Sexson walk-off

It was fun last night watching Sexson deliver payback for walking two batters intentionally to face him! You don't see your main RBI batter getting disrespected like that very often. We were in the stands whispering "are they really doing what I think they are doing!??" while everyone stood on their feet for the at-bat. It didn't take long to see the results. The Tampa CF never even looked back; I swear he immediately starting walking back to the dugout when he it.

I did notice Sexson didn't seem to take his helmet off when he trotted home. Apparently he hasn't received the David Ortiz memo that recommends you toss the helmet to avoid teammates beating you senseless over the head. This is pretty much required if you want to look like you do this sort of thing all the time- perhaps someone can let Sexson know. (or maybe he likes getting beat in the head- to each his own)

The other thing that generated lots of discussion was Bloomquist. We all know Willie is a management favorite, so we don't want to beat that dead horse, but his at-bats last night were particulaly bad. In four trips to the plate, his production looked like:
#1=Strike (looking), Strike (looking), Ball, Strike (looking), W Bloomquist struck out looking
#2=W Bloomquist flied out to right
#3=Ball, W Bloomquist fouled out to catcher
#4=W Bloomquist flied out to right

Unless I'm mistaken, Willie saw a total of 8 pitches in 4 at bats. One at-bat (his longest) was a strikeout on 4 pitches, and the rest were lazy pop-ups. These were not balls that were scorched, they were innocent, child-like rainbows that fell into the Devil Ray gloves.

I really am not wanting to jump all over Willie, but he looks so bad right now at the plate, I don't know how Hargrove can continue to not notice.

Anyway, the game was fun so let's see if the M's can get out the brooms and take care of business.