Saturday, July 31, 2004
HAY-LOW
Time for a completely detached, from-the-boxscore-and-play-by-play version of the recap that I totally fell asleep on last night. Why detached? Watched my pa play two-plus hours of music when I thought he was doing just one. One more hour and it would have been rarefied Springsteen territory.
The rookies drew first blood for the Mariners in the second, as Bucky Jacobsen hit a one-out double, and crossed the plate two hitters later on a Justin Leone single to make it 1-0 Mariners.
The 1-0 lead last all of three batters, as Gil Meche thought to himself "I hate pitching with leads," and allowed a Jose Guillen single, a Darin Erstad infield single, and a Robb Quinlan (man, this guy's been ripping the cover off the ball) three-run homer to make it 3-1 Angels. In the bottom of the 3rd, Meche got out of a two-on-one-out situation by inducing a fielders' choice from Vlad Guerrero and catching Guillen looking.
Seattle chipped at the lead in the 4th. Randy Winn led off with a double, was advanced to third on a deep fly ball to center from Bret Boone, and scored on a Raul Ibanez groundout (with authority) to make it 3-2 Angels. In the bottom of the 4th, Erstad led off with a double and later stole third, but never scored.
The Mariners had somewhat of a scoring chance in the 5th, when Scott Spiezio led off with a walk. He stole second with Justin Leone at the plate. Leone whiffed, but Dan Wilson and Willie Bloomquist were due up behind him. Enough said.
Jose Guillen led off the 6th with a home run on the first pitch to make it 4-2 Angels. Meche managed to not lose his mind, and whiffed Erstad, got Quinlan to ground out, and whiffed Molina.
The Mariners mounted an unlikely comeback against Francisco Rodriguez. Dan Wilson led off with a single and Miguel Olivo pinch-ran for him. Edgar flew out, then Ichiro walked. Randy Winn singled to score Olivo and bring the Mariners within one (4-3). Boone whiffed (2nd out) and Ibanez walked to lead the bases. Bucky Jacobsen roped the next pitch into leftfield to score Ichiro and Winn to get the Mariners the lead, 5-4.
George Sherrill had pitched a scoreless 7th for the Mariners, and came on in the 8th. Garret Anderson singled on the first pitch, and Sherrill was yanked in favor of JJ Putz. Putz immediately got Vlad to pop out to Spiezio in foul ground, and whiffed Jose Guillen. Smooth sailing, right? Runner on first, two out, with Erstad, Tim Salmon, and Bengie Molina coming to the plate should be easy, right? Putz fell behind 3-0 to Erstad before he walked him on a 3-1 count. Salmon only fouled off one pitch before he got beaned. Bengie Molina singled on his second pitch to score Garret and Erstad to give the Angels the 6-5 lead. Mike Myers and Shigetoshi Hasegawa came on to get the final out. Why two pitchers? Myers beaned his only batter (Adam Kennedy).
Troy Percival pitched for the Angels in the 9th.
Gameball: Bucky Jacobsen. 2-for-4 with 2 RBI, on the clutch 2-out single to get the Mariners the lead. Five of Bucky's 10 RBI have occurred with two outs.
Goat: Raul Ibanez. 0-for-3, stranding one. It had to be somebody, and Raul's gotten the goat before, so let's get him another one. There was no clear-cut goat tonight in the lineup. It was Raul or Ichiro tonight, but Ichiro just had that big long streak (21 games) end, etc.
Did I make the deadline?
Blackley. Escobar. Two hours.
The rookies drew first blood for the Mariners in the second, as Bucky Jacobsen hit a one-out double, and crossed the plate two hitters later on a Justin Leone single to make it 1-0 Mariners.
The 1-0 lead last all of three batters, as Gil Meche thought to himself "I hate pitching with leads," and allowed a Jose Guillen single, a Darin Erstad infield single, and a Robb Quinlan (man, this guy's been ripping the cover off the ball) three-run homer to make it 3-1 Angels. In the bottom of the 3rd, Meche got out of a two-on-one-out situation by inducing a fielders' choice from Vlad Guerrero and catching Guillen looking.
Seattle chipped at the lead in the 4th. Randy Winn led off with a double, was advanced to third on a deep fly ball to center from Bret Boone, and scored on a Raul Ibanez groundout (with authority) to make it 3-2 Angels. In the bottom of the 4th, Erstad led off with a double and later stole third, but never scored.
The Mariners had somewhat of a scoring chance in the 5th, when Scott Spiezio led off with a walk. He stole second with Justin Leone at the plate. Leone whiffed, but Dan Wilson and Willie Bloomquist were due up behind him. Enough said.
Jose Guillen led off the 6th with a home run on the first pitch to make it 4-2 Angels. Meche managed to not lose his mind, and whiffed Erstad, got Quinlan to ground out, and whiffed Molina.
The Mariners mounted an unlikely comeback against Francisco Rodriguez. Dan Wilson led off with a single and Miguel Olivo pinch-ran for him. Edgar flew out, then Ichiro walked. Randy Winn singled to score Olivo and bring the Mariners within one (4-3). Boone whiffed (2nd out) and Ibanez walked to lead the bases. Bucky Jacobsen roped the next pitch into leftfield to score Ichiro and Winn to get the Mariners the lead, 5-4.
George Sherrill had pitched a scoreless 7th for the Mariners, and came on in the 8th. Garret Anderson singled on the first pitch, and Sherrill was yanked in favor of JJ Putz. Putz immediately got Vlad to pop out to Spiezio in foul ground, and whiffed Jose Guillen. Smooth sailing, right? Runner on first, two out, with Erstad, Tim Salmon, and Bengie Molina coming to the plate should be easy, right? Putz fell behind 3-0 to Erstad before he walked him on a 3-1 count. Salmon only fouled off one pitch before he got beaned. Bengie Molina singled on his second pitch to score Garret and Erstad to give the Angels the 6-5 lead. Mike Myers and Shigetoshi Hasegawa came on to get the final out. Why two pitchers? Myers beaned his only batter (Adam Kennedy).
Troy Percival pitched for the Angels in the 9th.
Gameball: Bucky Jacobsen. 2-for-4 with 2 RBI, on the clutch 2-out single to get the Mariners the lead. Five of Bucky's 10 RBI have occurred with two outs.
Goat: Raul Ibanez. 0-for-3, stranding one. It had to be somebody, and Raul's gotten the goat before, so let's get him another one. There was no clear-cut goat tonight in the lineup. It was Raul or Ichiro tonight, but Ichiro just had that big long streak (21 games) end, etc.
Did I make the deadline?
Blackley. Escobar. Two hours.
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