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THT Daily: All Comes Down to Thisby Matthew CarruthSeptember 30, 2007 Major League News for September 30Player News Yesterday’s Results Today’s Games Standings Stats You can always find the most recent THT Daily at http://www.hardballtimes.com/main/content/thtdaily/ Player NewsPlayer news items are provided by RotoworldTom Glavine was lit up for seven runs in one-third of an inning by the Marlins in Sunday's finale. A disaster. Glavine allowed five hits, walked two and hit Dontrelle Willis with a pitch before Jorge Sosa replaced him. The outing took his ERA up to 4.45, but that's probably of no importance to Glavine right now. If this is it for the Mets, it's hard to imagine Glavine would want to go out like this. The Mets will start Tom Glavine on Sunday against Dontrelle Willis in what could be the final start of his Hall of Fame career. Asked to rank this start in importance in his Mets career, Glavine said: "It's certainly one of, if not the most important one, I've had, obviously. It's hard to say it's any more important than a playoff game that I pitched last year." He's currently 13-7 with a 4.14 ERA. On Saturday, Craig Biggio started at catcher for the first time since Oct. 5, 1991. He'll start the final game of his career on Sunday. "I enjoyed it," Biggio, 41, said. "I forgot what that side of the game was like, when you're just calling pitches and figuring out how to set hitters up." Biggio went 2-for-4 with a single, hit career double No. 667 and scored a run. Jack Wilson was taken off the field on a motorized cart during the sixth inning Saturday with an apparent head injury. Wilson collided headfirst with second baseman Matt Kata just beyond the infield dirt as the two were going after a ground ball hit up the middle and immediately appeared to lose consciousness. Cesar Izturis took over at shortstop. John Maine lost his no-hitter with two outs in the eighth Saturday in the Mets' 13-0 win over the Marlins. Maine was pulled immediately after Paul Hoover's infield single. He struck out 14, so he was up to 115 pitches on the afternoon. It was the most Ks for a Mets pitcher since Al Leiter fanned 15 on Aug. 1, 1999. The Mets will likely need to win again Sunday when they send Tom Glavine to the mound against Dontrelle Willis. White Sox signed catcher A.J. Pierzynski to a two-year, $12.5-million contract extension through 2010. The White Sox shouldn't have felt it was necessary to lock up a soon-to-be 31-year-old catcher already signed for 2008, but it's the way GM Ken Williams does things. Pierzynski is hitting .263/.309/.403 in what's going to go down as the worst offensive season of his career. There's nothing to suggest it's a real decline, but he could be a below average regular before his new contract expires after 2010. Yesterday’s ResultsAmerican League NYA 11 BAL 10 (Recap and Boxscore) BOS 6 MIN 4 (Recap and Boxscore) TOR 5 TB 3 (Recap and Boxscore) CHA 3 DET 2 (Recap and Boxscore) KC 4 CLE 3 (Recap and Boxscore) LAA 3 OAK 2 (Recap and Boxscore) SEA 5 TEX 1 (Recap and Boxscore) National League NYN 