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Major League News for June 27
Yesterday’s Results
Today’s Games
Standings
Game of the Day
Yesterday’s Home Runs
Top Minor League Performances
Player News
Stats
Yesterday’s Results
Interleague BOS 8 PHI 7 (Recap and Boxscore) See below CLE 10 STL 3 (Recap and Boxscore) Hafner: 2 HR, 3 RBI; Lee: 6 IP, 2 R DET 10 HOU 4 (Recap and Boxscore) Inge: 2 2B; IRod: 3-5, 3 RBI LAA 5 COL 4 (Recap and Boxscore) LAA: 5 in 8th to win game MIN 8 LAN 2 (Recap and Boxscore) Mauer: 4-5, 5 RBI; Silva: 8 IP, 2 R NYA 5 ATL 2 (Recap and Boxscore) Giambi: 2 HR, 5 RBI; Johnson: 7 IP, 0 R, 9 K FLA 8 TB 5 (Recap and Boxscore) FLA: 6 2B; Badelli: 2B, 3B, 3 RBI National League MIL 6 CHN 0 (Recap and Boxscore) Capuano: 8 IP, 0 R; Fielder: 2 HR
Today’s Games
Visitors Home Time CWS - Buehrle M.* (8-4, 3.27) PIT - Snell I. (7-4, 4.84) 7:05 TB - Kazmir S.* (9-4, 3.21) FLA - Nolasco R. (5-4, 3.15) 7:05 NYM - Soler A. (2-1, 3.32) BOS - Lester J.* (2-0, 2.76) 7:05 ATL - Ramirez H.* (2-2, 4.32) NYY - Wright J. (4-4, 4.45) 7:05 PHI - Hamels C.* (1-3, 4.41) BAL - Bedard E.* (7-6, 5.09) 7:05 HOU - Clemens R. (0-1, 3.60) DET - Robertson N.* (7-3, 3.38) 7:05 WAS - Ortiz R. (5-5, 5.27) TOR - Burnett A. (0-1, 5.06) 7:07 KC - Wood M. (3-2, 4.53) CIN - Milton E.* (4-4, 4.71) 7:10 MIL - Jackson Z.* (1-0, 4.67) CHC - Zambrano C. (6-3, 2.83) 8:05 CLE - Sabathia C.* (5-4, 4.19) STL - Reyes A. (1-1, 1.80) 8:10 LAD - Lowe D. (6-3, 2.90) MIN - Liriano F.* (7-1, 2.17) 8:10 SEA - Washburn J.* (4-8, 4.84) ARI - Webb B. (8-3, 2.48) 9:40 COL - Cook A. (5-7, 3.46) LAA - Weaver J. (3-9, 5.82) 10:05 OAK - Zito B.* (8-3, 3.36) SD - Young C. (6-3, 3.16) 10:05 TEX - Millwood K. (8-3, 4.29) SF - Morris M. (5-7, 4.60) 10:15
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 gray 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 45 28 .616 0.0 41 4NYA 43 31 .581 2.5 44 -1
TOR 41 34 .547 5.0 41 0
BAL 35 42 .455 12.0 34 1
TB 33 44 .429 14.0 31 2
American League Central DET 52 25 .675 0.0 50 2
CHA 49 26 .653 2.0 46 3
MIN 40 35 .533 11.0 39 1
CLE 34 41 .453 17.0 40 -6
KC 24 50 .324 26.5 24 0
American League West OAK 41 34 .547 0.0 39 2
TEX 40 36 .526 1.5 40 0
SEA 38 39 .494 4.0 40 -2
LAA 35 41 .461 6.5 35 0
National League East Pwins Diff NYN 47 28 .627 0.0 46 1
PHI 35 40 .467 12.0 35 0
FLA 33 40 .452 13.0 37 -4
WAS 33 44 .429 15.0 35 -2
ATL 32 45 .416 16.0 35 -3
National League Central STL 42 33 .560 0.0 39 3
CIN 41 35 .539 1.5 38 3
MIL 38 39 .494 5.0 34 4
HOU 38 39 .494 5.0 36 2
CHN 28 47 .373 14.0 28 0
PIT 26 51 .338 17.0 33 -7
National League West LAN 40 36 .526 0.0 43 -3
SD 39 36 .520 0.5 38 1
COL 38 38 .500 2.0 38 0
SF 37 38 .493 2.5 38 -1
ARI 37 39 .487 3.0 37 0
Game of the Day
The Red Sox beat the Phillies in a topsy-turvy, 12-inning game, 8-7. Boston first scored six runs in the bottom of the sixth to take a 6-0 lead, then Philadelphia scored five in the seventh and Chase Utley hit a ninth-inning home run off the Fenway foul pole to tie the game in the ninth.
