[Official] Mariners @ Astros

This: this is the story of the last two losses

 

Forgot Devo. But all said, a great play by Segura or a runner for McCann was the game

 

The ghost of harris would have had better pitches. We were all out of pitchers.

 

Mariners excited at prospect of getting back to .500

 

Almost forgot about Harris. He's been giving up late inning homers too though. The pen just needs help.

 

Mariners burning through their bullpen. We will make them pay in next two games.

 

Jake, 4th outfielder of destiny!

 

Hint, don't hit at the SS.

 

Tuves is the LVP tonight

 

Yeah. He and the bullpen were the biggest disappointments tonight.

 

Anyone notice since AT&T took over they have spent more time on the game and less on Morales?

 

Bregman hit the ball in a damn fine place, and it took a phenomenal play on one of our slowest runners or else we win. Aoki shat the bed hitting the ball straight to the pulled-in shortstop. I don't know why they wouldn't at least try a squeeze in that situation. Your least powerful hitter is up with one out, the winning run on third and no force in effect; that is THE situation to squeeze if there ever was one.

In the end, our bullpen wasn't clutch (sans Giles), and Hinch, I think, was too overconfident in many of his choices tonight.

This is a particularly rough loss. The team might be reeling for a couple days after this, especially if they get in their mind that they've got to crush the ball at the plate or blow it by the batters from the mound.

 

it's all hindsight of course, but if Correa hadn't left the game, that would have left Marwin on the bench to pinch run for slow guys like McCann. As it was, we had to use our only available pinch runner (Aoki) to take Beltran's place. tough loss, but like the one a couple of days ago, the opponent had to have some very unlikely gifts of luck to pull it out.

At least we made their bullpen take a pounding. Should make it easier to win the next two.

 

Add the fact Giles has barely played last 3 weeks.

Tonight was a perfect opportunity for 2 innings.

 

I agree get that dude some pressure pitching experience, putting in Sipp made no sense.

 

Yikes. He does not sound happy at all.

 

Well, he did pitch yesterday as well. So, theres that.....

 

I was surprised we didn't pinch hit with Gattis, given we just needed a sac fly. In hindsight, if Correa doesn't get hurt, we'd have definitely pinch hit with either Gattis or Marwin, but I supposed Hinch didn't want to use our last bench bat?

 

The only thing I can imagine is that Hinch was worried about what he'd have to do if McCann somehow got ejected or injured. Then Gattis would have to catch and we'd lose the DH for the rest of the game.

Aoki is a career .281 hitter with bases loaded while Gattis is .313 with bases loaded. So I'd have gone with Gattis in that situation.

Another hypothetical to speculate about is whether it might have helped for Gattis to pinch run for McCann in the 9th. Gattis is no speed demon but I do think he clocks in as a faster runner than McCann. He might have been just fast enough to beat out that throw from SS.

 

Tonight was 3 appearances in 4 days. That's usually the limit as he's not available tomorrow. But coming off 6 days rest before that, then 7 days before that, he should've pitched 2 tonight. The alternative was Sipp.