THT Daily: Low Scoring from The Hardball Times

THT Daily: Low Scoring

by Matthew Carruth
August 02, 2008

Major League News for August 2

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

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Player News

Player Headlines are courtesy of Rotoworld
The Rangers announced after Friday's game that they've fired pitching coach Mark Connor and bullpen coach Dom Chiti.
Triple-A Oklahoma pitching coach Andy Hawkins will take over for Connor, while Pacific Rim scouting coordinator Jim Colborn steps in as the bullpen coach. Connor just was never given a whole lot to work with during his time in Texas. The Rangers have nine pitchers on the disabled list, but we're not sure Connor deserves any of the blame for that. The only one that's legitimately been mishandled is Eric Hurley.

Hitting seventh in his White Sox debut, Ken Griffey Jr. contributed a pair of RBI singles and a walk to help the team beat the Royals 4-2 on Friday.
The Reds' insistence on keeping Griffey in the third spot in the lineup no matter what had turned into a real joke. Fortunately, the White Sox looked at the hitter he is now and put him where he belonged in their order. With Griffey in center field tonight, the White Sox put Nick Swisher at first base and Paul Konerko on the bench. It's likely the arrangement they'll keep using against righties.

Mike Lowell was removed from Friday's game because of a strained right hip.
Even if the Red Sox think Lowell will need just a couple of days off, they may have to send down Chris Smith and call up another infielder, probably Joe Thursday. Jed Lowrie would shift to third, with Alex Cora starting at shortstop.

Josh Hamilton left Friday's game after six innings with light-headedness.
Consider him day-to-day. Brandon Boggs took his spot against the Blue Jays.

Yesterday’s Results

American League
BOS     2  OAK     1    (Recap and Boxscore)
LAA     1  NYA     0    (Recap and Boxscore)
TB      5  DET     2    (Recap and Boxscore)
CHA     4  KC      2    (Recap and Boxscore)
MIN     4  CLE     1    (Recap and Boxscore)
BAL    10  SEA     5    (Recap and Boxscore)
TEX     9  TOR     8    (Recap and Boxscore)

National League
MIL     9  ATL     0    (Recap and Boxscore)
COL     5  FLA     2    (Recap and Boxscore)
WAS     5  CIN     2    (Recap and Boxscore)
PIT     3  CHN     0    (Recap and Boxscore)
HOU     7  NYN     3    (Recap and Boxscore)
STL     6  PHI     3    (Recap and Boxscore)
ARI     2  LAN     1    (Recap and Boxscore)
SF      3  SD      2    (Recap and Boxscore)

Today’s Games

National League
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 Pittsburgh Pirates at Chicago Cubs, 1:05 PM
  (L) Paul Maholm (7-6) vs. (L) Ted Lilly (10-6)
 Milwaukee Brewers at Atlanta Braves, 3:55 PM
  (L) CC Sabathia (4-0) vs. (R) Charlie Morton (2-4)
 New York Mets at Houston Astros, 7:05 PM
  (L) Johan Santana (9-7) vs. (R) Roy Oswalt (8-8)
 Cincinnati Reds at Washington Nationals, 7:10 PM
  (R) Josh Fogg (2-3) vs. (R) Jason Bergmann (1-8)
 Colorado Rockies at Florida Marlins, 7:10 PM
  (L) Valerio De Los Santos (0-0) vs. (R) Ricky Nolasco (10-6)
 Philadelphia Phillies at St. Louis Cardinals, 7:15 PM
  (R) Joe Blanton (0-0) vs. (R) Braden Looper (10-8)
 San Francisco Giants at San Diego Padres, 10:05 PM
  (L) Barry Zito (5-13) vs. (R) Jake Peavy (8-6)
 Arizona Diamondbacks at Los Angeles Dodgers, 10:10 PM
  (R) Yusmeiro Petit (1-1) vs. (R) Hiroki Kuroda (5-8)
 
