THT Daily: Slump Over
by Matthew CarruthJuly 01, 2007
Major League News for July 1
Player News
Yesterday’s Results
Today’s Games
Standings
Game of the Day
Top Minor League Performances
Stats
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Player News
Player news items are provided by RotoworldAfter Josh Beckett failed against the Rangers, C.C. Sabathia became the game's first 12-game winner Saturday by allowing three runs -- two earned -- in seven innings versus Tampa Bay.
Sabathia struck out eight and walked none while stating his case to be the AL's starting pitcher in the All-Star Game. Dan Haren is the more deserving choice, but we wouldn't be surprised to see Sabathia get the nod. The big left-hander is seventh in the AL with a 3.20 ERA and third to Johan Santana and Erik Bedard in strikeouts.
Brian Fuentes has temporarily been pulled from the closer's role after blowing four straight save chances.
As terrific as he's been in the past, it shouldn't take much more than one good week to get Fuentes his job back. Still, right now it might be best to back off him a bit. "I don't see where putting him in the extreme, intense innings right now is going to help him," manager Clint Hurdle said. "We'll back him out of that and see if he can just get back into good form." Manny Corpas could be the favorite for saves through the All-Star break.
Oliver Perez has been scratched from his scheduled start Sunday because of a stiff back.
Mike Pelfrey, who was to go Tuesday, will be called up to start in Perez's place Sunday, with Jorge Sosa possibly going on the DL to open up a spot. Perez could then switch spots with Pelfrey and go Tuesday.
Carlos Beltran had his second straight multihomer game -- becoming the first player to turn the trick since he also did it last July -- Saturday as the Mets beat the Phillies 8-3.
Aaron Rowand almost made a terrific catch on the second bomb, leaning over the center-field wall only to have the ball go off his glove. Beltran had four hits on the day. His brutal slump, likely brought on by a quad injury, has offically come to an end. With 14 homers on the year, he still has a pretty good chance of reaching 30, assuming that he can avoid additional nagging injuries.
Yesterday’s Results
American League BAL 6 LAA 3 (Recap and Boxscore) TEX 5 BOS 4 (Recap and Boxscore) OAK 7 NYA 0 (Recap and Boxscore) CLE 8 TB 6 (Recap and Boxscore) MIN 8 DET 5 (Recap and Boxscore) CHA 3 KC 1 (Recap and Boxscore) SEA 8 TOR 3 (Recap and Boxscore) National League ATL 6 FLA 5 (Recap and Boxscore) NYN 8 PHI 3 (Recap and Boxscore) MIL 13 CHN 4 (Recap and Boxscore) CIN 5 STL 1 (Recap and Boxscore) COL 5 HOU 0 (Recap and Boxscore) PIT 7 WAS 2 (Recap and Boxscore) SD 3 LAN 1 (Recap and Boxscore) SF 4 ARI 1 (Recap and Boxscore)
Today’s Games
