Series Thread: Mariners @ Padres: 4/23-4/24

[seahawksfan234]

Not really "ironic," per se; it isn't the first time, and won't be the last.

Just something about when he takes the mound, everyone else decides to quit.

On the bright side, I definitely didn't imagine Felix pitching this well through 5 starts.

 

[SeattleCoug]

On the bright side, I definitely didn't imagine Felix pitching this well through 5 starts.

Yea i cant argue with that

 

[ulmax]

I blame...advance scouting .and video

Resulting in not good enough game plan...
For now

 

[AceKeptic]

Next up: four games at home vs. Rangers

I wonder how bad we'd have to be before anyone who goes to these games can get ticket refunds?

 

[SeattleCoug]

On the bright side, I definitely didn't imagine Felix pitching this well through 5 starts.

Further more I'd say its more encouraging to have him pitch well and lose 1-0 then for him to get blasted and the team ends up winning 12-10 or something. I'm pretty convinced this team has too many holes to do much over a 162 games season so I'll take the individual success stories.

 

[seahawksfan234]

Further more I'd say its more encouraging to have him pitch well and lose 1-0 then for him to get blasted and the team ends up winning 12-10 or something. I'm pretty convinced this team has too many holes to do much over a 162 games season so I'll take the individual success stories.

Another very encouraging thing regarding Felix's 2019 start is that his walk rate is down from 3.41 BB/9 to 1.07 BB/9. His ground ball rate has also improved from 46.9% in 2018 to 53.8% in 2019.

I don't want to get my hopes up, but I'd be thrilled if he continues even remotely near this trajectory. Give my preseason expectations, anything under a 5.00 ERA would exceed my expectations.

 

[Duders]

On the bright side, I definitely didn't imagine Felix pitching this well through 5 starts.

I was pretty much blown away with Felix's outing. I guess I was expecting maybe 1-2 innings and then a blow out pen performance. Just really please to see Felix last night.

 

[seahawksfan234]

I was pretty much blown away with Felix's outing. I guess I was expecting maybe 1-2 innings and then a blow out pen performance. Just really please to see Felix last night.

I was working while the game was on and had it on but wasn't paying a whole lot of attention, but his box score numbers looked really good. Happy to see he seems to have a better control of the strike zone so far.

As someone who has been claiming Felix is done since 2017, this is the most promising development we've seen in a while.

Last time Felix had an ERA under 4.00 after five starts was 2016.