THT Daily: Near No-No
by Matthew CarruthSeptember 06, 2008
Major League News for September 6
Player News
Yesterday’s Results
Today’s Games
Standings
Top Minor League Performances
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Player News
Player Headlines are courtesy of RotoworldManager Ozzie Guillen said Friday that he expects Joe Crede to miss the rest of the season.
Crede was forced to leave Tuesday's game after his back injury flared up. "I don't expect him to be back anytime soon," Guillen said. "Joe is not going to be with us, and I don't expect him to be back [this] season." Juan Uribe should continue to fill in nicely.
Brandon Morrow lost a no-hitter with two outs in the eighth, but still beat the Yankees in his first major league start Friday.
As neat as it would have been for Morrow to become the second pitcher ever to throw a no-no in his first start, it was pretty clearly for the best that it was broken up. Ideally, it would have happened about 10 pitches earlier. He didn't throw more than 82 pitches in any of his minor league starts, and he ended up at 106 tonight. With Hideki Matsui on first after a walk, pinch-hitter Wilson Betemit ended the bid when he got a curve a bit up in the zone and drove in over Ichiro Suzuki's head in right. It scored the run, and Morrow was immediately removed with a 3-1 lead. Justin Thomas finished the eighth, and J.J. Putz tossed a scoreless ninth to close it out. Morrow, who struck out eight, should be worth using in all formats through the end of the year.
Josh Beckett pitched five scoreless innings and struck out seven Friday against the Rangers.
55-60 pitches, eh? Beckett was throwing so well tonight that the Red Sox let him stay in to throw 80 and pick up his 12th win. He allowed four hits, all of which were singles, and walked none. His velocity was plenty good, but that was the case even when he was getting shelled by the Jays in his final start before landing on the DL. What was more important was that he seemed to have his good command tonight.
Carlos Quentin has a fractured right wrist and will undergo surgery Monday to insert a screw, the White Sox announced..
This seems nearly certain to cost him the rest of the regular season. Perhaps he'll make it back in October, but it's nothing the White Sox can count on. They'll go with Nick Swisher and Ken Griffey Jr. as their regular outfielders for the rest of the season. Brian Anderson and Jerry Owens will step in when someone needs a day off.
Orioles exercised manager Dave Trembley's option for 2009 and added an option for 2010.
The Orioles are 103-129 since Trembley took over for Sam Perlozzo in June 2007. Still, he's done a reasonable job with the pieces he's been handed. As frustrating as it's been to see Jay Payton get penciled in against right-handers, we suppose that's still better than seeing Brandon Fahey and David Newhan patrol left field, a rather frequent occurance during the Perlozzo era. He's done nice work with a bullpen absent any big names. The rotation is a different matter, but it's hard to assign blame there.
Yesterday’s Results
American League OAK 11 BAL 2 (Recap and Boxscore) TOR 6 TB 4 (Recap and Boxscore) CHA 10 LAA 2 (Recap and Boxscore) CLE 9 KC 3 (Recap and Boxscore) MIN 10 DET 2 (Recap and Boxscore) SEA 3 NYA 1 (Recap and Boxscore) BOS 8 TEX 1 (Recap and Boxscore) National League ATL 10 WAS 5 (Recap and Boxscore) PHI 3 NYN 0 (Recap and Boxscore) CIN 10 CHN 2 (Recap and Boxscore) MIL 3 SD 2 (Recap and Boxscore) FLA 4 STL 1 (Recap and Boxscore) COL 5 HOU 3 (Recap and Boxscore) LAN 7 ARI 0 (Recap and Boxscore) PIT 7 SF 0 (Recap and Boxscore)
