I couldn’t think of a cool headline, so I just went with the fact that 4 teams scored in double figures last night. Lots of interesting games happened, and there was also an interesting announcement: The finals of the 2009 World Baseball Classic will be played in Dodger Stadium. I’m not a huge fan of the classic, but with baseball leaving the Olympics at least for four years, I’ll have to make do. Anyways, onto last night’s games….
Twins 10, White Sox 6: Of course I was going to lead off with this game. The White Sox started out with a 4-0 lead, but the Twins clawed back aided by three run homers by Justin Morneau and Jason Kubel. Morneau had 10 RsBI in the series and is second in the AL with 83 on the season. The Twins are now just a half game back of the White Sox.
Spencer’s game of the night: Indians 9, Tigers 4: Grady Sizemore hit his 27th homer of the season and also stole his 27th base. My fantasy team says thank you. In the upset of the century Sal Fasano went 2-3 with 2 RBI. More good news for Indians fans: Fausto only gave up 2 earned runs in 6.1 innings.
Angels 12, Yankees 6: Hard to tell if the Angels are that good or the Yankees are that bad. Torii Hunter and Vlad Guerrero each hit their 18th homer of the season, and John Garland delievered a quality start. For the Yankees, Xavier Nady continued his career season, hitting his 15th homer of the year. Somehow I’m baffled that we don’t have a Yankees writer on staff cause I feel like puking whenever I have to write something about them.
Cubs 11, Brewers 4: All of a sudden the Brewers find themselves 5 games back. Rich Harden struck out 9 in 7 innings, finally delivering a lengthy start. Clearly the Cubs have the upper hand on the Brewers, but I can’t take a team who puts Alfonso Soriano in the leadoff spot seriously.
Cortes’s game of the night: Marlins 12, Rockies 2: The Rockies insist they’re still in the NL West race. The Marlins banged out 12 hits, with Jeremy Hermida’s 3-5 night leading the way. Hanley Ramirez and Jorge Cantu each hit homeruns. Not to be overlooked, of course, is Anibal Sanchez’s first start since 2007, striking out 4 guys in 5.2 innings and giving up only 2 earned runs.
Hermida > Manny
/science!
Jeremy Hermida is starting to look more and more like the guy everyone was excited about.
The Angels are that good. I don’t understand the criticism of the starting pitching staff, I don’t see a glaring weakness.
I heard Hef is still crying in a corner over the Manny trade…Hef is a little bitch…on a side note…there was a minor celebration at the Helmet household that Manny is no where near the NL East…it was so minor that my wife told me to cut the shit and take care of the baby for once
Since they didn’t make a move at the deadline, the Twins need Fracisco (oh that’s fun to say) up here now.
Ozzie got into it with a fan last night. That was funny.
The NL West isn’t going to change that much just because manny is there.
i just got a bad feeling the Tribe are going to turn it around and start playing decent baseball from here on out, ruining any chance for a really high draft pick to make the farm system kick even more ass.
o well, good to see them actually play well.
and fausto is back…his first start was bad, but when a sinkerball pitcher isn’t getting his sinker to sink, it’s going to be rough…it’s either boom or bust with fausto, you’ll never see a C performance, it’ll just be hundreds of A’s with a few F’s thrown in.
The Tribe are not doing that bad because people are hitting again. I wouldn’t be surprised if they challenge for the division next year. That LaPorte guy should be ok.
as excited as i am for LaPorta, im more excited for Meloan…he might be the back end bullpen help the indians have needed all year long ever since betancourt decided to shit the bed.