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Really upset Iwakuma is doing so bad this year. I don't know if it's injuries or what but he obvious might not don't got it. I was hoping he was going to pull out a few good performances so we could trade him off before the trade deadline for a solid hitter and baserunner, but then he shit the bed. Fuck lol.
We need to put together a goddamned win streak for once this year. We get like 10 Wins in a row we're really doing something
We need to put together a goddamned win streak for once this year. We get like 10 Wins in a row we're really doing something
They need to shake the line up even more then what has been going on.
Trumbo should start tomorrow at DH or 1st. And hopefully we get some run support for king felix.
Trumbo should start tomorrow at DH or 1st. And hopefully we get some run support for king felix.
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Damnit we've been stuck in this bullshit bipolar W L W L W L W L W L bullshit for what seems like the entire season. Winners don't do this shit, winners get hot and go on streaks. We're doomed to mediocrity and disappointment 
Last night's game was epic, everyone gave up on Guti. I hope he can prove everyone wrong and remain healthy for some years to come.
Mariners are really fucking with me this year, especially recently. If we're capable of an epic comeback like lastnight, why the fuck can't we win 3 games in a row? We've got like a 12% chance of making it into the playoffs... but honestly getting there then losing would be worse than not getting there in the first place I think lol.
Ah well... not too long before Seahawks training camp starts up and Safeco is abandoned. Hopefully Jack Z gets fired before he tries to buy a bunch of players to save his ass.
Mariners are really fucking with me this year, especially recently. If we're capable of an epic comeback like lastnight, why the fuck can't we win 3 games in a row? We've got like a 12% chance of making it into the playoffs... but honestly getting there then losing would be worse than not getting there in the first place I think lol.
Ah well... not too long before Seahawks training camp starts up and Safeco is abandoned. Hopefully Jack Z gets fired before he tries to buy a bunch of players to save his ass.
Was really hoping the jays would whoop on felix or at least get a couple runs off your bullpen. Before that game (probably still after as well) Felix struggles against the Jays more than any other team (was about 4.5 career ERA).
Estrada didn't have his stuff and handing over the game to the Jays bullpen before the 7th is like a guaranteed loss.
Kyle Seagar is underrated.
Estrada didn't have his stuff and handing over the game to the Jays bullpen before the 7th is like a guaranteed loss.
Kyle Seagar is underrated.
was reading the paper this morning, felix hernandez said it was a trip last night cause it felt like he was playing in toronto lol. sold out crowd... the majority were blue-jay fans. its about that time of year all the casual mariner fans abandon ship and start following the seahawks
i dont see us beating the blue-jays again tonight, because we havent gotten 3 wins in a row for like 2 months or more lol. but who knows, J.A. Happ is on the mound and usually players do great against former teams
i dont see us beating the blue-jays again tonight, because we havent gotten 3 wins in a row for like 2 months or more lol. but who knows, J.A. Happ is on the mound and usually players do great against former teams
Felix Hernandez, Robinson Cano, Mark Trumbo and Carson Smith combined to lift the Mariners to a 5-2 victory over Toronto at Safeco Field.
By Jayson Jenks
Seattle Times staff reporter
For one night at Safeco Field, a place where they’ve struggled, the Mariners cast an image of what they could be, of what many thought they should be.
There was Felix Hernandez holding court on the mound to the tune of seven innings and two runs, only one earned. There was Robinson Cano driving in two runs with his first triple of the season. There was Mark Trumbo, the Mariners’ key midseason addition by way of trade, muscling a two-run homer.
It all added up to a 5-2 win against Toronto in front of a crowd of 43,328, many of whom were boisterous Blue Jays fans (“Today we played in Toronto,” Hernandez said. “We didn’t play in Seattle. Wow. That was unbelievable.”) And yet the night also underscored just how frustrating this season has been: The Mariners won their first back-to-back games since June 30 and July 1.
That was the longest such streak in the majors, and the Mariners played 18 games without stringing together two wins.
“The only significance is we’re starting to play the type of baseball that we’re capable of playing,” Mariners manager Lloyd McClendon said.
The reality is that the Mariners will have to play unbelievable baseball to get back into the thick of the playoff race. Friday’s win improved the Mariners’ record to 45-52. With 65 games left, they would have to go 45-20 (a .690 winning percentage) to reach 90 wins, although last year, it took 88 wins to make the playoffs in the American League and could take fewer this year. The St. Louis Cardinals are the best team in baseball with a .646 winning percentage.
Box score
But this game is what so many had in mind when the Mariners were picked as dark-horse candidates to go the World Series.
It wasn’t a great start for Hernandez. The first batter of the game, Jose Reyes, reached on a swinging-bunt single that turned into an extra base when Hernandez sailed the throw to first over Logan Morrison’s head.
Hernandez walked Jose Bautista later. With Reyes on third and one out, Edwin Encarnacion hit a weak grounder to Morrison. Morrison stared down the speedy Reyes at third, then casually turned to first for the out.
Reyes raced home for a run.
