THT Daily: Gallardo beats Pirates
by Dave StudemanApril 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 RotoworldRockies 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 --------------- 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 --------------- 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 1TOR 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
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