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THT Daily: Close or Blowout

by Matthew Carruth
June 24, 2007

Major League News for June 24

Player News
Yesterday’s Results
Today’s Games
Standings
Top Minor League Performances
Stats

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Player News
Player news items are provided by Rotoworld
Derek Jeter should be ready to play by Tuesday at the latest, manager Joe Torre said after Saturday's game.
Jeter left in the eighth inning with a strained hip. He's questionable to play Sunday in the series finale against the Giants.

Phillies placed RHP Jon Lieber on the 15-day disabled list, retroactive to June 21, with a ruptured tendon in his right foot.
Lieber won't be back before September if he returns at all. The Phillies could call up J.A. Happ or even Carlos Carrasco to start in his place next week. They still have no plans to put Brett Myers back into the rotation, so they need to trade for a starting pitcher.

The White Sox likely will place Jermaine Dye on the DL and recall Ryan Sweeney prior to Sunday's game.
Dye aggravated his strained quad Friday and wasn't even available as a pinch-hitter today, so it looks like he's going to need a couple of weeks off. Sweeney will likely play fairly regularly in his place. He could also see time in center when the White Sox use Rob Mackowiak in right field.

Justin Morneau will spend a second night in the hospital after being examined by a specialist on Saturday.
Morneau was expected to be released today, but he's being kept as a precaution. The Twins remain optimistic that he'll be on the team flight home from Florida following Sunday's game and that he won't go on the DL with a bruised lung.

Ryan Dempster was unavailable on Saturday because of a strained oblique suffered Friday.
The Cubs said nothing about the injury before the game. Dempster is expected to avoid the disabled list and resume pitching at some point over the next week. Bob Howry will close in his place.



Yesterday’s Results
American League
TB      4  LAN     3    (Recap and Boxscore)
TOR    11  COL     6    (Recap and Boxscore)
CHN     2  CHA     1    (Recap and Boxscore)
LAA    10  PIT     1    (Recap and Boxscore)
SEA     9  CIN     1    (Recap and Boxscore)
TEX     7  HOU     2    (Recap and Boxscore)

National League
DET     2  ATL     1    (Recap and Boxscore)
MIN    11  FLA     1    (Recap and Boxscore)
NYN     1  OAK     0    (Recap and Boxscore)
CLE     4  WAS     3    (Recap and Boxscore)
MIL     7  KC      1    (Recap and Boxscore)
STL     8  PHI     3    (Recap and Boxscore)
ARI     7  BAL     4    (Recap and Boxscore)
SD      6  BOS     1    (Recap and Boxscore)
SF      6  NYA     5    (Recap and Boxscore)

Today’s Games
1:05 ET 	MIN - Johan Santana* (7-6, 2.91) 	FLA - Byung-Hyun Kim (3-3, 5.22)
1:07 ET 	COL - Josh Fogg (3-5, 4.58)     	TOR - Dustin McGowan (3-3, 5.68)
1:10 ET 	OAK - Joe Kennedy* (2-4, 3.62)  	NYM - John Maine (7-4, 2.90)
1:35 ET 	CLE - Jake Westbrook (1-2, 7.90) 	WAS - Jason Simontacchi (4-5, 6.31)
1:40 ET 	LAD - Hong-Chih Kuo* (1-2, 6.65) 	TB - Edwin Jackson (0-8, 7.85)
2:05 ET 	CHC - Sean Marshall* (3-2, 2.84) 	CWS - Jose Contreras (5-7, 4.81)
2:05 ET 	KC - Odalis Perez* (4-7, 6.06)  	MIL - Yovani Gallardo (1-0, 4.26)
2:15 ET 	PHI - Cole Hamels* (9-3, 3.82)  	STL - Kip Wells (3-11, 6.75)
3:35 ET 	PIT - Tom Gorzelanny* (7-4, 3.01) 	LAA - Bartolo Colon (6-3, 6.17)
4:05 ET 	CIN - Bronson Arroyo (2-8, 5.24) 	SEA - Miguel Batista (7-6, 4.99)
4:05 ET 	BOS - Josh Beckett (10-1, 3.14) 	SD - Jake Peavy (9-1, 1.98)
4:05 ET 	NYY - Mike Mussina (3-4, 5.10) 	        SF - Noah Lowry* (6-6, 3.74)
4:40 ET 	BAL - Steve Trachsel (5-5, 4.24) 	ARI - Doug Davis* (4-8, 4.26)
8:05 ET 	DET - Andrew Miller* (2-1, 3.63) 	ATL - Chuck James* (6-6, 4.11)
8:35 ET 	HOU - Chris Sampson (6-5, 3.70) 	TEX - Robinson Tejeda (5-7, 6.29)


