And the MARINERS are in the WIN COLUMN! Miguel Batista put forth an excellent performance in the first game of this three gamer in Seattle against the pesky White Sox. Though his line for the night looks mediocre, I thought he pitched much better than what the line shows. He went 6.1 innings surrendering only three hits, five walks, and three earned runs that scored on the grandslam by Danny Richar off of George Sherrill in relief. With the win, Batista improved to 13-8 on the season. Another big night for Raul Ibanez who went 3 for 4 with yet another homerun, his thirteenth on the season, and drove in two. Jose Vidro went 0 for 2 but did do his job by knocking in two with sac-flys. Beltre was 3 for 4 with one knocked in, and Jose Guillen hat two hits in four at bats. Morrow pitched a scoreless inning and Putz recorded his 11th multi-inning save going 1.1 innings and walking two. The White Sox almost tied the game in their last at bat, but Putz struck out Alex Cintron with a runner on third to end the game. I really don't understand why McLaren brought Putz in during the eighth inning while we were up by a run. Morrow was throwing heat and had the situation under control. I'd rather have my closer start the ninth inning fresh rather than throw some pitches in the eighth and then have to come back in the game. Jose Contreras had a decent night despite giving up nine hits in seven innings. Four earned runs were charged to Contreras as Mariner and Dodger scouts looked on. Could he be a Mariner in the next couple days? Hopefully. His fastball reached 93 or 94 and his splitter/forkball looked sharp. We'll see what happens with Contreras, but the important thing is that the M's remain three back of the Angels and a half a game up on the Yankees in the wildcard.
Tomorrow's Starters: John Danks (6-10, 5.22) vs. Jeff Weaver (4-10, 5.64) It's a battle of the ten game losers with 5+ earned run averages. Let's see if Jeff can weave us another good dream.
Umpires: HP--Ron Kulpa (Beltre wasn't pleased, 5/10 name coolness) 1B--Paul Emmel (3/10 name coolness) 2B--Dan Iassogna (I love lasagna! 7/10 name coolness) 3B--Dale Scott (1/10 name coolness) (Overall crew name coolness = 16/40)
Time: 2:50
Attendance: 46,170 (Sellout)
Weather: 68 degrees, partly cloudy
Wind: 0 mph
8/17/07
Nightcap: 8/17/07 vs. White Sox
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How about Raul??? He is absolutely on fire...He leads the majors with 7 HRs in August...Which is one more than his 6 HRs the rest of the season...I started yelling at the TV when McLaren put Putz in in the 8th inning...Not because I don't trust Putz to get 4 outs but because it was unnecessary and we don't need to overuse JJ...Well that and MORROW WAS THROWING ABSOLUTE GAS!!!...No need to take him out to bring in another right hander in Putz...Morrow was consistently hitting 98 on the gun and topped out at 99...I have complete faith he would have ended the 8th with a K just like JJ...Then JJ had to sit for a somewhat long bottom of the 8th...I'd just prefer that we only use JJ for more than an inning when absolutely necessary and tonight wasn't one of those times...
I don't understand why McLaren brought in JJ to face DARIN FREAKIN ERSTAD!! It's not like he's even a competent hitter anymore. Morrow, while a little wild, should have finished the inning.
Exactly...It made zero sense...Morrow wasn't in any sort of real trouble...All bringing in JJ accomplished was making him throw more pitches and have to sit in the dugout for a somewhat long bottom of the 8th...
The only thing I can think of for why he may have done that was the fact that Erstad was 1 for 5 with 4 k's against J.J. Still I don't agree with the move.
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