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What we saw tonight: exactly what Eric Wedge has spent past 16 months drilling into Mariners hitters
May 22nd, 2012 | 
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We’ve had plenty of discussions about this “attack mode” approach Eric Wedge has spent the past 16 months trying to get his hitters to employ. Even this morning, right here on the blog, we talked about it some more and some of the reprecussions the approach may have had on a team walk rate that’s one of the lowest in baseball.
But what you saw tonight in a 6-1 win over Yu Darvish and the Texas Rangers is exactly what Wedge wants out of his hitters. The Mariners punished Darvish when he came in the zone tonight. And when he didn’t, they took six walks against him — seven total in the game. They made him throw 96 pitches in four innings.
Even in that 1-2-3 second inning — the only clean one Darvish had — Mike Carp still made him throw 10 pitches to notch a strikeout.
That’s what this approach is supposed to be all about. That’s how it’s supposed to work: even against a good pitcher on a great team.
It was never about being anti-walk. Clearly, an approach that generates six walks in three-plus innings against Darvish is not anti-walk.
This was always about being ready to hit good pitches, lay off bad ones and let the hits and walks pile up accordingly. Tonight, they did and Wedge looked and sounded pretty excited and almost relieved about it afterwards. It’s been a long, patient road he’s had to follow to get to this point. And this is only the beginning. We’ve yet to see proof the M’s can do this consistently. But this was a very real start against a very good ballclub.
“You’ve really got to tip your hat to our guys,” Wedge said. “Offensively, our guys went out there and made him (Darvish) come into the zone. And when he didn’t, we took the passes where we could.”
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