Seattle (54-51) at Kansas City (41-64)

slaterbug · Post #1 » by **slaterbug** » Tue Aug 4, 2009 11:12 pm

Tue, Aug 4, 8:10 pm EDT: Ryan Rowland-Smith (1-1, 3.12) vs Luke Hochevar (6-4, 5.28)
Wed, Aug 5, 8:10 pm EDT: Luke French (1-2, 3.38) vs. Kyle Davies (3-7, 5.76)
Thu, Aug 6, 8:10 pm EDT: Jason Vargas (3-5, 4.71) vs. Bruce Chen (0-6, 5.73)

slaterbug · Post #2 » by **slaterbug** » Tue Aug 4, 2009 11:13 pm

I think we have a very good chance of sweeping the Royals. With Beltre coming back from injury I think it's about time our offense fired up a bit!

Go M's!!

TTown · Post #3 » by **TTown** » Tue Aug 4, 2009 11:44 pm

Ha, I think we posted these threads at about the same time. Hopefully it's just the intangible we need for a sweep.

nuke the whales · Post #4 » by **nuke the whales** » Wed Aug 5, 2009 4:15 am

Not only did we win a series opener, but we scored 7 runs, got 8 hits from our 6-9 hitters, and a scoreless inning from Batista.

TTown · Post #5 » by **TTown** » Wed Aug 5, 2009 4:35 am

I fear the universe may implode upon itself.

HeavyP · Post #6 » by **HeavyP** » Wed Aug 5, 2009 4:13 pm

And this is the first day we've gained a game on the Angels since July 17th.

Post #7 » by **Bulltalk** » Wed Aug 5, 2009 6:30 pm

HeavyP wrote:And this is the first day we've gained a game on the Angels since July 17th.

It certainly felt like that. But to actually see the fact of that date is a bit eye opening. That's going on three weeks without a day where we won, and they lost.

nuke the whales · Post #8 » by **nuke the whales** » Wed Aug 5, 2009 6:37 pm

What a difference having Beltre, Wilson, and Johjima vs Hannahan, Cedeno, and Johnson makes in the lineup. Lost in the Wash trade is that we have one less starter who has to have Rob catching for him. Now if we can just get Saunders hitting, Griffey benched and Carp brought back up, we'd have an entire lineup hitting over .250.

nuke the whales · Post #9 » by **nuke the whales** » Wed Aug 5, 2009 6:55 pm

While we're at it, let's do a little player comparison.

Player Avg OBP Slg
Player A .239 .293 .370
Player B .221 .330 .395
Player C .231 .333 .400

Player A is Mike Sweeney
Player B is Ken Griffey Jr.
Player C is ... Ryan Langerhans??

DH has been killing us all season, so why isn't Shelton or Carp or even Adam Moore up here playing DH?

slaterbug · Post #10 » by **slaterbug** » Wed Aug 5, 2009 9:21 pm

TTown wrote:Ha, I think we posted these threads at about the same time. Hopefully it's just the intangible we need for a sweep.

I hope so

slaterbug · Post #11 » by **slaterbug** » Wed Aug 5, 2009 9:22 pm

Ichiro is so good, that catch was amazing.

slaterbug · Post #12 » by **slaterbug** » Thu Aug 6, 2009 2:48 am

The M's offense is coming alive! 11 runs through 7 innings.

Post #13 » by **Sweezo** » Thu Aug 6, 2009 2:49 am

Anyone see that run Jack Wilson created off the Rob Johnson double? Great baserunning, great slide...something we NEVER saw from our last shortstop. Wilson's just enough of a hitter to be entertaining.

Bay_Areas_Finest · Post #14 » by **Bay_Areas_Finest** » Thu Aug 6, 2009 12:58 pm

Yeah, I've become a pretty big fan of Wilson. He's a pretty good hitter that knows what hes doing up there at the plate, and he's just a smart ballplayer. That bunt and then run scored was terrific.

Playing the Royals is nice too.

Was hoping for more out of French, but oh well. He couldn't locate at all.

Post #15 » by **BlackMamba** » Thu Aug 6, 2009 2:50 pm

pretty good offensive games!!!

jumanji · Post #16 » by **jumanji** » Thu Aug 6, 2009 6:22 pm

Seeing some nice production from the bottom of the order. It was pretty dismal there for awhile.

slaterbug · Post #17 » by **slaterbug** » Fri Aug 7, 2009 11:51 am

Losing to Chen is embarrassing.

TTown · Post #18 » by **TTown** » Sat Aug 8, 2009 12:39 am

With the way the offense has smacked the ball around in KC, I thought the sweep was inevitable. Chen hadn't won since 2005??