THT Daily: 31-25
by Dave StudemanJune 13, 2009
Major League News for June 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 RotoworldFrancisco Rodriguez blew his first save of the season against the Yankees on Friday night thanks to a dropped pop-up by Luis Castillo.
The Mets keep inventing fun ways to lose baseball games. This one was a doozy. With Derek Jeter on second base and two outs, the Mets decided to intentionally walk Mark Teixeira in order to face Alex Rodriguez. It appeared the strategy was successful, as A-Rod popped the ball up to shallow right-center field, however Luis Castillo flat out dropped it. Both runners hustled the entire way and scored easily to secure a dramatic 9-8 win. Rodriguez is now 16-for-17 in save opportunities.
Jake Peavy may be out for as long as 12 weeks, according to Padres trainer Todd Hutcheson.
An MRI revealed longitudinal tearing in the posterior tibialis tendon in his right ankle. Translation: it isn't good. He will be wearing a cast for at least a month and the medical staff will then re-evaluate the ankle at that time.
Tommy Hanson picked up his first major league victory, allowing two runs over 5 2/3 innings in a 7-2 win over the Orioles on Friday night.
It didn't come easy though, as Hanson faced trouble in every inning. He gave up nine hits and walked five, throwing 60 of 104 pitches for strikes. He struck out five in the win. Hanson has a 6.17 ERA and 1.80 WHIP through his first two major league starts. The best is yet to come.
Roy Halladay left his start Friday in the fourth inning because of a groin injury.
Halladay, who was trying for victory No. 11, gave up one run and five hits before departing after throwing his second pitch of the fourth inning. If Halladay has to miss some time, the Jays could call up Brett Cecil to replace him.
Scott Kazmir threw 44 pitches in a simulated game Friday afternoon.
Kazmir said he felt good afterward. His next stop is a minor-league rehab start in five days.
Mets placed RHP John Maine on the 15-day disabled list, retroactive to June 7, with shoulder weakness.
Maine's discomfort wasn't getting worse, but wasn't getting better. No timetable on his return yet, though Maine is hoping to miss the minimum amount of time. Fernando Nieve will make Maine's scheduled start on Saturday.
Tigers placed RHP Jeremy Bonderman on the 15-day disabled list with for "continued rehabilitation from thoracic outlet compression syndrome."
Translation: the Tigers were very disappointed in Monday's outing, and Bonderman isn't ready to contribute. This means Dontrelle Willis gets a reprieve, and stays in the rotation for now.
Yesterday’s Results
For the full scoop regarding yesterday's games, read "And That Happened" at Shysterball.American League ATL 7 BAL 2 (Recap and Boxscore) NYA 9 NYN 8 (Recap and Boxscore) TB 4 WAS 3 (Recap and Boxscore) FLA 7 TOR 3 (Recap and Boxscore) CLE 7 STL 3 (Recap and Boxscore) KC 4 CIN 1 (Recap and Boxscore) LAA 11 SD 6 (Recap and Boxscore) TEX 6 LAN 0 (Recap and Boxscore) National League BOS 5 PHI 2 (Recap and Boxscore) MIN 7 CHN 4 (Recap and Boxscore) MIL 7 CHA 2 (Recap and Boxscore) DET 3 PIT 1 (Recap and Boxscore) ARI 8 HOU 1 (Recap and Boxscore) COL 6 SEA 4 (Recap and Boxscore) SF 3 OAK 0 (Recap and Boxscore)Check out Fangraphs' scoreboard to see all the games in action.
