Tuesday, September 06, 2011

g141 | Happy Felix Day!

Mariners 2 | Angels 1

For starters, Felix made mince meat of "the starters" (retired all 8 lead-off batters he faced).
He recorded 13 ground ball outs to 5 fly ball outs to 7 strikeouts

All three runs of the game were UNearned...
  • Justin singled in the second inning and two errors and a sac-fly later he scored.  Then in the Kyle got aboard via an error in the fourth inning, stole 2B, moved to 3B on a Robinson single and scored on a fielder's choice by Michael Saunders (welcome back, Michael!). 
  • The Halos run came after Felix, uncharacteristically, botched a bunt play which allowed Hunter to get to 2B and, later in the inning, Cayaspo singled to drive in Hunter. 
Once again, they had no problem gettin' 'em on...
  • Ichiro, another hit (39 from 200)
  • Dustin, Justin and Miggy each with two (Dustin, his SEVENTH triple, the only M's extra-base hit) 
  • Trayvon and Kyle each with one hit, and an RBI and run, respecitively
  • Ichiro, Kyle and Dustin each with a stolen base (Kyle's his first in the bigs)
but NOT so good at gettin' 'em in...
only TWO for FOURTEEN - ey-yi-yi!

But hey, they scored the requisite ONE more run and played spoiler, at least for a night (as the Rangers won earlier) and Felix earned his 14th victory and Brandon his 33rd save.

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