THT Daily: Harden and Injuries
by Matthew CarruthJuly 13, 2008
Major League News for July 13
Player News
Yesterday’s Results
Today’s Games
Standings
Top Minor League Performances
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Player News
Player Headlines are courtesy of RotoworldHanley Ramirez, who left Saturday's game with shoulder soreness, said that he expects to play in Sunday afternoon's game.
Phew. Ramirez said he first felt the pain trying to throw out Nomar Garciaparra on a slow grounder, but after a night of icing the injury he thinks he'll be able to finish off the series at short.
Takashi Saito left Saturday night's game with tightness in his right elbow.
Saito struck out the first two batters he faced, but then appeared to feel discomfort in his right arm, shaking it while throwing fastballs to the next hitter. The 38-year-old was taken out of the game, and the elbow pain is clearly not a good sign. Jonathan Broxton should be grabbed in all leagues until we find out more.
Pedro Martinez was pulled after just four innings on Saturday because of stiffness in his right shoulder.
Martinez lasted 66 pitches against the Rockies. He had walked three batters, but allowed just one hit and tallied three strikeouts. The Mets are calling it a precautionary move, but we shall see.
In his debut as a Cub, Rich Harden pitched five-plus shutout innings and struck out ten but was left with a no-decision.
It was an impressive debut to say the least. He let up five hits and walked three, but those 10 strikeouts are his second-highest total this season. His fastball was clocked at 98 mph and he looked to have solid control over his whole arsenal of pitches the entire game. Chad Gaudin also made his Cubs debut, retiring both batters he faced. Sean Marshall wound up with the win after tossing two perfect innings at the back end of the game.
The Tigers won't use Edgar Renteria at all before the All-Star break.
Renteria suffered a mild hamstring injury running to first base on Wednesday and hasn't shown much improvement over the last few days. "We're going to wait with him," manager Jim Leyland said. "He's not ready."
Ryan Howard homered for the third straight game and the Phillies beat the Diamondbacks 6-5 in the 12th inning on Friday.
Shane Victorino finished the game 3-for-6 with two RBI and Jayson Werth drove in the winning run in the bottom of the 12th inning. Howard finished 2-for-5 with a solo shot and two runs scored. The homer was his 28th of the season and he has now knocked four home runs in the past three days. Maybe he's angry about not being named to the NL All-Star team, or possibly he's gearing up for a big second half. Either way, he's making fantasy owners very happy.
Yesterday’s Results
American League BOS 12 BAL 1 (Recap and Boxscore) NYA 9 TOR 4 (Recap and Boxscore) CLE 8 TB 4 (Recap and Boxscore) MIN 6 DET 5 (Recap and Boxscore) KC 5 SEA 4 (Recap and Boxscore) LAA 4 OAK 1 (Recap and Boxscore) CHA 9 TEX 7 (Recap and Boxscore) National League NYN 3 COL 0 (Recap and Boxscore) ARI 10 PHI 4 (Recap and Boxscore) HOU 6 WAS 4 (Recap and Boxscore) CHN 8 SF 7 (Recap and Boxscore) CIN 8 MIL 2 (Recap and Boxscore) PIT 12 STL 11 (Recap and Boxscore) FLA 5 LAN 3 (Recap and Boxscore) ATL 4 SD 1 (Recap and Boxscore)
Today’s Games
