THT Daily: Sonnanstine pitches, hits
by Dave StudemanMay 18, 2009
Major League News for May 18
Player News
Yesterday’s Results
Today’s Games
Standings
Top Minor League Performances
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Player News
Player Headlines are courtesy of RotoworldThe Rays will put Pat Burrell (neck) on the disabled list and activate Jason Isringhausen.
Willy Aybar and Ben Zobrist will keep getting extra at-bats in place of Burrell, who will be eligible to return on May 25 and should be ready for then.
Rickie Weeks will see a specialist after injuring his left wrist during Sunday's game.
Weeks has had right wrist problems in the past, and he'll see the same doctor that operated on him at the end of 2006. If he lands on the DL, the Brewers figure to go to Craig Counsell as their primary second baseman and call up Hernan Iribarren as a backup. Mat Gamel to third and Bill Hall to second would be too much of a downgrade defensively, and Alcides Escobar isn't doing much offensively in Triple-A.
The Rays listed two third basemen on their lineup card on Sunday, causing them to lose their designated hitter.
The plan was for Evan Longoria to DH and bat third on Sunday, but he was listed at third, along with Ben Zobrist. Since he didn't take a position in the top of the first, the Rays have now had to go to starting pitcher Andy Sonnanstine as their No. 3 hitter.
The Cardinals will activate Chris Carpenter (oblique) to start Wednesday's game against the Cubs.
He'll follow Kyle Lohse and Braden Looper in the rotation. Mitchell Boggs has already been sent down to clear a spot for him. Mixed leaguers may want to hold him out for his first week back, but NL-only leaguers will likely want him active.
Carlos Quentin will fly to Chicago Sunday night to undergo shockwave treatment on his sore heel.
The club doesn't seem to anticipate Quentin's injury keeping him out for an extended period. He's out of the lineup again Sunday and the White Sox might be better off putting him on the disabled list and letting him fully heal. Obviously, the injury is bothering him more than the White Sox want to let on.
After having his start rained out after two innings Friday, Kyle Lohse will start Monday.
Lohse will be starting the makeup of that rainout against the Brewers. He'll go against former teammate Braden Looper.
The Pirates will recall Tom Gorzelanny from the minors to replace Tyler Yates.
Gorzelanny had a 3.98 ERA in seven Triple-A starts. The team will see if he can get back to his 2007 levels by trying him out of the bullpen. He's likely to head back to Triple-A once Yates returns.
Yesterday’s Results
For the full scoop regarding yesterday's games, read "And That Happened" at Shysterball.American League NYA 3 MIN 2 (Recap and Boxscore) TB 7 CLE 5 (Recap and Boxscore) TOR 8 CHA 2 (Recap and Boxscore) DET 11 OAK 7 (Recap and Boxscore) KC 7 BAL 4 (Recap and Boxscore) SEA 3 BOS 2 (Recap and Boxscore) TEX 3 LAA 0 (Recap and Boxscore) National League LAN 12 FLA 5 (Recap and Boxscore) PHI 8 WAS 6 (Recap and Boxscore) HOU 6 CHN 5 (Recap and Boxscore) PIT 11 COL 4 (Recap and Boxscore) MIL 8 STL 2 (Recap and Boxscore) SD 3 CIN 1 (Recap and Boxscore) SF 2 NYN 0 (Recap and Boxscore)Check out Fangraphs' scoreboard to see all the games in action.
