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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. :(

Whoa! We won a series! That’s the first time that’s happened in 5 weeks. Granted, it’s against Tampa Bay, but at this point, I’ll take anything.
Finally, Rick Helling pitched a game that we held the lead, and a game that Rick didn’t give up a bazillion gopher balls (although he gave up one). I really wished he would have tried for the complete game – I know we didn’t have anyone get 8 innings this year, so that was a first, but I would have liked to have seen a complete game attempt. There was some stuff in the press about Rick discovering some mechanical flaw in his delivery, and fixing it. Hopefully that’s the case, because Rick isn’t a 2-6 pitcher. :(
Was the night of Arod again, with two home runs, and 5 RBI’s. That was essentially all we needed, but there was other offense. Pudge looked good, Caminiti looked good.
However, the injury bug bites us again, with Randy Velarde taking a hit. Hopefully it’s not too bad, I don’t want to have to deal with another DL situation. :(
We’re going to Baltimore, hopefully we can do well there. Our home run streak continued, though – 17 games in a row now.

(I’m not going to be writing much about this game, as it was a casualty of me being out of touch for awhile due to a business trip).
I didn’t think we’d get to three. Actually, I watched very little of this game, about the first hour, because I was busy watching the series finale of Star Trek: Voyager last night (which I enjoyed).
When I turned off the Ranger game, we were winning 5-2, which looked good for me. However, it wasn’t good for the Rangers, as they then gave up 8 more runs after I stopped watching. Good thing I did, or I would have been more annoyed.
We have a chance on Thu night to actually take a series, and if we don’t take a series against the Rays, then we deserve the crappy record we have.
Our home run streak continued, though – 16 games in a row now.

(I’m not going to be writing much about this game, as it was a casualty of me being out of touch for awhile due to a business trip).
Two in a row! I think I’m gonna faint. :)
Kenny Rogers looked crisp, one of his better performances this season – going 6, giving up nothing. Venafro gave up the only two runs of the game, one was unearned. Overall a pretty good game, although it’s against Tampa Bay, the team we’re competing with for worst record in the AL. :(
Gabe Kapler had a solo home run, our 15th game in a row with a home run, setting a new club record. The record is 25 games, held by the 41 Yankees, the 94 Tigers, & the 98 Braves.