THT Daily: Howard blasts two
by Dave StudemanMay 31, 2009
Major League News for May 31
Player News
Yesterday’s Results
Today’s Games
Standings
Top Minor League Performances
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Player News
Player Headlines are courtesy of RotoworldAdrian Gonzalez blasted his 19th homer of the season Saturday in a losing effort against the Rockies.
Gonzalez has just 37 RBI, a stat indicative of the rest of the Padres' lineup. He's been a heck of a fantasy chip, but the homers will probably cool and he's going to struggle to reach 110 RBI. Owners may want to shop around and see what kind of interest he'll drum up.
Ian Kinsler finished 2-for-3 with four RBI on Saturday night as the Rangers routed the A's 14-1.
The Rangers' offense went nuts, collecting 17 hits, including three home runs. Kinsler didn't go yard, but scattered a two-run double and single. He's batting .281 this season with 12 doubles and 39 RBI.
Ryan Howard blasted two home runs to help the Phillies defeat the Nationals 9-6 on Saturday night.
Howard hit a solo homer in the bottom of the second inning and a grand slam in the third. He's now batting .265 with 14 home runs and 39 RBI in 188 at-bats.
Ryan Rowland-Smith (triceps) is tentatively scheduled to start for the Mariners on June 11 against the Orioles.
Rowland-Smith threw a successful bullpen session Saturday and is scheduled for another on Tuesday. He's been out since April 15 with triceps tendinitis.
David Price picked up his first win of the season Saturday after fanning 11 Twins hitters and allowing just one earned run.
There's the guy we were expecting to see. Price looked shaky in his season debut earlier this week, but got the jitters out of his system early. He set a personal record in strikeouts and dropped his ERA to 3.00. Let's hope the success will continue next week as he faces the Yankees.
Victor Martinez left Saturday's game after one inning because of a left knee injury.
Martinez was down for a few minutes after fouling a pitch off the knee in the first. He got up and finished his at-bat, but he couldn't run at all on his groundout and Kelly Shoppach replaced him to begin the second.
Yesterday’s Results
For the full scoop regarding yesterday's games, read "And That Happened" at Shysterball.American League DET 6 BAL 3 (Recap and Boxscore) TB 5 MIN 2 (Recap and Boxscore) TOR 5 BOS 3 (Recap and Boxscore) NYA 10 CLE 5 (Recap and Boxscore) CHA 5 KC 3 (Recap and Boxscore) SEA 4 LAA 3 (Recap and Boxscore) TEX 14 OAK 1 (Recap and Boxscore) National League FLA 7 NYN 3 (Recap and Boxscore) PHI 9 WAS 6 (Recap and Boxscore) CHN 7 LAN 0 (Recap and Boxscore) MIL 9 CIN 5 (Recap and Boxscore) PIT 7 HOU 4 (Recap and Boxscore) ARI 3 ATL 2 (Recap and Boxscore) COL 8 SD 7 (Recap and Boxscore) STL 6 SF 2 (Recap and Boxscore)Check out Fangraphs' scoreboard to see all the games in action.
Today’s Games
National League --------------- Florida Marlins at New York Mets, 1:10 PM (R) Chris Volstad (4-3) vs. (R) John Maine (4-3) Houston Astros at Pittsburgh Pirates, 1:35 PM (L) Mike Hampton (2-4) vs. (L) Paul Maholm (3-1) Washington Nationals at Philadelphia Phillies, 1:35 PM (L) John Lannan (2-4) vs. (L) Jamie Moyer (3-5) Cincinnati Reds at Milwaukee Brewers, 2:05 PM (R) Micah Owings (3-5) vs. (R) Yovani Gallardo (4-2) San Diego Padres at Colorado Rockies, 3:10 PM (R) Chad Gaudin (1-3) vs. (L) Jorge De La Rosa (0-5) St. Louis Cardinals at San Francisco Giants, 4:05 PM (R) Adam Wainwright (5-2) vs. (L) Jonathan Sanchez (2-4) Atlanta Braves at Arizona Diamondbacks, 4:10 PM (R) Kris Medlen (0-2) vs. (R) Max Scherzer (2-3) Los Angeles Dodgers at Chicago Cubs, 8:05 PM (L) Eric Milton (1-0) vs. (L) Sean Marshall (3-3) American League --------------- New York Yankees at Cleveland Indians, 12:40 PM (R) Phil Hughes (3-2) vs. (R) Carl Pavano (5-4) Boston Red Sox at Toronto Blue Jays, 1:07 PM (L) Jon Lester (3-5) vs. (L) Ricky Romero (2-1) Detroit Tigers at Baltimore Orioles, 1:35 PM (R) Edwin Jackson (4-3) vs. (R) Jason Berken (1-0) Minnesota Twins at Tampa Bay Rays, 1:38 PM (R) Nick Blackburn (4-2) vs. (R) Matt Garza (4-3) Chicago White Sox at Kansas City Royals, 2:10 PM (L) John Danks (4-3) vs. (R) Zack Greinke (8-1) Oakland Athletics at Texas Rangers, 3:05 PM (L) Dallas Braden (4-5) vs. (R) Kevin Millwood (4-4) Seattle Mariners at LA Angels of Anaheim, 3:35 PM (L) Garrett Olson (0-1) vs. (R) Ervin Santana (0-2)
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 NYA 29 20 .592 0.0 26 3BOS 28 22 .560 1.5 27 1
TOR 29 23 .558 1.5 29 0
TB 25 27 .481 5.5 29 -4
BAL 23 27 .460 6.5 22 1
American League Central DET 27 21 .563 0.0 28 -1
CHA 23 25 .479 4.0 22 1
MIN 24 27 .471 4.5 26 -2
KC 23 26 .469 4.5 22 1
CLE 21 30 .412 7.5 24 -3
American League West TEX 30 19 .612 0.0 28 2
LAA 24 24 .500 5.5 23 1
SEA 24 26 .480 6.5 21 3
OAK 18 29 .383 11.0 19 -1
National League East Pwins Diff PHI 27 20 .574 0.0 25 2
NYN 27 21 .563 0.5 27 0
ATL 24 25 .490 4.0 23 1
FLA 23 27 .460 5.5 22 1
WAS 13 35 .271 14.5 19 -6
National League Central STL 29 20 .592 0.0 28 1
MIL 29 20 .592 0.0 27 2
CIN 26 22 .542 2.5 25 1
CHN 25 23 .521 3.5 25 0
PIT 22 27 .449 7.0 24 -2
HOU 19 28 .404 9.0 20 -1
National League West LAN 34 17 .667 0.0 33 1
SF 24 24 .500 8.5 23 1
SD 24 25 .490 9.0 21 3
ARI 22 28 .440 11.5 22 0
COL 20 28 .417 12.5 23 -3
Top Minor League Games
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