THT Daily: More Pitching Injuries from The Hardball Times

THT Daily: More Pitching Injuries

by Matthew Carruth
June 08, 2008

Major League News for June 8

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
As expected, Todd Wellemeyer will miss his scheduled start Tuesday because of elbow inflammation.
Mitchell Boggs will get the nod. "It's nothing serious," said Wellemeyer. "I felt it after my start against Pittsburgh and again Thursday's game. It was enough to get it checked out." He'll throw a bullpen session Tuesday and expects to avoid the disabled list. Wellemeyer has already eclipsed his career high for innings in a season, so it's not much of a surprise that he's having inflammation issues.

Joe Crede had a second straight two-homer game and drove in six runs as the White Sox stomped on the Twins 11-2 on Saturday.
Crede had two homers in a span of five weeks before launching five in his last three games. He's now at 14 for the year, moving him into a tie with Manny Ramirez for third place in the American League. Maybe the White Sox will try moving him up in the order.

Adam Wainwright suffered a strained right middle finger before coming out of Saturday's game in the sixth inning.
He was charged with two runs in five-plus innings after the runner he left on base came around to score off Kyle McClellan. Wainwright might need to miss at least one turn with the injury. If so, Anthony Reyes or Jaime Garcia could be called up to replace him.

Jason Schmidt has been scratched from his scheduled minor league rehab start Sunday with some discomfort in his surgically repaired shoulder.
"It's not a setback, it's just a set aside," manager Joe Torre said. "At this point, we're not ready to start the clock on him. I think we're more cautious on starting the clock because we know once we start it, you have a 30-day window. We're going to just hold off maybe for a few days, maybe a week, but depending on him."

Yesterday’s Results

American League
BOS    11  SEA     3    (Recap and Boxscore)
NYA    12  KC     11    (Recap and Boxscore)
BAL     9  TOR     5    (Recap and Boxscore)
CHA    11  MIN     2    (Recap and Boxscore)
DET     8  CLE     4    (Recap and Boxscore)
LAA     5  OAK     3    (Recap and Boxscore)
TB      5  TEX     4    (Recap and Boxscore)

National League
PHI     6  ATL     2    (Recap and Boxscore)
FLA     8  CIN     7    (Recap and Boxscore)
SF      6  WAS     0    (Recap and Boxscore)
STL     8  HOU     4    (Recap and Boxscore)
ARI     4  PIT     3    (Recap and Boxscore)
COL     7  MIL     2    (Recap and Boxscore)
LAN     7  CHN     3    (Recap and Boxscore)
SD      2  NYN     1    (Recap and Boxscore)

Today’s Games

National League
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 Cincinnati Reds at Florida Marlins, 1:10 PM
  (R) Aaron Harang (2-8) vs. (R) Ryan Tucker (0-0)
 Arizona Diamondbacks at Pittsburgh Pirates, 1:35 PM
  (L) Doug Davis (2-2) vs. (L) Phil Dumatrait (2-3)
 San Francisco Giants at Washington Nationals, 1:35 PM
  (L) Barry Zito (1-9) vs. (R) Garrett Mock (0-0)
 Philadelphia Phillies at Atlanta Braves, 1:35 PM
  (R) Adam Eaton (2-3) vs. (R) Jorge Campillo (2-0)
 St. Louis Cardinals at Houston Astros, 2:05 PM
  (R) Kyle Lohse (6-2) vs. (L) Wandy Rodriguez (2-1)
 Milwaukee Brewers at Colorado Rockies, 3:05 PM
  (R) Jeff Suppan (3-4) vs. (L) Jeff Francis (2-5)
 New York Mets at San Diego Padres, 4:05 PM
  (R) Pedro Martinez (1-0) vs. (L) Wilfredo Ledezma (0-2)
 Chicago Cubs at Los Angeles Dodgers, 8:05 PM
  (R) Jason Marquis (3-3) vs. (R) Brad Penny (5-7)
 
