THT Daily: A Rout in Boston
Major League News for May 1
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
Ervin Santana (elbow) and John Lackey (forearm) may be back pitching for the Angels in two weeks time.
In extended spring training games, Santana threw about 45 pitches through three innings Wednesday while Lackey did the same Thursday and both reported no ill effects afterward. They could be ready after two more rehab starts each, putting their return to the lineup at mid May. Both will have their pitch counts extended to 60 pitches when they are moved to Triple-A Salt Lake early next week. If they both require a third minor league start, their return would be some time around Memorial Day.
The Red Sox shut down John Smoltz’s rehab Thursday.
He will rejoin the team in Atlanta in order to rehabilitate his surgically repaired shoulder under the eye of the team’s medical personnel. The team doesn’t want Smoltz to pitch in a minor league before he’s truly ready, as they fear he may not hold back in game conditions. The Sox said that Smoltz isn’t injured and is still on course to return in early June.
John Buck tripled twice, doubled and drove in five runs as the Royals beat the Blue Jays 8-6 on Thursday.
One doesn’t see a catcher triple twice very often. Buck had just three career triples, all of them coming in different seasons. He’s now hitting .300 with three homers, 15 RBI and five walks in 40 at-bats this season. Miguel Olivo, who was foolishly promised the starting job in the offseason, is batting .178 with four RBI and one walk in 45 at-bats.
Yesterday’s Results
For the full scoop regarding yesterday’s games, read “And That Happened” at Shysterball.
American League NYA 7 LAA 4 (Recap and Boxscore) TB 13 BOS 0 (Recap and Boxscore) KC 8 TOR 6 (Recap and Boxscore) OAK 4 TEX 2 (Recap and Boxscore) National League STL 9 WAS 4 (Recap and Boxscore) FLA 8 CHN 2 (Recap and Boxscore) MIL 4 ARI 1 (Recap and Boxscore) LAN 8 SD 5 (Recap and Boxscore)
Check out Fangraphs’ scoreboard to see all the games in action.
Today’s Games
National League --------------- Florida Marlins at Chicago Cubs, 2:20 PM (L) Graham Taylor (0-1) vs. (R) Rich Harden (2-1) Cincinnati Reds at Pittsburgh Pirates, 7:05 PM (R) Bronson Arroyo (3-1) vs. (L) Zach Duke (3-1) St. Louis Cardinals at Washington Nationals, 7:05 PM (R) Todd Wellemeyer (1-2) vs. (R) Jordan Zimmermann (2-0) New York Mets at Philadelphia Phillies, 7:05 PM (R) Mike Pelfrey (2-0) vs. (R) Chan Ho Park (0-0) Houston Astros at Atlanta Braves, 7:35 PM (L) Mike Hampton (1-1) vs. (R) Derek Lowe (2-1) Arizona Diamondbacks at Milwaukee Brewers, 8:05 PM (R) Jon Garland (2-1) vs. (L) Manny Parra (0-4) San Diego Padres at Los Angeles Dodgers, 10:10 PM (R) Jake Peavy (2-3) vs. (L) Clayton Kershaw (0-2) Colorado Rockies at San Francisco Giants, 10:15 PM (R) Ubaldo Jimenez (1-3) vs. (L) Randy Johnson (1-2) American League --------------- LA Angels of Anaheim at New York Yankees, 7:05 PM (R) Jered Weaver (2-1) vs. (L) Andy Pettitte (2-1) Cleveland Indians at Detroit Tigers, 7:05 PM (R) Carl Pavano (0-3) vs. (R) Armando Galarraga (3-0) Baltimore Orioles at Toronto Blue Jays, 7:07 PM (L) Mark Hendrickson (1-3) vs. (R) Roy Halladay (4-1) Boston Red Sox at Tampa Bay Rays, 7:38 PM (R) Justin Masterson (2-0) vs. (R) Andy Sonnanstine (0-3) Chicago White Sox at Texas Rangers, 8:05 PM (L) Mark Buehrle (3-0) vs. (R) Scott Feldman (1-0) Kansas City Royals at Minnesota Twins, 8:10 PM (R) Sidney Ponson (0-3) vs. (R) Kevin Slowey (3-0) Oakland Athletics at Seattle Mariners, 10:10 PM (L) Dana Eveland (1-1) vs. (R) Carlos Silva (1-2)
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 BOS 14 8 .636 0.0 13 1TOR 15 9 .625 0.0 15 0
NYA 12 10 .545 2.0 10 2
BAL 9 13 .409 5.0 9 0
TB 9 14 .391 5.5 12 -3
American League Central KC 12 10 .545 0.0 13 -1
CHA 11 10 .524 0.5 10 1
DET 11 10 .524 0.5 11 0
MIN 11 11 .500 1.0 9 2
CLE 8 14 .364 4.0 10 -2
American League West SEA 13 9 .591 0.0 12 1
TEX 10 11 .476 2.5 10 0
LAA 9 12 .429 3.5 10 -1
OAK 8 11 .421 3.5 9 -1
National League East Pwins Diff FLA 14 8 .636 0.0 12 2
PHI 11 9 .550 2.0 11 0
ATL 10 11 .476 3.5 10 0
NYN 9 12 .429 4.5 10 -1
WAS 5 16 .238 8.5 8 -3
National League Central STL 16 7 .696 0.0 15 1
MIL 12 10 .545 3.5 11 1
CIN 11 10 .524 4.0 9 2
PIT 11 10 .524 4.0 13 -2
CHN 10 11 .476 5.0 10 0
HOU 9 13 .409 6.5 9 0
National League West LAN 15 8 .652 0.0 15 0
SD 11 11 .500 3.5 9 2
SF 10 10 .500 3.5 10 0
ARI 9 13 .409 5.5 9 0
COL 8 12 .400 5.5 10 -2
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 COL AAA Carlos Gonzalez... 6 5 1 2 0 0 0 5 RBI ! PHI AA Michael Taylor.... 5 3 2 0 1 0 0 5 RBI ! KC A Eric Hosmer....... 3 2 2 0 0 2 0 NYM A+ David Havens...... 4 2 1 0 1 1 0 COL AA C. Nelson......... 4 3 1 0 1 0 1 TEX AA Justin Smoak...... 3 3 0 0 1 2 0 BOS A+ Ryan Kalish....... 4 3 0 1 0 2 0 SD A+ Logan Forsythe.... 2 1 1 0 0 3 0 LAA A+ Clayton Fuller.... 4 2 2 0 0 1 1 CLE AA Carlos Rivero..... 5 2 1 0 1 0 0 5 RBI ! CHW AA Gordon Beckham.... 5 3 2 0 0 0 1 BAL AAA Nolan Reimold..... 4 2 1 0 1 0 0 ORG LVL PLAYER IP H R ER SO BB HR Notes ATL AAA Thomas Hanson..... 6 3 0 0 9 2 0 COL A C. Friedrich...... 6 5 2 2 10 2 0 TB AA J. Hellickson..... 6 5 2 2 9 1 0 STL AAA C. Mortensen...... 6 5 3 1 4 1 0 CHC AAA Mitch Atkins...... 6 5 4 2 5 1 1 MIN A+ Carlos Gutierrez.. 5 2 1 1 4 3 0 9 GB NYY A Andrew Brackman... 5 7 4 2 6 3 0 9 GB ARI A Wade Miley........ 6 7 3 3 3 3 0 15 GB BOS AA Felix Doubront.... 4 7 4 4 5 0 2 STL AAA Jesse Todd........ 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 CLE AAA Jonathan Meloan... 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 2 GB MIN AA Anthony Slama..... 1 2 1 1 2 2 0 3 OF
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