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by Jeff Sullivan on Aug 31, 2005 10:32 PM PDT in Seattle Mariners Regular News

Moving sucks. No huge recaps until the process is complete. Eight baserunners and two runs in eight innings against the Yankees for Felix? You take that every day and twice on Sunday, and hope that your lineup is able to figure out whichever clown they toss out there on the mound to start the game. Tonight, that clown was Randy Johnson, and the Mariners understandably didn't get too far. So it goes.

Biggest Contribution: Felix Hernandez, +10.2%
Biggest Suckfest: Mike Morse, -18.3%
Most Important "Hit": Morse fly out, -10.7%
Most Important Pitch: Cano homer, -12.7%
Total Contribution by Pitcher(s): +13.9%
Total Contribution by Hitters: -65.5%

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Once again, if you watched or were in attendance, share your thoughts below. Day game tomorrow, as Joel Pineiro faces off against the tattered remains of the tattered remains of Jaret Wright.

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In attendance

Good to get to see Felix in person and it was a close game, but the lack of offense was just so heart breaking. And when you bring the tieing (spell?) run to the plate in the 9th with your supposed power hitter up, and he strikes out on the high cheese, you just shake your head. It's sad how bad this offense is. This team needs rotation help but it also needs a big bat or a solid #2 man (because it's not Lopez, Strong or even Reed)

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by phil333 on Aug 31, 2005 11:19 PM PDT reply actions

at the game...

I was at the game and had seats about 20 rows behind home plate. From what I could see it seemed like the umps strike zone was all over the place and Randy was getting the benefit of the doubt every time (as opposed to Felix). Maybe someone watching on TV could tell me if this was the case. Despite the lack of control, I don't think anyone can complain with Felix's performance against the Yankees lineup. Also, I'm not sure how silly Morse looked on TV on Sheff's hit, but when he first hit from where I was sitting, it looked crush. So I guess combined with the jitters, it wasn't as bad as it looked.

by cookiemonster on Aug 31, 2005 11:35 PM PDT reply actions

Ump...

Was definitely inconsistent. I ended up turning it off, I was so frustrated.

I love RJ, and seeing him in Yankee pins is horrible for me. Watching him demolish our weak lineup didn't surprise me, and, although I feel bad for Felix, it was a very solid performance on his end, too. I figured we'd take the loss.

We do need pitching, sure, but we also desperately need 2-3 more solid OPS bats! No more of this .700 OPS garbage.

Go M's! Take Out Texas! If not then The Lame List should do.

by PositivePaul on Aug 31, 2005 11:39 PM PDT up reply actions

No wonder the comments were down

we were all there! Myself included.

I was 4 rows back in section 150 right in the left field corner.The Morse play was bad.He completely misread the ball.We all laughed at him, but being its just his 2nd start out there you cant blame too much.

Randy put alot of emotion into this game.You could tell he wanted to step in up a little in front of the Seattle crowd.

Even though the offense lost the game it was still an awsome one. 2 runs, 4 hits, and 7 k's against the Yankee lineup, which is probably the best lineup in baseball besides the Red Sox.The King proved himself tonight.

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by Goose on Aug 31, 2005 11:43 PM PDT reply actions

I was at the game too!

I was up in the upper deck, and could hardly see whether the balls thrown were strikes or balls. But, alot of calls by the ump against the M's batters were awful. The ball called a strike on Sexson was even from where I was sitting, shin high, barely off the ground. Even from the upper deck of the stadium I could tell.

Nonetheless, Felix had an awesome game. He couldn't find his control for whatever reason all night long, but he still dominated the Yankees lineup. Was a great game. Would've been better if the offense could give him a W.

by BeltredNOT on Sep 1, 2005 12:10 AM PDT reply actions

One thing I gotta say though.

I'm highly dissappointed in Mariner fans.

Even though it was a packed house, there didnt seem to be much energy in the game.There was some every time Felix got 2 strikes, but beyond that, not so much.For a spectacular pitchers duel such as that, I expected alot more.

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by Goose on Sep 1, 2005 1:02 AM PDT reply actions

I was rather surprised myself

In the left field bleachers, I sat next to two diehard Mariner fans, with a family of four in front of me, and a couple Yankee fans on my right. I'm not a very animated fan, and even I was making more noise than most of the fans around me. However, many of the people in front of me were families as well, and such fans are usually casual. If you never score or take the lead, casual fans usually stay quiet in their seats. The dad in front of me was probably more vocal than everyone else.

