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THT Daily: Gallardo beats Pirates

by Dave Studeman
April 30, 2009

Major League News for April 30

Player News
Yesterday’s Results
Today’s Games
Standings
Top Minor League Performances

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Player News

Player Headlines are courtesy of Rotoworld
Rockies manager Clint Hurdle hinted Wednesday evening that he may consider a change at the closer's position.
Manny Corpas technically has the job, but Huston Street picked up the save on Wednesday and is clearly the better pitcher at this point. "I'll sleep on some things," Hurdle said. Stay tuned.

According to Selena Roberts' upcoming 255-page book on Alex Rodriguez, the Yankees slugger took steroids after 2003 and may have begun using them in high school.
This is the same book that initially broke the news of A-Rod's steroid use while with the Texas Rangers. Now it has come to light that he flunked a screening in 2003, while in New York, and showed steroid-use symptoms into the 2005 season. A former high school teammate also told Roberts that Rodriguez was juicing in high school and their coach knew about it. In addition, the book alleges that former Yankees pitcher Kevin Brown was a steroid user.

Indians placed designated hitter Travis Hafner on the 15-day disabled list with soreness in his right shoulder.
It's somewhat disconcerting that Hafner is reportedly headed for a visit with Dr. James Andrews, but manager Eric Wedge told MLB.com that, "We don't think it's anything serious" and added, "Hopefully it's just a two-week thing." The Indians have called up Rich Rundles to take Hafner's place, but are expected to add a hitter prior to Friday's game. Possible options to join the team include David Dellucci (currently rehabbing in Columbus) and Matt LaPorta, who's hitting a scalding .368 at Triple-A.

Yovani Gallardo struck out 11 over eight innings and homered off Ian Snell to give the Brewers a 1-0 victory over the Pirates on Wednesday.
Gallardo has already been on the wrong end of a 1-0 game this season. He made sure he was on the winning side today with his second homer of this year and fourth in 61 career at-bats. This one came in the bottom of the seventh, as manager Ken Macha opted to let him hit for himself even though he was already around 100 pitches. He ended up throwing 116 before Carlos Villanueva came in for the ninth.

Yesterday’s Results

For the full scoop regarding yesterday's games, read "And That Happened" at Shysterball.

American League
LAA     3  BAL     2    (Recap and Boxscore)
CHA     6  SEA     3    (Recap and Boxscore)
BOS     6  CLE     5    (Recap and Boxscore)
NYA     8  DET     6    (Recap and Boxscore)
KC     11  TOR     3    (Recap and Boxscore)
MIN     8  TB      3    (Recap and Boxscore)

National League
STL     5  ATL     3    (Recap and Boxscore)
FLA     4  NYN     3    (Recap and Boxscore)
WAS     4  PHI     1    (Recap and Boxscore)
CIN     3  HOU     0    (Recap and Boxscore)
MIL     1  PIT     0    (Recap and Boxscore)
ARI    10  CHN     0    (Recap and Boxscore)
COL     7  SD      5    (Recap and Boxscore)
SF      9  LAN     4    (Recap and Boxscore)

Check out Fangraphs' scoreboard to see all the games in action.

Today’s Games

National League
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 St. Louis Cardinals at Washington Nationals, 7:05 PM
  (R) Mitchell Boggs (1-0) vs. (R) Daniel Cabrera (0-2)
 Arizona Diamondbacks at Milwaukee Brewers, 8:05 PM
  (R) Max Scherzer (0-2) vs. (R) Jeff Suppan (1-2)
 Florida Marlins at Chicago Cubs, 8:05 PM
  (R) Chris Volstad (2-0) vs. (L) Sean Marshall (0-1)
 San Diego Padres at Los Angeles Dodgers, 10:10 PM
  (R) Josh Geer (0-0) vs. (R) James McDonald (1-1)
 
