- Tomorrow, the Pirates go for the sweep against the Red Sox. By the way, the Pirates haven’t swept an American League team since 2001.
– The Pirates are actually in third place in the NL Central, A GAME OUT OF SECOND PLACE, and according to Cool Standings, have a 17.4% chance of making the playoffs.
— The Padres and Pirates have more wins against the Red Sox than the Yankees do.
- The final score of the Mets/Rangers game was 14-5… METS.
– There were three home runs hit in this game and none of them were by the Mets.
— Alexi Ogando: 3 IP, 8 H, 6 R, 3 ER. Thanks to our friends at ESPN Stats and Info for this: in three starts against New York teams this year, Ogando has an 11.45 ERA; in his 12 starts against everyone else, it’s 1.69.
—- Three doubles for Lucas Duda, who came into this game hitting .173, with only one multi-hit game all season, and that was a two-hit game.
- Carlos Gomez homered.
– Yuniesky Betancourt inside-the-park homer. In the same game! (Also, seriously, what kind of ancient burial ground did the Twins anger this year?)
— Vernon Wells homered, too. Not in this game.
- Remember how long the Nationals/White Sox game went on last night? Well, today, as these things tend to happen, John Danks left after 1.2 with an oblique injury.
– The White Sox bullpen then combined to shut out the Nationals as Chicago won 3-0.
— These shutout innings of relief included 2.1 scoreless innings from Brian Bruney (!), and four scoreless innings of 7 K ball from Jake Peavy (!!!), making the first relief appearance of his career.
—- Tom Gorzelanny, who has an ERA over five on the road, gave up one run over seven innings with eight strikeouts and took the loss.
- Marlins win! Marlins win!!
- In a very small sample size of 20.2 IP, CC Sabathia has a career 7.84 ERA against the Rockies. His line against Colorado today: 8 IP, 7 H, 1 R/ER, 1 BB, 9 K.
- The Giants beat the Indians 1-0… on a balk.
– The last time a team beat another team 1-0 where the only run scored on a balk was May 10, 2006, when the then-Devil Rays beat the Mariners.
— Aubrey Huff was on that Devil Rays team – and this Giants team.
- There were ten home runs hit in the Reds/Orioles game. Ten! Needs… less… steroids?
- Congrats? to Houston, MLB’s first fifty-game loser. Okay, maybe this is the most predictable thing we have ever typed on YCPB.
One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine…only nine home runs in the Orioles-Reds game. Five for the Reds and four for the O’s, both season highs.