With players such as Johnny Cueto, Eddie Volquez, Joey Votto and now Jay Bruce, it sure is fun to be a Reds fan these days. With all those young studs on one team, Nick has a bad case of Puppy Love. The Reds may not even play .500 ball this year, but this may be the most fun fans will have since 1999 when they kinda-sorta made the playoffs, but didn’t. You can get a recap of Nick’s expert analysis here and here. Now onto last night’s games.
Twins 4, Royals 3 (12 innings): Down 3-0 in the 9th and 2 men on, the Royals Mark Teahan hit shot to left field, Delmon Young dove and missed terribly as the the ball rolled all the way to the wall. Teahan circled the bases with a game tying 3 run inside the park homer! Alas, it wasn’t meant to be as the Twins took the game in the 12th on an RBI single by Michael Cuddyer. The Royals have now lost 9 in a row,.
Rangers 12, Rays 6: Vicente Padilla notched his 7th win of the season and Josh Hamilton now has FIFTY-EIGHT(!!!) runs batted in as of May 28th. He’s on pace for about 180 for the season. Meet your 2008 Texas Ranger All-Stars!
Angels 3, Tigers 2: The Pussycats led 2-0 going to the 8th inning. Jeremy Bonderman fell apart in the 8thAquillino Lopez walked 2, then gave up the game winning single in the bottom of the 9th to basically put Jim Leyland into a nursing home. After the game, Jim was quoted, “I’m too old for this shit”.
Nick P’s Game of the Night: Reds 9, Pirates 6: Nick’s prediction of a 1.000 OBP may not pan out for the entire season, but for one night Jay Bruce was perfect. He came thru with 3 hits and 2 walks, including a double and 2 ribbies.
Roman’s Game of the Night: Mets 5, Marlins 3: I looked at the box score of this game and saw the Mets scored 4 runs on single and 1 on a sac fly. Even though Johan struck out 7 and Big Mouth Asshat notched his 10th save, it seemed like a snoozer. I bet fans of the Phillies and Braves were more excited about this game because the Marlins lost.
Spencer’s Game of the Night: Indians 8, ChiSox 2: Since the Indians are now officially out of the race, they can now play relaxed and have some fun. Aaron Laffey scattered 7 hits through 6 innings and Franky Gutierrez hit a first inning slam as the Tribe cruised to victory. Birthday boy Jhonny Peralta decided to rest easy and get 2 hits while playing the role of DH for the night (His footsies hurt).
That leads us to our WTF Stat of the Night: Peralta has 17 RBIs on the season with 13 coming via a homerun (8 solo shots a 3 bagger and a 2 bagger). Hey Jhonny, WTF?
Stigs’ Game of the Night: Brewers 3, Braves 2: The Brewers battled to tie Tim Hudson in the 8th and win it in the 9th with a WOSac by admitted speed user Mike Cameron. I bet Bud and Wendy Selig cheered and cheered all through the night.
Jerk of the Night: LaTroy Hawkins (nominated by Clown). I had a nice long write-up for this game, but this can be summed up by comments seen right here on MLJ last night… (time stamps changed from Pacific to East Coast)
Clown @ 11:52PM: hold on, I gotta see if the Yankees can find a way to blow this one.
Clown @ 12:06AM: yep, they did. Fucking fucks.
Someone, anyone, please tell me why, in the 5th inning, Brandon Phillips swung at the 1st pitch after Snell had walked THE PREVIOUS 3 BATTERS IN A ROW. Why Dusty?
FUCKING FINALLY!!!!
I have to drive to Tucson so I’ll be gone for most of the day. But I will say this…I love David Hasselhoff in the morning. Oh yeah, I’ll be at the Dbacks/Giants game tonight because my father-in-law is playing the national anthem. I’ll do a write-up of it tomorrow, hopefully with video.
Damnit Gonzo…a win is a win…I’ll take it…Hef usually has this shit up at 6am…if his wife didn’t put him on lockdown for his”anniversary”(whips and chains night) he would have expounded on the greatness of Fernando Tatis