THT Daily: Acta begone
by Dave StudemanJuly 13, 2009
Major League News for July 13
Player News
Yesterday’s Results
Standings
Top Minor League Performances
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Player News
Player Headlines are courtesy of RotoworldManny Acta told ESPNDeportes on Sunday night that he's been fired as Nationals manager.
It was destined to happen at some point. "I thank the Nationals for giving me this opportunity and I'm sorry that things didn't work out as expected. It's normal for the manager to pay the price when the team is not doing well," Acta said. Jim Riggelman is likely to replace him at the helm.
Sources told NBC10's John Clark that free agent Pedro Martinez may arrive in Philadelphia Monday to meet with Phillies officials.
No further details were provided and Clark has left himself out, so we'll see where this one goes.
Diamondbacks released first baseman Tony Clark.
Not a surprise. Clark may have a few homers left in his bat yet, but there wasn't any reason for the Diamondbacks to keep using him. They'll probably call up Josh Whitesell and add him to the mix at first base. Clark, who was 4-for-16 with a homer and two doubles as a pinch-hitter, would make sense in Colorado if Garrett Atkins is traded.
Josh Beckett turned in his fourth career shutout to earn his 100th victory Sunday against the Royals.
Two of those shutouts have come in his last five starts. He's gone without allowing an earned run in six of his last 10 starts. Beckett is now tied with Red Sox teammate and fellow All-Star Tim Wakefield for the AL lead with 11 victories.
Yesterday’s Results
For the full scoop regarding yesterday's games, read "And That Happened" at Shysterball.American League BAL 4 TOR 2 (Recap and Boxscore) BOS 6 KC 0 (Recap and Boxscore) OAK 7 TB 3 (Recap and Boxscore) DET 10 CLE 1 (Recap and Boxscore) MIN 13 CHA 7 (Recap and Boxscore) LAA 5 NYA 4 (Recap and Boxscore) SEA 5 TEX 3 (Recap and Boxscore) National League NYN 9 CIN 7 (Recap and Boxscore) PHI 5 PIT 2 (Recap and Boxscore) CHN 7 STL 3 (Recap and Boxscore) STL 4 CHN 2 (Recap and Boxscore) HOU 5 WAS 0 (Recap and Boxscore) LAN 7 MIL 4 (Recap and Boxscore) FLA 8 ARI 1 (Recap and Boxscore) COL 8 ATL 7 (Recap and Boxscore) SD 10 SF 4 (Recap and Boxscore)Check out Fangraphs' scoreboard to see all the games in action.
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 BOS 54 34 .614 0.0 52 2NYA 51 37 .580 3.0 50 1
TB 48 41 .539 6.5 52 -4
TOR 44 46 .489 11.0 48 -4
BAL 40 48 .455 14.0 38 2
American League Central DET 48 39 .552 0.0 47 1
CHA 45 43 .511 3.5 44 1
MIN 45 44 .506 4.0 47 -2
KC 37 51 .420 11.5 36 1
CLE 35 54 .393 14.0 40 -5
American League West LAA 49 37 .570 0.0 46 3
TEX 48 39 .552 1.5 47 1
SEA 46 42 .523 4.0 42 4
OAK 37 49 .430 12.0 39 -2
National League East Pwins Diff PHI 48 38 .558 0.0 48 0
FLA 46 44 .511 4.0 44 2
ATL 43 45 .489 6.0 43 0
NYN 42 45 .483 6.5 40 2
WAS 26 61 .299 22.5 33 -7
National League Central STL 49 42 .538 0.0 49 0
MIL 45 43 .511 2.5 43 2
CHN 43 43 .500 3.5 43 0
HOU 44 44 .500 3.5 41 3
CIN 42 45 .483 5.0 38 4
PIT 38 50 .432 9.5 43 -5
National League West LAN 56 32 .636 0.0 55 1
SF 49 39 .557 7.0 49 0
COL 47 41 .534 9.0 48 -1
ARI 38 51 .427 18.5 41 -3
SD 36 52 .409 20.0 33 3
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 STL AAA Jonathan Jay...... 6 3 2 0 1 0 0 PHI A- Anthony Hewitt.... 4 2 0 0 2 0 1 3 R HOU A+ Jack Shuck........ 2 2 1 0 0 3 0 STL AAA Daniel Descalso... 4 3 1 0 0 1 0 SD A+ James Darnell..... 4 2 0 0 1 1 0 BOS AA Ryan Kalish....... 5 3 0 0 1 0 0 DET AA Garth Iorg........ 3 2 1 0 0 1 1 NYM AA Ruben Tejada...... 6 4 1 0 0 0 0 STL AA Steve Hill........ 4 3 0 1 0 1 0 COL AA Darin Holcomb..... 3 1 0 0 1 2 0 SD A Jaff Decker....... 4 1 1 0 0 1 2 STL A+ Curt Smith........ 6 5 0 0 0 0 0 5 RBI ! ORG LVL PLAYER IP H R ER SO BB HR Notes CHC A+ C. Carpenter...... 6 2 1 1 8 0 1 LAA AAA Trevor Bell....... 9 5 0 0 5 2 0 SF A+ Scott Barnes...... 5 8 3 3 7 0 0 9 GB TEX AA Kasey Kiker....... 6 4 1 1 6 2 0 NYY A+ Hector Noesi...... 5 5 3 3 8 1 1 CHC A C. Archer......... 4 5 3 3 7 2 0 LA AAA Jason Schmidt..... 5 7 4 3 5 1 0 9 GB SD A+ Nick Schmidt...... 5 2 2 2 5 4 0 KC AAA Carlos Rosa....... 2 0 0 0 3 0 0 PHI AAA Carlos Carrasco... 7 6 3 3 6 1 2 STL A+ Richard Castillo.. 6 4 2 2 4 4 0 SD AA Cory Luebke....... 3 0 0 0 1 1 0
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