Mariners at Athletics Game Thread-4/7/10

[Igoe4Mariners]

Ryan Rowland Smith vs. Justin Duchscherer

The Lineups:
Seattle:
Ichiro
Figgins
Kotchman
Bradley
Griffey
Lopez
Gutierrez
Johnson
Wilson

Oakland:
Davis
Ellis
Sweeney
Kouzmanoff
Suzuki
Barton
Fox
Buck
Pennington

[worldwideed]

Good a righty, look for the Ms to be running again.

[JosephC]

I like the order better in this lineup than last nights (obvious due to having a lefty on the mound last night). This should be good to watch even though I will only catch small amounts of the game tonight.

[Igoe4Mariners]

I'm guessing Sweeney will get into the lineup tomorrow against a lefty (Anderson). I'm ready to see him in the lineup.

[JosephC]

If he's not in the lineup tomorrow, I'm gonna start wondering what's up. He should have been in the lineup yesterday IMO.

[Igoe4Mariners]

I agree JC.

[JosephC]

I dont have the live tv in front of me. What did Bradley do?

[Igoe4Mariners]

Now that was great to see. Way to go Milton. 2-0 Mariners.

[Igoe4Mariners]

I dont have the live tv in front of me. What did Bradley do?

Hit a two run bomb.

[worldwideed]

Now that he has a hit maybe he'll relax a little, he looked so tense up there in previous ABs.

[worldwideed]

Reminds me of the Figgins steals from Monday.

[JosephC]

Now I got to a TV I saw Hyphen nail a batter and give up a couple hits. Not impressed thus far.

How far was Bradley's shot. Did it go way out or just over?

[worldwideed]

How they only scored 1 after all that I'll never know.

[Igoe4Mariners]

RRS has to get better to save our bullpen.

[worldwideed]

Nice catch, I hate to say.

[JosephC]

Havent been watching closely. Is Hyphenator holding up fine?

[worldwideed]

He was brilliant in the second but not so much in the third.

[Igoe4Mariners]

Hyphen is struggiling, but keeping us in it. 59 pitches through 3 innings. 2-2.

[JosephC]

Wow, way too high of a pitch count.

[Igoe4Mariners]

Duke getting into a roll now. Offense looks like crap to be honest outside of the Milton homer.

[Igoe4Mariners]

3-2 A's. RRS getting hit hard.

[JosephC]

Ichiro error. Defense looks like crap too lol from what I've seen.

[Igoe4Mariners]

Yeah not exactly playing well right now.

[Igoe4Mariners]

Runner on 2nd noone out...lets see if we can score him.
Rob K's. One out.

[Igoe4Mariners]

Jack Wilson knocks him in with an RBI single. 3-3.

[Igoe4Mariners]

Ichiro with a base knock...1st and 3rd with one out for Chone Figgins.

[JosephC]

Who said Jack Wilson can't hit once in awhile?! Right on.

[Igoe4Mariners]

Figgy with a sacrifice fly...4-3 Mariners.

[Igoe4Mariners]

Rowland-Smith gives up a leadoff single. This will most likely be his last inning.

[Igoe4Mariners]

Bases loaded. One out. Daric Barton up.

[Igoe4Mariners]

Sac fly. 2 down. 4 to 4 now. RRS escapes further damage and we go to the sixth with a brand new ball game.

Ryan Rowland-Smith needs to be better than that if we're going to go anywhere this year. Hopefully he was just getting the first game jitters out of the way tonight.

[Igoe4Mariners]

As much as I love Junior, he is a huge hole in our lineup. I want to see what Sweeney can do.

[Igoe4Mariners]

Guti is clutch!

[JosephC]

Rob Johnson strikes out. Who is hitting best for this club so far this year?

[Igoe4Mariners]

Rob Johnson strikes out. Who is hitting best for this club so far this year?

I would say Guti as of now. Although Bradley does a great job of getting on base via the walk.

[Igoe4Mariners]

5-5 going to the eighth. Where have I seen this before? A close game coming down to the wire is very rare for these M's...not.

[JosephC]

Last time it bit us in the butt. Let's not let that happen this game. Lets take the lead in the 8th or 9th here.

[Igoe4Mariners]

Not good...

[Igoe4Mariners]

Nasty stuff from Lowe...to the 9th we go.

[JosephC]

I dont like extra innings while being the visiting team. Always a disadvantage.

Crap and we used up our 1, 2 punch. I dont like this at all.

[Igoe4Mariners]

I dont like extra innings while being the visiting team. Always a disadvantage.

Crap and we used up our 1, 2 punch. I dont like this at all.

Yeah, this doesn't look good.

[JosephC]

if we go to another inning, who will we see on the mound I wonder? Aardsma had a day off.

Edit: We lose. This is just starting to suck. Last year we win every game we play within 1 run. This year we lose every game by 1 run.

[Igoe4Mariners]

Two terrible losses in a row. We'll get killed tomorrow, Anderson vs. Fister...yuck.

[worldwideed]

Not to be negative but this is exactly why I put us 3rd in my preseason prediction. After winning 32 one runners last year it's bound to even out some this year. Too early to panic but still hard to watch that on back to back nights against OAKLAND of all freakin' teams.