Mariners bobble away two games in three days.

Mariners lost a tough game Wednesday night in Texas. M’s led 2-1 in bottom of the 9th, two outs, when Kouzmanoff gets infield hit, then on 3-2 pitch Moreland walks, bringing up pinch hitter Donnie Murphy. He hits game ending grounder to Miller at short who bobbles ball, flips it underhanded to Cano, but way high , runner safe on error. Then WP and single and Rangers bobble out a win. Miller should not be blamed as Rodney did not help the cause at all.

The dreaded bobble struck Friday night in Miami again in bottom of 9th, 4-4. Medina pitching for Mariners and Reed Johnson pinch hits leading off 9th and singles to right. Yelich bunts down first base line. Smoak fields ball, a slight bobble, and he is unable to throw ball to first. Ozuna bunts, Medina makes great barehanded catch and throws to third to force Johnson. But wait. Replay though shows Seager catching ball, umpire calling runner out and, the ball appearing at the top of Seager’s glove, though he catches the ball. For over a century that has been a catch, but for some inane reason in 2014, what has been good since the beginning of baseball time is now not a catch. Two bobbles where their should be two outs. Stanton then hits walk off grand slam and Seattle bobbles away another game.

Bud Selig and major league baseball need to pull their heads out of the sand (you can assume I mean another word here) and reexamine what is a catch. No team likes what is happening and it will get worse before it gets better. If it isn’t broke, don’t fix it. Quit tinkering with a game that does not need a Tinker, other than Joe of course. 

In truth the Mariners are their own worst enemy. They should change their nickname to the Jonahs because bad things happen to them too frequently to be coincidence. They are under by some kind of hex. The players change, the batting averages and on base percentages remain the same, low and low.

Every team goes through bad stretches, the good ones pull out of it sooner than later. The M’s have lost six of seven and you can not blame the loss of all-star pitcher Hisashi Iwakuma and phenom pitcher Taijuan Walker for their losses. It is hitting and bobbling that is hurting them. That and Erasmo Ramirez with three straight bad starts.

But tomorrow is another day. I am not sure I can take another transfer bobble. I may just watch until the 7th inning stretch, then hide under the bed for the next hour and read about the game on the Internet.

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