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Too bad it didn’t happen three days ago on 5/5. All seven American League games Sunday featured one team or the other scoring five runs. The A’s, Rays, Tigers and White Sox all won while scoring five, while the Indians, Rangers and Twins lost with that number of runs. STATS did the research and said…
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Cardinals manager Tony La Russa will have the viral infection around his right eye examined at the Mayo Clinic on Monday’s off day, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports. La Russa said before Sunday’s win over the Brewers that the condition, which has caused swelling and redness around his eye, has left him “miserable.” “Day games…
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In his first game since being sent down by the Rangers, catcher Taylor Teagarden went deep three times and drove in seven runs for the Round Rock Express on Sunday. The huge game gave him five homers in just 22 at-bats in the PCL this season. Teagarden showed no rust at all despite a lack…
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A day after placing Rick Ankiel on the disabled list and calling up Roger Bernadina, the Nationals added an outfielder in a trade with the Royals, picking up Gregor Blanco for a player to be named. Blanco was immediately assigned to Triple-A Syracuse. The 27-year-old Blanco did solid work for the Braves and Royals last…
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After spending 10 days on the active roster but unable to play, Carlos Ruiz was finally shelved by the Phillies prior to Sunday night’s game, going on the DL to make room for the returning Joe Blanton. Although Blanton isn’t starting until Monday, the Phillies made the move tonight because 10 days is as far…
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With the Angels’ 6-5 victory over the Indians on Sunday, Mike Scioscia became the fifth active manager to reach 1,000 wins. The up-to-the-minute list: 1. Tony La Russa – 2658-2308 – .535 winning percentage 2. Jim Leyland – 1510-1536 – .495 3. Dusty Baker – 1423-1300 – .523 4. Bruce Bochy – 1292-1316 – .495…
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While it didn’t get much attention compared to Andre Ethier‘s 30-game hitting streak, Joey Votto had been on base every game this season for the Reds, at least until Sunday. He went 0-for-4 in Cincinnati’s 2-0 win over the Cubs, ending the streak at 33 games. Votto entered the day seventh in the NL with a…
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Derek Jeter homers! Twice! Also, Ron Washington is not a genius
May 8, 2011, 4:10 PM EDT
4:30 p.m. EDT - From 257 at-bats between homers to… ummm… zero at-bats between homers. Jeter went deep again, this time against Arthur Rhodes, in the seventh inning. /// Derek Jeter hit his first homer in 63 games dating back to last August when he took Dave Bush deep in the fifth inning of Sunday’s game against…
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3:10 p.m. EDT – So much for that. Laynce Nix just delivered a line-drive single to right to start the seventh. Mike Stanton got a great jump on the ball and could have had the diving catch, but the ball popped out as his glove hit the ground. /// Another day, another no-hitter alert. Anibal…
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Alex White notches first win as Jered Weaver goes without a K
May 8, 2011, 12:51 AM EDT
It wasn’t the expected result in Anaheim on Saturday night, as Jered Weaver went without a strikeout for just the second time in 152 career starts and was outdueled by rookie Alex White in the Indians’ 4-3 victory. Weaver’s only previous strikeout-less performance came on June 10, 2007, when he allowed three runs in three…
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It may have looked like Andre Ethier caught a break tonight when Chris Young was scratched from his start against the Dodgers, but that clearly wasn’t the case. Ethier went 0-for-4 with a walk in a 4-2 loss to the Mets, ending his hitting streak at 30 games. Ethier had actually owned Young, one of…
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20-year-old Julio Teheran may have turned some heads in his first major league start Saturday, but he won’t come away with a win after allowing three runs in 4 2/3 innings against the Phillies. Teheran allowed one run through three innings before Ryan Howard took him way out to right-center in the fourth. The fifth…
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Justin Verlander pitches second career no-hitter versus Blue Jays
May 7, 2011, 6:46 PM EDT
