Monthly Archives: July 2011

Daily Roundup, 07/20/11

- Make it 11 straight losses for the Mariners. – This after they scored six runs tonight. — On July 5, the Mariners were only 2.5 games out of first. Now they’re 13.5 back. – Tim Lincecum lost 1-0 today. … Continue reading

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Daily Roundup, 07/19/11

- Cleveland closer Chris Perez is apparently staying at Danny Valencia’s house while they are in Minnesota. Well, tonight Perez gave up a walk-off hit to Valencia. – This, naturally, followed that. – Starlin Castro hit his second home run … Continue reading

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Daily Roundup, 07/18/11

- Once again: FIRST PLACE PITTSBURGH PIRATES!!!!!! And this time they’ve got first place all to themselves. – The Rays scored two runs before they made an out tonight. They didn’t score in sixteen innings last night. – They still … Continue reading

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Daily Roundup, 07/17/11

- The As scored seven runs today before they made an out. – The Giants scored the winning run on a suicide squeeze. In the same game, the Padres had the bases loaded in extra innings… but didn’t score because … Continue reading

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Daily Roundup, 07/16/11

Edwin Jackson threw a shutout against the Tigers. -He was facing Max Scherzer, who he was traded for. –Jackson’s last complete game was his no-hitter last year against another former team of his. —Only four of the 36 batters he … Continue reading

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Daily Roundup, 07/15/11

- Jeff Karstens threw a complete game shutout. It was against the Astros, but still, Jeff Karstens! Complete game shutout! – His ERA is now 2.34. Of course, almost nothing has changed in his peripherals outside of his BABIP (and … Continue reading

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Daily Roundup, 07/14/11

Short slate of games today, but well, thanks to the Cubs for being the Cubs at least. – The second half of the year began with a leadoff Asdrubal Cabrera home run on the very first pitch he saw. – … Continue reading

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On those things we said would happen…

…because we don’t predict baseball, of course. Anyway, you may or may not remember our staff’s bold predictions from the very beginning of the season, and we figured we’d check up on them at the All-Star break. As we said, … Continue reading

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Standings Surprises at the All-Star Break

AL East: Not many shockers here. The Red Sox and Yankees are really good, the Rays are good but not on their level, the Blue Jays are chugging along in a mediocre fashion, and the Orioles suck. I guess the … Continue reading

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Daily Roundup, 07/10/11

First things first, this roundup by Baseball Reference is pretty awesome. And now on with the show. – BJ Upton had… a day. He singled in the fourth inning of the Rays/Yankees game, then immediately got picked off (CC running … Continue reading

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