Today’s Games
National League --------------- Philadelphia Phillies at New York Mets, 3:55 PM (L) Jamie Moyer (12-7) vs. (R) Pedro Martinez (5-3) Arizona Diamondbacks at Los Angeles Dodgers, 3:55 PM (R) Brandon Webb (19-6) vs. (R) Chad Billingsley (13-10) San Diego Padres at Milwaukee Brewers, 7:05 PM (R) Jake Peavy (9-9) vs. (R) Ben Sheets (12-7) Chicago Cubs at Cincinnati Reds, 7:10 PM (R) Jason Marquis (9-8) vs. (R) Johnny Cueto (8-12) Washington Nationals at Atlanta Braves, 7:10 PM (R) Tim Redding (10-8) vs. (L) Mike Hampton (2-2) Florida Marlins at St. Louis Cardinals, 7:15 PM (L) Scott Olsen (6-9) vs. (R) Todd Wellemeyer (11-6) Houston Astros at Colorado Rockies, 8:05 PM (R) Roy Oswalt (13-9) vs. (L) Jeff Francis (4-8) Pittsburgh Pirates at San Francisco Giants, 9:05 PM (L) Paul Maholm (8-8) vs. (R) Matt Cain (8-11) American League --------------- Oakland Athletics at Baltimore Orioles, 1:05 PM (L) Greg Smith (6-14) vs. (L) Garrett Olson (8-7) Tampa Bay Rays at Toronto Blue Jays, 1:07 PM (R) James Shields (12-8) vs. (R) Shaun Marcum (8-6) Detroit Tigers at Minnesota Twins, 3:55 PM (R) Justin Verlander (10-15) vs. (R) Scott Baker (8-4) Oakland Athletics at Baltimore Orioles, 7:05 PM (L) Greg Smith (6-14) vs. (R) Daniel Cabrera (8-8) LA Angels of Anaheim at Chicago White Sox, 7:05 PM (R) John Lackey (11-3) vs. (R) Gavin Floyd (15-6) Cleveland Indians at Kansas City Royals, 7:10 PM (L) Zach Jackson (0-1) vs. (R) Gil Meche (10-10) Boston Red Sox at Texas Rangers, 8:05 PM (R) Tim Wakefield (8-9) vs. (L) Matt Harrison (6-3) New York Yankees at Seattle Mariners, 10:10 PM (R) Sidney Ponson (7-5) vs. (L) Ryan Rowland-Smith (4-2)
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 TB 85 54 .612 0.0 79 6BOS 83 57 .593 2.5 86 -3
NYA 75 66 .532 11.0 75 0
TOR 74 66 .529 11.5 79 -5
BAL 63 77 .450 22.5 66 -3
American League Central CHA 79 61 .564 0.0 79 0
MIN 78 63 .553 1.5 78 0
CLE 68 71 .489 10.5 74 -6
DET 67 74 .475 12.5 69 -2
KC 60 80 .429 19.0 57 3
American League West LAA 85 55 .607 0.0 76 9
TEX 69 73 .486 17.0 65 4
OAK 64 77 .454 21.5 66 -2
SEA 55 85 .393 30.0 59 -4
National League East Pwins Diff NYN 79 62 .560 0.0 79 0
PHI 77 64 .546 2.0 80 -3
FLA 72 69 .511 7.0 68 4
ATL 62 80 .437 17.5 68 -6
WAS 54 88 .380 25.5 55 -1
National League Central CHN 85 56 .603 0.0 88 -3
MIL 81 60 .574 4.0 79 2
STL 75 66 .532 10.0 75 0
HOU 74 67 .525 11.0 68 6
CIN 63 78 .447 22.0 61 2
PIT 60 80 .429 24.5 58 2
National League West ARI 71 69 .507 0.0 72 -1
LAN 71 70 .504 0.5 73 -2
COL 67 75 .472 5.0 65 2
SF 60 80 .429 11.0 57 3
SD 54 87 .383 17.5 58 -4
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 WAN A- Steven Souza...... 4 3 1 0 0 1 0 WAN A- Jacob Smolinski... 5 2 1 0 0 0 2 BOS A- W. Middlebrooks... 4 2 1 0 0 0 1 WAN A- Derek Norris...... 4 1 0 0 0 1 2 NYM A- Isaac Davis....... 4 1 0 0 0 0 1 CLE A- L. Chisenhall..... 3 1 0 0 0 0 0 STL A- Shane Peterson.... 5 1 0 0 0 0 1 HOU A- Jason Castro...... 4 0 0 0 0 1 2 PHI A- Kyle Drabek....... 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 NYM A- Jordan Abruzzo.... 2 0 0 0 0 0 2 NYM A- Wilmer Flores..... 3 0 0 0 0 0 1 BOS A- Derrik Gibson..... 5 0 0 0 0 0 1 ORG LVL PLAYER IP H R ER SO BB HR Notes BOS A- Stephen Fife...... 4 3 0 0 6 0 0 NYY A- J. Albaladejo..... 2 2 0 0 2 0 0 6 GB PHI A- Kyle Drabek....... 4 4 3 3 3 3 1
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Matthew Carruth is an editor for The Hardball Times. He welcomes any and all sorts of communication at his email.