 American League
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 Cleveland Indians at Detroit Tigers, 1:05 PM
  (L) Jeremy Sowers (0-0) vs. (R) Armando Galarraga (4-2)
 Kansas City Royals at New York Yankees, 1:05 PM
  (R) Zack Greinke (5-3) vs. (R) Joba Chamberlain (1-2)
 Baltimore Orioles at Toronto Blue Jays, 1:07 PM
  (R) Radhames Liz (1-0) vs. (R) Roy Halladay (7-5)
 Seattle Mariners at Boston Red Sox, 1:35 PM
  (L) Erik Bedard (4-4) vs. (R) Justin Masterson (2-0)
 Minnesota Twins at Chicago White Sox, 2:05 PM
  (R) Kevin Slowey (2-5) vs. (R) Gavin Floyd (6-3)
 LA Angels of Anaheim at Oakland Athletics, 4:05 PM
  (R) Ervin Santana (8-2) vs. (R) Rich Harden (3-0)
 Tampa Bay Rays at Texas Rangers, 5:05 PM
  (R) Matt Garza (4-2) vs. (R) Doug Mathis (1-1)

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     39  26 .600    0.0   38     1    
TB      37  25 .597    0.5   34     3    
BAL     31  30 .508    6.0   30     1    
NYA     31  31 .500    6.5   30     1    
TOR     32  32 .500    6.5   35    -3    
American League Central     
CHA     35  26 .574    0.0   37    -2    
MIN     31  31 .500    4.5   29     2    
CLE     28  34 .452    7.5   32    -4    
DET     25  36 .410   10.0   28    -3    
KC      24  38 .387   11.5   24     0    
American League West        
LAA     39  24 .619    0.0   33     6    
OAK     33  29 .532    5.5   36    -3    
TEX     31  33 .484    8.5   30     1    
SEA     22  40 .355   16.5   25    -3    


National League East        Pwins  Diff
PHI     38  26 .594    0.0   39    -1    
FLA     33  28 .541    3.5   30     3    
ATL     32  31 .508    5.5   37    -5    
NYN     30  31 .492    6.5   31    -1    
WAS     25  38 .397   12.5   23     2    
National League Central     
CHN     39  24 .619    0.0   40    -1    
STL     37  27 .578    2.5   35     2    
MIL     32  30 .516    6.5   30     2    
HOU     32  31 .508    7.0   30     2    
CIN     30  33 .476    9.0   30     0    
PIT     29  33 .468    9.5   28     1    
National League West        
ARI     34  28 .548    0.0   35    -1    
LAN     30  32 .484    4.0   33    -3    
SF      27  35 .435    7.0   28    -1    
SD      27  37 .422    8.0   25     2    
COL     24  38 .387   10.0   24     0

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  AA  Travis Ishikawa... 3  2  2  0  0  2  0  2 SB
ARI A+  Edward Easley..... 5  5  2  0  0  0  0  
CHW AAA Josh Fields....... 4  2  0  1  1  1  1  
PIT AAA Neil Walker....... 5  3  1  0  1  0  0  3 R
COL AA  Dexter Fowler..... 4  2  0  1  1  1  0  
MIL AA  Mat Gamel......... 5  3  0  0  1  0  2  4 RBI
CLE A+  Nicholas Weglarz.. 4  2  1  0  1  0  0  
MIN A   C. Parmelee....... 4  3  0  0  1  1  1  
SF  AAA Eugenio Velez..... 4  3  1  0  0  0  1  
TB  AAA Fernando Perez.... 3  2  0  0  0  2  0  2 SB
CHW AAA Danny Richar...... 5  2  1  0  0  0  1  2 SB
MIN AA  Erik Lis.......... 4  2  2  0  0  0  1  

ORG LVL PLAYER            IP  H  R ER SO BB HR  Notes
ATL A   Jose Ortegano..... 8  5  2  1  7  2  0  15 GB
SF  A   Craig Clark....... 7  1  0  0  4  1  0  
SD  AAA Wade Leblanc...... 6  4  1  0  8  3  0  
ATL AA  Todd Redmond...... 6  10  3  3  7  0  0  
SF  AA  Adam Cowart....... 6  6  1  1  5  0  0  
NYY A   Jairo Heredia..... 5  4  4  0  6  1  0  9 GB
LAA A   Trevor Reckling... 8  5  0  0  5  3  0  14 GB
COL AA  Chaz Roe.......... 6  6  5  4  7  3  0  12 GB
BAL AA  Bradley Bergesen.. 6  7  2  1  4  0  0  13 GB
TEX AAA Eric Hurley....... 7  7  2  2  7  2  1  
NYY AAA Kei Igawa......... 7  2  0  0  2  2  0  
NYY A+  Christian Garcia.. 5  5  4  3  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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