Two years into a five-year, $64 million contract, Adrian Beltre has produced a .262 average, 44 home runs, and 176 RBIs. However, after the All Star break in 2006, Beltre slugged .552 with a whopping 18 home runs. Does this strong second half bode well for a turn-around in 2007, or will Mariners fans have to deal with 'A-Drain' once again? This blog intends to follow the 2007 season for Adrian Beltre, and the Seattle Mariners, and promises to hold no punches.
Let's go immediately into today's game with the Orioles, in which the Mariners lost 5-2, thus ending their winning streak at one.
On the bright side, Adrian got 40% of the Mariners' hits. That's right, Beltin' Beltre slapped two bases-empty singles to account for the Mariners' lone hitting off O's "ace" Daniel Cabrera (he of 13 walks in 13.2 innings so far this year) as Cabrera kept the Mariners in check through five. Good thing Adrian's able to come through with base hits with the bases empty, and keeping those clutch RBI ground-outs for when the bases are full with no outs.
Beltre did reach base in the seventh after striking out, due to some heads up play and a wild pitch thrown by Cabrera. After a sacrifice by Jeremy Reed- another disappointment, but not nearly as deserving of his own blog- Beltre did some dicey base-running and stole third. (I say dicey because Beltre was all ready in scoring position, and could've easily made out #3 at third, a big no-no in the Baseball Rulebook.) This is Beltre's seventh stolen base of the season, more than doubling the three SBs he had last year. What is Beltre's agenda- to prove that he's the fastest in the line-up, even more so than Ichiro? Or is it to make Mariners fans forget we signed him to plug in the three-hole in the line-up, but instead spent $64 million on a slap-happy speedster who'll burn up the basepaths?
Anyways, an infield ground-out by Yuniesky Betancourt nullified any chance of pushing Beltre across the plate. (Betancourt must suffer from the opposite of what's ailing Beltre. He must only get run-scoring singles in extra innings against the World Champs, like he did against the White Sox last week. But in the seventh inning against Cabrera? No dice.)
At any rate, by going 2-for-3, Beltre raised his average from .175 to .193. Still no homers, though. Thus raising his homerless at-bat streak to 83. Which brings us to....
Homerless drought update:
Willy Taveras (93)
Rafael Furcal (88)
Orlando Hudson (84)- game in progress
Placido Polanco (88)
Brian Roberts (87)
Jason Michaels (87)
Juan Pierre (87)
Adrian Beltre (83)
Carl Crawford (83)
Scott Podsednik (82)- game in progress
Rondell White (79)
Tomorrow the M's face the O's Bruce Chen, who Adrian has torched to the tune of .133 in 15 career at-bats, with no home runs. I don'tsee that homerless streak being ended any time soon...
On the bright side, Adrian got 40% of the Mariners' hits. That's right, Beltin' Beltre slapped two bases-empty singles to account for the Mariners' lone hitting off O's "ace" Daniel Cabrera (he of 13 walks in 13.2 innings so far this year) as Cabrera kept the Mariners in check through five. Good thing Adrian's able to come through with base hits with the bases empty, and keeping those clutch RBI ground-outs for when the bases are full with no outs.
Beltre did reach base in the seventh after striking out, due to some heads up play and a wild pitch thrown by Cabrera. After a sacrifice by Jeremy Reed- another disappointment, but not nearly as deserving of his own blog- Beltre did some dicey base-running and stole third. (I say dicey because Beltre was all ready in scoring position, and could've easily made out #3 at third, a big no-no in the Baseball Rulebook.) This is Beltre's seventh stolen base of the season, more than doubling the three SBs he had last year. What is Beltre's agenda- to prove that he's the fastest in the line-up, even more so than Ichiro? Or is it to make Mariners fans forget we signed him to plug in the three-hole in the line-up, but instead spent $64 million on a slap-happy speedster who'll burn up the basepaths?
Anyways, an infield ground-out by Yuniesky Betancourt nullified any chance of pushing Beltre across the plate. (Betancourt must suffer from the opposite of what's ailing Beltre. He must only get run-scoring singles in extra innings against the World Champs, like he did against the White Sox last week. But in the seventh inning against Cabrera? No dice.)
At any rate, by going 2-for-3, Beltre raised his average from .175 to .193. Still no homers, though. Thus raising his homerless at-bat streak to 83. Which brings us to....
Homerless drought update:
Willy Taveras (93)
Rafael Furcal (88)
Orlando Hudson (84)- game in progress
Placido Polanco (88)
Brian Roberts (87)
Jason Michaels (87)
Juan Pierre (87)
Adrian Beltre (83)
Carl Crawford (83)
Scott Podsednik (82)- game in progress
Rondell White (79)
Tomorrow the M's face the O's Bruce Chen, who Adrian has torched to the tune of .133 in 15 career at-bats, with no home runs. I don'tsee that homerless streak being ended any time soon...
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