Today’s Games
National League --------------- Pittsburgh Pirates at Washington Nationals, 7:05 PM (R) Ross Ohlendorf (4-3) vs. (L) Ross Detwiler (0-0) Arizona Diamondbacks at Florida Marlins, 7:10 PM (R) Dan Haren (3-4) vs. (R) Ricky Nolasco (2-4) Colorado Rockies at Atlanta Braves, 7:10 PM (R) Jason Marquis (4-3) vs. (R) Jair Jurrjens (3-2) Milwaukee Brewers at St. Louis Cardinals, 8:15 PM (R) Braden Looper (3-2) vs. (R) Kyle Lohse (3-2) New York Mets at Los Angeles Dodgers, 10:10 PM (R) Tim Redding (0-0) vs. (L) Randy Wolf (2-1) American League --------------- Chicago White Sox at Toronto Blue Jays, 1:07 PM (L) Clayton Richard (0-0) vs. (R) Scott Richmond (4-2) Minnesota Twins at New York Yankees, 7:05 PM (L) Glen Perkins (1-2) vs. (L) Andy Pettitte (3-1) Oakland Athletics at Tampa Bay Rays, 7:08 PM (R) Sean Gallagher (1-1) vs. (R) Jeff Niemann (3-3) LA Angels of Anaheim at Seattle Mariners, 10:10 PM (R) John Lackey (0-0) vs. (L) Jarrod Washburn (3-2)
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 TOR 26 14 .650 0.0 26 0BOS 22 16 .579 3.0 21 1
NYA 20 17 .541 4.5 17 3
TB 19 20 .487 6.5 21 -2
BAL 16 22 .421 9.0 16 0
American League Central DET 20 16 .556 0.0 21 -1
KC 20 18 .526 1.0 21 -1
MIN 18 20 .474 3.0 17 1
CHA 15 21 .417 5.0 14 1
CLE 14 25 .359 7.5 18 -4
American League West TEX 23 14 .622 0.0 21 2
LAA 18 18 .500 4.5 18 0
SEA 18 20 .474 5.5 16 2
OAK 13 21 .382 8.5 15 -2
National League East Pwins Diff NYN 21 16 .568 0.0 21 0
PHI 20 16 .556 0.5 19 1
ATL 18 18 .500 2.5 17 1
FLA 18 20 .474 3.5 17 1
WAS 11 25 .306 9.5 15 -4
National League Central MIL 23 14 .622 0.0 22 1
CHN 21 15 .583 1.5 19 2
STL 21 16 .568 2.0 20 1
CIN 20 17 .541 3.0 19 1
HOU 17 19 .472 5.5 17 0
PIT 16 21 .432 7.0 19 -3
National League West LAN 26 13 .667 0.0 26 0
SF 19 18 .514 6.0 17 2
SD 16 22 .421 9.5 14 2
COL 14 22 .389 10.5 18 -4
ARI 14 23 .378 11.0 15 -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 CHC A Josh Vitters...... 5 3 2 0 1 0 1 PHI A+ Dominic Brown..... 5 3 2 0 0 0 1 DET AAA Wilkin Ramirez.... 3 3 0 0 1 1 0 KC AAA Kila Kaaihue...... 5 3 1 0 1 0 1 MIN A Angel Morales..... 5 3 0 0 1 0 0 FLA AAA John Raynor....... 3 2 2 0 0 1 0 3 LD OAK AAA Eric Patterson.... 2 1 0 0 0 4 1 2 SB SEA AAA Jeff Clement...... 5 3 2 0 0 0 0 3 LD CIN A+ Devin Mesoraco.... 4 2 2 0 0 0 1 DET AA Garth Iorg........ 2 2 1 0 0 2 0 SEA AA Gregory Halman.... 4 2 0 0 1 0 1 LA A D. Strange-Gordo.. 5 2 0 1 0 0 0 ORG LVL PLAYER IP H R ER SO BB HR Notes SD AA William Inman..... 7 2 0 0 7 1 0 TB AAA David Price....... 5 0 0 0 9 2 0 SF AA M. Bumgarner...... 6 1 0 0 9 3 0 BOS AAA Michael Bowden.... 8 3 0 0 7 4 0 LAA A Tyler Chatwood.... 6 1 0 0 6 2 0 TOR AAA Bradley Mills..... 6 5 2 2 7 2 0 SD A Anthony Bass...... 6 2 0 0 4 1 0 SEA A+ Juan Ramirez...... 5 9 3 3 7 0 0 BOS AA Junichi Tazawa.... 5 7 3 3 7 1 0 PHI AAA Carlos Carrasco... 6 5 3 3 7 3 0 CIN A+ Zachary Stewart... 7 3 2 1 3 1 0 18 GB NYY A+ Jeremy Bleich..... 7 6 1 1 5 2 0
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