IGD: Padres @ Mariners (20 May 07)
first pitch: 1:05 p.m. PT
television: Channel 4SD
matchup: Justin Germano (1-0, 0.69 ERA) vs Felix Hernandez (2-1, 2.57 ERA)
preview: Padres.com
King Felix. Felix of Kingness. The Kingenator. Feliz Cumplekingos. King-a-long-a-ding-dong. Kinky Felinsky. Kizzy Fizzy. Kingalopolous Felipolous.
Sorry, what was the question? Go Padres!
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Was it…: Nicknames for the pitcher the Padres are about to trounce!!! ?
So my upstairs neighbor had a stack of baseball cards he bought recently. In there was Marcus Giles, Bard, A-Gon, Cameron, Maddux, and Hensley… and my neighbor let me keep ‘em! Pretty cool, I don’t think I’ve ever owned a baseball card.
Anyways… Marcus Giles’ card is the worst. The picture on the front is of him being taken down by a slide while trying to throw to first. So his crotchular area is right on some guy’s face. And on the back they have this “interesting” factoid about Marcus:
Marcus got the scare of his life late last season when he felt chest tightness after swallowing. Following a preliminary diagnosis that he may need heart surgery, it was determined he had acid reflux.
Felix Hernandez is on a 95 pitch count today. Hopefully this will inspire the Padres to be patient.
I hope Branyan is back as DH.
Branyan is indeed back as DH, and OG gets the day off, with Cruz in right.
OK Branyan is in today.
Wow, I didn’t see that pick coming. Obviously, neither did Cammy.
Not a good start to the whole making Felix work hard strategy. Guy picked off, only 13 pitches in the inning despite throwing 6 of them for balls.
Finally getting Itchiro
Two ground rule doubles back to back. Are they play on cement?
Both of those hits I didn’t think had a chance off the bat
Shakespeare!
Is Seattle’s warning track made of rubber? How many ground rule doubles is that?
Nice swings by Adrian and Bardo. I’m hoping to see more of that from Bardo from here on out.
Kouz should have rushed the mound…
I love it when other announcers go crazy when guys like Khalil and Russel K on breaking pitches.
Clearly, nobody reads the scouting reports regarding our team. As much as I love Khalil, and that’s quite a bit, I would never throw him anything but sliders down and away.
Hernandez has some nasty cutting sh*t that is making this tough.
14: True, but he’s left at least one good pitch over the plate to most of our guys.
Whether or not they’re hitting those pitches is a different matter altogether.
Again I ask what type of parent names their kid Yuniesky (sp?)?
Bardo caught one!
We’ll take it!!!!!
WTF Greene?
17: oops, I guess he caught Ichiro on 3rd, right? I turned on the game kinda late. Anywaysssss…
I think all the talk about how unimportant stolen bases are was all a ruse so we could throw a couple out this weekend. That has to be at least three on the weekend, which is (almost?) as many as we’ve thrown out all year….
18: I don’t think I’ve ever seen him throw a ball like that. It must have gotten stuck in his hand or something, because he released it way higher up than he typically would.
Shit, the error comes back to bite us.
Nice double by NOG.
Cruz has a pissed off look on his face after being asked to bunt.
24: I’m wearing that same expression at home upon seeing him being asked to bunt.
Why do certain umps call strikes the super annoying way:
“StriKKKKHHHHHHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE”
Why why why why why? If I were a hitter I’d swing at every ball even close to me just to avoid hearing that awful noise.
AND THAT WAS NOT A STRIKE!!!
25: Are you watching 4SD?
Naw, I’m following online again today
I just heard pissed off and thought, yep, that’s my reaction to the bunt attempt.
Nice to see us make this as easy as possible for Felix.
At this point, I’m counting on another WP.
OK, we needed that.
At least Adrian knows what clutch means.
KK has a chance for a grand slam. He’s very capable.
Not to be….
33: He’s still looking a lot more calm at the plate than he has all year. I’m really hoping he keeps this pace up and never looks back.
Good work by the Padres that inning; Felix is now at 61 pitches through 3 innings. Two more good innings of taking pitches and Felix is done.
It would be cool if Germano called in the infielders for a meeting and gave the ball to NOG. Then, pull the old Little League trick to get Itchiro out when he goes to steal.
Nice DP.
Nice DP to end that.
Angels up 4-0, lets hope they can help us get up another game.
Nice quick inning for Germano. The kid has definitely pitched himself into the roatation.
39: Unfortunatley Arizona won today.
Another rubber ball. Seattle needs to re-think the track.
God damn it! Another ground rule double!!! This ballpark is wicked lame.
God damn ground rule doubles!!!
There’s that rubber/cement track again.
That robbed us of another run. Hopefully Khalil can hit a deep sac fly.
I want you to pitch to Kevin Kouzmanoff too.
All right, Kouz, make ‘em pay.
Does anyone know the pitch count so far?
98 through Kouzmanoff.
Ugh. If our guys are gonna K, they could at least swing.
I like it better when they don’t swing. Then we can blame it on the ump.
Bases loaded with no outs and three straight Ks. Christ.
Hernandez has a pitch count limit. He must be approaching it soon.
When it’s Felix Hernandez going against Khalil, Kouz, and Branyan, it’s not surprising many K’s were the result.
