Notes on Bernandez bobbleheads and rehab assignments for Smoak, Figgins
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Photo by Ben Van Houten
Larry Bernandez (also known to Mariners fans as Felix Hernandez) hands out bobbleheads before Saturday night's game.
Saturday, August 27, 2011 | 5:38 pm
Besides fans clamoring for the Larry Bernandez bobblehead, which fans will get tonight, there's not a lot of juice to the Mariners report before Game 2 of their series against the Chicago White Sox.
There is this:
Manager Eric Wedge said first baseman Justin Smoak probably will start a minor league rehab assignment Monday. Smoak has fielded ground balls the past two days and, by all reports, is doing well in his recovery from a broken nose and broken cheekbone when he was hit in the face by a ground ball.
Wedge also said third baseman Chone Figgins (right hip flexor) also may start a rehab assignment next week. Figgins ran the bases Friday and put his legs through a workout in the clubhouse pool this afternoon.
Also, with the Mariners going with a six-man pitching rotation, here's how their starters line up after today: Blake Beavan on Monday, Anthony Vasquez on Tuesday, Felix Hernandez on Wednesday, Charlie Furbush on Thursday (all vs. the Angels), Michael Pineda on Friday and Jason Vargas on Saturday (at Oakland).
And finally, here is Wedge's take on the “Larry Bernandez” promotion, which was spawned by the commercial that he was a part of with Felix Hernandez.
“”I'm not a big commercial type,” Wedge said. “I remember telling them at the end of the 10th take, ‘This is the last take, you've got to pick one of them.' But Felix was out there before me and he was there after me, in full makeup. They told me how great this was going to be, but it's really taken on a life of its own.”
As a special treat to fans entering through the home-plate entrance today at Safeco Field, Hernandez himself -- er, Bernandez -- spent a few minutes handing out bobbleheads.
There is this:
Manager Eric Wedge said first baseman Justin Smoak probably will start a minor league rehab assignment Monday. Smoak has fielded ground balls the past two days and, by all reports, is doing well in his recovery from a broken nose and broken cheekbone when he was hit in the face by a ground ball.
Wedge also said third baseman Chone Figgins (right hip flexor) also may start a rehab assignment next week. Figgins ran the bases Friday and put his legs through a workout in the clubhouse pool this afternoon.
Also, with the Mariners going with a six-man pitching rotation, here's how their starters line up after today: Blake Beavan on Monday, Anthony Vasquez on Tuesday, Felix Hernandez on Wednesday, Charlie Furbush on Thursday (all vs. the Angels), Michael Pineda on Friday and Jason Vargas on Saturday (at Oakland).
And finally, here is Wedge's take on the “Larry Bernandez” promotion, which was spawned by the commercial that he was a part of with Felix Hernandez.
“”I'm not a big commercial type,” Wedge said. “I remember telling them at the end of the 10th take, ‘This is the last take, you've got to pick one of them.' But Felix was out there before me and he was there after me, in full makeup. They told me how great this was going to be, but it's really taken on a life of its own.”
As a special treat to fans entering through the home-plate entrance today at Safeco Field, Hernandez himself -- er, Bernandez -- spent a few minutes handing out bobbleheads.
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