The Cubs hold on to Rich Harden, and he repays them with a wild night. He walked six in five innings, also allowing five hits and five runs as the Astros take a 5-3 victory. The Cubs lose 1/2 game to the idle Giants and Rockies.
Harden walked 22 in his previous 11 starts, [...]
Posted by David Pinto at 11:15 pm | Games, Pitchers | Permalink | 1 Comment
August 31, 2009
Insurance Run
Adam Lind just hit his second home run of the game, a solo shot in the top of the ninth to give Toronto a 12-10 lead. Texas was down 11-0 early in the game. Lind joins Barajas with two home runs and five RBI on the night.
Update: Two more doubles extends the Blue [...]
Posted by David Pinto at 11:10 pm | Games | Permalink | No Comments
August 31, 2009
White Sox Still Slumping
The Minnesota Twins down the Chicago White Sox 4-1 as the South Sider’s batting slump continues. They’ve now scored six runs in their last four games, losing all four. They fall 2 1/2 games behind the Twins, while Minnesota takes advantage of the Tigers afternoon loss to close the gap to 3 1/2 [...]
Posted by David Pinto at 11:07 pm | Games, Team Evaluation | Permalink | No Comments
August 31, 2009
Cueto Returns
Johnny Cueto returned to the Reds rotation tonight in the second game of the day agains the Pittsburgh Pirates. The rest did Cueto good as he goes five innings, allowing three hits, one walk and five strikeouts. He did allow one run on a solo homer as the Reds sweep the Pirates, taking [...]
Posted by David Pinto at 10:56 pm | Games, Pitchers | Permalink | No Comments
August 31, 2009
Rangers Keep Getting Closer
Texas scores two runs in the sixth to cut the Blue Jays lead to 11-9, and now has runners on 1st and 3rd wth one out in the seventh. The Blue Jays announcers just said this would be the biggest melt-down in Toronto history.
Update: Downs comes in to face Chris Davis, and Davis hits [...]
Posted by David Pinto at 10:42 pm | Games | Permalink | No Comments
August 31, 2009
Pettitte Remains Hot
Andy Pettitte lost his no-hitter late, but finished with a great starts, eight innings, one run, no walks, eight strikeouts. Over his last seven starts, Andy struck out 47 and walked 12, good for a 2.35 ERA.
Pettitte now has 227 wins for his career, and 72 over the last five seasons. If he [...]
Posted by David Pinto at 10:31 pm | Games, Pitchers | Permalink | No Comments
August 31, 2009
Hillman Leaves Royals
My condolences to Trey Hillman on the loss of his father-in-law.
Posted by David Pinto at 10:01 pm | Deaths | Permalink | No Comments
August 31, 2009
Rangers Come Back
The Rangers score seven runs off Brett Cecil in the fifth inning to close the gap to 11-7. Unfortunately Texas, if that remains the score, it will still be a crappy night.
Posted by David Pinto at 9:59 pm | Games | Permalink | No Comments
August 31, 2009
Braves Win
The Braves take game one of their series against the Marlins 5-2. This puts them in good shape for the remaining three games as they’ve already defeated the Florida ace, Josh Johnson. Atlanta gains 1/2 game on the idle Giants and Rockies.
Posted by David Pinto at 9:54 pm | Division Races, Games | Permalink | No Comments
August 31, 2009
Mauer Connects
Joe Mauer’s BA has been dropping lately, and he hadn’t homered in 11 games. He hits a shot, however, in his second at bat of the night, smashing a ball off Gavin Floyd for a 1-0 Twins lead over the White Sox in the bottom of the third.
Posted by David Pinto at 9:09 pm | Games, Players | Permalink | No Comments
August 31, 2009
Tulip Mania
The Blue Jays are hitting Derek Holland left and right. He’s allowed five hits and three walks through three innings, leading to six Toronto runs. Three of those came on a Rod Barajas homer in the first. That ties Rod’s second best season of 15 homers. He hit 21 for Texas [...]
Posted by David Pinto at 9:05 pm | Games | Permalink | No Comments
August 31, 2009
Braves Take the Lead
Omar Infante triples in two runs in the top of the seventh as the Braves take a 2-1 lead on the Marlins. Johnson lost the no-hitter in the sixth, but the Marlins couldn’t build him a comfortable lead. It’s Infante’s first triple of the year
Posted by David Pinto at 8:57 pm | Games | Permalink | No Comments
August 31, 2009
Pettitte in the Seventh
Andy Pettitte is coming out for the seventh inning with a perfect game intact. Sixes are wild as he’s thrown 66 pitches and struck out six through six innings. Brian Roberts, Cesar Izturis and Adam Jones are scheduled in the seventh.
Update: Pettitte starts Roberts with a perfect pitch on the low, outside corner, [...]
Posted by David Pinto at 8:47 pm | Games, Pitchers | Permalink | No Comments
August 31, 2009
One Done, One Perfect
Matt Diaz singles off Josh Johnson in the sixth, breaking up his no-hitter. Andy Pettitte, however, retires the Orioles in order in the sixth to remain perfect.
Posted by David Pinto at 8:35 pm | Games, Pitchers | Permalink | No Comments
August 31, 2009
Pettitte Penta Perfect
Andy Pettitte gets a fly out, strikeout and foul pop out to retire the Orioles in order in the fifth. That fifteen up and fifteen down as Pettitte remains perfect. The Yankees scored in the top of the fifth to extend their lead to 2-0.
