Reamining schedule heavily in mariners favor

[PolarVortex]

Only six remaining road games against teams over .500. Only three remaining road games against a team with a better record than ours:

6 @ Oakland
7 @ LAA
4 @ CWS
3 @ Minn
3 @ Hous
3 @ Tex

The home schedule is a little tougher but I is still fairly easy:
3 vs Milwaukee
3 vs Yankees
3 vs LAA
4 vs Tex
3 vs Hous
3 vs Toronto
4 vs Oakland (last four games of the season)

Let me break a rule here and count our chickens before the eggs hatch. I think it is reasonable to assume they can go 28-21 the rest of the way. That would give them 88 wins. Is that enough for a wildcard spot? I don't know.

 

[cezero]

a few of us have been talking about this for awhile

m's have some nice opportunities

 

[mcnabb7542]

Win series and I think they can grab that last wild card spot.
They need to play at their level of play and not down to crappy teams...

 

[unlvmariners]

A lot of games left against the A's and Angels beating them will be huge, losing to them probably means our demise.

88 wins gets you in or it gets you close enough to be in the hunt until the last few days. It should help that the 2 teams currently holding a playoff spot are in the same division. Toronto, Baltimore and Boston are going to beat each other. Things look good right now its getting fun especially if they keep winning.

 

[PolarVortex]

Win series and I think they can grab that last wild card spot.
They need to play at their level of play and not down to crappy teams...

Not stooping to the level of crappy teams - that has been their biggest challenge in recent years.

Dipoto gets some brownie points for completely rebuilding the bullpen in season.

 

[cezero]

the reason we were on top of the al west early in the season is because we feasted on worse teams

june is when things fell apart as we faced real competition consistently for the first time

 

[mcnabb7542]

Not stooping to the level of crappy teams - that has been their biggest challenge in recent years.

Dipoto gets some brownie points for completely rebuilding the bullpen in season.[/QUOTE]

Yes but that 4th and 5th spot in the rotation could be the fatal blow, I know they want too get Walker's head right, but they should've done that earlier in the season.

 

[Tech_God]

Reaming schedule?

 

[unlvmariners]

Reaming schedule?

it is actually "Reamining schedule"

 

[cezero]

playing relatively shitty teams for awhile....advantage mariners

pin the tail on the donkey roster....advantage shitty teams

 

[PolarVortex]

Reaming schedule?

You ain't fooling no one, dude. You've been reamed plenty.

(Not that there is anything wrong with that.)

 

[wazzu31]

You ain't fooling no one, dude. You've been reamed plenty.

(Not that there is anything wrong with that.)

Get that 49ers talk outta here

 

[PolarVortex]

Get that 49ers talk outta here

Are the 49ers still an NFL team? I thought they might be in a developmental league now.

 

[wazzu31]

The 49ers and their fans are developing their new gender identities.

 

[seahawksfan234]

I expect we'll finish 1 or 2 games back of the Wild Card.

I say that because this is the Mariners guys, there are no such thing as pleasant surprises.

 

[DJ]

Reaming schedule?

That was my first thought as well....

 

[SeattleCoug]

Felix, Paxton and Kuma are all pitching in this 4 game series. Hopefully they can get 3/4. I don't like that the Angels have lost 10 straight. That's bound to turn even for a bad team

 

[unlvmariners]

Felix, Paxton and Kuma are all pitching in this 4 game series. Hopefully they can get 3/4. I don't like that the Angels have lost 10 straight. That's bound to turn even for a bad team

3 of 4 would be huge

 

[mcnabb7542]

I expect we'll finish 1 or 2 games back of the Wild Card.

I say that because this is the Mariners guys, there are no such thing as pleasant surprises.

You are either in or out?

Make up your mind?

 

[cezero]

Felix, Paxton and Kuma are all pitching in this 4 game series. Hopefully they can get 3/4. I don't like that the Angels have lost 10 straight. That's bound to turn even for a bad team

Trout has been cold as ice, and he loves hitting off of Felix.

He has struggled mightily against Paxton and Kuma.