2K23: Seattle Mariners

[madducks]

Julio Rodríguez is just the second player ever with two 25/25 seasons by age 22, joining Mike Trout.

[rhd]

Mariners win again tonite to remain in 1st. They've won 25 of their last 31. They have not been in 1st place by themselves this deep into the season since 2001.

[rhd]

Mariners now are all alone in 1st in the AL West (1 G over both the Rangers and Astros).

[madducks]

Julio Rodriguez hit his 50th career home run on Saturday. He's the fastest player in Mariners history to reach 50 home runs, doing it in 256 games.

Alex Rodriguez needed 269 games and Ken Griffey Jr. needed 377 games to reach 50 career home runs.

[madducks]

I think I've got a bunch of photos of him.

Sounds like you are well stocked.

[heyelander]

He's the stock answer for a bunch of vintage baseball trivia.

I think I've got a bunch of photos of him.

[Ken]

Rodriguez is only the 2nd player in MLB history to have at least 4 hits in 4 straight games. The other player - household name Milt Stock for the 1925 Brooklyn Dodgers.

He's the stock answer for a bunch of vintage baseball trivia.

[madducks]

Only one hit today. Time to drop him.

[revo]

In the last week, JRod has raised his BA from .255 to .278! Since August 4, he's 32-for-66 with 21 RBIs. Yowza.

[rhd]

Rodriguez is only the 2nd player in MLB history to have at least 4 hits in 4 straight games. The other player - household name Milt Stock for the 1925 Brooklyn Dodgers.

[GwynnInTheHall]

Got 4 hits again tonite. Now, over the last 4 G, 17-22, 2 HR, 8 RBI, 5 R, 3 SB.

17-22 holy shit.

[madducks]

[madducks]

[madducks]

Got 4 hits again tonite. Now, over the last 4 G, 17-22, 2 HR, 8 RBI, 5 R, 3 SB.

Wow Julio is really en fuego!



From the Seattle Times:
"It was just about 24 hours earlier, during one of their regular pregame sessions in the batting cages, that DeHart and Rodriguez continued their ongoing attempts to tweak the “load” in the slugger’s swing.
Rodriguez, at times, has gotten too demonstrative, too big, with that load. He would tend to drop his hands a bit too much and dip his back leg a bit too far, which in turn caused him to feel like he had to speed up his swing.

“We’ve been trying to slow [the load] down and get it quieter,” DeHart said. “We just tried to eliminate it. Get it out of there.”

What they decided to do before Wednesday’s game was have Rodriguez widen his stance. Nothing dramatic, but enough of a shift where Rodriguez felt like he was better connected to the ground and didn’t need an aggressive load before each swing."

[rhd]

Julio Rodriguez made a slight change to his batting stance before Wednesday's game and is now 13-16 with 4 or more hits in his last 3 games. He also has 2 HR, 8 RBI, & 4 SB in those 3 games. I think it's working.

Got 4 hits again tonite. Now, over the last 4 G, 17-22, 2 HR, 8 RBI, 5 R, 3 SB.