g25 | a little of this and a little of that...

Mariners 10 | Tigers 1


Oooookie dooooookie.....
We have waited a long time for THIS and THAT!

PAUL SANCYA / AP

By THIS I mean seeing Erik do something he had't done since July 7, 2009 - start and WIN a major leagued baseball game for the Seattle Mariners.

And, by THAT I mean seeing Erik do something he had't done since May 5, 2009 - pitch 7 full innings in a major league baseball game for the Seattle Mariners.

And, Erik did both THIS and THAT about as efficiently as possible - needing only 88 pitches to get through 7 innings, giving up only 5 hits, 1 run and ZERO walks.

Wedge said....

"They were aggressive against him, but if he's not making pitches, it's a different ballgame," Wedge said. "He was making pitches."

Bravo, Mr. Bedard.  Bravo.

And guess what?  We still get to talk about the OFFENSE...
for a change, it wasn't ..... offensive!  I can actually use adjectives such as:  effective, productive, substantive, redemptive, impressive, extensive ... okay, I've run out of " 'ive's" but you get the idea.

The only black hole was poor Brenden...
I really like him - well, as much as you can "like" (in a non-facebook way) someone you have never met.  I love his attitude, have since early ST.  He's very energetic and really accountable.

Okay, Jack Cust was a definitely black hole in his first four AB's....
He struck out not once, twice or thrice but - FOUR times!  Ay yi yi.  Luckily, he was FINALLY able to gain a bit of redemption with a one-out RBI double in the 9th - granted, 't would have been nice if he could have done it in one of our one-run games as opposed to one where we are leading by seven - but we'll take what we can get, when we can get it and hope he can build off each success.

But, I digress, this is supposed to be a focus on the positive (oh - another "ive!")
- 6 different players scored (4 more than once)
- 6 different players had hits (4 had more than one)
- 6 different players recorded RBI (sweet Justin with FIVE of his own!)
- 4 different players walked (Justin did it twice)
Talk about spreading out the production!

So, speaking of Justin....
It does a person good to see a player with such a heavy heart pouring every ounce of energy and emotion into his team and into his performance - another homer and 5 RBI (he now has 4 homers on the season - 2 from the left and 2 from the right).  You can just feel the honor he holds for his dearly departed father - he played for him while he was alive and he honors him in death.

and then there's Figgy and Miggy!
Is it really possible they are comin' 'round?!?  Not to make excuses for them, but it really does seem that over the past week to ten days they have both hit the ball hard - either right AT a fielder or in the vicinity of a fielder who made an AWESOME play to get the out.  I'll choose to take these last two games as good signs for the Fig and the Mig.


So, tomorrow is Merry Michael Day...
Dare we dream of clean floors and bristles and sticks and the things upon which witches fly?

Ah, what the heck!