Kansas City Royals @ Seattle Mariners Aug 25-27

[Echawks]

great article..

 

[Ruminator]

Interesting tidbit of information from this article by Matt Calkins of the Seattle Times. The Mariners were 23rd in OPS before the All-Star break and have been 2nd in OPS since then. The Ms are also 2nd in MLB in batting average, on-base percentage and slugging since the break. (The Braves are first.)

But here's the crazy thing: since July 20, the Mariners have a wRC+ of 136 and a WAR of 9.9, better than the Braves 133 and 9.3, and if you've followed the Braves at all this year, they have an incredible offense.

How did Mariners get to first place? With the best offense in baseball

The best offense in all of baseball? That might sound like hyperbole, but the numbers show that the Mariners have been hitting like nobody else over the past month.

www.seattletimes.com

And after today's game, which should be a decisive win, oh boy.

 

[NoGain]

^^^Agree. Today sets up for about as sure of a win as we've had going into a game this year, and a series sweep on top of that.

Now they'll probably lose.

 

[Echawks]

Games like this i absolutely hate.. Castillo should be enough to keep it very low but Marsh has been bad to awful this year and will probably pitch like Nolan Ryan against us.

 

[Hawk-Lock]

Games like this i absolutely hate.. Castillo should be enough to keep it very low but Marsh has been bad to awful this year and will probably pitch like Nolan Ryan against us.

I also feel like anytime we score 10+ runs we struggle to score the next day. It just happened against the White Sox.

 

[IndyHawk]

LFG!

 

[IndyHawk]

 

[Sports Hernia]

If Marlow gets going again then sorry JK you're staying in AAA.

Why? Good teams have strong benches. If you have a Kelenic or Marlow coming off the bench that’s a pretty good player coming in to the game.

 

[Echawks]

Teooooo… Teeeeaahhhhoooo..

Fastball come and he hits a home run

 

[Hawk-Lock]

Julioooo!

 

[Echawks]

Jesus Ty is so slow lol

 

[Crizilla]

France not scoring on a double into the corner with 2 outs...wow...... something is wrong with Ty for sure. He gets hit with pitches a lot....

 

[Hawk-Lock]

Jesus Ty is so slow lol

He was probably safe but so hard to overturn that call.

 

[raisethe3]

Damn it. 3-2 now.

 

[Ruminator]

Whew!

 

[Hawk-Lock]

Topa has been our best receiver since the all star break.

 

[Chapow]

Oh boy. Hard to feel good about Munoz with a 1 run lead in the 9th.

 

[NoGain]

Please don't make it adventurous Munoz.

 

[Hawk-Lock]

Munoz closes it with ease, first place in the AL West!

 

[Crizilla]

Time to sweep the Vegas A's now