53: I feel your pain.
27 pitches for Hensley thru 2 innings today in Portaland. 1 ER on 3 hits. I imagine he’ll probably go 4 to 5 innings.
Yeah, Hernandez has blown by his 95 pitch pitchcount and is at 103 now. So he’s most likely done.
57: Clay just helped himself out with a sac fly for a run.
I’m not understanding Buddy Black’s bunting mentallity.
First pitch, first batter and you call bunt with a good hitter up? WTF?
Darn right it’s E-6. Wussy.
Angels with the sweep. If we can hang onto this game, we’ll only be a game out.
Nice play by the rookie.
It seems like Germano is throwing his curve fairly often when he falls behind in the count (from following on Gameday).
63: Yes, but Arizona won today as well…
Yeah but they’ll be a game and a half back, if my math is correct. They’ll still be in third.
Greene’s bat has been hot as of late!
From perusing Mariners’ blogs, I have concluded that the warning track is made up of ground up super balls or ground up brick (which appeared to be a legitimate explanation).
That double by Khalil would have been a wee bit more helpful had it come last inning with runners on second and third.
I’m questioning the wisdom of Bard’s decision to swing 3-0.
70: Geez, what do you want from our guys, hits with RISP?
C’mon now, I think that’s asking a bit much…
71: I was too, but it was mitigated by: him hitting a line drive (at least, that’s what it says online), and by a single being worth so much more than a walk in that situation.
I wish Mark Grant would just STFU. He has to be the worse commentator ever. I looked up his record and he SUCKED as a ball player.
Irritating.
He got it right off the end of the bat. Heads up base running by Khalil prevented him getting doubled off.
74: I’m not watching Chan 4… but I did just want to defend Grant. So what if he sucked back in the day? And so what if he says ridiculous things. I love the guy and thing him and MV combine to make the best announcing team currently in baseball.
Marcus Giles seems to me like a guy that would enjoy being hit by a pitch.
74: We all have our preferences. I like MV, but would rather have Sutcliff or Gwynn do the color.
That pitch was low and out.
Why do we even put runners on?
79: Yeah, I really don’t think Cameron should have been rung up on that pitch. But what can ya do.
80: To torture fans and provide fodder for sports blogs…
78: Talk about nauseating. The best thing that ever happened to Ch. 4 was Sutcliffe’s exit. Gwynn? He’s alright. I think today’s telecast has been pretty darn entertaining.
82: lol, good call.
Scary little meeting in shallow right there.
Mr. Single strikes again. Do we really want this guy?
Runs? RUNS? WE DON’T NEED NO STINKIN’ RUNS!!!!
“There’s no crying in baseball!”
Damn, Kouz has a nice swing.
Lefty being brought in from the pen. I can just feel the impending doom of Geoff Blum pinch-hitting.
89: God I hope you’re wrong.
In what parallel universe is Blum a better option than Branyan?
91: I love the futility of Blum’s first swing. Pretty much sums up the wisdom of that move right there.
89: Blum fucks up another outing.
Do you suppose everyone scouts the Padres tendencies to use Blum and just wait to bring in a lefty, knowing they’ll get a good hitter out of the game for a crappy one?
I can’t stop laughing.
I mean, what more can you do besides laugh?
I mean, really, hilarious Blum. Absolutely hilarious.
93: That’s probably my only real gripe with Bud thus far, it’s nauseating reliance on Blum. Don’t we have a guy named Robles on the bench that looks a little better swinging the stick than that?
And yeah, Branyan could have given us mucho insurance right there.
The Silent L strikes again
That ball took a wicked bounce.
I don’t like how this is shaping up.
I like that Matty knows the ‘can of corn’ call.
Trevor got it!
YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Please don’t do that to me again Hoffy
Close one there. We’re only a game back now!!!!
We needed that.
Antonelli with HR #5 today … http://www.minorleaguebaseball.com/milb/stats/stats.jsp?sid=milb&t=g_box&gid=2007_05_20_lesafa_lncafa_1 … the asterisk, of course, being that the game is at Lancaster … what kinda park factor does *that* place have???
LM,
According to the 2007 BP book, Lancaster has a PF just about the same as Coors Field. Although that’s one of the highest in all of baseball, major or minor league, Lancaster doesn’t even have the highest PF in its own league! High Desert’s is slightly higher.
Our Storm boyz like Lancaster … they score 12 in the top of the 8th today to win 21-6 … http://web.minorleaguebaseball.com/milb/stats/stats.jsp?sid=milb&t=g_box&gid=2007_05_20_lesafa_lncafa_1 … HR’s today by K. Blanks (9), C. Huffman (9), M. Antonelli (5), C. Cooper (5), Y. Ramirez (2), B. Gottier (1) … that HR by Ramirez was part of a CYCLE!
And, as a side note, the Storm lost yesterday 14-12 … http://web.minorleaguebaseball.com/milb/stats/stats.jsp?sid=milb&gid=2007_05_19_lesafa_lncafa_1&cid=103&t=g_box … in a game that featured *4* HRs by one of the Lancaster players …
Lake Elsinore outscores Lancaster 63-18 in a 3 game series and doesn’t sweep. Sounds like a Nebraska vs. South East West Arkansas State Football Game.