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     47  26 .644    0.0   45     2    sparkline graph
NYA     36  36 .500   10.5   42    -6    sparkline graph
TOR     36  37 .493   11.0   38    -2    sparkline graph
TB      32  40 .444   14.5   28     4    sparkline graph
BAL     32  42 .432   15.5   36    -4    sparkline graph
American League Central     
DET     44  29 .603    0.0   45    -1    sparkline graph
CLE     43  30 .589    1.0   42     1    sparkline graph
MIN     37  35 .514    6.5   38    -1    sparkline graph
CHA     29  41 .414   13.5   28     1    sparkline graph
KC      29  46 .387   16.0   31    -2    sparkline graph
American League West        
LAA     48  27 .640    0.0   45     3    sparkline graph
SEA     38  33 .535    8.0   35     3    sparkline graph
OAK     39  34 .534    8.0   41    -2    sparkline graph
TEX     30  44 .405   17.5   33    -3    sparkline graph


National League East        Pwins  Diff
NYN     40  32 .556    0.0   39     1    sparkline graph
PHI     38  36 .514    3.0   36     2    sparkline graph
ATL     38  37 .507    3.5   35     3    sparkline graph
FLA     36  39 .480    5.5   36     0    sparkline graph
WAS     31  43 .419   10.0   28     3    sparkline graph
National League Central     
MIL     43  31 .581    0.0   40     3    sparkline graph
CHN     34  39 .466    8.5   39    -5    sparkline graph
STL     33  38 .465    8.5   29     4    sparkline graph
HOU     31  43 .419   12.0   33    -2    sparkline graph
PIT     31  43 .419   12.0   30     1    sparkline graph
CIN     29  46 .387   14.5   34    -5    sparkline graph
National League West        
SD      42  31 .575    0.0   45    -3    sparkline graph
ARI     43  32 .573    0.0   38     5    sparkline graph
LAN     42  32 .568    0.5   40     2    sparkline graph
COL     38  36 .514    4.5   36     2    sparkline graph
SF      31  42 .425   11.0   36    -5    sparkline graph


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
LAA AAA Brandon Wood...... 4  3  2  0  1  0  1  
CIN AA  Jay Bruce......... 4  3  0  0  1  0  0  
ARI AA  Justin Upton...... 3  2  0  1  0  2  1  
NYM AA  F. Martinez....... 5  2  1  0  0  0  0  
ATL AA  Van Pope.......... 3  3  2  0  1  0  0  
OAK AAA Daric Barton...... 4  2  1  0  1  0  0  
LA  A+  Blake Dewitt...... 4  4  2  0  0  0  0  
SF  A+  Adam Witter....... 5  3  1  0  1  1  2  3 R
LAA AA  Sean Rodriguez.... 3  2  0  0  1  2  1  3 R
ATL A+  Eric Campbell..... 5  4  1  0  0  0  0  3 LD
DET A+  Cameron Maybin.... 4  1  1  0  0  2  1  3 R
STL AA  Colby Rasmus...... 3  1  0  0  1  1  1  

ORG LVL PLAYER            IP  H  R ER SO BB HR  Notes
LA  A   Clayton Kershaw... 6  4  2  0  9  2  0  
ARI A+  Matthew Torra..... 8  8  4  4  9  1  0  
DET A   Ramon Garcia...... 6  5  2  2  6  1  0  
BOS AAA Devern Hansack.... 8  3  1  1  7  0  0  
WAN A+  Craig Stammen..... 7  7  2  1  6  1  0  12 GB
BAL A+  Jason Berken...... 8  4  1  0  4  3  0  
CLE AA  Scott Lewis....... 5  6  3  3  4  1  0  
ARI AA  Brooks Brown...... 5  4  1  1  5  2  0  
OAK A+  Vincent Mazzaro... 6  5  4  4  5  4  0  
PHI A+  Joshua Outman..... 6  6  1  1  5  3  0  
LA  AA  Jonathan Meloan... 1  0  0  0  3  0  0  
COL AAA Ubaldo Jimenez.... 5  5  1  1  5  3  1


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