Jimmy Rollins, who had hit a key three-run triple in the seventh, put the Phillies ahead with an RBI double in the twelfth, but the Red Sox won in the bottom of the inning on a Loretta double and run-scoring singles by Youkilis and Ortiz. Ortiz had also hit a walkoff home run in the last Red Sox game on Saturday. According to Elias, he is the second player with game-ending RBI in consecutive games this season; Nomar Garciaparra did it May 5-6 vs. Brewers. No Red Sox player has done that since Butch Hobson against the Angels on August 27-28, 1978.
PHILADELPHIA (7) VS BOSTON (8) - FINAL IN 12 INNINGS
PHILADELPHIA ab r h rbi bb so lob avg
J Rollins ss 6 1 3 4 1 1 1 .263
C Utley 2b 6 1 1 1 1 0 4 .285
B Abreu rf 4 0 1 1 2 1 1 .290
R Howard 1b 6 0 0 0 0 3 4 .286
A Rowand cf 5 0 1 0 1 2 2 .273
D Dellucci dh 2 1 2 0 1 0 0 .296
a-P Burrell ph-dh 3 0 0 0 0 2 4 .252
S Victorino lf 5 2 2 0 0 2 2 .317
D Bell 3b 4 1 0 0 1 0 4 .249
C Coste c 6 1 3 1 0 0 0 .261
Totals 47 7 13 7 7 11 22
a-struck out swinging for D Dellucci in the 7th.
BATTING: 2B - B Abreu (19, T Wakefield); C Coste (1, M Timlin); J Rollins (21,
C Hansen). 3B - J Rollins (2, R Seanez). HR - C Utley (14, 9th inning off J
Papelbon 0 on, 0 Out). S - D Bell. RBI - C Coste (2), J Rollins 4 (29), B Abreu
(52), C Utley (44). 2-out RBI - J Rollins. Runners left in scoring position, 2
out - C Utley 2, D Bell 1, B Abreu 1, P Burrell 2, J Rollins 1, R Howard 1.
GIDP - D Bell. Team LOB - 13.
BASERUNNING: SB - J Rollins (17, 2nd base off T Wakefield/D Mirabelli), B
Abreu (15, 2nd base off M Delcarmen/J Varitek).
FIELDING: E - A Rowand (4, fly ball). DP: 1 (C Utley-J Rollins).
BOSTON ab r h rbi bb so lob avg
K Youkilis 1b 6 1 2 2 1 2 0 .315
A Cora 2b 2 0 0 0 1 0 2 .301
a-M Loretta ph-2b 3 0 2 0 1 0 0 .317
D Ortiz dh 5 1 1 2 2 1 1 .266
M Ramirez lf 4 1 2 0 2 1 0 .298
T Nixon rf 4 0 0 0 0 0 6 .326
b-G Kapler ph-rf 2 0 0 0 0 0 1 .500
M Lowell 3b 5 1 1 1 1 0 4 .308
C Crisp cf 5 2 3 1 0 0 2 .283
D Mirabelli c 4 1 1 1 0 2 2 .157
c-J Varitek ph-c 1 0 0 0 1 0 1 .251
A Gonzalez ss 6 1 2 1 0 0 3 .262
Totals 47 8 14 8 9 6 22
a-reached on infield single to third for A Cora in the 6th; b-flied out to
left for T Nixon in the 9th; c-intentionally walked for D Mirabelli in the
10th.
