06/26/11 30-Second Recap

M's 2 - Marlins 1

The Mariners take the rubber match to get back to .500. We're gonna try a bit of a different format tonight.

• Doug Fister pitched 8 innings of 1 run ball. He struck out 3 and walked none. His command was there all night as he got first pitch strikes on 18 batters faced. He also hit a double. Fister for DH!
• Fister's one run came off of an Omar Infante12-pitch at bat in the bottom of the 8th. Rizzs: "There's nothing you'd like to see more than a battle between Doug Fister and Omar Infante." I beg to differ, Rick. I beg to differ.
• Dustin Ackley hit a triple, a single that should have been a double because it hit the 1st base umpire, and a double that should have been another triple as Ackley apparently didn't realize that Logan Morrison was practicing his juggling tonight.
• Dustin Ackley scored the winning run in the 10th inning off of Steve Cishek's wild pitch. Steve was attempting to intentionally walk Carlos Peguero because old people fear large human beings who hack at everything and Jack McKeon is nothing if not old. Anyway, on the third pitch, Cishek sailed his throw and Ackley scampered in for the score. It was a close play but Cishek dropped it. If he had held on to the ball Ackley likely would have been out. That's, like, a triple fail right there; sailing the intentional ball, dropping the tag, and allowing Choate's run to score. Sleep well tonight, Steve.
• Brendan Ryan went 2-for-4 with a walk and a strike out. He also flashed some dazzling defense at short. We got him for Mikael Cleto.
• Jose Lopez scored the Marlin's only run.
• Doug Fister scored one of the two Mariners runs. Touché.
• The Mariners left 13 men on base tonight. They had plenty of opportunities that they just couldn't cash in. This type of offensive ineptitude is so much more frustrating than just getting shut down by mediocre starting pitchers, as has happened to this team throughout much of this decade. It's like having a delicious Strawberry-Rhubarb pie put in front of you and then having it dumped on your crotch as opposed to, say, getting a plate of tofu. You never expected anything from the tofu.
• Chone Figgins pinch-ran. That's it. Never took the field defensively. Never had an at-bat. It's amazing to me that Wedge has navigated this $27 million political landmine and is coming out of it looking like JFK. Let's hope that the MLB doesn't move any games into Dallas.
• League picked up his 21st save of the year. Maybe we can trade him for, like, Brandon Morrow or something.

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