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I’m getting tired of writing about losing already. I didn’t get that way last year until April. Ugh. Don’t feel like writing about losing to a team that we should have kicked the crap out of.

Well, so much for Pat Mahomes in the starting rotation. I suspect he’ll be back to the pen. I didn’t believe the bit where he was effective in the pen, but really shaky in the rotation. I believe it now. Given how bad the pitching is this year, I suspect he’ll get another shot in the rotation, but he doesn’t look like he belongs there right now.
Other than that, all I have to say about this game is – YUCK! I turned it off after the first inning. ;)

It was nice to see Raffy get two home runs again – he looked much more like himself this game. The two home runs were typical Raffy home runs. Big, majestic, over the right field wall, and you could tell it immediately.
KC started Mac Suzuki, the pitcher who pitched in the Kingdome a couple of years ago for the Mariners and gave up 9 RBI to Pudge; I was hoping for a repeat, but Mac got tossed quickly. Oh well.
Interesting event; a power failure that caused about half the lights in the ballpark to go out, delaying the game for about half an hour. It looked funny on TV, I wonder what it was like there.
Overall a pretty damn good game, Rick Helling looks like he’s figured it out, now with three strong outings in a row.

Despite the 6-3 score, this was an extremely well pitched game. For the longest time, I thought we were going to get shut out by Josh Towers, making his major league debut. He got a bit of the Ryan Glynn problem (read: blister on his finger), and stayed in the game, but probably shouldn’t have, as he then gave up two solo home runs to Big Cat and Little Cat. That put us in the lead, which we promptly gave right back up. After 7, we were tied at 2, which usually means death.
However, for the first time this year, we came back and won when losing after 6 innings. We scored 4 in the top of the 8th, capped by a two run Gabe Kapler single to put us over the top.
J.D. Smart came in, allowed an inherited runner to score on a sac fly, but otherwise was damn near perfect. I picked him up on one of my fantasy teams a few days ago. :)
Well pitched ball game, despite the score. Hopefully we can do some damage to Kansas City before the Twins come in to town.

Another loss, but this time out it wasn’t a disgusting one; although you could make a point that all losses are disgusting. :)
Ryan Glynn did his usual thing, pitching himself into trouble, however, this time, he managed to get out of them. The runs given up weren’t really a direct result of him getting in trouble I felt (one was unearned, too). Sure, he could have pitched well enough not to allow any, but hey, even the best have a problem with that. I felt that Glynn had a great outing, despite the loss, and hope that he could keep this going. Problem was that we didn’t give him any runs – we only scored a single one.
J.D. Smart pitched well again for the second straight game, and again I say he’s looking like a great callup so far.
One of those losses that isn’t too hard to swallow, it was an awesome baseball game, no matter what the outcome was.

Rainout. Not much to say about this. The game was not rescheduled yet.

Well, the Pat Mahomes magic was gone this game. He gave up seven earned runs in 4 innings. Again, he didn’t seem that awful, the runs just crept up on him like they crept up on most of our pitchers this season.
The rest of our bullpen pitched well, giving up a total of two hits and no runs in the other four innings. Crabby went 2.2, which was nice. New addition, JD Smart pitched damn well again, so far he hasn’t given up anything at all runs wise, which is very cool. Looks like he might be sticking around.
Still, the bottom line is we lost again. :(