Blue Jays at Mariners May 19th-20th Series Preview

[Igoe4Mariners]

One of the season's biggest surprises so far, the Toronto Blue Jays (24-17) ride into Seattle after having gone 12-5 so far in the month of May. They are backed by one of the game's best young offenses, led by Blue Jay mainstay Vernon Wells. He is batting .316 and has cranked 11 homers so far this season. Their pitching has been a little below average, but their top AL offense carries them to victories.

The Mariners (14-25) are on a different end of the spectrum with their offensive offense. It ranks at the bottom of the AL, but even when they do manage to get 4 or 5 runs a game, the bullpen has blown most opportunities to win. It has been a depressing season so far to Seattle fans, and most are starting to lose all hope. The Mariners desperately need some wins on this upcoming homestand to keep the fans into the season. Whether they will actually come through or not remains to be seen, but so far in 2010 the Mariners haven't been coming through when they need to at all.

Pitching Matchups:
Brett Cecil, LHP (2-2, 5.46) vs. Doug Fister, RHP (3-1, 1.72)
Ricky Romero, LHP (4-1, 2.88) vs. Jason Vargas, LHP (3-2, 2.93)


Once again, I like the pitching matchups. However, with the way we're going right now I'm predicting a sweep by Toronto and we get closer to being sellers at the trade deadline. I sure hope I'm wrong.

[Jared]

I won't hear the end of this if the Jays win, and especially if Vernon Wells does any damage. I like the Fister matchup, but Romero is a tough guy to beat. His changeup is unreal. C'maaaan M's!

[Jared]

Of course the M's lose game one of the series and only manage two runs on 10 hits. Facing Romero today will only be more difficult too.

Also, that Morrow-for-League continues to look terrible. I didn't like it from the beginning.

[JosephC]

And the Chone Figgins signing also looks pretty bad. Need him to hit leadoff and send him back to 3rd to make him his old self. It just might work.

[Igoe4Mariners]

Jr. comes through and the Mariners earn a split. Hopefully this win gets us rolling in the right direction. That was good to see.

[Jared]

WOOOO Griff with the walk-off! This could be exactly what the doctor ordered, maybe this can give the M's the confidence they've been looking for. I certianly hope so.


As for Figgins, he looks least comfortable at the dish out of all of them imo. He's trying to hard to earn walks instead of looking for anything to hit. I hope he comes around soon, they were expecting big things from him.

[JosephC]

And Don Wakamatsu finally got himself ejected. About time lol. If you missed it, they have a video on Mariners.com. Search Don Wakamatsu.

[Jared]

And Don Wakamatsu finally got himself ejected. About time lol. If you missed it, they have a video on Mariners.com. Search Don Wakamatsu.

Wow, I didn't think it really deserved an injection haha.

Here's the video: http://mlb.mlb.com/video/play.jsp?content_id=8190965

[clarknova]

Thanks for the link! I was looking for that. That was hilarious. He probably paid the ump: "Hey, we suck, so I was thinking it would be really good for the guys if you throw me out. You know, get em' all riled up! So, I'll come out here and scream my top secret sloppy joe recipe at you, then you toss me! You get the recipe, I show the guys I'm not actually a "pensive manager" mannequin!"

Remember Bob Melvin? He always looked to me like he was about to start crying. There would be a close play at first and his lips would purse and he'd get a look on his face like my daughter does when she want's to tell on my son, but not get in trouble for taddling.

Nice to see some emotion!

The Griff with the walk off single! Please don't let him DH tomorrow because of it!!!

[JosephC]

HAHA! That brings memories back of my FAVORITE commercial.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZG34Nm3Q9U

[Igoe4Mariners]

At least we earned a split...sweet sig Jared.