The Indians fought back valiantly from an 8-1 deficit, but still lose to the White Sox 9-7. Jim Thome got Chicago off on the right foot with a three-run homer in the first, and Nick Swisher added a grand slam and a solo shot. Peralta had a big night for the Indians, picking [...]
Posted by David Pinto at 11:39 pm | Games | Permalink | 2 Comments
June 30, 2008
Hip to Cabrera
Miguel Cabrera left the Tigers/Twins game with a tight left hip flexor. The Tigers were down 4-1 but scored twice in both the seventh and eighth inning to take a 5-4 lead over Minnesota. The Twins bullpen, so tough during the winning streak, has given up three runs in 2 1/3 innings so [...]
Posted by David Pinto at 11:05 pm | Injuries | Permalink | 1 Comment
June 30, 2008
A Win and a Loss
The Astros defeated the light hitting Dodgers 4-1 this evening, but lost Roy Oswalt to an injury:
Oswalt allowed one run and six hits with nine strikeouts through six innings. He grounded out to relief pitcher Ramon Troncoso to end the Astros’ half of the sixth. Houston led 4-1.
Catcher Brad Ausmus walked before Oswalt batted and [...]
Posted by David Pinto at 10:57 pm | Games, Injuries | Permalink | 1 Comment
June 30, 2008
Power Finish
The Nationals took a 5-4 lead into the bottom of the ninth, but Hanley Ramirez homered off John Rauch to tie the game. Rauch stayed in the pitch the bottom of the tenth with the scored still tied at five, and Josh Willingham led off with his second home run of the game, good [...]
Posted by David Pinto at 10:39 pm | Games | Permalink | No Comments
June 30, 2008
Shutting Down the Yankees
The Texas Rangers held the Yankees to just one run on an Alex Rodriguez homer and take the game 2-1. Feldman allowed four hits and three walks in 5 2/3 innings, including Jason Giambi’s first triple since 2002. The Yankees, however, were 0 for 6 with runners in scoring position. The Rangers [...]
Posted by David Pinto at 10:27 pm | Games | Permalink | 2 Comments
June 30, 2008
Closer Than it Should Be
Quite the exciting finish to the Red Sox/Rays game. Luck almost conspired to give the game to Boston. In the sixth inning, Drew appeared to strike out looking. He was ready to throw his bat away but noticed the ump called the pitch a ball. NESN’s pitch tracker showed the ball [...]
Posted by David Pinto at 10:06 pm | Games | Permalink | 2 Comments
June 30, 2008
One Base at a Time
The Cardinals continued their station to station play, with seven of their ten hits going for singles and drawing six walks as they down the Mets 7-1. Glaus adds two hit by pitch to up the one base reaches to 15. A wild, sloppy game by the Mets with eight free passes and [...]
Posted by David Pinto at 9:58 pm | Games | Permalink | No Comments
June 30, 2008
The Kid is Alright
Ken Griffey comes into the game against the Pirates as a defensive replacement in a double switch. He comes up in the bottom of the ninth and hits a two-run homer to win the game for the Reds 4-3. Aaron Harang pitched seven strong innings, but was in line for a tough loss [...]
Posted by David Pinto at 9:51 pm | Games | Permalink | No Comments
June 30, 2008
Just Luck
Al’s Rambling looks to see if bullpen performance or batting with runners in scoring position are the reasons for teams being off from their expected W/L percentage. He concludes it’s mostly luck.
Posted by David Pinto at 9:00 pm | Team Evaluation | Permalink | No Comments
June 30, 2008
Double X Marks the Spot
Alex Rodriguez picks up the Yankees first hit of the night in the fourth, his 16th home run of the season. That gives him 534 for his career, tying him with Jimmie Foxx for 14th on the all-time list. Up next is Mantle at 536. I suspect that will be a big [...]
Posted by David Pinto at 8:37 pm | Sluggers | Permalink | No Comments
June 30, 2008
Nipping Away
The Cardinals are using singles and walks to chip away at the Mets tonight. They’ve scored in each of the first four innings, building a 5-0 lead. They have seven hits and three walks, and only one of the hits went for extra bases, a double by Glaus. The Mets aided them [...]
Posted by David Pinto at 8:31 pm | Games | Permalink | No Comments
June 30, 2008
Gross Out
Gabe Gross hits a two-run homer down the rightfield line in the bottom of the fourth. The Rays grab the lead back 3-1. Navarro drew a walk with two outs to set up the blast.
Posted by David Pinto at 8:16 pm | Games | Permalink | 1 Comment
June 30, 2008
Upton, Upton and Away
B.J. Upton takes Masterson’s first pitch over the fence in centerfield for a 1-0 Rays lead in the bottom of the first. The stands look as full as I have ever seen in Tampa Bay for a weeknight game.
Update Sheilds is dealing tonight. He’s retired the first nine Red Sox batters, four on strikeouts. [...]
Posted by David Pinto at 7:16 pm | Sluggers | Permalink | No Comments
June 30, 2008
Dogs and Franks at 20
James Crabtree and his friend Ryan set out to find Bob Wood on the 20th anniversary of the publication of Dodger Dogs to Fenway Franks: The Ultimate Guide to America’s Top Baseball Parks. Here is their story:
The lure of the open road, a quest to visit all the sacred green cathedrals of America’s National [...]
Posted by David Pinto at 7:01 pm | Books | Permalink | 5 Comments
June 30, 2008
Trade Proposal
Evan Brunell makes the case for the Red Sox trading Kevin Youkilis for Mark Teixeira. Alex Remmington is all for it and thinks it will be a steal for the Braves.