BATTING: 2B - M Ramirez (10, C Lidle); C Crisp 2 (6, C Condrey, C Lidle); K
Youkilis (20, G Geary); M Loretta (17, T Gordon). S - C Crisp. RBI - M Lowell
(39), C Crisp (13), D Mirabelli (6), A Gonzalez (20), K Youkilis 2 (37), D
Ortiz 2 (68). 2-out RBI - K Youkilis, D Ortiz. Runners left in scoring
position, 2 out - T Nixon 2, D Mirabelli 2, A Cora 1, M Lowell 2. Team LOB -
14.
BASERUNNING: CS - C Crisp (3, 2nd base by R Franklin/C Coste).
FIELDING: PB - D Mirabelli. DP: 1 (M Lowell-A Cora-K Youkilis).
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PHILADELPHIA - 000 000 501 001 -- 7
BOSTON - 000 006 000 002 -- 8
Two outs when winning run scored.
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PHILADELPHIA ip h r er bb so hr era
C Lidle 5 1/3 5 4 4 3 5 0 5.11
G Geary 0 3 2 2 0 0 0 3.60
A Fultz 2/3 1 0 0 1 0 0 3.79
R Franklin 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 4.24
R Cormier 1 1/3 0 0 0 2 0 0 1.35
T Gordon 1 2/3 1 0 0 2 1 0 1.93
C Condrey (L, 1-2; B, 1) 2/3 3 2 2 1 0 0 3.98
BOSTON ip h r er bb so hr era
T Wakefield 6 6 3 3 2 4 0 3.86
R Seanez 0 2 2 2 0 0 0 5.10
J Lopez (H, 4) 2/3 0 0 0 2 1 0 2.25
M Timlin (H, 13) 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 1.80
J Papelbon (B, 2) 1 1/3 1 1 1 1 2 1 0.46
J Tavarez 1 1 0 0 1 1 0 5.77
M Delcarmen 1 1/3 1 1 1 1 2 0 5.06
C Hansen (W, 1-0) 2/3 1 0 0 0 0 0 7.36
G Geary pitched to 3 batters in the 6th.
T Wakefield pitched to 3 batters in the 7th.
R Seanez pitched to 2 batters in the 7th.
WP - J Tavarez. IBB - M Ramirez (by A Fultz), A Rowand (by J Lopez), J
Varitek (by R Cormier), D Ortiz (by T Gordon). HBP - S Victorino (by T
Wakefield). Pitches-strikes: C Lidle 109-59; G Geary 11-7; A Fultz 16-7; R
Franklin 21-12; R Cormier 19-6; T Gordon 33-16; C Condrey 28-17; T Wakefield
108-69; R Seanez 9-5; J Lopez 15-5; M Timlin 20-13; J Papelbon 33-19; J Tavarez
22-13; M Delcarmen 30-17; C Hansen 10-6. Ground balls-fly balls: C Lidle 3-8; G
Geary 0-0; A Fultz 1-1; R Franklin 3-2; R Cormier 3-1; T Gordon 2-1; C Condrey
0-2; T Wakefield 5-9; R Seanez 0-0; J Lopez 1-0; M Timlin 0-2; J Papelbon 2-0;
J Tavarez 2-0; M Delcarmen 2-0; C Hansen 1-1. Batters faced: C Lidle 25; G
Geary 3; A Fultz 4; R Franklin 6; R Cormier 6; T Gordon 7; C Condrey 6; T
Wakefield 26; R Seanez 2; J Lopez 4; M Timlin 4; J Papelbon 6; J Tavarez 5; M
Delcarmen 6; C Hansen 3.
UMPIRES: HP--Dale Scott. 1B--Ron Kulpa. 2B--Dan Iassogna. 3B--Bob Davidson.
T--4:59. Att--36,459.
Weather: 87 degrees, cloudy. Wind: 9 mph, out to left.
