Blow It Out Your.......

[Hanjag]

On the heels of a win it feels a little weird to start this thread but what the hell. Saturday's 18 - 4 blowout was [ fill in your own #*€%# adjective here]. Murphy had the best pitching stats of the night for crissakes. I know there are supposed to be growing pains during a rebuild, err I mean a reimagination, but these extreme losses are really hard to watch. I was whining to D-Train that I have already started tuning out this season because of the extreme losses. He suggested that the Astros probably went through the same thing when they lost 100 plus three seasons in a row. I was kind of curious so I took a look at the M's record this season and compared it to how many "blowouts" the Astros had from 2011-2013. For the heck of it, I defined a blowout as losing by 7 or more runs. I don't think these numbers mean a whole heck of a lot but the M's are on pace for 50% plus more blowouts than the rebuilding Atros ever posted in a season and might allow opponents to score 10 or more runs twice as much as they ever did.

Seattle Mariners
2019 Season: out of 48 games
5 times lost by 7 or more (on pace for 17)
6 times won by 7 or more (on pace for 20)
10 times opponents have scored 10 or more runs (on pace for 34)

Houston Astros
2103 Season: out of 162 games
11 times lost by 7 or more
4 times won by 7 or more
17 times opponents scored 10 or more runs

Houston Astros
2012 Season: out of 162 games
10 times lost by 7 or more
5 times won by 7 or more
11 times opponent scored more than 10 runs

Houston Astros
2011 Season: out of 162 games
9 times lost by 7 or more
4 times won by 7 or more
11 times the opponent scored 10 or more runs

Twice in those 3 years the Astros gave up 18 or more runs in a game - 19 two times.

On the bright side, Kikuchi is looking like he's figured out how to pitch in the USA.

Nice research Scratch!
It will be interesting to see how Kyle impacts the D in the + direction vs loss of Leake/EE/Dee/who ever else. Again could be positive or negative but Bautista could be a +, Tui, Shed Long, Justice, Tui, etc.

[D-train]

Justus won't be back up until Sept if then, if he keeps pitching like hell.

[D-train]

I think we might lose the next two games.......

https://www.mlb.com/mariners/roster/probable-pitchers

[D-train]

The good news is we should have one more win based on our pythag.

Record: 25-39, 5th place in AL_West (Schedule and Results)

Pythagorean W-L: 26-38, 316 Runs, 395 Runs Allowed

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Had to bump it with an update after today's gem:

Seattle Mariners
2019 Season: out of 72 games
9 times lost by 7 or more (on pace now for 20)
16 times opponents have scored 10 or more runs (on pace now for 36)

[Coeurd’Alene J]

We need to invent better ways to lose. Maybe coach needs to get run out of the stadium...you know get in the umps face...Earl Weaver style

And then I remember it’s that burnt marshmallow In the dugout

[D-train]

We need to invent better ways to lose. Maybe coach needs to get run out of the stadium...you know get in the umps face...Earl Weaver style

And then I remember it’s that burnt marshmallow In the dugout

Never could understand how some kids would burn their marshmallows to a crisp and eat them. You are literally eating carcinogens and it tastes like hell.

[D-train]

Had to bump it with an update after today's gem:

Seattle Mariners
2019 Season: out of 72 games
9 times lost by 7 or more (on pace now for 20)
16 times opponents have scored 10 or more runs (on pace now for 36)

Thankfully 90% of the pitchers that gave up those runs are either gone or will be gone by the beginning of next season.

[D-train]

Sunday Funnies

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[Coeurd’Alene J]

I think we might lose the next two games.......

https://www.mlb.com/mariners/roster/probable-pitchers

We should just repost this every other day......it’s prophetic