Baseball Musings
Baseball Musings
August 08, 2007
Good Night for Seattle

The Seattle Mariners took down the Baltimore Orioles this evening, winning by a score of 8-4. It was power at the plate that supplied the win as Guillen, Vidro and Ibanez delivered five runs with three homers. That puts the Mariners over 100 homers with 101, tenth in the American League.

Meanwhile, the Tigers and Yankees were getting trounced. The Tigers fell to Tampa Bay 7-1, while the Blue Jays winged Wang and the relief staff for a 15-4 win. James Shields keeps showing promise as he walked none and struck out nine in seven innings of work, bringing his K/BB to 4.9. Detroit continues their hitting slump that has seen them score less than four runs per game over their last eleven contests.

Chien-Ming Wang lasted just 2 2/3 innings, walking two and striking out three. But nine of the twelve balls in play against him fell for hits, and eight base runners came around to score. Halladay, with a big lead, allowed three homers including two to the hot Robinson Cano, but he also walked one and struck out eight over seven innings of work.

The result puts Seattle .001 ahead of Detroit in the wild card race, with the Yankees 1/2 game back. With Minnesota winning big late, the top five teams should finish the night separated by six games.

Correction: Seattle is ahead of Detroit.


Posted by David Pinto at 10:40 PM | Division Races | TrackBack (0)
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Actually, my beloved Mariners are one percentage point ahead of the Tigers in the wild-card race: .559 to .558. Although Seattle still hasn't made up all their games that were snowed out during the first two weeks of the season. I wonder how much that will come into play as we near the finish line?

Posted by: Tyler at August 9, 2007 03:15 AM
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