I’m not writing a lot, as I’m writing this on May 2nd, and the game has faded a bit from my memory – my wife and I went to Round Rock over the weekend to check out some minor league games at the Dell Diamond. This weekend was a minor league weekend. :)

This is about the type of game I expected this year. Lots of offense, mediocre pitching, and we prevail in the end. Unfortunately, that’s not what we’ve gotten a lot of this year so far.
It was really nice to see Gabe Kapler get a grand slam – and Jeff Zimmerman looked really good coming in from the pen – he appears to be pitching like 1999 again – was also nice to see Rusty Greer get a couple of jacks. He really seems over what ailed him last year.
I’m not writing a lot, as I’m writing this on May 2nd, and the game has faded a bit from my memory – my wife and I went to Round Rock over the weekend to check out some minor league games at the Dell Diamond. This weekend was a minor league weekend. :)

It seems like so long ago when we swept the A’s, and life was great. Now, we’re 8 games behind the Mariners, who are 18-4, and appear to be running away with the division already!
This loss was annoying, we should have won – Kenny pitched decent, if not great, and we got screwed by a (lack of) an interference call late. Sure, the case could be made if we played better, the win shouldn’t have had to hang on an umpire’s call, but there we are.
And we go into Cleveland this weekend to face Juan Gonzalez – my guess is that he tees off on us.

A particularly annoying loss, I felt. Doug Davis was cruising for the first couple of innings, it was shaping up to be a masterpiece. We left a zillion batters on base during the first couple of innings, too. I should have known from that.
We were up 3-0 through the bottom of the 5th, when it fell apart. Davis gave up four runs in quick succession to the Jays, and we never recovered. We did tie it up in the 6th, but the momentum wasn’t there.
I don’t have a whole lot to say about this game, as I didn’t see most of it due to the 6PM start time. Was nice to see Pudge get another jack, especially off Billy “I have the stupidest beard of all time” Koch.

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Topes win! Topes win!
OK, it’s not quite that bad, but we managed to get out of Seattle without being swept. We did manage to have a winning record on this road trip against the West, which is good. We’re in second place, only 3.5 games out – so things aren’t as bad as some online folks would have you believe. :) We’re certainly scoring runs, but we’re giving up way too many. It appears that Ryan Glynn has lost his spot on the rotation. Let’s see what else happens.
Anyway, last night Raffy continued his surprising onslaught against Safeco field with another home run and a couple of RBI’s. Chad Curtis also had a jack – our offense is quite well. However, we again gave up too many, too many from the pen, and let the Mariners back in the game, when they had no business being in the game. That can be a huge problem.
Doug Davis got the win – he wasn’t stellar, though. That’s our problem so far. He only went 5.2 innings, which is killing our bullpen. Crabtree is on the DL now, and R.A. Dickey was called up from AAA to help out. My guess is he goes to the pen, and isn’t a rotation guy. On the other side, we roughed up Brett Tomko pretty good, so much so that Seattle had to bring in Aaron Sele from the bullpen – the first time he’s ever done that in his career.
Ichiro Suzuki continues to be hot, going 13 games now with his hitting streak. Is it just me, or does he appear to slap at everything to try to drive it to left field? Every time I see him hit, that’s what it seems like.
Back home – although we’ll be tired, not getting in until about 6AM on Thursday. :)

No commentary from me on this game.