M's 3 - Padres 1

Mariners win. Welcome to the big leagues Blake Beavan. In his major league debut Blake goes 7 innings, strikes out 4, walks 2, and allows just 1 run. Much talk has been made of late about the lack of starting pitching depth on this team. They're still right. Blake Beavan had about the softest of landings you can image. The Padres are almost as good as the Sacramento Bees this year. Behind Blake in terms of depth are Chris Seddon (nice hair), Luke French (bad), Chaz Roe (so hittable), Fabio Castro (short! like, 5'7''), and Charlie Haeger (KNUCKLER!).

To make room on the roster for Blake, Mike Carp was sent down to Tacoma. He promptly hit a home run on his first night back. Anger issues, Mike.

After putting up the lone decent offensive performance yesterday, Greg Halman goes 0-for-4 with 3 strikeouts today. Ichiro goes 2-for-3 with a walk and a stolen base. Franklin Gutierrez, while still a gem of a guy defensively, is sooooo bad at the plate right now.

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Bring on the A's.

BTW Kyle Seager is tearing up the PCL since his promotion. And he's been moved from 2nd to 3rd. Jus' sayin'.

07/02/11 30-Second Recap

M's 0 -Padres 1

Mariners lose. This game should have been a celebration. Doug Fister pitched a complete game giving up only one run, had 1 "walk" and 7 strike outs. The one run he gave up was the guy he had walked in the 5th, Cameron Maybin, who eventually came around to score. There's just one problem. Maybin walked on 3 balls. The only run of the game was illegitimate.

Fister got screwed. Fister always gets screwed. He's (3-9) with a 3.19 ERA (3.18 FIP) so far this year. The Mariners' offense is screwing Doug Fister. His run support is the worst in the league at 3.17 runs per game. There's also a huge chasm between his run support average and the second worst, Jered Weaver with 3.56.

Am I mad that the only run that Fister gave up was based on the blowsiest of blown calls? Sure I am. You should be too. It's a blatant mis-justice. But the Mariners should have been able to overcome that and they didn't. The blame for this loss falls squarely on shoulders of this team's offense. The only decent offensive performance was Greg Halman who went 2-for-3 and didn't strike out. No one else even reached base. *disgust*

Of note: neither Ackley nor Olivo played today. Wedge kept both out as a precaution; both made statements to the effect that they could play today if called upon. Both will likely be in tomorrow's lineup.

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06/11/11 30-Second Recap

M's 1 - Tigers 8

Mariners lose as Michael Pineda had his second hiccup on the year. Although he went 5.1 innings with 4 K's and only 1 BB, not a bad line for a bad outing, he was hung with 5 earned runs and 1 unearned run by the time he hit the showers in the 6th. Ichiro went 2 for 4 with a triple after his off day. The rest of the team's hits came from Smoak, Carp, and Halman, pretty much who you'd expect right now.

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Of note, not only have the Rangers had the same game result as the Mariners for the past 7 games, they lost today 8 to 1. Copycats!

06/09/11 30-Second Recap

M's 1 - Tigers 4

The Mariners kick off a 4-game set in Detroit with a loss. Verlander K'd 10 Sea-farers while walking only 1 (Mike Carp, by the by). Fister did the bull-pen a solid by going all the way, 8 innings, K'd 3, BB'd 2. He pitched 87 pitches. Adam Kennedy went 2 for 4 and Halman went 1 for 4 dropping his average to .636. The M's 1 run came off the following play: Ja Wilson struck out swinging, Ja Wilson safe at first on wild pitch by J Verlander, G Halman scored.

Wow.

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