Yesterday’s Home Runs
The following stats are provided by Hit Tracker, which logs the projected distance of each home run (if it were to land uninterrupted at field level) and its “standard” distance, which is corrected for weather conditions.
Hitter Pitcher True Dist Std. Dist HR # Fielder, Prince MIL Ohman, Will CHC 441 458 16 Fielder, Prince MIL Maddux, Greg CHC 427 444 15 Hafner, Travis CLE Thompson, Brad STL 435 421 21 Lee, Carlos MIL Maddux, Greg CHC 388 414 24 Gross, Gabe MIL Maddux, Greg CHC 390 411 7 Rodriguez, Ivan DET Rodriguez, Wandy HOU 396 407 7 Hollandsworth, Todd CLE Marquis, Jason STL 431 406 3 Jones, Chipper ATL Proctor, Scott NYY 442 404 8 Helton, Todd COL Lackey, John LAA 399 403 8 Baldelli, Rocco TB Johnson, Josh FLA 418 401 3 Munson, Eric HOU Walker, Jamie DET 388 386 4 Piedra, Jorge COL Rodriguez, Francisco LAA 380 384 2 Sizemore, Grady CLE Marquis, Jason STL 381 362 15 Hafner, Travis CLE Marquis, Jason STL 393 361 20 Giambi, Jason NYY Hudson, Tim ATL 373 361 22 Giambi, Jason NYY Hudson, Tim ATL 369 359 21 Utley, Chase PHI Papelbon, Jonathan BOS 337 332 14
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 POS AB H 2B 3B HR BB SO Notes CHC AAA Mike Fontenot 2B 4 3 1 1 0 0 1 .636 OBP during past week CLE AA Ryan Goleski LF 3 3 0 0 1 1 0 DET AAA David Espinosa DH 4 3 0 3 0 0 0 HOU AA Walter Young 1B 4 3 1 0 1 0 0 4 RBI NYY A- Mitchell Hilligoss SS 2 2 1 0 1 2 0 NYY A+ Jared Greenwood C 2 2 0 0 1 1 0 3 runs scored PHI A- Jay Miller RF 3 3 1 0 1 0 0 STL A Colby Rasmus CF 4 2 0 1 1 1 1 TEX A- C 3 2 1 0 1 1 0 TOR AAA Luis Figueroa 2B 4 3 1 0 1 0 0 ORG LVL PLAYER IP H R ER SO BB HR Notes CHC A- Billy Petrick 6.0 2 0 0 5 0 0 CHC AAA Rich Hill 7.0 1 0 0 9 2 0 1.13 ERA over past month CHW AA Lance Broadway 8.0 6 1 1 7 1 0 CIN A Travis Wood 7.0 2 0 0 6 1 0 CIN A+ 7.0 3 1 1 7 0 1 LAA A Tommy Mendoza 8.0 3 1 1 9 3 0 MIL AA Yovani Gallardo 7.0 4 0 0 6 1 0 42 K over last 34 IP NYY AA Jeff Karstens 8.0 2 0 0 7 0 0 PHI A Carlos Carrasco 7.0 3 0 0 6 1 0 PIT AAA Tom Gorzelanny 7.0 2 0 0 5 1 0
Player News
Player news items are provided by CBS SportsLine.com.
Detroit’s Zach Miner won his fourth consecutive start Monday. His teammate Justin Verlander won four consecutive starts earlier this season (May 10-27). They are the first rookie teammates to win (at least) four consecutive starts since 1984, when two duos did it: Dwight Gooden and Ron Darling for the Mets and Roger Clemens and Al Nipper for the Red Sox. (Source: Elias)
The Marlins’ Josh Johnson has a 1.89 ERA in 10 starts this season. Over the last 20 years, only three other rookie pitchers have posted an ERA under 2.00 in their first 10 starts of a season: Zach Duke in 2005 (1.83), Cal Eldred in 1992 (1.26) and Pedro Astacio in 1992 (1.80). (Source: Elias)
Jason Giambi hit two home runs, giving him 10 multiple-home run games over the last calendar year, the most of any player in the major leagues over that time. (Source: Elias)
Joe Mauer was 4-for-5 with a double, triple and career-high five RBI in Monday’s game against the Dodgers. He has managed a .415 batting average, .495 on-base percentage and .585 slugging percentage in the month of June.