National League --------------- Atlanta Braves at Florida Marlins, 1:05 PM (R) Buddy Carlyle (2-2) vs. (L) Dontrelle Willis (7-7) St. Louis Cardinals at Cincinnati Reds, 1:15 PM (L) Mike Maroth (0-0) vs. (R) Homer Bailey (2-1) New York Mets at Philadelphia Phillies, 1:35 PM (R) Mike Pelfrey (0-5) vs. (R) Kyle Kendrick (2-0) Washington Nationals at Pittsburgh Pirates, 1:35 PM (L) Mike Bacsik (1-5) vs. (L) Paul Maholm (4-10) Colorado Rockies at Houston Astros, 2:05 PM (R) Rodrigo Lopez (4-1) vs. (L) Wandy Rodriguez (4-7) Milwaukee Brewers at Chicago Cubs, 2:20 PM (R) Dave Bush (6-6) vs. (R) Jason Marquis (5-4) Arizona Diamondbacks at San Francisco Giants, 4:05 PM (R) Micah Owings (5-2) vs. (R) Tim Lincecum (2-2) San Diego Padres at Los Angeles Dodgers, 4:10 PM (R) Justin Germano (5-1) vs. (R) Chad Billingsley (4-0) American League --------------- Oakland Athletics at New York Yankees, 1:05 PM (R) Danny Haren (9-2) vs. (L) Andy Pettitte (4-5) Tampa Bay Devil Rays at Cleveland Indians, 1:05 PM (R) James Shields (6-3) vs. (L) Cliff Lee (4-4) LA Angels of Anaheim at Baltimore Orioles, 1:35 PM (R) John Lackey (10-5) vs. (R) Jeremy Guthrie (4-1) Texas Rangers at Boston Red Sox, 2:05 PM (R) Kameron Loe (4-6) vs. (R) Julian Tavarez (5-5) Chicago White Sox at Kansas City Royals, 2:10 PM (R) Jon Garland (5-5) vs. (R) John Thomson (1-0) Toronto Blue Jays at Seattle Mariners, 4:05 PM (R) Shaun Marcum (4-2) vs. (R) Jeff Weaver (2-6) Minnesota Twins at Detroit Tigers, 8:05 PM (R) Scott Baker (2-2) vs. (R) Jeremy Bonderman (8-1)
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 49 30 .620 0.0 48 1TOR 39 41 .488 10.5 41 -2
NYA 37 40 .481 11.0 44 -7
BAL 35 44 .443 14.0 39 -4
TB 33 46 .418 16.0 31 2
American League Central CLE 48 32 .600 0.0 45 3
DET 46 33 .582 1.5 47 -1
MIN 42 37 .532 5.5 43 -1
CHA 34 43 .442 12.5 32 2
KC 34 47 .420 14.5 35 -1
American League West LAA 50 31 .617 0.0 47 3
SEA 44 33 .571 4.0 40 4
OAK 41 39 .513 8.5 44 -3
TEX 33 47 .413 16.5 36 -3
National League East Pwins Diff NYN 46 33 .582 0.0 45 1
ATL 43 38 .531 4.0 41 2
PHI 41 40 .506 6.0 39 2
FLA 37 44 .457 10.0 37 0
WAS 32 48 .400 14.5 29 3
National League Central MIL 47 33 .588 0.0 45 2
CHN 39 40 .494 7.5 42 -3
STL 35 42 .455 10.5 31 4
PIT 35 45 .438 12.0 34 1
HOU 34 47 .420 13.5 35 -1
CIN 31 50 .383 16.5 36 -5
National League West SD 46 33 .582 0.0 49 -3
ARI 46 36 .561 1.5 41 5
LAN 45 36 .556 2.0 43 2
COL 39 42 .481 8.0 39 0
SF 34 45 .430 12.0 39 -5
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 ARI AA Justin Upton...... 5 2 1 0 0 0 0 LA AAA Andy LaRoche...... 3 2 0 1 0 1 0 LAA AAA Brandon Wood...... 4 1 0 0 1 0 1 SEA AAA Adam Jones........ 4 1 0 0 1 0 2 FLA A+ Gaby Sanchez...... 4 3 2 0 0 1 0 3 R TB A Desmond Jennings.. 5 3 1 0 1 0 0 3 SB CHC AAA Eric Patterson.... 5 3 1 1 0 0 1 TEX AAA Jason Botts....... 5 2 1 0 1 0 1 LA A+ Blake Dewitt...... 5 2 0 1 1 0 0 5 RBI ! SEA AAA Jeff Clement...... 3 2 0 0 1 1 1 TB AAA Ben Zobrist....... 3 2 2 0 0 0 1 SEA AAA W. Balentien...... 4 2 1 1 0 0 0 ORG LVL PLAYER IP H R ER SO BB HR Notes STL A Tyler Herron...... 6 3 1 1 10 0 0 CHW AAA Heath Phillips.... 7 6 3 3 8 1 0 OAK AAA Michael Madsen.... 8 4 0 0 6 2 0 PHI AA Matthew Maloney... 7 8 5 5 10 0 1 KC AA Luke Hochevar..... 6 6 1 1 5 5 0 13 GB MIN A+ Yohan Pino........ 7 0 0 0 7 4 0 FLA A+ C. Volstad........ 7 6 0 0 5 1 0 14 GB NYY AA Alan Horne........ 7 6 1 1 8 3 0 BOS AA Clay Buchholz..... 5 0 0 0 4 2 0 BAL AA Radhames Liz...... 6 4 2 2 6 3 0 MIL AAA Manny Parra....... 6 2 1 1 4 2 0 STL A+ Adam Ottavino..... 6 6 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.