Joey Votto had an infield pop-up.
–He had one such out in 2011 and none at all in 2010.
Joel Peralta of the Rays was ejected before throwing a single pitch due to a foreign substance in his glove, something that comes with an automatic 10 game suspension.
–For you conspiracy theorists out there: Peralta used to play for the Nats’ Triple-A affiliate, which was managed by the team’s current first base coach at the time.
—-The Rays, of course, were playing the Nats.
Justin Verlander had three strike outs today…and four walks.
Via @uublog, Carlos Ruiz tied his career high in home runs (9) today.
–It’s only June 19th.
The Brewers sent 10 men to the plate in the bottom of the third.
–They had two hits that inning.
Via @sberthiuameespn/Steve Berthiuame, prior to this evening’s games, the Athletics led the American League in runs (90), on-base percentage (.346) and slugging percentage (.462) in the month of June.
Aroldis Chapman gave up a walk-off home run
The Jays hit back-to-back-to-back home runs for the first time in seven seasons.
Peralta pitched for the major-league Nats from June to Sept of 2010. During pregame warmups, Nats manager Davey Johnson was watching him throw and asked “How’d we let this guy get away?” In return he heard, as he put it, probably more than he needed to know. Might not have been the best move to have Peralta ejected, as the next reliever set down the Nats 1-2-3 and they lost, 5-4. The umpire crew chief allowed Rays manager Joe Madden “one inspection,” which he used on the Nats’ reliever–nothing but a sweaty cap and grins all around.
In the same game there was a lengthy delay because the Rays complained about an advertisement near the batters’ eye–when the ad could not be turned off, the grounds crew hung a tarp over it. Also, Madden called for a Nats home run to be reviewed (it was upheld).
Reportedly, Joe Madden called Davey Johnson’s call for the glove inspection “cowardly.” There is no report on how Davey felt about the umpire review or the batters’ eye complaint.