Darin Erstad, who is on the 15-day disabled list for the second time this season because of irritation in his right ankle, went back to his alma mater, the University of Nebraska, to see a doctor about his condition.
Rookie second baseman Dan Uggla remains hopeful that he’ll return this week, but there’s a chance he might not play until after the All-Star break.
Kerry Wood (shoulder) visited Dr. Tim Kremchek in Cincinnati on Monday. Kremchek operated on Wood’s shoulder last August. Wood threw a side session while hooked up to equipment for biomechanical analysis. “The MRI in Dr. Kremchek’s terms, stated it was pristine, that the labrum repair looked as if it was completely intact, looked like it had healed nicely and perfectly. He said his rotator cuff looks pristine, the joint looks good. So there is no significant concerns of any kind of significant issue or injury or anything like that,” trainer Mark O’Neal said.
Kevin Jarvis accepted an assignment to Triple-A Tucson on Monday after being designated for assignment last week.
The Reds’ official website reports Edwin Encarnacion (ankle) will begin a Triple-A rehab assignment in Louisville on Tuesday.
John Wasdin (thumb) came out of his Sunday rehab start feeling fine and if reports no problems in the coming days, he will start for the Rangers on Saturday, according to the Dallas Morning News.
The Reds optioned RHP Mike Burns to Triple-A Louisville and released LHP Mike Holtz.
According to reports, several teams have inquired about acquiring Devil Rays starter Mark Hendrickson. Holding up talks to this point has been the desire to ship Aubrey Huff’s contract away with the pitcher. No one is interested in taking on the struggling veteran.
Gary Sheffield has been back around his Yankee teammates this week and says his surgically repaired left wrist is healing faster than he expected.
Brad Radke (6-7, 5.40 ERA) is 2-1 with a 2.39 ERA in his past six starts, turning around the worst six-week start to a season in his career.
Curtis Granderson is adjusting to major league pitchers just as he did with hurlers in Double-A and Triple-A each of the previous two seasons. He started hot but cooled off this season, and his average was in the .260s earlier this month. In each of his previous two seasons, Granderson figured out how he was being pitched and countered at midseason, ending up with a good batting average.
Kerry Robinson, who was designated for assignment by the Kansas City Royals, cleared waivers and accepted an outright assignment to Triple-A Omaha.
Jay Gibbons (knee) had a setback in his recovery and is out until at least mid-July at this point.
THT’s Stats
Pitcher like groundballs and most hitters like to avoid them. While the difference between a flyball and a line drive is questionable, there’s very little debate about groundballs. In general, batters who avoid grounders will have higher slugging percentages but, as the following list shows, there’s no guarantee.
This is a list of the top twenty major league leaders in avoiding groundballs (least groundballs as a percent of total batted balls), including each player’s slugging percentage. As you can see, some players do hit balls in the air, but not very far. Milwaukee’s Brady Clark and Cleveland’s Aaron Boone are two prime examples.
Last First Team GB% SLG Gomes Jonny TB 27% .514 Shelton Chris B DET 29% .502 Crede Joe CHA 29% .531 Lane Jason HOU 30% .406 Morneau Justin MIN 30% .552 Giambi Jason NYA 31% .624 Konerko Paul CHA 31% .576 Youkilis Kevin E BOS 32% .498 Dunn Adam CIN 32% .542 Hall Bill MIL 32% .574 Swisher Nick T OAK 32% .564 Wilson Craig A PIT 32% .495 Clark Brady MIL 33% .341 Burrell Pat PHI 33% .526 Wright David A NYN 33% .606 Boone Aaron CLE 33% .354 Rios Alexis I TOR 34% .583 Soriano Alfonso WAS 34% .553 Ramirez Manny BOS 34% .601 Rolen Scott STL 34% .567
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