National League --------------- Arizona Diamondbacks at Philadelphia Phillies, 1:35 PM (R) Brandon Webb (13-4) vs. (L) Cole Hamels (9-6) Houston Astros at Washington Nationals, 1:35 PM (R) Brandon Backe (5-9) vs. (L) Odalis Perez (2-6) St. Louis Cardinals at Pittsburgh Pirates, 1:35 PM (R) Joel Pineiro (3-4) vs. (R) Ian Snell (3-7) Cincinnati Reds at Milwaukee Brewers, 2:05 PM (R) Homer Bailey (0-3) vs. (L) C.C. Sabathia (1-0) San Francisco Giants at Chicago Cubs, 2:20 PM (R) Tim Lincecum (10-2) vs. (R) Ryan Dempster (10-3) Atlanta Braves at San Diego Padres, 4:05 PM (R) Jorge Campillo (3-4) vs. (L) Randy Wolf (6-8) Florida Marlins at Los Angeles Dodgers, 4:10 PM (L) Andrew Miller (5-8) vs. (R) Chad Billingsley (8-8) Colorado Rockies at New York Mets, 8:05 PM (L) Mark Redman (2-4) vs. (R) Mike Pelfrey (7-6) American League --------------- Tampa Bay Rays at Cleveland Indians, 1:05 PM (L) Scott Kazmir (7-4) vs. (L) Jeremy Sowers (0-5) Minnesota Twins at Detroit Tigers, 1:05 PM (R) Nick Blackburn (7-4) vs. (R) Justin Verlander (6-9) New York Yankees at Toronto Blue Jays, 1:07 PM (L) Andy Pettitte (10-6) vs. (R) A.J. Burnett (9-8) Baltimore Orioles at Boston Red Sox, 1:35 PM (R) Daniel Cabrera (6-4) vs. (R) Daisuke Matsuzaka (9-1) Seattle Mariners at Kansas City Royals, 2:10 PM (R) Carlos Silva (4-11) vs. (R) Kyle Davies (3-1) Chicago White Sox at Texas Rangers, 3:05 PM (R) Jose Contreras (7-6) vs. (L) Matt Harrison (1-0) LA Angels of Anaheim at Oakland Athletics, 4:05 PM (R) Dustin Moseley (1-3) vs. (R) Justin Duchscherer (10-5)
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 TB 55 38 .591 0.0 52 3BOS 56 40 .583 0.5 58 -2
NYA 50 44 .532 5.5 50 0
TOR 46 48 .489 9.5 49 -3
BAL 45 47 .489 9.5 46 -1
American League Central CHA 54 39 .581 0.0 56 -2
MIN 53 41 .564 1.5 49 4
DET 46 47 .495 8.0 47 -1
KC 43 52 .453 12.0 41 2
CLE 40 53 .430 14.0 47 -7
American League West LAA 56 38 .596 0.0 49 7
OAK 51 43 .543 5.0 54 -3
TEX 49 46 .516 7.5 46 3
SEA 36 58 .383 20.0 40 -4
National League East Pwins Diff PHI 51 44 .537 0.0 55 -4
FLA 50 44 .532 0.5 45 5
NYN 50 44 .532 0.5 50 0
ATL 44 50 .468 6.5 50 -6
WAS 36 59 .379 15.0 36 0
National League Central CHN 57 37 .606 0.0 58 -1
STL 52 43 .547 5.5 49 3
MIL 51 43 .543 6.0 48 3
CIN 46 49 .484 11.5 42 4
PIT 44 49 .473 12.5 41 3
HOU 43 51 .457 14.0 42 1
National League West ARI 47 47 .500 0.0 48 -1
LAN 45 49 .479 2.0 47 -2
SF 39 55 .415 8.0 41 -2
COL 39 56 .411 8.5 40 -1
SD 37 57 .394 10.0 38 -1
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 AAA Jason Pridie...... 7 4 0 0 2 0 1 5 RBI ! STL AA Tyler Greene...... 4 3 0 1 2 0 0 3 R OAK AAA Eric Patterson.... 4 3 1 0 1 2 0 LAA A+ Mark Trumbo....... 4 4 0 0 2 0 0 3 LD CIN AA Daniel Dorn....... 3 2 0 0 2 1 1 3 R STL A+ Arnoldi Cruz...... 5 3 1 0 1 0 0 3 LD ATL AAA Diory Hernandez... 5 3 1 0 1 0 0 3 R OAK A+ Josh Donaldson.... 4 3 1 0 1 0 1 3 R TEX A+ Marcus Lemon...... 5 3 1 0 1 0 0 PIT A+ James Negrych..... 2 2 0 0 1 3 0 3 R TEX A Engel Beltre...... 4 3 1 0 1 0 0 NYY A Brandon Laird..... 4 2 0 0 2 0 1 4 RBI ORG LVL PLAYER IP H R ER SO BB HR Notes ATL AAA Chuck James....... 6 2 1 1 10 1 1 PHI AA Brett Myers....... 8 5 3 2 10 2 1 LA AA Clayton Kershaw... 7 2 0 0 5 1 0 TEX AAA Tommy Hunter...... 7 4 0 0 5 0 0 PIT A Brad Lincoln...... 7 4 0 0 7 2 0 LA A+ Josh Wall......... 7 3 1 1 7 1 1 NYY A Lance Pendleton... 5 7 5 5 7 0 0 ATL AA K. Medlen......... 6 5 0 0 6 1 0 BAL AA David Hernandez... 6 3 1 1 7 3 0 NYY A+ Ryan Pope......... 7 7 0 0 4 0 0 STL AAA Anthony Reyes..... 6 5 1 1 7 1 1 OAK AA Andrew Bailey..... 3 1 0 0 5 0 0
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Matthew Carruth is an editor for The Hardball Times. He welcomes any and all sorts of communication at his email.