Mariners

[MarkGrace]

Holy shit. What a disaster 9th.

[MarkGrace]

M's were leading 2-1 with 2 outs, nobody on in the 9th. And then this sequence happened:

- single
- walk
- error (based now loaded)
- wild pitch
- single

Game over. I swear, only the Mariners.

[MarkGrace]

What a shitty series. Got to watch a few innings at lunch today and man did Ramirez look terrible and confused. So Paxton hurt, Walker hurt, Iwakuma hurt, and the M's already under .500. Good stuff.

[I.J. Reilly]

It would be great to have at least half of our starting rotation healthy. Also, while I'm asking for the impossible, can we please get at least two guys that can hit above .300 and get on base at a decent clip? Maybe some middle relief and closers that won't blow games?

I wish I didn't care so much.

[MarkGrace]

Ramirez goes 2 innings yesterday, Young goes 3 today. Progress!

[MarkGrace]

Seager with the walk off bomb and the streak dies at 8!

[MarkGrace]

Brad Miller fucking sucks. Man has that kid gone mental. Just an utter waste of space right now in every facet and I don't think he's going to recover. Bummer because he showed such great potential. Time to give Taylor a shot or move Franklin back to short and give him a crack.

And I still want to egg Fernando Rodney's house for last night. Asshole.

[smokymountainrain]

[Walter Sobchak]

Watching Cabrera take BP worth the price of admission... holy cow.

[MarkGrace]

Franklin sent back down. Gotta be a frustrating year for the kid, but he just can't figure it out. How do you put up such insane slash lines in AAA and then can't hit in the majors at all? Obviously it's a difficult thing, and smashing AAA doesn't mean you'll smash the bigs, but it seems like you should still be able to hit just a little bit.

At any rate, 2/3 against Detroit over the weekend, smashed the Yanks in a makeup game yesterday, and a series opening victory against the Bravos today has them back to two games above .500. Satisfied with that record, though things haven't gone nearly as well as I would have thought had I known they'd be 30-28 at this point.

[I.J. Reilly]

I'm hopeful they can hang on until they get all of their pitching back. If they could do that and add a bat or two before the trade deadline, I'd like to think they could make a run at the West, or at the very least would be able to snag the wild card.

[MarkGrace]

First time since '09 that the M's have been 5 games above .500.

[MartyFunkhouser]

First time since '09 that the M's have been 5 games above .500.

AL West is that best division in baseball. Mariners are playing well in a good division.

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[MarkGrace]

AL West is that best division in baseball. Mariners are playing well in a good division.

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And the amazing thing is they suck. 4/5 slots in the rotation have been good, but the lineups they trot out on a daily basis always leave me wondering how they hope to win the game.

[MarkGrace]

Poor Felix.