For any of you who are wondering how we ended up losing a game in which we had bases loaded, one out, and our power bat up at the plate in the bottom of the eighth hoping to break the stalemate. The guys down at USSMariner.com have a pretty good break down.
This is something I should have touched on in my first game wrap-up/season preview, Richie Sexson SUCKS BALLS! He has been incredibly atrocious for the past two seasons, finishing up last year with a .205(!!!) batting average and a meager 21 home runs. For some unknown reason the Mariners continue to bat him in the clean up spot(4th) in hopes of him igniting our offense. Instead of ignition, time and time again all we receive from Richie is, like that renal failure of a Matt McConnaughey movie, a failure to launch.
Many talking heads and supposedly knowledgeable baseball people thought Sexson was due for a resurgence due to two main factors. The first was his working out in the batting cages this winter, the first time in his career. The other was the idea that because it was Big Suxy's contract year he would go bonkers a crank out 40+ dingers. It's rather early to say real definitively but I seriously fucking doubt that will happen. 150+ strikeouts, I'll buy that for a dollar! But not so much for 40+ dingers.
The Mariners, again, are putting a lot of stock in Big Suxy's ability to bounce back from career lows the past two seasons, overcome the emotional scarring from being booed by at his home park last season, and become the fearsome middle-of-the-order big bat they hoped for when signing him to his 4 yr/$49 mil contract. I, for one, am not holding my breath.
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