4/30/05: Moyer vs. Blanton

[A's Baby Girl]

Seattle at Oakland

April 30, 2005, 1:05 PT

vs
Moyer: 4-0, 2.53Blanton: 0-2, 1.75

Lineups

Seattle Mariners

Oakland Athletics

[Porter]

Jamie Moyer is going into this game with a little more incentive with a chance to break Randy Johnson's Wins as a Mariner Record today. Doubtful but i expect he should be on his A game today. Blanton is coming of a stellar start in the game of the week last week. It should be a good day today.

[Providence A's]

Let's get back to .500!

[MarinersFan87]

Let's not get back to .500!

[Providence A's]

Top 1ST B:2 S:0 O:2
Jeremy Reed grounds out, second baseman Keith Ginter to first baseman Nick Swisher.

Top 1ST B:3 S:2 O:2
Adrian Beltre singles on a ground ball to center fielder Mark Kotsay.

Top 1ST B:3 S:3 O:3
Richie Sexson called out on strikes.


--------------------------- MIDDLE 1ST

Bottom 1ST B:0 S:1 O:0
Mark Kotsay singles on a line drive to right fielder Ichiro Suzuki.

Bottom 1ST B:2 S:2 O:1
Eric Byrnes pops out to shortstop Wilson Valdez.

Kendall is up

[Providence A's]

Kendall singles...let's go Chavvy you bum

[Providence A's]

Chavvy grounds out, runners advance.

2nd and 3rd for (k)ielty

[Porter]

Cmon Moyer, get out of this jam.

[Providence A's]

Bobby Kielty singles on a line drive to right fielder Ichiro Suzuki. Mark Kotsay scores. Jason Kendall scores.

woo hoo! way to go you bum...still under .200 for the season

[Porter]

Nice Single, M's down 2-0

[Providence A's]

Pitch 1 - Called Strike
Pitch 2 - Swinging Strike
Pitch 3 - Ball
Pitch 4 - Foul
Pitch 5 - Ball
Pitch 6 - Foul
Pitch 7 - Ball
Pitch 8 - In play, run-scoring play

Keith Ginter doubles (1) on a line drive to left fielder Randy Winn. Bobby Kielty scores.

nice AB...3 - 0, still threatening

[Porter]

M's putting something together, something that rare for the offense.

[Porter]

so much for my 3-2 predicition

[Providence A's]

Top 4TH B:4 S:2 O:0
Richie Sexson walks.

Top 4TH B:2 S:1 O:0
Bret Boone doubles (4) on a line drive to left fielder Eric Byrnes. Richie Sexson to 3rd.

Top 4TH B:0 S:1 O:1
Raul Ibanez grounds out, second baseman Keith Ginter to first baseman Nick Swisher. Richie Sexson scores. Bret Boone to 3rd.

Top 4TH B:4 S:2 O:1
Randy Winn walks.

Top 4TH B:3 S:3 O:2
Dan Wilson strikes out swinging. Bret Boone steals (2) home. Randy Winn to 2nd. Randy Winn steals (4) 2nd base.

wtf? did we just get little leagued? the old steal 2nd and then steal home garbage...c'mon...I've never seen that happen in the majors

4 - 2...Blanton won't make it past 5 innings if he's lucky, already at 84 and he's still in the 4th

[Porter]

The Offense for the M's is flat out making my hair go grey