Posted by David Pinto at 8:25 pm | Games, Pitchers | Permalink | No Comments
August 31, 2009
Josh Johnson No-Hitter Through Five
Johnson walks one and strikes out one in the fifth, but a double play means he faced just three batters. He’s walked three batter but hasn’t allowed a hit as he continues to make a 1-0 Marlins lead hold up.
Posted by David Pinto at 8:19 pm | Games, Pitchers | Permalink | No Comments
August 31, 2009
Out-Hitting the Opposition
Josh Johnson singles with one out in the bottom of the third. He now has more hits in the game than the Braves. Florida leads 1-0.
Update: Josh Johnson extends his no-hitter through four innings. He’s walked two batters and struck out five.
Meanwhile, in Baltimore, Andy Pettitte has retired the first [...]
Posted by David Pinto at 7:49 pm | Games, Pitchers | Permalink | No Comments
August 31, 2009
Fires in Los Angeles
Great picture at Dodger Thoughts of the wild fires near Dodger Stadium. It looks like a volcano is erupting.
Posted by David Pinto at 7:15 pm | Stadiums | Permalink | No Comments
August 31, 2009
Giant Penny
Brad Penny heads back to the west coast as the Giants sign him for next to nothing.
Hat tip, 6-4-2, who has another interesting link as well. Penny is probably better than Joe Martinez.
Posted by David Pinto at 6:09 pm | Pitchers, Transactions | Permalink | No Comments
August 31, 2009
More Moore
The Royals are about to extend Dayton Moore’s contract.
The Royals have reached a tentative agreement with general manager Dayton Moore on a four-year contract extension that runs through 2014.
The new deal could be announced as soon as tonight.
The move confirms owner David Glass’ belief that Moore has the organization pointed in the right direction despite [...]
Posted by David Pinto at 5:19 pm | Management | Permalink | 1 Comment
August 31, 2009
Born to be Wild
The Pirates lose to the Reds 4-3 when Jesse Chavez uncorks a wild pitch in the bottom of the ninth. Chavez now owns seven wild pitches in 70 1/3 career innings, 0.9 WP per nine innings. That’s a fairly high rate. Since 1957, only 37 other pitcher had a rate that high [...]
Posted by David Pinto at 4:18 pm | Games, Pitchers | Permalink | No Comments
August 31, 2009
Red Sox/Yankees Raffle
Celebrities for Charity is offering a raffle for great seats at Yankee Stadium for a Red Sox Yankees game. You have until September 23rd to enter.
Posted by David Pinto at 3:31 pm | Charity | Permalink | No Comments
August 31, 2009
Rude Welcome
Drew Stubbs welcomes Daniel McCutchen to the majors with a lead-off home run. They keep track of players who hit home runs in their first at bat, I wonder if they do the same for pitchers? The Reds lead the Pirates 1-0 in the bottom of the first.
Update: Daniel McCutchen singles and drives [...]
Posted by David Pinto at 1:26 pm | Games, Pitchers | Permalink | No Comments
August 31, 2009
Washburn Washes Out
The first six Rays reach base against Jarrod Washburn, the last on a home run by Carlos Pena. The Rays lead 6-0 in the first, and now Washburn has allowed 10 of his 21 homers since joining the Tigers.
Detroit fans booed Washburn after the Pena homer, then sarcastically cheered when Aybar made the first [...]
Posted by David Pinto at 1:21 pm | Games, Pitchers | Permalink | No Comments
August 31, 2009
Brewers Attendance
Rob Neyer notes that the Brewers are doing very well at the gate despite falling out of contention. He does not buy the explanations offered as to why:
I believe that attendance can basically be explained by four things: market size, performance, ballpark, and payroll. But one occasionally finds anomalies, and I believe those anomalies [...]
Posted by David Pinto at 12:57 pm | Attendance | Permalink | No Comments
August 31, 2009
No Cubs Trades
Rich Harden and Aaron Heilman stay in Chicago, as the Twins, Giants and Cubs could not work out deals for the pitchers.
This is a good thing for the Cubs, as they are a better team down the stretch with those two than without. It wouldn’t take that big a miracle for the Cubs to [...]
Posted by David Pinto at 12:29 pm | Pitchers, Trades | Permalink | No Comments
August 31, 2009
The Opposite of Progress
Dontrelle Willis hasn’t found the plate yet. In his last 57 2/3 major league innings, he’s walked 63 and struck out 35. We’ve likely seen the last of Dontrelle in the majors.
Posted by David Pinto at 12:12 pm | Pitchers | Permalink | 1 Comment
August 31, 2009
Decoding Trey
Sam Mellinger gives us a Trey Hillman dictionary.
Posted by David Pinto at 11:53 am | Management | Permalink | No Comments
August 31, 2009
Harden Deal Unlikely
The Twins have not asked for Rich Harden’s medical records.
Posted by David Pinto at 11:28 am | Trades | Permalink | No Comments
August 31, 2009
Games of the Day
The Rays and Tigers finish up their series in Detroit with an afternoon game as James Shields faces Jarrod Washburn. For the second year in a row, Shields’s strikeouts per nine is down. Given his low walk rates, he can probably live with it, but he’s only 27 and a decline of 1.3 [...]
Posted by David Pinto at 9:15 am | Games | Permalink | No Comments
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