 American League
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 LA Angels of Anaheim at New York Yankees, 3:55 PM
  (R) Jered Weaver (9-8) vs. (R) Mike Mussina (13-7)
 Chicago White Sox at Kansas City Royals, 3:55 PM
  (L) Mark Buehrle (8-9) vs. (R) Kyle Davies (4-2)
 Detroit Tigers at Tampa Bay Rays, 6:10 PM
  (L) Kenny Rogers (8-7) vs. (R) Andy Sonnanstine (10-6)
 Oakland Athletics at Boston Red Sox, 7:05 PM
  (L) Dana Eveland (7-7) vs. (L) Jon Lester (9-3)
 Cleveland Indians at Minnesota Twins, 7:10 PM
  (R) Paul Byrd (5-10) vs. (R) Kevin Slowey (7-7)
 Toronto Blue Jays at Texas Rangers, 8:05 PM
  (R) A.J. Burnett (12-9) vs. (R) Scott Feldman (4-3)
 Baltimore Orioles at Seattle Mariners, 10:10 PM
  (R) Jeremy Guthrie (7-8) vs. (R) Felix Hernandez (7-6)

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      64  44 .593    0.0   59     5    
BOS     62  48 .564    3.0   64    -2    
NYA     59  50 .541    5.5   59     0    
TOR     54  55 .495   10.5   58    -4    
BAL     52  56 .481   12.0   53    -1    
American League Central     
CHA     61  47 .565    0.0   62    -1    
MIN     61  48 .560    0.5   58     3    
DET     55  54 .505    6.5   57    -2    
KC      50  60 .455   12.0   47     3    
CLE     47  61 .435   14.0   54    -7    
American League West        
LAA     69  40 .633    0.0   61     8    
TEX     57  53 .518   12.5   52     5    
OAK     53  55 .491   15.5   59    -6    
SEA     41  68 .376   28.0   46    -5    


National League East        Pwins  Diff
PHI     59  50 .541    0.0   62    -3    
NYN     58  51 .532    1.0   59    -1    
FLA     58  52 .527    1.5   53     5    
ATL     50  59 .459    9.0   55    -5    
WAS     39  70 .358   20.0   41    -2    
National League Central     
CHN     65  45 .591    0.0   68    -3    
MIL     61  49 .555    4.0   57     4    
STL     62  50 .554    4.0   59     3    
HOU     51  57 .472   13.0   49     2    
PIT     51  58 .468   13.5   48     3    
CIN     51  59 .464   14.0   48     3    
National League West        
ARI     57  52 .523    0.0   58    -1    
LAN     54  55 .495    3.0   57    -3    
COL     50  61 .450    8.0   50     0    
SF      45  63 .417   11.5   45     0    
SD      42  68 .382   15.5   43    -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
SF  AAA Travis Ishikawa... 4  3  2  0  1  1  1  
LA  AA  Ivan De Jesus..... 4  4  2  0  1  0  0  
NYY AAA Juan Miranda...... 4  3  0  0  1  2  0  3 R
ATL AAA B. Lillibridge.... 4  3  2  0  0  1  0  
ATL A+  Gorkys Hernandez.. 5  2  1  0  1  0  1  3 R
TB  AAA Dan Johnson....... 4  2  1  0  1  0  0  
LA  AA  Russell Mitchell.. 4  3  0  0  1  1  0  
CLE A+  Beau Mills........ 5  3  2  0  0  0  0  
SEA AAA W. Balentien...... 5  3  0  0  1  0  1  5 RBI !
TEX AAA Joaquin Arias..... 5  3  0  0  1  0  0  
STL AA  Allen Craig....... 4  4  1  0  0  0  0  
STL AA  Daryl Jones....... 2  1  0  0  1  2  1  

ORG LVL PLAYER            IP  H  R ER SO BB HR  Notes
OAK AAA Gio Gonzalez...... 8  2  0  0  9  3  0  
MIN A   M. McCardell...... 6  6  2  2 10  1  0  
STL A   Richard Castillo.. 7  5  0  0  7  0  0  
BAL AAA Radhames Liz...... 7  3  1  1  5  1  0  
TOR A   Luis Perez........ 6  2  1  1  6  2  0  
ATL AAA Jo-Jo Reyes....... 6  4  2  1  5  1  0  
SF  A+  Kevin Pucetas..... 5  7  3  3  7  1  0  9 GB
FLA AAA Rick Vanden Hurk.. 7  2  1  1  6  3  1  
LAA AAA Nick Adenhart..... 6  5  1  0  5  2  0  
CLE A+  Hector Rondon..... 6  4  1  1  2  0  0  
DET AA  Luis Marte........ 5  5  5  2  4  1  0  
KC  A   Daniel Duffy...... 4  3  1  1  6  3  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.

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