THT Daily: 16-11
by Dave StudemanApril 26, 2009
Major League News for April 26
Player News
Yesterday’s Results
Today’s Games
Standings
Top Minor League Performances
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Player News
Player Headlines are courtesy of RotoworldDiamondbacks placed shortstop Stephen Drew on the 15-day disabled list with a strained left hamstring.
Augie Ojeda will fill in at shortstop after Drew aggravated an old hamstring injury Friday. He may be ready to play again before the DL stint is up, but the Diamondbacks opted against playing short-handed.
According to the Arizona Republic, Brandon Webb "will miss at least six more weeks with a strain in his right shoulder."
Webb will be completely shut down for three weeks, but will then need to build back his arm strength. "It's frustrating because what I feel right now," Webb said. "I feel fine. Just when I throw is when I get the pain, so hopefully we'll just give it a little more time to heal, and we'll be ready to go in a few more weeks. It's gonna take a little while to get back, pitch count, strength-wise, to get where I need to be." Yusmeiro Petit will continue to replace Webb in the rotation.
Twins manager Ron Gardenhire hinted Saturday that Joe Mauer (back) may return before his May 1 target date.
Mauer could jump back into the lineup Tuesday if everything goes swimmingly this weekend. "As a manager, my job is to make sure he's ready," Gardenhire said. "But the old saying is, 'Throw him a little something to make him focus and get after it.' I'm throwing him something -- the possibility that he could join us even before Thursday. We're throwing that to him. But there are no guarantees on that."
Albert Pujols hit a grand slam in an 8-1 win over the Cubs on Saturday.
That makes seven homers and 25 RBI for the almighty Pujols. He has two grand slams this season and eight in his career. The four-run bomb, which cleared the left field seats at the new Busch Stadium, was also a milestone for Pujols as it put him at 1002 RBI for his career. There really aren't enough complimentary adjectives in the dictionary for this man.
Yesterday’s Results
For the full scoop regarding yesterday's games, read "And That Happened" at Shysterball.American League TEX 6 BAL 5 (Recap and Boxscore) BOS 16 NYA 11 (Recap and Boxscore) CHA 10 TOR 2 (Recap and Boxscore) MIN 7 CLE 1 (Recap and Boxscore) DET 9 KC 1 (Recap and Boxscore) SEA 9 LAA 8 (Recap and Boxscore) OAK 5 TB 2 (Recap and Boxscore) National League PHI 6 FLA 4 (Recap and Boxscore) NYN 8 WAS 2 (Recap and Boxscore) ATL 10 CIN 2 (Recap and Boxscore) MIL 9 HOU 8 (Recap and Boxscore) STL 8 CHN 2 (Recap and Boxscore) SF 5 ARI 3 (Recap and Boxscore) LAN 6 COL 5 (Recap and Boxscore) PIT 10 SD 1 (Recap and Boxscore)Check out Fangraphs' scoreboard to see all the games in action.
Today’s Games
National League --------------- Philadelphia Phillies at Florida Marlins, 12:10 PM (L) Jamie Moyer (2-1) vs. (L) Graham Taylor (0-0) Washington Nationals at New York Mets, 1:10 PM (R) Jordan Zimmermann (1-0) vs. (L) Oliver Perez (1-1) Atlanta Braves at Cincinnati Reds, 1:10 PM (R) Kenshin Kawakami (1-2) vs. (R) Micah Owings (0-2) Milwaukee Brewers at Houston Astros, 2:05 PM (L) Manny Parra (0-3) vs. (R) Russ Ortiz (1-0) Chicago Cubs at St. Louis Cardinals, 2:15 PM (R) Rich Harden (1-1) vs. (R) Todd Wellemeyer (1-1) Los Angeles Dodgers at Colorado Rockies, 3:10 PM (L) Clayton Kershaw (0-1) vs. (R) Jason Marquis (2-1) Pittsburgh Pirates at San Diego