“He turned his back on a speedy runner, which is a mental mistake,” McClendon said. “You’ve got two choices: You can walk down the line and tag the guy, or you can just back up to the base and tag the base. But turning your back doesn’t work against a real fast guy.”
Hernandez went into lockdown mode from there, allowing just one single to the next 15 batters he faced.
“I was commanding the strike zone way better,” he said.
The offense got better, too.
In his 38th game with the Mariners after being acquired in a trade, Trumbo hit his third home run — a two-run shot that just cleared the right-field wall in the fourth inning.
And in the fifth inning, after Kyle Seager led off with a double and Nelson Cruz singled, Cano slashed a two-run triple into the gap to give the Mariners a 4-1 lead.
Cano also scored in the inning on a wild pitch with two outs after Seth Smith and Trumbo failed to deliver a hit or a sacrifice fly.
Hernandez gave up a solo home run to Bautista in the sixth inning and departed after seven, having struck out seven while giving up six hits.
There was plenty for optimists; Cruz had three hits, Cano delivered in the clutch, Mark Lowe and Carson Smith combined to pitch scoreless eighth and ninth innings. And there were still things to pick apart; the fact the Mariners still have so many teams to leap in the playoff hunt, for starters, and Brad Miller getting picked off at third with two outs in the fourth inning.
Either way, it was the kind of win the Mariners need more of going forward.
By Jayson Jenks
Seattle Times staff reporter
For one night at Safeco Field, a place where they’ve struggled, the Mariners cast an image of what they could be, of what many thought they should be.
There was Felix Hernandez holding court on the mound to the tune of seven innings and two runs, only one earned. There was Robinson Cano driving in two runs with his first triple of the season. There was Mark Trumbo, the Mariners’ key midseason addition by way of trade, muscling a two-run homer.
It all added up to a 5-2 win against Toronto in front of a crowd of 43,328, many of whom were boisterous Blue Jays fans (“Today we played in Toronto,” Hernandez said. “We didn’t play in Seattle. Wow. That was unbelievable.”) And yet the night also underscored just how frustrating this season has been: The Mariners won their first back-to-back games since June 30 and July 1.
That was the longest such streak in the majors, and the Mariners played 18 games without stringing together two wins.
“The only significance is we’re starting to play the type of baseball that we’re capable of playing,” Mariners manager Lloyd McClendon said.
The reality is that the Mariners will have to play unbelievable baseball to get back into the thick of the playoff race. Friday’s win improved the Mariners’ record to 45-52. With 65 games left, they would have to go 45-20 (a .690 winning percentage) to reach 90 wins, although last year, it took 88 wins to make the playoffs in the American League and could take fewer this year. The St. Louis Cardinals are the best team in baseball with a .646 winning percentage.
Box score
But this game is what so many had in mind when the Mariners were picked as dark-horse candidates to go the World Series.
It wasn’t a great start for Hernandez. The first batter of the game, Jose Reyes, reached on a swinging-bunt single that turned into an extra base when Hernandez sailed the throw to first over Logan Morrison’s head.
Hernandez walked Jose Bautista later. With Reyes on third and one out, Edwin Encarnacion hit a weak grounder to Morrison. Morrison stared down the speedy Reyes at third, then casually turned to first for the out.
Reyes raced home for a run.
“He turned his back on a speedy runner, which is a mental mistake,” McClendon said. “You’ve got two choices: You can walk down the line and tag the guy, or you can just back up to the base and tag the base. But turning your back doesn’t work against a real fast guy.”
Hernandez went into lockdown mode from there, allowing just one single to the next 15 batters he faced.
“I was commanding the strike zone way better,” he said.
The offense got better, too.
In his 38th game with the Mariners after being acquired in a trade, Trumbo hit his third home run — a two-run shot that just cleared the right-field wall in the fourth inning.
And in the fifth inning, after Kyle Seager led off with a double and Nelson Cruz singled, Cano slashed a two-run triple into the gap to give the Mariners a 4-1 lead.
Cano also scored in the inning on a wild pitch with two outs after Seth Smith and Trumbo failed to deliver a hit or a sacrifice fly.
Hernandez gave up a solo home run to Bautista in the sixth inning and departed after seven, having struck out seven while giving up six hits.
There was plenty for optimists; Cruz had three hits, Cano delivered in the clutch, Mark Lowe and Carson Smith combined to pitch scoreless eighth and ninth innings. And there were still things to pick apart; the fact the Mariners still have so many teams to leap in the playoff hunt, for starters, and Brad Miller getting picked off at third with two outs in the fourth inning.
Either way, it was the kind of win the Mariners need more of going forward.
Mariners aren't capable of a winning streak, they're all losers with the exception of felix hernandez and kyle seager and nelson cruz. Whyd lloyd put sucre and trombo and taylor in the lineup and put Fernando in the 8th?what a stupid fucking idiot fire jack z fire lloyd cut 80% of this awful team and fire every person involved with scouting and player development this shit is embarrassing