Now that I actually have a free day, let's do a live-blog. Today's matchup:
Greg Smith versus Ryan Rowland-Smith.
The Mariners must finish 17-19 to avoid the ignominious distinction of being the first team to lose 100 games with a $100 million payroll. Sounds fun.
Lineup:
Ichiro!--RF
Cairo--1B (puke)
Ibanez--LF
Beltre--3B
Lopez--2B
Balentien--CF
Johjima--C (?)
Clement--DH (?)
Betancourt--SS
My beer of choice tonight is Henry Weihnard's Blue Boar. Hardly a great beer, but it's cheap and goes down easy. The Mariners don't deserve quality beer anyway.
Top of 1st
7:10 Here we go. Beer #1. Mark Ellis fouls out to Miguel fuckin' Cairo. Bobby Crosby grounds out to Beltre.
7:14 RR-S cruises through the first after only 9 pitches. I thought the A's were supposed to be selfish walk machines who take a lot of selfish, lazy walks?
Bottom of 1st
7:16 I'll take this minute to talk about Greg Smith a bit, using the awesome Fangraphs. He doesn't really miss bats and gives up a lot of home runs and line drives depsite being the beneficiary of a .256 BABIP. In other words, he'll throw a 2-hitter against the M's tonight.
7:20 And as I type that, he strikes out Ibanez. Awesome.
Top of 2nd
7:23 Frank Thomas is not immune to the charms of the Aussie.
7:25 Kurt Suzuki, unfortunately, is.
7:28 Cust draws a walk, and RRS is in trouble early.
7:29 Dear God, this beer sucks. That's 7 bucks I'll never get back.
7:32 RRS escapes the inning with a strikeout. This inning has been brought to you by Foster's, possibly the only beer that tastes worse than what I'm having right now. Well, except for Budweiser.
Bottom of 2nd
7:37 Beltre comes within inches of a home run. Whee!
7:41 I've got pizza on the way. Anything to take away the taste of fermented dog piss in my mouth.
7:42 Balentien takes a walk? That sound you hear is the locust horde approaching.
7:44 Annnnd Johjima grounds into a double-play. Whatever I'm feeling right now is the opposite of surprise.
Top of 3rd
7:50 Rowland-Smith is up to 51 pitches already? Oh yeah, there was a double play.
Bottom of 3rd
7:55 Rick Rizzs, the M's radio broadcaster, is still expressing amazement that Yuniesky Betancourt actually walked a couple games ago--and so am I, frankly. He has 9 this year. That's right, n-i-n-e.
7:56 Ichiro!
7:59 The rally fizzles out, and I'm stepping out for a smoke. Be back in 5.
Top of 4th
8:05 Looks like I missed nothing. Well, except for Kurt Suzuki's hit. Pizza is here!
8:07 RRS is doing quite well tonight. A Cust strikeout ends the threat.
Bottom of 4th
8:13 Jose Lopez draws a rare walk. Do I smell a double play coming up?
8:17 Well, I was half-right. But with Johjima up, who knows?
8:19 And Wlad gets picked off first. Just another day of work for the Mariners.
Top of 5th
8:22 Adrian Beltre continues to be awesome.
Bottom of 5th
8:29 What happens when you get one of the league's worst offenses facing off against another of the league's worst offenses? You get a really fucking boring game. Beer #3.
Top of 6th
8:33 Emil Brown single-handedly ends this scoreless tie. 1-0 A's. Blah, need more beer.
8:34 Holy shit, something actually happened in this game. Frank Thomas gets the boot for arguing a strike call.
8:41 At 95 pitches, Rowland-Smith has probably thrown his last inning.
Bottom of 6th
8:43 Ichiro!
8:44 I hate you Miguel Fucking Cairo. I hate you so much.
8:49 Yet another potential rally fizzles. I'm sensing a pattern here.
Top of 7th
8:52 RRS is still pitching? Color me surprised. Sean Green and Cesar Jimenez up in the pen.
8:59 Nice catch, Cairo. I still hate you.
9:02 RRS escapes the inning with a strikeout, making that 6, and he's certainly done for the night. This was a pretty damn good performance, the home-run notwithstanding. For a guy who wasn't in the Mariners' long-term plans at the beginning of the season, Ryan Rowland-Smith is making it extremely hard for them to keep him out of the rotation in '09.
Bottom of 7th
9:12 Nothing happened this inning. Moving on.
Top of 8th
9:12 Sean Green in. Nothing happened again.
Bottom of 8th
9:22 Dear God, please just end this game quickly and painlessly.
9:27 Is something happening? Two runners on for Beltre.
9:29 Never mind. Back to the hammock.
Top of 9th
9:33 Jeremy Reed, who pinch-hit in the 8th, is in at first base.
9:37 Jimenez in for Green. Why the fuck is Reed playing first again?
9:39 A's now up 2-0, an insurmountable lead for the M's.
9:41 Lopez, Balentien and Johjima up in the bottom half. Bring on the Rally Fries! (Don't really bring on the Rally Fries).
Bottom of 9th
9:44 Lopez gets gift-wrapped an infield hit, and Bryan LaHair is pinch-hitting for Wlad.
9:46 The game now rests in Tug Hulett's hands. Man, we are screwed.
9:48 Now it is in Clement's hands.
9:50 Now it is in Betancourt's hands.
9:52 Story of my life. Betancourt grounds into a double play.
Final Score: Oakland 2, Seattle 0
I'm going to drink more now.
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