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Not super worried about being on the road for that. Yeah, it would be nice to be home, especially as they spend a good majority of the remainder of the season on the road. However,
Home/Road
Split W L RS RA WP
Home 34 32 240 206 .515
Road 35 26 264 198 .574
Awesome 9th inning two out comeback on Friday, for those that missed it.
Solid win today.
Sweep tomorrow.
I had just mentioned to my son an inning earlier about how many times in recent years have teams overcome a Mariner lead in late innings, only to deal us a deflating loss, and wasn't it about time for the Ms to turn the tables and do this to some other team. I mean, just probabilistically it only seemed reasonable that it should happen. That it was the BoSox and at this point of the season, this year, seemed almost perfect. Iwakuma FTW today!
I had just mentioned to my son an inning earlier about how many times in recent years have teams overcome a Mariner lead in late innings, only to deal us a deflating loss, and wasn't it about time for the Ms to turn the tables and do this to some other team. I mean, just probabilistically it only seemed reasonable that it should happen. That it was the BoSox and at this point of the season, this year, seemed almost perfect. Iwakuma FTW today!
And the irony is that the BoSox are last year's World Champions.
The A's and Angels are tied for first and go head to head in the national telecast game tonight with first place in the AL West at stake.
The Mariners actually have a better positive run differential than do the Angels (+104 to +94)and their Pythag record would be 78-50 rather than the actual 70-58. The Angels have overachieved by one game, and their Pythag record would be 75-53 rather than the actual 76-52. So, with a little more good fortune in their run distribution, the Mariners would be in second place, three games ahead of the Angels.
The problem has been rotten luck for Seattle in one run games, they are 14-23 in such affairs, while the Angels have been 23-19. A few lucky bounces, a few more breaks going their way, and LA would be in Seattle's rear view mirror.
However, the Mariners would still be well behind the A's who have also been a star crossed, underachieving club. They have the best run differential in all of baseball by a huge margin (+ 165) and with normal luck, the A's should have been 83-45.
Thus the Pythag standings would be:
Oakland 83-45
Seattle 78-50 - 5
Los Angeles 75-53 - 8
Today Cano had to leave the game early because of dizziness. I wonder if this was caused by his running too hard toward first base. If this is the case, I hope someone got it on video because we seldom saw it happen when he played in NY.
The Seattle Mariners seem to be the big sleeper team this year. They have a chance at going to the playoffs,for the first time since 2001. And yet, not much talk about it outside of this thread.
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