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| the celebration! (from Larry Stone's blog |
on the mound
Felix definitely wasn't Felix tonight (112P - 6IP - 12H - 7R - 2BB - 6K)
But, in comes the 'pen (Laffey, Wilhelmsen, Lueke) adding another THREE scoreless innings to give the bats a chance. And guess what? It worked! Turns out it wasn't a "Happy Felix" day but, it was truly an Merry Mariners Day!
at the plate
The game was certainly not without it's frustration...
~ bases loaded in the 1st and the 3rd = NO runs
~ two on in the 4th = NO runs
~ two-out double in the 5th = NO runs
And then, things started to turn...
~ none on, Milton homer in the 7th = ONE run
~ bases loaded in the 8th, walk + walk + walk + Smoak single = FIVE runs (one-run game)
Could it be?!?
~ lead-off Saunders double in the 9th + sac bunt + IBB + Luis GWH = TWO runs
New deal...
~ patience? from the M's? They saw a total of 214 pitches from the Jays staff, translating to ELEVEN walks!
~ M's now with 41 total walks - good enough for THIRD in the MAJORS in that category!
of base paths and leather works
Not the prettiest of games...
~ a botched run down that resulted in a SB
~ Figgy had to leave the game with a wrist contusion sustained diving for a ground ball
~ Little flairs were dropping in instead of being caught (Smoak with an error on a dropped fly ball)
But also...
~ ONE double-play
~ THREE stolen bases
Prior to this game, I had decided I would trade in a couple of my weekend tix to get one really good one for tomorrow night ~ Michael Pineda's debut! After this thrilling, victory I'm thinking there will be quite the buzz about the place come 7pm .... can't wait!
lol, I was just about to check some of the highlights from this game when I noticed the M's were the only home team (of 10 games) to win their game!
ReplyDeleteThere has to be a record in there somewhere!