THT Daily: Big series
by Dave StudemanApril 27, 2009
Major League News for April 27
Player News
Yesterday’s Results
Today’s Games
Standings
Top Minor League Performances
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Player News
Player Headlines are courtesy of RotoworldChris Getz has a fractured bone in the tip of his right middle finger and could land on the disabled list.
Getz was hurt before Saturday's game. If he lands on the DL, the White Sox would activate Jayson Nix to share time at second base with Brent Lillibridge. Gordon Beckham isn't yet an option, according to manager Ozzie Guillen, and it's clear that Guillen doesn't trust Wilson Betemit at second base.
Yesterday’s Results
For the full scoop regarding yesterday's games, read "And That Happened" at Shysterball.American League BAL 8 TEX 5 (Recap and Boxscore) BOS 4 NYA 1 (Recap and Boxscore) TOR 4 CHA 3 (Recap and Boxscore) CLE 4 MIN 2 (Recap and Boxscore) DET 3 KC 2 (Recap and Boxscore) LAA 8 SEA 0 (Recap and Boxscore) OAK 7 TB 1 (Recap and Boxscore) National League PHI 13 FLA 2 (Recap and Boxscore) WAS 8 NYN 1 (Recap and Boxscore) CIN 8 ATL 2 (Recap and Boxscore) HOU 3 MIL 2 (Recap and Boxscore) CHN 10 STL 3 (Recap and Boxscore) ARI 5 SF 4 (Recap and Boxscore) COL 10 LAN 4 (Recap and Boxscore) PIT 8 SD 3 (Recap and Boxscore)Check out Fangraphs' scoreboard to see all the games in action.
Today’s Games
National League --------------- Washington Nationals at Philadelphia Phillies, 7:05 PM (R) Shairon Martis (2-0) vs. (R) Joe Blanton (0-2) Houston Astros at Cincinnati Reds, 7:10 PM (R) Roy Oswalt (0-2) vs. (R) Johnny Cueto (1-1) Florida Marlins at New York Mets, 7:10 PM (R) Anibal Sanchez (1-1) vs. (R) John Maine (0-2) St. Louis Cardinals at Atlanta Braves, 7:10 PM (R) Joel Pineiro (3-0) vs. (R) Jair Jurrjens (2-1) Pittsburgh Pirates at Milwaukee Brewers, 8:05 PM (R) Jeff Karstens (1-0) vs. (R) Braden Looper (2-0) San Diego Padres at Colorado Rockies, 8:40 PM (R) Chris Young (2-0) vs. (R) Jason Hammel (0-0) Chicago Cubs at Arizona Diamondbacks, 9:40 PM (L) Ted Lilly (2-1) vs. (R) Dan Haren (1-3) Los Angeles Dodgers at San Francisco Giants, 10:15 PM (L) Randy Wolf (1-1) vs. (L) Barry Zito (0-2) American League --------------- Boston Red Sox at Cleveland Indians, 7:05 PM (R) Tim Wakefield (2-1) vs. (L) Cliff Lee (1-3) New York Yankees at Detroit Tigers, 7:05 PM (L) CC Sabathia (1-1) vs. (R) Justin Verlander (0-2) Texas Rangers at Baltimore Orioles, 7:05 PM (L) Matt Harrison (0-2) vs. (R) Jeremy Guthrie (2-1) Tampa Bay Rays at Minnesota Twins, 8:10 PM (R) Jeff Niemann (1-2) vs. (R) Scott Baker (0-2) Toronto Blue Jays at Kansas City Royals, 8:10 PM (L) David Purcey (0-1) vs. (R) Brian Bannister (1-0) Seattle Mariners at Chicago White Sox, 8:11 PM (R) Chris Jakubauskas (1-2) vs. (L) John Danks (2-0)
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 14 6 .700 0.0 14 0BOS 12 6 .667 1.0 12 0
NYA 9 9 .500 4.0 7 2
BAL 9 10 .474 4.5 8 1
TB 7 12 .368 6.5 9 -2
American League Central DET 10 8 .556 0.0 11 -1
CHA 9 9 .500 1.0 9 0
KC 9 9 .500 1.0 10 -1
MIN 9 10 .474 1.5 7 2
CLE 7 12 .368 3.5 9 -2
American League West SEA 12 7 .632 0.0 10 2
TEX 8 10 .444 3.5 9 -1
OAK 7 10 .412 4.0 8 -1
LAA 7 11 .389 4.5 8 -1
National League East Pwins Diff FLA 11 7 .611 0.0 9 2
PHI 9 8 .529 1.5 9 0
ATL 9 9 .500 2.0 9 0
NYN 8 10 .444 3.0 9 -1
WAS 4 13 .235 6.5 7 -3
National League Central STL 13 6 .684 0.0 12 1
PIT 11 7 .611 1.5 13 -2
CIN 10 8 .556 2.5 8 2
CHN 9 8 .529 3.0 9 0
MIL 8 10 .444 4.5 8 0
HOU 7 12 .368 6.0 7 0
National League West LAN 13 6 .684 0.0 13 0
SD 10 8 .556 2.5 8 2
SF 8 9 .471 4.0 8 0
ARI 7 11 .389 5.5 6 1
COL 6 11 .353 6.0 8 -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 MIN AA Daniel Valencia... 5 3 1 1 1 0 0 3 R TEX AA Justin Smoak...... 4 3 1 0 1 1 0 BAL A+ Brandon Waring.... 5 3 1 0 1 0 1 4 RBI SF A+ Buster Posey...... 4 3 1 0 1 0 1 4 RBI SEA A+ Alex Liddi........ 5 2 0 0 2 0 0 BAL AAA Nolan Reimold..... 4 2 0 0 2 0 0 LA A Austin Gallagher.. 3 2 2 0 0 1 0 TEX A+ Engel Beltre...... 5 2 1 0 1 0 1 BOS AA Josh Reddick...... 5 2 0 0 1 1 0 MIL A+ Caleb Gindl....... 4 2 0 0 1 1 0 3 R WAN A+ C. Marrero........ 3 1 0 0 1 2 0 BOS AA Lars Anderson..... 5 3 1 0 0 1 0 5 RBI ! ORG LVL PLAYER IP H R ER SO BB HR Notes CIN AAA Homer Bailey...... 6 4 2 2 15 2 1 ARI A+ Jarrod Parker..... 5 3 1 1 8 1 0 CLE A+ Eric Berger....... 5 3 0 0 6 0 0 BAL AA Jake Arrieta...... 6 2 0 0 6 2 0 NYY A D.J. Mitchell..... 6 6 4 4 6 0 1 11 GB NYY A+ Dellin Betances... 6 6 2 2 6 3 0 BOS A Bryan Price....... 6 8 3 3 5 1 0 11 OF NYM A+ Bradley Holt...... 4 4 1 1 4 0 0 TOR A+ Tim Collins....... 3 0 1 0 6 3 0 PHI A+ Kyle Drabek....... 6 8 4 4 5 1 0 LAA AA Trevor Reckling... 6 3 0 0 4 3 0 CHW A Gregory Infante... 7 7 2 1 5 3 0
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