Today’s Games
National League --------------- Houston Astros at Arizona Diamondbacks, 8:10 PM (R) Roy Oswalt (2-3) vs. (R) Jon Garland (4-6) Inter-League ------------ Minnesota Twins at Chicago Cubs, 1:05 PM (R) Anthony Swarzak (1-2) vs. (R) Rich Harden (4-2) Florida Marlins at Toronto Blue Jays, 1:07 PM (L) Sean West (1-1) vs. (R) Casey Janssen (2-2) Chicago White Sox at Milwaukee Brewers, 4:05 PM (R) Jose Contreras (1-5) vs. (L) Manny Parra (3-7) New York Mets at New York Yankees, 4:10 PM (R) Fernando Nieve (0-0) vs. (L) Andy Pettitte (6-2) St. Louis Cardinals at Cleveland Indians, 4:10 PM (R) Brad Thompson (0-2) vs. (R) Tomo Ohka (0-0) Washington Nationals at Tampa Bay Rays, 6:08 PM (R) Jordan Zimmermann (2-3) vs. (R) Andy Sonnanstine (4-6) Atlanta Braves at Baltimore Orioles, 7:05 PM (R) Kenshin Kawakami (3-6) vs. (L) Rich Hill (2-1) Detroit Tigers at Pittsburgh Pirates, 7:05 PM (R) Armando Galarraga (3-6) vs. (L) Zach Duke (6-4) Boston Red Sox at Philadelphia Phillies, 7:05 PM (R) Daisuke Matsuzaka (1-4) vs. (L) Antonio Bastardo (2-0) Cincinnati Reds at Kansas City Royals, 7:10 PM (R) Bronson Arroyo (7-4) vs. (R) Kyle Davies (2-6) Los Angeles Dodgers at Texas Rangers, 8:05 PM (L) Randy Wolf (3-2) vs. (R) Scott Feldman (5-1) Seattle Mariners at Colorado Rockies, 8:10 PM (R) Brandon Morrow (0-3) vs. (R) Jason Marquis (8-4) San Diego Padres at LA Angels of Anaheim, 9:05 PM (R) Josh Geer (1-1) vs. (L) Joe Saunders (6-4) Oakland Athletics at San Francisco Giants, 10:05 PM (L) Josh Outman (4-0) vs. (L) Randy Johnson (5-5)
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 BOS 37 24 .607 0.0 36 1NYA 35 26 .574 2.0 33 2
TOR 34 29 .540 4.0 35 -1
TB 32 31 .508 6.0 37 -5
BAL 25 36 .410 12.0 24 1
American League Central DET 34 27 .557 0.0 34 0
MIN 31 32 .492 4.0 33 -2
CHA 28 34 .452 6.5 27 1
CLE 28 35 .444 7.0 31 -3
KC 26 34 .433 7.5 26 0
American League West TEX 35 25 .583 0.0 32 3
LAA 30 29 .508 4.5 28 2
SEA 30 31 .492 5.5 28 2
OAK 27 33 .450 8.0 27 0
National League East Pwins Diff PHI 35 24 .593 0.0 33 2
NYN 31 28 .525 4.0 31 0
ATL 30 30 .500 5.5 29 1
FLA 30 33 .476 7.0 29 1
WAS 16 43 .271 19.0 23 -7
National League Central MIL 34 27 .557 0.0 33 1
STL 33 29 .532 1.5 32 1
CIN 31 29 .517 2.5 31 0
CHN 29 29 .500 3.5 30 -1
PIT 28 33 .459 6.0 30 -2
HOU 27 32 .458 6.0 26 1
National League West LAN 40 22 .645 0.0 39 1
SF 32 28 .533 7.0 31 1
COL 29 32 .475 10.5 32 -3
SD 28 32 .467 11.0 25 3
ARI 27 35 .435 13.0 28 -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 SD AAA Matt Antonelli.... 3 3 1 0 1 1 0 LA A D. Strange-Gordo.. 4 3 0 2 0 1 0 COL AA Michael McKenry... 3 2 1 0 1 1 0 WAN A+ Michael Burgess... 4 3 0 0 1 1 0 WAN A+ C. Marrero........ 3 2 0 0 1 2 0 MIL A+ Caleb Gindl....... 5 3 0 0 1 0 0 BOS A+ Luis Exposito..... 4 2 2 0 0 0 1 SEA A+ Joseph Dunigan.... 5 2 0 0 1 0 0 CHW AA Tyler Flowers..... 5 2 2 0 0 0 1 NYY AAA Austin Jackson.... 5 3 1 0 0 0 0 BOS A Tim Federowicz.... 5 2 0 0 1 0 1 WAN A+ Danny Espinosa.... 5 2 1 0 0 0 2 ORG LVL PLAYER IP H R ER SO BB HR Notes CIN AA Travis Wood....... 7 1 0 0 9 1 0 NYY AA Ivan Nova......... 8 3 0 0 8 1 0 15 GB CIN AAA Homer Bailey...... 9 6 1 1 9 2 0 NYM AAA Jonathon Niese.... 7 2 0 0 7 3 0 NYY A Manuel Banuelos... 7 4 2 1 5 0 0 TOR AA Marc Rzepczynski.. 7 5 0 0 8 3 0 BOS A Stolmy Pimentel... 5 4 1 1 7 1 0 ATL A Randall Delgado... 6 4 2 1 7 2 0 BAL AAA Jake Arrieta...... 6 2 1 1 6 0 1 OAK A+ Tyson Ross........ 6 3 3 3 7 3 0 NYY A+ Jeremy Bleich..... 7 4 0 0 4 1 0 CLE A T.J. House........ 5 5 2 1 5 2 0 9 GB
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