 American League
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 Oakland Athletics at Texas Rangers, 2:05 PM
  (L) Dallas Braden (2-2) vs. (R) Vicente Padilla (1-1)
 Toronto Blue Jays at Kansas City Royals, 2:10 PM
  (L) Brian Burres (0-1) vs. (R) Kyle Davies (1-1)
 LA Angels of Anaheim at New York Yankees, 7:05 PM
  (R) Anthony Ortega (0-1) vs. (R) A.J. Burnett (2-0)
 Boston Red Sox at Tampa Bay Rays, 7:08 PM
  (R) Josh Beckett (2-1) vs. (R) Matt Garza (1-2)

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     14   7 .667    0.0   13     1    
TOR     15   8 .652    0.0   14     1    
NYA     11  10 .524    3.0   10     1    
BAL      9  13 .409    5.5    9     0    
TB       8  14 .364    6.5   10    -2    
American League Central     
CHA     11  10 .524    0.0   10     1    
DET     11  10 .524    0.0   11     0    
KC      11  10 .524    0.0   12    -1    
MIN     11  11 .500    0.5    9     2    
CLE      8  14 .364    3.5   10    -2    
American League West        
SEA     13   9 .591    0.0   12     1    
TEX     10  10 .500    2.0   10     0    
LAA      9  11 .450    3.0   10    -1    
OAK      7  11 .389    4.0    8    -1    


National League East        Pwins  Diff
FLA     13   8 .619    0.0   11     2    
PHI     11   9 .550    1.5   11     0    
ATL     10  11 .476    3.0   10     0    
NYN      9  12 .429    4.0   10    -1    
WAS      5  15 .250    7.5    8    -3    
National League Central     
STL     15   7 .682    0.0   14     1    
CIN     11  10 .524    3.5    9     2    
MIL     11  10 .524    3.5   10     1    
PIT     11  10 .524    3.5   13    -2    
CHN     10  10 .500    4.0   10     0    
HOU      9  13 .409    6.0    9     0    
National League West        
LAN     14   8 .636    0.0   14     0    
SD      11  10 .524    2.5    9     2    
SF      10  10 .500    3.0   10     0    
ARI      9  12 .429    4.5    9     0    
COL      8  12 .400    5.0   10    -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
LA  AA  Andrew Lambo...... 4  3  1  0  1  1  0  3 R
CLE AA  Carlos Santana.... 3  2  2  0  0  2  0  
SD  A   James Darnell..... 3  3  2  0  0  1  0  
CLE AA  Beau Mills........ 5  3  2  0  0  0  1  
CHW AA  Tyler Flowers..... 4  2  1  0  1  0  1  
TB  AAA Reid Brignac...... 4  2  2  0  0  0  1  
MIL A   Brett Lawrie...... 3  2  1  0  0  1  0  
PHI AA  Michael Taylor.... 4  3  1  0  0  0  0  
NYM A+  Isaac Davis....... 6  3  1  0  0  0  1  
LA  A   Kyle Russell...... 4  2  0  0  1  0  0  
CHC AA  Jay Jackson....... 2  2  0  0  1  0  0  
CLE A+  L. Chisenhall..... 3  1  0  0  1  1  1  

ORG LVL PLAYER            IP  H  R ER SO BB HR  Notes
PHI AA  Vance Worley...... 7  3  0  0  7  1  0  
CHW A   Dexter Carter..... 6  4  0  0  6  0  0  
TOR AA  Marc Rzepczynski.. 5  4  0  0  8  3  0  
BAL AA  Brandon Erbe...... 6  3  0  0  3  1  0  
MIN A+  M. McCardell...... 7  5  1  1  4  0  1  
CHC AA  Jay Jackson....... 7  4  1  1  4  3  0  
LAA A   Tyler Chatwood.... 6  1  0  0  4  4  0  
BOS AAA Daniel Bard....... 2  1  0  0  4  1  0  
SF  A+  Scott Barnes...... 5  6  3  2  4  2  0  
SF  AA  Henry Sosa........ 5  5  2  2  2  1  0  
WAN A   Jack McGeary...... 5  4  2  2  5  5  0  
ARI AA  Daniel Schlereth.. 2  1  1  1  3  0  1

First Inning's Major and Minor League Daily Reports:

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