Justin Verlander pitched the second no-hitter of the 2011 season and his second career no-hitter Saturday in a 9-0 win over the Blue Jays. Verlander had a perfect game going until catcher J. P. Arencibia worked a walk on an exquisite 12-pitch at-bat with one out in the eighth. Arencibia, who barely missed a double down the…
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No-hitters in progress: Justin Verlander through eight, Yovani Gallardo’s is done
May 7, 2011, 6:05 PM EDT
6:43 p.m. EDT: No-hitter! Davis swings and misses at a slider off the plate to end it. 6:41 p.m. EDT: McDonald hits a soft grounder to second for the second out. Verlander dove for it, lucky not to deflect it to the side and turn it into a hit. Rajai Davis up. 6:39 p.m. EDT:…
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Blake DeWitt, Carlos Pena and Kosuke Fukudome come up big for Cubs
May 7, 2011, 4:36 PM EDT
Who saw that headline coming a month ago? Blake DeWitt, who was on the bench for 30 of the Cubs’ previous 31 games this year, homered and scored the winning run. Carlos Pena, who was hitting .159 and slugging .175 at the end of April, hit a game-tying homer in the ninth. Kosuke Fukudome, who entered…
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With another hit Saturday against the Mets, Andre Ethier will overtake Ryan Zimmerman‘s 2009 streak of 30 games and claim the longest hitting streak since Chase Utley hit in 35 straight in 2006. He’ll also match Willie Davis’ franchise record for the Dodgers, established in 1969. Trying to stop Ethier tonight will be one of the…
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9:50 p.m. EDT – Kimbrel settled for one strikeout, getting Ryan Howard to end the Braves’ 5-0 victory. Four Braves pitches combined on a two-hit shutout as Cliff Lee notched his 16 strikeouts in a losing cause. 9:40 p.m. EDT – The Braves padded their lead with two runs in the top of the ninth…
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Terry Francona was tossed from Friday’s game and likely will be banned for a game or two after coming out to argue a balk call against the Twins. The call by Angel Hernandez appeared to be correct. Tim Wakefield tried the fake-to-third-throw-to-first move and it worked, as Denard Span took off for second and was…
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MASN’s Roch Kubatko reports that 2010 first-round pick Manny Machado will likely go on the minor league disabled list with a left knee injury sustained in Thursday’s game for low Single-A Delmarva. The 18-year-old Machado was hurt on the basepaths while attempting to tag up on a flyball. Kubatko says that an MRI showed a…
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33 games into the season, the Braves are a remarkable 5-for-15 stealing bases. Now they’re not the only team in single digits when it comes to steals: the Cubs have just one more stolen base on the season. But to have been caught on two-thirds of their attempts makes this an historically awful start. The…
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The Rangers shipped out catcher Taylor Teagarden to make room for Neftali Feliz on the roster Friday and now we know why: Alexi Ogando is again dealing with a finger blister and is iffy to pitch Sunday. So, at the moment, the Rangers have 13 pitches on the roster, even though they’ve barely needed 12…
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Update: Hundley was placed on the disabled list prior to Friday’s game, making room for Phillips. /// It hasn’t put him on the DL, but Nick Hundley is unavailable for Friday’s game with a strained right oblique, forcing the Padres to call up a third catcher in Kyle Phillips. Although he’s slumping lately, Hundley has…
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Now we know this isn’t going to happen. But I thought this would be fun. It’s May 31… the Dodgers miss payroll and MLB, not realizing it, is a few minutes late in stepping in to pay the players. Every Dodger player now has the right to elect free agency. There’s two thoughts here: first,…
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When Andre Ethier tries to extend his hitting streak to 30 games tonight, he’ll be doing so against southpaw Jon Niese and the Mets. Some numbers: Ethier vs. LHP in 2011: .229 average (8-for-35) Ethier vs. LHP career: .246 average Niese vs. LHH in 2011: .275 average (11-for-40) Niese vs. LHH career: .286 average Ethier…
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Just one day after coming off the DL, Nyjer Morgan suffered an injury that will put him right back on it. He broke his left middle finger on a sacrifice bunt in the eighth inning Thursday and is expected to miss 2-4 weeks, according to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. With Morgan on the disabled list,…