Padres, 4:05 PM (R) Ross Ohlendorf (1-2) vs. (R) Jake Peavy (2-2) San Francisco Giants at Arizona Diamondbacks, 4:10 PM (R) Matt Cain (2-0) vs. (R) Jon Garland (2-1) American League --------------- Minnesota Twins at Cleveland Indians, 1:05 PM (L) Glen Perkins (1-1) vs. (L) Aaron Laffey (1-0) Texas Rangers at Baltimore Orioles, 1:35 PM (R) Brandon McCarthy (2-0) vs. (R) Brad Bergesen (1-0) Toronto Blue Jays at Chicago White Sox, 2:05 PM (R) Roy Halladay (3-1) vs. (R) Jose Contreras (0-3) Detroit Tigers at Kansas City Royals, 2:10 PM (R) Armando Galarraga (2-0) vs. (R) Sidney Ponson (0-2) Seattle Mariners at LA Angels of Anaheim, 3:35 PM (L) Jarrod Washburn (3-0) vs. (R) Jered Weaver (1-1) Tampa Bay Rays at Oakland Athletics, 4:05 PM (R) Andy Sonnanstine (0-2) vs. (L) Dana Eveland (0-1) New York Yankees at Boston Red Sox, 8:05 PM (L) Andy Pettitte (2-0) vs. (R) Justin Masterson (1-0)
Standings
The graphics next to each team are called "sparklines.” They depict each team’s performance over the last month. Each "up" bar is a victory and a "down" bar is a loss. There are horizontal lines for home games and red bars represent games decided by two runs or less. "PWins" is short for Projected Wins, based on each team’s Run Differential, and is often a better measure of a team’s true strength. Other team graphs and stats can be found on our Team Page.American League East Pwins Diff TOR 13 6 .684 0.0 13 0BOS 11 6 .647 1.0 11 0
NYA 9 8 .529 3.0 7 2
BAL 8 10 .444 4.5 7 1
TB 7 11 .389 5.5 9 -2
American League Central CHA 9 8 .529 0.0 9 0
DET 9 8 .529 0.0 10 -1
KC 9 8 .529 0.0 9 0
MIN 9 9 .500 0.5 7 2
CLE 6 12 .333 3.5 8 -2
American League West SEA 12 6 .667 0.0 10 2
TEX 8 9 .471 3.5 8 0
OAK 6 10 .375 5.0 7 -1
LAA 6 11 .353 5.5 7 -1
National League East Pwins Diff FLA 11 6 .647 0.0 10 1
ATL 9 8 .529 2.0 9 0
PHI 8 8 .500 2.5 7 1
NYN 8 9 .471 3.0 9 -1
WAS 3 13 .188 7.5 5 -2
National League Central STL 13 5 .722 0.0 12 1
PIT 10 7 .588 2.5 12 -2
CIN 9 8 .529 3.5 7 2
CHN 8 8 .500 4.0 8 0
MIL 8 9 .471 4.5 8 0
HOU 6 12 .333 7.0 7 -1
National League West LAN 13 5 .722 0.0 13 0
SD 10 7 .588 2.5 8 2
SF 8 8 .500 4.0 7 1
ARI 6 11 .353 6.5 6 0
COL 5 11 .313 7.0 7 -2
Top Minor League Games
The following list, provided by First Inning, includes the top minor league batting (based on Runs Created) and pitching (based on Game Score) performances from yesterday.ORG LVL PLAYER AB H 2B 3B HR BB SO Notes CHW A+ Jordan Danks...... 4 3 2 0 0 2 1 CLE AAA Matt LaPorta...... 3 3 0 1 1 1 0 TEX A+ M. Moreland....... 4 3 1 0 1 0 0 PHI AAA John Mayberry..... 3 2 0 0 1 2 1 PHI A+ Dominic Brown..... 5 2 1 1 0 0 2 KC A+ Mike Moustakas.... 5 2 1 0 1 0 0 CHW AA Gordon Beckham.... 4 2 2 0 0 1 0 HOU A+ Jason Castro...... 3 2 1 0 0 1 0 ARI A+ Collin Cowgill.... 5 2 0 2 0 0 1 4 RBI LAA AA Peter Bourjos..... 4 2 0 1 0 1 1 MIL AAA Mat Gamel......... 2 1 0 0 1 2 0 CLE AAA Michael Brantley.. 3 2 1 0 0 1 0 ORG LVL PLAYER IP H R ER SO BB HR Notes ATL A+ Jeffrey Locke..... 7 2 1 1 7 2 0 MIL AA Jeremy Jeffress... 5 3 1 1 8 2 0 ATL A Ezekiel Spruill... 6 6 1 1 6 1 0 13 GB TB AA J. Hellickson..... 6 5 2 2 8 2 1 MIN A+ Carlos Gutierrez.. 7 2 1 0 1 0 0 16 GB SF AAA Kevin Pucetas..... 7 5 2 2 4 1 1 13 GB CLE AAA David Huff........ 6 4 3 3 7 2 2 BAL A+ Brian Matusz...... 6 6 3 2 8 2 2 NYM AAA Jonathon Niese.... 4 4 4 3 4 1 0 7 GB SEA AA Joshua Fields..... 1 0 0 0 3 0 0 ARI AA Clay Zavada....... 2 0 0 0 3 1 0 ATL A J.J. Hoover....... 2 4 2 1 4 0 0
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