Series Thread: M’s at Yankees 5/2-5/4

by ~ May 2nd, 2008 at 12:23 am

5/2 (04:05 pm PST) – Erik Bedard vs. Chien-Ming Wang
5/3 (10:05 am PST) – Felix Hernandez vs. Mike Mussina
5/4 (10:05 am PST) – Carlos Silva vs. Darrell Rasner

Seattle’s best starters prepare to right the ship at the historic Yankee Stadium after a very disappointing series in Cleveland. 

Even with Bedard on the hill, Seattle’s chances are not looking up in game one, as the Mariners our Wang’s favorite team to face.  In six career starts against Seattle Wang is 6-0 with a 2.51 ERA. 

M’s to watch:

5/2 – Erik Bedard (4-3 with a 3.58 ERA over 55.1 IP against New York), Richie Sexson (.308 career against Wang)

5/3 – Against Mussina: Raul Ibanez (.435/.480/.783 in 25 PA), Ichiro (.375 with 1 homer in 32 PA)

5/4 – Carlos Silva (7.59 ERA in 21.1 career innings against the Yankees).  Against Rasner: Kenji Johjima (2/5 with 1 homer), Richie Sexson (2/4 with 1 double, 1 walk), Ichiro (2/5 with 1 double)

Mariner Killer Prediction:

Robinson Cano- This may be the series that Cano starts to turn it around.  Cano is hitting .429 with 3 HR and 6 RBI in 14 career at bats against Hernandez and Silva.   He is hitting .293 in 21 career games against Seattle.  Also keep an eye on Jason Giambi, who is also struggling right now, and Derek Jeter.

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  • http://bleedingblueandteal.com Jon Shields

    Game 1 is probably just radio for me.. too much to do :-(

  • Brian

    We gotta find some offense to support our great starting pitching…

  • http://bleedingblueandteal.com Jon Shields

    Seattle is lucky that the division isn’t out of reach already. Time to stop messing around.. we need a win today!

  • Brian

    Yeah, we need a win pretty badly…Let’s hope Felix can throw another gem…

    I agree we need to get hot or the division is going to be nearly out of reach in about two weeks…

  • http://bleedingblueandteal.com Jon Shields

    pathetic…

    Errors killing us for the 2nd straight game. I think I’m going back to bed.

  • Brandon

    Doesn’t look good fellas

  • Brian

    Has anybody seen our offense?????

    I think we left it somewhere last September….

  • http://marinerscentral.blogspot.com angrybeltre

    so I went to lunch with the M’s up 2-0, at lunch I joked to my buddy that I’d come back to see them down 7-2. I was too close. What the hell happened? Should I even be surprised at this point?

  • http://marinerscentral.blogspot.com angrybeltre

    Ok…so now it’s 7-2.

  • http://bleedingblueandteal.com Jon Shields

    ^homers by Melky and Cano, among other things. This is getting old quick.

  • http://marinerscentral.blogspot.com angrybeltre

    Wlad’s bat just doesn’t look MLB-ready. The contact is just not there at all. But to be fair, just about everybody on the team looks that way right now.