The Rainiers took Game 1 over Memphis on the backs of Justin Smoak, Mike Wilson, Blake Beavan, and Andy Baldwin. Tonight, they'll send Mauricio Robles up against Brandon Dickson in an effort to take a commanding 2-0 series lead, but Dickson appears unconcerned about the gravity of the situation:
Based on their profile pictures, eight of the Redbirds' nine starting position players today look like total douchebags, so hopefully catcher Tony Cruz goes like 2-3 and the rest of the lineup goes hitless. Rainiers baseball. Dormant no more.
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ROBLES!
Dickson’s a good pitcher, but this is still a decent match-up for the Rainiers. Starting a lefty is an advantage for Tacoma.
marc w - September 15, 2010
Hey look. We're winning.
joey90 - September 15, 2010
Tuglett!
drblacknwhite - September 15, 2010
Alfonzo. =(
kennerdoloman - September 15, 2010
God damn it, MiLB GameDay, again?
Joe Metro - September 15, 2010
Nevermind, good now. Go Rainiers!
Joe Metro - September 15, 2010
Halman!
kennerdoloman - September 15, 2010
Nice to see Halman producing.
I was afraid he had become a lost prospect.
Slow Country - September 15, 2010
Aw nuts
Joe Metro - September 15, 2010
That one was crushed
langer11 - September 15, 2010
DINGERS!
Joe Metro - September 15, 2010
You weren't kidding.
JY - September 15, 2010
Both the Rainiers and the Lumberkings have twice as many runs as their opponents, at present.
JY - September 15, 2010
Hows this shit goin?
the other side - September 15, 2010
Goin' good boss.
Robles is at 73 pitches through four innings though. I think he’ll get the minimum for the win but not much more.
JY - September 15, 2010
Wins, those are kinda fun.
the other side - September 15, 2010
Pretty well.
Robles apparently having some problems finding the strike zone, but that’s just the impression I get from keeping an eye on the GameDay. I’ll defer to JY on this (and any other) point.
Joe Metro - September 15, 2010
He generally does that.
JY - September 15, 2010
MORE DINGERS!
Joe Metro - September 15, 2010
WInd blowing out in Memphis?
msb - September 15, 2010
Nope.
Tacoma_Mike - September 15, 2010
4 mph in the direction of "between home plate and first base."
Joe Metro - September 15, 2010
4 out of the 9 hitters in the Tacoma lineup have gone yard
JLC - September 15, 2010
A homerun in every inning except the 1st
JLC - September 15, 2010
Well shoot.
While the Rainiers were scoring runs, it’s now 6-5 Clinton over Lake County. Most four of the five runs against Medina have been unearned.
JY - September 15, 2010
FUCKING DINGERS.
Joe Metro - September 15, 2010
DINGERS FOR EVERYONE!
drblacknwhite - September 15, 2010
Mike fucking Wilson
Now 5 out of 9 hitters for Tacoma have gone yard
JLC - September 15, 2010
How many HR hitters hit HRs here?
msb - September 15, 2010
Four:
Carp, Halman, Winfree, Wilson.
I don’t think of Tuglett as a HR hitter.
JY - September 15, 2010
But not Ackley and Smoak
…yet
Dave Paisley - September 15, 2010
They have the same amount of MLB HRs.
SO THERE
Eyebrows - September 15, 2010
Er, Carp and Tuglett.
I are dumb.
Eyebrows - September 15, 2010
Tug hit 14 with Tacoma in 2008 in ~390 PAs.
He’s not a HR hitter, but he’s not NOT a HR hitter.
marc w - September 15, 2010
I have an image in my mind of Tuglett as a slightly more successful, LH Josh Wilson.
i.e., little fellow who swings really hard. Is that inaccurate?
JY - September 15, 2010
11 runs and we've just started the 5th
JLC - September 15, 2010
HOME FIELD ADVANTAGE!
ThundaPC - September 15, 2010
Ah, Ian Snell.
Joe Metro - September 15, 2010
Ian Snell!
Eyebrows - September 15, 2010
NO LEAD IS SNELLPROOF
Eyebrows - September 15, 2010
It can at least pass the SNELL TEST.
ThundaPC - September 15, 2010
I was a little startled when Curto mentioned he was warming in the bullpen
msb - September 15, 2010
awwwww....
the Lumberkings bullpen broke :(
JY - September 15, 2010
Is anyone warming in the pen for the Rainiers?
Or are we gonna have to suffer through another inning of Snell?
nemo1 - September 15, 2010
The Samuel v. Wilson picture matchup in GameDay has to be one of my favorites.
Joe Metro - September 15, 2010
Bases loaded, one out, no one scores.
Marainiers baseball!
JY - September 15, 2010
Bases loaded, one out?
Mariners … oh shit JY just beat me to it.
Joe Metro - September 15, 2010
I see that Snell is still terrible.
w00tah - September 15, 2010
This lead does not appear to be safe.
drblacknwhite - September 15, 2010
Whew. Time for Leuke and Cortes?
Joe Metro - September 15, 2010
Circius/fair music!
w00tah - September 15, 2010
Just turned on the audio.
What the hell?
Joe Metro - September 15, 2010
Why are they leaving Speigner in?
kennerdoloman - September 15, 2010
To keep the game exciting.
JY - September 15, 2010
EVERYBODY CLAP YOUR HANDS.
Joe Metro - September 15, 2010
Paredes really does have the best eyebrows in system.
JY - September 15, 2010
Better than Josh Wilson's?
kennerdoloman - September 15, 2010
Based on my exhaustive three image sampling, I think so
I wish I had a bigger version of the first shot though.
JY - September 15, 2010
He has a strong case of Boomerang Brows for sure.
Slica - September 15, 2010
WOOOOO
Joe Metro - September 15, 2010
YEAH!
Fairly easy win, so they haven’t used Lueke yet. With a ‘travel day’ tomorrow, the entire bullpen should be fine – they can go to a rested Cortes, an unused Lueke and a resurgent Andy Baldwin in game 3 and save Patterson for game 4.
I understand that AAA production doesn’t make for MLB success, and I understand the mechanics of the 40-man roster and options and all that, but there’s no way I’d rather watch the M’s line-up than the Rainiers line-up. Not seeing Ichiro would be tough, and yeah, Halman might struggle (as would Winfree, Tugger, etc.), but I just don’t give a shit.
marc w - September 15, 2010
I'll take triple-A success over short-season-A success.
Sorry Aquasox.
JY - September 15, 2010
To me
Im pretty fascinated that Tacoma is having so much success with younger players. I mean sure there are a few former MLBers on the roster, but when you check a roster like say Fresno’s…top to bottom 27-30 year olds. It seems most AAA teams have more of that variety than ours.
Slica - September 15, 2010
Yeah, that's certainly a positive.
I don’t know… I mean, I recognize that triple-A success is more likely to help the major league team soon, particularly if there are some actual prospects involved, but in the overall scheme of things, I also find that my attention wanes by the time most players get to Tacoma. Part of that is because the team itself is often partially composed of veterans, but it’s also that I’ve been talking about the players for so long that I feel like I’ve already figured them out, more or less, so something like short-season to advanced or double-A is more up my alley. It’s different this season though, what with Smoak and Ackley, Mangini’s breakout, and the constant enigma that is Halman.
JY - September 15, 2010
Fun fact: Fresno's average age was younger than Tacoma's in 2010!
marc w - September 15, 2010
Playoffs!
Slow Country - September 15, 2010
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