April 24th @ Seattle

[mdterps4life25]

We basically know what were gonna get from Payton...but it would be nice if he could make the pitcher throw a few over before he pops out.

[Hoiles23]

Your slightly obnoxious Gameday Report: Of 16 pitches, 15 are fastballs from Adam. Are we seeing a pattern here?

Not a big surprise. Loe threw one breaking pitch..it nearly hit Suzuki on the back of the head.

[The Rick]

Anybody have the stats on how often Ichiro scores when he leads off the inning by getting on first base? Seems like it may be an astronomically high number.

When Ichiro bats first in an inning he has gotten on base 31 times out of 93 AB's. Out of those 31 times he has reached base, he has scored 16 times. This is a 51% ratio of scoring after reaching base while being the first batter of the inning. This has a lot to do with his speed, though obviously a player has much more of a chance of scoring while getting on to lead the inning anyway.

By the way, that number is 41% over the course of his MLB career.

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Source.

[FourRunJack]

Now why didn't he "drop and drive"?

[murrayfan420]

I'm pretty sure if you throw 91 mph fastballs every pitch, major league hitters are going to hit it out a lot

[orayole]

You guys got some 3D slow mo replay at home? Looked out to me.

[JTrea81]

Gameday's frozen. What's happening folks?

NM just started up again. Loewen gets the final two outs...

[fansince71]

geez mora quit throwin like a girl and get it over there

[baseballnelie]

geez mora quit throwin like a girl and get it over there

Yeah good job by Millar picking Mora's throws out of the ground

[orayole]

AJ leadoff double!

[baseballnelie]

Nice double by Jones, laid off a few pitches for one to hit, nice to see

[JTrea81]

Washburn is a junk throwing lefty. Gonna be a tough night at the office for the O-ffense...

Jonesy doesn't care about that though. Nice 2B!

[JohnLockesGhost]

For the love of all that is good and holy, Don't bunt!

[orayole]

Yeah good job by Millar picking Mora's throws out of the ground

You know, during the offseason on MASN they were showing defensive highlights of each of the players and when they showed Mora, everyone of his throws was picked out of the dirt by Huff or Millar. I thought that was funny.

[JTrea81]

For the love of all that is good and holy. Don't bunt!

What else can Fahey do?