5-20-19 M's-Rangers It's just a Minor-Leake Game Thread

[Ziskmagic]

Oh no, Jack Merridew didn't...so I did.

May 20th, 2019 5:05pm
Globe Life Park in Arlington

Mariners
(23-26)
Mike Leake RHP
3-4, 4.00 ERA, 41 SO

Rangers
(21-23)
Mike Minor LHP
4-3, 2.61 ERA, 56 SO

SEA Lineup
D Gordon (L) 2B
M Haniger (R) RF
E Encarnación (R) DH
D Santana (R) LF
R Healy (R) 1B
T Beckham (R) 3B
J Crawford (L) SS
T Murphy (R) C
M Smith (L) CF

TEX Lineup
S Choo (L) LF
D Santana (S) SS
N Mazara (L) RF
H Pence (R) DH
J Gallo (L) CF
R Odor (L) 2B
A Cabrera (S) 3B
R Guzmán (L) 1B
I Kiner-Falefa (R) C

[bpj]

Vogey on the bench in favor of Mallex Smith again.

[Happy as hell]

Jeez Louise

[IStillLoveTheMs]

Can we talk about how shitty Mike Leake is?

[Happy as hell]

Odor with a three run HR. This game is starting to smell already.

[Happy as hell]

Now it just plain stinks

[IStillLoveTheMs]

How can Servais be OK with Leake pitching like this?

How is this fine?

This is what $15.5 million gets you? A pitcher who doesn't want to compete? Who is just willing to take a beating like it's normal?

How is Servais not out there challenging him to wake the fuck up after he gave up back-to-back hits on back-to-back pitches to start the game?

[Ziskmagic]

Agreed - I saw that Cano got benched today for - you'll never guess - not running out two grounders this weekend - 1 of which he clearly didn't know how many outs there were.

[Ziskmagic]

Meat of the order is smelling rotten so far; our 3-4-5 is 0-6 with 5 k's against Minor so far.This could get uglier.

[bpj]

Looks like I may have been overshooting the talent in our rotation when I said we had two 2's, one #4 and two #6's.

Turns out we probably have two #2's and the rest are not MLB caliber SP's at all.

Leake and Leblanc were cute success stories while they worked, but it was never going to be a very far fall, we all knew that.