I think the problem was the intimidating sea of Yankee fans. Word on the street is that fans come out to see the M's play the Yanks. True... YANKEE fans come out to see the Yankees. The frontrunning bitches are EVERYWHERE in America. In fact, come to think of it I have an idea why the diehard fans on my left were so quiet: everyone for three or four rows of the section next to us were loud, obnoxious Yankee fans. I suppose the guys next to me were a bit intimidated.

by Gomez on Sep 1, 2005 9:13 AM PDT up reply actions

VOTE FOR FELIX!

There wasn't energy because there was nothing exciting going on. That's the problem with well-pitched games. I noticed it too. Even the Yankees fans didn't seem to be too into it, and this was a sellout hyped game.

I was in Terrace Club for part of the game and in the lower right field seats for part of it. The ump was definitely DEAD inconsistent -- the funniest part was when he called a Thornton breaking ball a strike, which he had called a ball for Felix in the same spot every single time.

It's good that we were all at the game. The fact that Felix's starts are getting more attendance will hopefully send the message to the front office that getting great starting pitching will put a lot more butts in seats at Safeco, when we feel like we have something to watch.

by Deanna on Sep 1, 2005 2:51 AM PDT reply actions

From the game

Any attempts to file out of the stadium in a somewhat orderly fashion after the game were thwarted by pushy a**holes in Yankee caps shoving past queues of people clearly moving in one direction, and then just STANDING THERE and holding everyone up. Go back to New York. Or at least don't come to Safeco anymore. You make Yankee fans look bad. The ones I sat with were nice people, but the ones I tried and failed to file past have an attitude problem.

I can tell you that at least 10,000 people in that sellout crowd were Yankee fans. I mentioned it in a post above but I had Yankee fans on my right and entire rows of seats were taken by boisterous Yankee fans. Many Mariner fans found their presence kind of intimidating and that's probably why they weren't as loud as usual.

I'd be remiss not to mention the new (? stop me if they've done it before) It's Raining Men routine by the dancing dirtpushers. They did it Tuesday night and last night. I liked the old MYMYMYMYMY BOOGIE SHOES routine, but I like that song by the Weather Girls so I must call it an upgrade.

OH YEAH, the game. I was just as unhappy as anyone about the biased strike zone, where Randy was getting called strikes on pitches at the shins while Felix wasn't getting belt high strikes over the plate called. And Lopez got screwed on that 'force out' at 2nd to end the 7th: he was safe by at least a foot. But in the end, the M's failure was in their lack of aggressive hitting. Felix made no excuses and save for the two homers, he still got guys out. The Mariner hitters just sit on too many pitches, and if Don Baylor's telling them to roost and wait for their pitch, then he needs to be canned because that approach has in large part caused our team's struggles at the plate. Once they realized they weren't getting the calls, the M's needed to swing at those borderline pitches.

Think about it. Felix gave up two solo bombs, a few walks via a crap strike zone, nothing else, and he lost because we couldn't get more than four hits against a fortysomething power pitcher with an ERA in the 4's and a crap defense behind him.

And Richie needs to lose the dye job. Yikes. Aliens can see his hair in space. Recolor the hair, Richie. We don't need aliens mistaking you for an interplanetary war device.

Whatever offense we didn't see will probably be seen tonight with Joel vs Jaret. We saw two runs total last night. We'll probably see two runs in the top of the 1st.

by Gomez on Sep 1, 2005 10:01 AM PDT reply actions

Yankee fans

Yeah I generally have alot of trouble with them when I got to yanks-M's games.They definitly are obnoxious little bastards.But luckily this time I only had a few by my area.Although after the Cano homer one said something about "Hey this Felix isn't so good, "King my ass". I just rolled my eyes and ignored his ignorance.

Didnt see the Lopez play at second, was in the bathroom.

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by Goose on Sep 1, 2005 10:17 AM PDT up reply actions

The can

Man, I forgot it was a sellout crowd, and thus the lines for every restroom were LONG. Usually you can time it right and catch a restroom with empty urinals, but not when the Yanks are in town.

by Gomez on Sep 1, 2005 1:03 PM PDT up reply actions