60-83, Chart

by Matthew on Sep 8, 2011 9:51 PM PDT in Seattle Mariners Game Recaps

The Mariner hitters swung and missed 21 times, which is atrocious, but it's great to see another home run from Ichiro Suzuki and finally a home run from Justin Smoak, his first since like June something and clearly the biggest play of the game when it broke a 1-1 tie in the 6th inning. Jason Vargas didn't have an extraordinary game, but more the type of game that he needs to have more often to be his usual roughly league average self. Well done by the bullpen though, covering the final three innings with little trouble to secure the win and bring the Mariners one win closer to avoiding a 100-loss season.

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Winning is fun

イチロー!

by Slow Country on Sep 8, 2011 10:01 PM PDT reply actions

Perez

by FaceRuiner on Sep 8, 2011 10:19 PM PDT reply actions 1 recs

That was about as quiet as I've ever experienced Safeco

I’d estimate about 3-4K at first pitch. You could hear nearly every word of the broadcast (from the concourse) down in the field level seats. And Mike Carp tossed me a foul ball! and acknowledged our love on a few occasions. I still have no idea why he was in left field, but at least he was interacting with the crowd.

by Astrobiology on Sep 8, 2011 10:46 PM PDT reply actions 1 recs

Lookout below, baseball!

by MilesC on Sep 8, 2011 11:00 PM PDT reply actions

Solid writeup, gives a good feel for the game.

Flipping back and forth between the Saints-Packers, baseball gamee seeming to go by really quick, hey sweet Smoak blast. Game. Seems like it took a quarter and a half of time in football to play a whole baseball game.

Ready to Play

by tsunamijesus on Sep 8, 2011 11:18 PM PDT reply actions

Just watched that Smoak homerun and man was I happy to see him punish a pitch like that.

Obviously its late and the season and hot and cold streaks should be taken with a mighty large grain of salt, but still. Nobody in my mind needs to finish the year strong like Justin does especially with him missing what feels like half of the season.

Go get ’em Justin

"Tell my tale to those who ask. Tell it truly, the ill deeds along with the good and let me be judged accordingly. The rest is silence." ~ Dinobot

by beastwarking on Sep 8, 2011 11:32 PM PDT reply actions

Yeah, amen to that.

by Aussie Mariner on Sep 9, 2011 12:33 AM PDT up reply actions

Where's my goddamn League Woo?

by Breadbaker on Sep 9, 2011 12:20 AM PDT reply actions

Those are Jeff's "made with his loving hands" charts. These are Fangraphs'.

I don’t think Appleman is going to allow someone to add random comments to his site’s charts anytime soon.

Fans are typically idiots.

by The Typical Idiot Fan on Sep 9, 2011 2:00 AM PDT up reply actions

Ichiro golfs a 1st pitch curveball 10 rows back...

And some people still doubt he can hit home runs at will

by SmoakyCokey on Sep 9, 2011 5:48 AM PDT reply actions

I was surprised how confident I felt about Tom Wilhelmson pitching the 8th.

He’s starting to look like a real find. And it was nice to see Jason Vargas use his change-up effectively once again. Jamey Wright showed his best form as well.

A well-pitched game by the Ms with the pleasant excitement factor of the home-runs by Ichiro and Justin Smoak. For a bad team the 2011 Mariners have had their moments. This game wasn’t as thrilling or memorable as some, but it wasn’t bad.

ignacio

by ignacio on Sep 9, 2011 7:10 AM PDT reply actions