Posted by David Pinto at 5:44 pm | Trades | Permalink | No Comments
June 30, 2008
Aces Wild
Lookout Landing examines how trading aces this winter changed the teams involved in the trades. It seems the sellers did better than the buyers.
Posted by David Pinto at 5:04 pm | Pitchers | Permalink | No Comments
June 30, 2008
Quick to Notice Slowey
Joe Christensen kept his eye on Kevin Slowey last season at AAA. Joe is not surprised Kevin is starting to dominate.
Posted by David Pinto at 4:37 pm | Pitchers | Permalink | No Comments
June 30, 2008
Pivotal Week
Henry Schulman believes this week will make or break the Giants. San Francisco faces the Cubs and the Dodgers in SF, but the Giants are playing poorly at home:
Start with the Cubs. They have the best record in the NL (49-33) but a) are coming off being swept by the White Sox, b) are [...]
Posted by David Pinto at 4:19 pm | Team Evaluation | Permalink | No Comments
June 30, 2008
Manny Beats up Old Men
Here’s a little more on the Manny Ramirez altercation with traveling secretary Jack McCormick. This is the part that got me (emphasis added):
Ramirez and McCormick later met behind closed doors and Ramirez apologized to McCormick, who also spoke with GM Theo Epstein about the incident. “There’s no animosity on my part,” said McCormick, who is [...]
Posted by David Pinto at 1:53 pm | Baseball Jerks | Permalink | 2 Comments
June 30, 2008
Sour Melk?
The Yankees are calling up Brett Gardner today.
Brett Gardner is joining the Yankees today. I saw this first on Chad Jennings’s Yankees blog in the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre Times Tribune, but Gardner also spoke to his hometown paper, the Times and Democrat, about finally getting the callup.
No word what the corresponding move is. It could be something [...]
Posted by David Pinto at 12:32 pm | Rookies | Permalink | 3 Comments
June 30, 2008
San Diego Selling
This post at Bats suggests the Padres are giving up on 2008 and are willing to trade to pick up prospects. The post mentions both Maddux and Wolf as players to be traded, but what about Brian Giles? He’s old, so his future value to the San Diego organization is small. Giles’s [...]
Posted by David Pinto at 12:10 pm | Trades | Permalink | 2 Comments
June 30, 2008
Looking for Control
Dontrelle Willis walked three batters in two innings Sunday. He only allowed one run, however. I’m not really sure that’s progress.
Posted by David Pinto at 11:30 am | Pitchers | Permalink | No Comments
June 30, 2008
Jones Still Hurting
It looks like Chipper Jones is not healing as quickly as expected, and he’s likely going to go on the disabled list. With the expectation that the time off heals the injury, this makes it a bit more likely that Chipper will hit .400, since he’ll have a smaller number of at bats this [...]
Posted by David Pinto at 11:16 am | Injuries | Permalink | 4 Comments
June 30, 2008
Threatening Players
Someone made a threat by mail against Boston Red Sox players:
The Red Sox received a mailed threat, believed to be postmarked in Memphis, that targeted black and Latin players, citing at least two players by name, the newspaper reports. The named players will have extra security during their time in Florida, even away from Tropicana [...]
Posted by David Pinto at 11:11 am | Fan Violence | Permalink | No Comments
June 30, 2008
Games of the Day
The Red Sox visit the first place Tampa Bay Rays tonight with 1/2 game separating the two clubs. Justin Masterson takes the hill for the Red Sox. His most impressive number is the .195 batting average he’s allowed to opponents. That’s somewhat neutralized by his high number of walks, but still, a [...]
Posted by David Pinto at 8:41 am | Matchups | Permalink | No Comments
June 30, 2008
Interleague Wrapup (Almost)
The AL and NL wrapped up interleague play yesterday (with the exception of the Yankees-Pirates make up game) and the AL dominated. The American League took the series 149-102, a .593 winning percentage. As one of the commeters to an earlier post pointed out, that winning percentage represents a 96 win season, which [...]
Posted by David Pinto at 8:07 am | Series | Permalink | 3 Comments
June 30, 2008
Manny Being Malicious
There must be something in the water in Houston. There was another player-employee scuffle:
Manny Ramirez shoved Red Sox traveling secretary Jack McCormick to the ground in an argument over Ramirez’ ticket allotment. Several onlookers moved quickly to separate the two.
Ramirez had asked McCormick for 16 tickets for Saturday night’s Red Sox-Astros game, an unusually [...]
Posted by David Pinto at 7:53 am | Baseball Jerks | Permalink | 5 Comments
June 30, 2008
No Longer a Baby
John Delcos discusses Jose Reyes’s antics on the LoHud Mets Blog:
He does these things because the Mets let him. He loses focus because the Mets don’t do anything about it when he does.
Some players have said Willie Randolph wanted to lean on him harder, but the front office wouldn’t let him.
He’s 25 now and time [...]
Posted by David Pinto at 7:39 am | Players | Permalink | 4 Comments
June 30, 2008
Approaching a Milestone
Long time commenter Devon Young started his own blog. His first entry notes that Ichiro Suzuki is just 30 hits away from 3000 if you combine his Japanese and MLB statistics. If he can sustain his 200+ hit level for a few more years, he may reach 3000 in the majors. Given [...]
Posted by David Pinto at 7:12 am | Records | Permalink | No Comments
June 30, 2008
Monday Update
The Day by Day Database is up to date.
Posted by David Pinto at 6:54 am | Statistics | Permalink | 1 Comment
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