THT Daily: Happy Father’s Day

by Matthew Carruth
June 17, 2007

Major League News for June 17

Player News
Yesterday’s Results
Today’s Games
Standings
Stats

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Player News

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Garret Anderson is going back on the disabled list after aggravating his hip injury on Saturday.
No word yet on who is being called up to replace him, but Kendry Morales and Terry Evans are logica; candidates. This just isn't much of a loss, as the Angels are better off with Reggie Willits in left field. Anderson is an improvement over Shea Hillenbrand as the designated hitter, but it might not be a big difference. Robb Quinlan could also see time at DH.

Cardinals placed shortstop David Eckstein on the 15-day disabled list, retroactive to June 14, due to back spasms.
It didn't sound like this was coming, but since so many things have gone wrong with the Cards this season, perhaps it shouldn't come as a surprise. Aaron Miles will be a full-time player while Eckstein is out. Brendan Ryan was called up to make the occasional start over Adam Kennedy against lefties.

Carlos Zambrano lost a no-hitter in the eighth and then took the loss in a 1-0 game Saturday against the Padres.
Marcus Giles broke up the no-hit bid with one out in the eighth with an infield single that deflected off Zambrano's glove. Zambrano previously made a great play going to his right on Hiram Bocachica's dribbler to keep the bid intact in the seventh. With the game still scoreless, Zambrano was allowed to hit for himself in the bottom of the eighth and struck out. He then gave up a homer to Russell Branyan in the ninth to take the loss. It was his first complete game since 2005. Zambrano has a 1.14 ERA in his last three starts.

Derrek Lee was ejected from Saturday's game in the fourth inning after a benches-clearing brawl in the game against the Padres.
Chris Young went up and in on Lee and got him on the hand-wrist area with the pitch. It didn't look like anything would happen, but Lee started to say something to Young and Young met him a few feet from home plate. While Young only seemed to be interested in talking, Lee threw a wild haymaker that missed and Young came back with a similar attempt that also failed to connect. Fortunately, Marcus Giles was able to pull Young away before any damage could be done. Another pile got started after the benches cleared, with Carlos Zambrano right in the middle of it, but the Young-Lee fight was the clear highlight.

Yesterday’s Results

American League
ARI     8  BAL     4    (Recap and Boxscore)
BOS     1  SF      0    (Recap and Boxscore)
NYA    11  NYN     8    (Recap and Boxscore)
TOR     7  WAS     3    (Recap and Boxscore)
ATL     6  CLE     2    (Recap and Boxscore)
FLA     9  KC      8    (Recap and Boxscore)
MIL     5  MIN     2    (Recap and Boxscore)
STL    15  OAK     6    (Recap and Boxscore)

National League
PHI     6  DET     3    (Recap and Boxscore)
SD      1  CHN     0    (Recap and Boxscore)
CIN     8  TEX     4    (Recap and Boxscore)
HOU     9  SEA     4    (Recap and Boxscore)
CHA     6  PIT     1    (Recap and Boxscore)
COL    10  TB      5    (Recap and Boxscore)
LAA     3  LAN     0    (Recap and Boxscore)

Today’s Games

National League
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 San Diego Padres at Chicago Cubs, 2:20 PM
  (R) Greg Maddux (5-3) vs. (L) Rich Hill (5-4)
 
 Inter-League
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 Atlanta Braves at Cleveland Indians, 1:05 PM
  (R) Kyle Davies (3-5) vs. (R) Fausto Carmona (7-2)
 Washington Nationals at Toronto Blue Jays, 1:07 PM
  (L) Micah Bowie (3-2) vs. (R) Josh Towers (2-4)
 Texas Rangers at Cincinnati Reds, 1:15 PM
  (R) Kevin Millwood (2-6) vs. (R) Bronson Arroyo (2-7)
 Chicago White Sox at Pittsburgh Pirates, 1:35 PM
  (R) Javier Vazquez (3-5) vs. (L) Zach Duke (3-6)
 Arizona Diamondbacks at Baltimore Orioles, 1:35 PM
  (R) Brandon Webb (6-4) vs. (L) Brian Burres (3-2)
 Detroit Tigers at Philadelphia Phillies, 1:35 PM
  (R) Justin Verlander (7-2) vs. (R) Adam Eaton (7-4)
 Seattle Mariners at Houston Astros, 2:05 PM
  (L) Jarrod Washburn (5-5) vs. (R) Roy Oswalt (6-4)
 San Francisco Giants at Boston Red Sox, 2:05 PM
  (R) Matt Morris (7-3) vs. (R) Tim Wakefield (6-7)
 Florida Marlins at Kansas City Royals, 2:10 PM
  (L) Scott Olsen (5-5) vs. (R) Brian Bannister (3-3)
 Milwaukee Brewers at Minnesota Twins, 2:10 PM
  (R) Jeff Suppan (7-7) vs. (R) Kevin Slowey (2-0)
 Tampa Bay Devil Rays at Colorado Rockies, 3:05 PM
  (L) Scott Kazmir (4-3) vs. (R) Aaron Cook (4-3)
 St. Louis Cardinals at Oakland Athletics, 4:05 PM
  (R) Anthony Reyes (0-8) vs. (L) Joe Kennedy (2-4)
 LA Angels of Anaheim at Los Angeles Dodgers, 4:10 PM
  (R) Kelvim Escobar (7-3) vs. (L) Randy Wolf (8-4)
 New York Mets at New York Yankees, 8:05 PM
  (R) Orlando Hernandez (3-2) vs. (R) Chien-Ming Wang (6-4)

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     43  24 .642    0.0   41     2    
NYA     34  32 .515    8.5   39    -5    
TOR     33  34 .493   10.0   34    -1    
TB      29  37 .439   13.5   25     4    
BAL     29  39 .426   14.5   33    -4    
American League Central     
CLE     39  28 .582    0.0   38     1    
DET     38  29 .567    1.0   40    -2    
MIN     33  33 .500    5.5   33     0    
CHA     28  36 .438    9.5   26     2    
KC      27  42 .391   13.0   29    -2    
American League West        
LAA     43  26 .623    0.0   41     2    
OAK     37  30 .552    5.0   39    -2    
SEA     35  30 .538    6.0   33     2    
TEX     25  43 .368   17.5   28    -3    


National League East        Pwins  Diff
NYN     37  29 .561    0.0   37     0    
ATL     37  32 .536    1.5   34     3    
PHI     36  32 .529    2.0   34     2    
FLA     33  36 .478    5.5   34    -1    
WAS     29  39 .426    9.0   27     2    
National League Central     
MIL     38  30 .559    0.0   35     3    
CHN     31  36 .463    6.5   37    -6    
STL     29  36 .446    7.5   25     4    
HOU     29  39 .426    9.0   31    -2    
PIT     29  39 .426    9.0   29     0    
CIN     27  42 .391   11.5   31    -4    
National League West        
SD      39  28 .582    0.0   42    -3    
LAN     39  29 .574    0.5   37     2    
ARI     39  30 .565    1.0   35     4    
COL     35  33 .515    4.5   33     2    
SF      30  37 .448    9.0   34    -4