Analysis Schmalysis

I just started a review of how well Mariners hitters were supporting the Pitching staff.

Then I stopped.

I’ll get back to it later, but the results for April were quite depressing, and not really indicative of the actual problems.

The M’s opened the season with 5 straight losses and a gimme win, and generated 58 hits during those games.

They scored 28 runs. That’s 30 stranded baserunners in 54 innings, in case anyone’s couting.

I sure as hell was. And am.

I’ll return to this theme later. There’ll even be a full page devoted to it someday (have to do something with those schedule pages, I’m thinking)

T-3 months, 8 days until Hockey Season.

Then we can watch yet another Seattle Sports team lose it all at the end.

many hours later…

Of course, then there’s always the failure of the Mariners Pitchers to support the batters.

3 runs in the first inning. Gulp.

Starting Pitcher leaves with the bases loaded, eventally charged with 7 runs. In the 6th, which is nice. But after giving up 8 hits, and walking 4.

Not so good.

It just got a lot easier to make a roster move this weekend. Ouch.