Weekend miscellany

[Frayed Knot]

- Not good days in Tampa recently
Sunday sees them lose 2B Akinori Iwamura for the season w/a knee injury
Then on Monday they hand last year's playoff star David Price a 10-0 lead in his first start of the year and he can't make it out of the 4th inning (over 100 pitches at that point). But still they take a 10-2 lead into the 8th and a 10-4 lead into the 9th ... then the roof falls in.
* Cleveland 9th, Dale Thayer pitching:
G. Sizemore - Walks
V. Martinez - Pop-out 3B
J. Peralta - Single to LF; Sizemore to 2B
Randy Choate replaces Dale Thayer
S. Choo - Reaches on E6; Sizemore Scores; Peralta to 3B; Choo to 2B
Grant Balfour replaces Randy Choate
M. DeRosa - Lineout 3B
R. Garko - Home Run; Peralta Scores; Choo Scores; Garko Scores
A. Cabrera pinch hits for Matt LaPorta - Walk
Jason Isringhausen replaces Grant Balfour
B. Francisco - Walk; Cabrera to 2B
J. Carroll - Walk; Cabrera to 3B; Francisco to 2B
G. Sizemore - Walk; Cabrera Scores; Francisco to 3B; Carroll to 2B
V. Martinez - Single to CF; Francisco Scores; Carroll Scores; - and everybody else does the jump-dance at home plate

So, yeah, that is, depending on how you want to look at it, a blown 10 run lead, or a blown 8 run lead after 7, or a 6 run lead after 8, or even a blown 5 run lead after two were out in the 9th ... to a last place club!! Hey, at least they didn't bat their pitcher this game.
Oh yeah, and they signed manager Joe Madden to a three-year contract extension this weekend.




- Not quite as dramatic but the Padres won their 10th straight despite being down 7-1 in Arizona after 7. They follow up getting 5 runs in the 8th by tacking on 1 in the 9th and then 2 in the 10th.



- On the other side of the coin, the Brews pushed across a run in the 10th to break a scoreless tie vs the Cards.
Both Milwaukee's Yovani Gallardo & StL's Chris Carpenter carried no-hitters thru 5; Carpenter took a perfect game into the 7th; and both had dueling 2-hitters thru 8.
An error, FC,and Bill Hall's single won it in the 10th for the suddenly hot Brew Crew (15-5 over their last 20 despite being swept in Minnesota)
It was Carpenter's 4th game of the year and just his 2nd since opening week.



- and speaking of Brewers: Mike Cameron hit his 250th career HR and became the 20th player with 250+ HRs & SBs (291)




- The Cubs, meanwhile, have lost 8 straight

[Guest Edgy DC]

Big opening right now for somebody to assert themselves with two hot weeks in the NL central. Milwaukee --- who I thought didn't have the pitching --- is a game up, but a sinking Chicago could rise a lot of boats. Pittsburgh is only a game behind them.

[Fman99]

="Edgy DC":2vr2k8wd]Big opening right now for somebody to assert themselves with two hot weeks in the NL central. Milwaukee --- who I thought didn't have the pitching --- is a game up, but a sinking Chicago could rise a lot of boats. Pittsburgh is only a game behind them.[/quote:2vr2k8wd] How can you not root for the Pirates?

John Cougar Lunchbucket May 26 2009 08:45 AM

I was digesting the standings this morning on the trrain and was struck to know that the Mets had the same record as the... Cincinnati Reds.

Nymr83 May 26 2009 09:05 AM

its been a real rollercoaster season so far for the Padres from a hot start to 9 games under .500 to a 10 game win streak. i feel like the whole NL is wide open this year, there are no stand out teams and only one true loser.

Gwreck May 26 2009 09:10 AM

The Dodgers are 31-15 and have a +80 run differential (St. Louis is second with +25). I'd say they're pretty much the class of the league right now.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

I was digesting the standings this morning on the trrain and was struck to know that the Mets had the same record as the... Cincinnati Reds.

[nymr83]

its been a real rollercoaster season so far for the Padres from a hot start to 9 games under .500 to a 10 game win streak. i feel like the whole NL is wide open this year, there are no stand out teams and only one true loser.

[Gwreck]

The Dodgers are 31-15 and have a +80 run differential (St. Louis is second with +25). I'd say they're pretty much the class of the league right now.