13 FLA 0 (Recap and Boxscore) WAS 4 PHI 2 (Recap and Boxscore) CHN 4 CIN 0 (Recap and Boxscore) HOU 3 ATL 2 (Recap and Boxscore) MIL 4 SD 3 (Recap and Boxscore) STL 7 PIT 3 (Recap and Boxscore) COL 11 ARI 1 (Recap and Boxscore) LAN 6 SF 5 (Recap and Boxscore) Today’s GamesNational League --------------- Florida Marlins at New York Mets, 1:10 PM (L) Dontrelle Willis (10-15) vs. (L) Tom Glavine (13-7) Chicago Cubs at Cincinnati Reds, 1:15 PM (L) Ted Lilly (15-8) vs. (R) Homer Bailey (3-2) St. Louis Cardinals at Pittsburgh Pirates, 1:35 PM (R) Troy Percival (3-0) vs. (R) Bryan Bullington (0-2) Washington Nationals at Philadelphia Phillies, 1:35 PM (R) Jason Bergmann (6-5) vs. (L) Jamie Moyer (13-12) Atlanta Braves at Houston Astros, 2:05 PM (R) Buddy Carlyle (8-6) vs. (R) Felipe Paulino (1-1) San Diego Padres at Milwaukee Brewers, 2:05 PM (R) Brett Tomko (4-11) vs. (R) Jeff Suppan (11-12) Arizona Diamondbacks at Colorado Rockies, 3:05 PM (R) Yusmeiro Petit (3-4) vs. (R) Ubaldo Jimenez (4-4) San Francisco Giants at Los Angeles Dodgers, 4:10 PM (L) Barry Zito (10-13) vs. (L) Eric Stults (1-3) American League --------------- Tampa Bay Devil Rays at Toronto Blue Jays, 1:07 PM (R) Jason Hammel (2-5) vs. (R) AJ Burnett (10-7) New York Yankees at Baltimore Orioles, 1:35 PM (L) Sean Henn (2-2) vs. (L) Brian Burres (6-7) Detroit Tigers at Chicago White Sox, 2:05 PM (L) Nate Robertson (8-13) vs. (R) Jose Contreras (10-16) Minnesota Twins at Boston Red Sox, 2:05 PM (R) Matt Garza (4-7) vs. (R) Julian Tavarez (7-10) Cleveland Indians at Kansas City Royals, 2:10 PM (L) Aaron Laffey (3-2) vs. (R) Luke Hochevar (0-0) LA Angels of Anaheim at Oakland Athletics, 4:05 PM (R) Jered Weaver (13-7) vs. (R) Chad Gaudin (11-13) Texas Rangers at Seattle Mariners, 4:05 PM (L) A.J. Murray (1-1) vs. (R) Felix Hernandez (13-7) StandingsThe 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 96 65 .596 0.0 101 -5 THT StatsAccess all of THT’s stats here…
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NYA 93 68 .578 3.0 97 -4 
TOR 83 78 .516 13.0 86 -3 
BAL 69 92 .429 27.0 70 -1 
TB 65 96 .404 31.0 65 0 
American League Central
CLE 95 66 .590 0.0 91 4 
DET 87 74 .540 8.0 88 -1 
MIN 78 83 .484 17.0 80 -2 
CHA 72 89 .447 23.0 67 5 
KC 69 92 .429 26.0 73 -4 
American League West
LAA 94 67 .584 0.0 90 4 
SEA 87 74 .540 7.0 78 9 
OAK 75 86 .466 19.0 79 -4 
TEX 75 86 .466 19.0 78 -3 
National League East Pwins Diff
NYN 88 73 .547 0.0 87 1 
PHI 88 73 .547 0.0 87 1 
ATL 84 77 .522 4.0 88 -4 
WAS 73 88 .453 15.0 70 3 
FLA 70 91 .435 18.0 70 0 
National League Central
CHN 85 76 .528 0.0 87 -2 
MIL 82 79 .509 3.0 82 0 
STL 77 84 .478 8.0 70 7 
HOU 72 89 .447 13.0 71 1 
CIN 71 90 .441 14.0 73 -2 
PIT 68 93 .422 17.0 69 -1 
National League West
ARI 90 71 .559 0.0 79 11 
SD 89 72 .553 1.0 89 0 
COL 88 73 .547 2.0 90 -2 
LAN 82 79 .509 8.0 82 0 
SF 70 91 .435 20.0 76 -6 
Wildcard Standings
American League
NYA 93 68 .578 0.0
SEA 87 74 .540 6.0
DET 87 74 .540 6.0
TOR 83 78 .516 10.0
MIN 78 83 .484 15.0
National League
SD 89 72 .553 0.0
COL 88 73 .547 1.0
ATL 84 77 .522 5.0
LAN 82 79 .509 7.0
MIL 82 79 .509 7.0