberts 2B
Adam Jones CF
Nick Markakis RF
Aubrey Huff DH
Ty Wiggonton 1B
Nolan Reimold LF
Melvin Mora 3B
Matt Wieters C
Robert Andino SS
Brad Bergesen RHP
MARINERS
Ichiro RF
Russ Branyan 1B
Jose Lopez 2B
Ken Griffey Jr. DH
Franklin Gutierrez CF
Ryan Langerhans LF
Rob Johnson C
Chris Woodward 3B
Ronny Cedeno SS
Jarrod Washburn LHP
Fuckmikereilly - July 6, 2009
Too easy
OlSalty - July 6, 2009
Kazu!
Coach Owens - July 6, 2009
Aww
http://seattlepostglobe.org/2009/07/06/ichiro-turns-down-request-to-be-in-home-run-derby
Aaron Campeau - July 6, 2009
God dammit, Ichiro.
Just one time before you retire, please.
Teej - July 6, 2009
Aw, shit.
royalcurve - July 6, 2009
I was hoping Griffey would convince him to do it this time around
Fuck you Griffey tickle him some more
d0nkey - July 6, 2009
Ichiro is a bum.
kentroyals5 - July 6, 2009
Damn I got my hopes up this year
gregrabble - July 6, 2009
Well alrighty then, Russell.
cogs - July 6, 2009
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