Gameday Thread 09/13 vs. Dipotos: Featuring This Pain

[beatlesrule]

Top 8th. McGuire in. Shuts them down.  Bot 8th.

[eligrba4ever]

The Angels hot-air balloon that had risen a bit over the road trip and against Texas definitely developed a Leake tonight.

[fan_since79]

Clock ticking down to elimination...

 

[fan_since79]

Calhoun looking like the dreadful version tonight.

 

[beatlesrule]

Simba with a routine play error. 

[eligrba4ever]

Terry and Mark just went through a litany of Mariners' failings on offense. They rank 12th in the AL. Their run differential is considerably in the red. They win one-run games a lot, 36-22 or some such kind of number. It doesn't get them to the promised land but it gives them a chance to be the team that resets the Angels' magic elimination number to 2019.

I wish it could have been delivered by an Oakland win, instead.

[beatlesrule]

7-1 now.  Runners on 1st and 2nd 1 out top 9th.

[eligrba4ever]

Cano, don't ya know?, apparently decoyed Calhoun into a seventh Seattle run.

[eligrba4ever]

McGuire just got told he has to get the last two outs. Nobody else is pitching tonight.

[eligrba4ever]

McGuire forced a change of heart by Nagy. Jerez just started throwing when the DP ended the M's rally.

Oh, and it's 8-1.

[beatlesrule]

Silver lining is you can probably get good seats for cheap from now until the end of September.  The bobble head appreciation night might be the only game with a lot of people there.

Trout double/pinch runner and Ohtani doubles but doesn't score the run.  Runner had to wait.

[fan_since79]

Well, at least Trout is still awake.

Scioscia giving up and removing him for a pinch runner. WTH??!!

[fan_since79]

So much for fighting back. Trout and Ohtani gone.

Scioscia surrenders.

Can't wait till he's gone.

[beatlesrule]

LOL.  Of course you remove Trout and Ohtani.  It's stinking 8-1.  I assume you're joking.

[fan_since79]

Elimination game. You put up a fight.

Chances of Trout being hurt on the bases at this exact time are almost zero.

You fight back. Sick of the lackadaisical attitude of this manager.

[eligrba4ever]

Do the Angels have a chance to end this with their third triple play of the season?

[eligrba4ever]

The umpires want get this over with.

[beatlesrule]

This ump wants the game to be over. Scioscia needs to get thrown out here.  Absolute 2 BS strike calls.

[fan_since79]

Umpire has money on the M's.

 

 

[Ace-Of-Diamonds]

Computerized strike zone anyone?

[beatlesrule]

1 minute ago, Ace-Of-Diamonds said:

Computerized strike zone anyone?

Don't get me started.

[eligrba4ever]

ELIMINATION!!!!

2019 HERE WE COME!!!

[fan_since79]

Sickening ending.

Season over.

Damn...

[eligrba4ever]

If you're JeDi and the M's front office, do you make more than a 1-year free-agency offer to the 38-year-old linchpin of your offense?

[arch stanton]

So if Nelson Cruz leaves via free agency this winter how are the Mariners ever going to beat the Angels again?