THT Daily: Injuries Galore
Major League News for September 3
Player News
Yesterday’s Results
Today’s Games
Standings
Top Minor League Performances
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Player News
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Nick Johnson (hamstring) is expected to rejoin the Marlins Thursday.
Johnson has been sidelined since August 17 with a strained right hamstring, but has looked healthy this week in a handful of rehab games at the Single-A level and should pick up right where he left off. The first baseman was 12-for-39 (.307) with his new club before the injury.
According to MLB.com’s Jason Beck, the Tigers will skip Jarrod Washburn’s next turn through the starting rotation.
Armando Galarraga will start in his place Saturday against the Rays. Washburn, 35, is 1-2 with a 6.81 ERA since joining the Tigers at the trade deadline. He brought over a 2.64 from Seattle and has seen it rise quickly to 3.55. On top of the struggles, he has a sore left knee.
Huston Street was held out of Wednesday’s save opportunity with biceps tendinitis and likely will miss the rest of the week.
Street will take a couple of days off and play toss this weekend. If all goes well, he could resume getting into games after that. Franklin Morales picked up the save in his place tonight. Rafael Betancourt would likely be the choice in a ninth inning in which several righties were due up.
Mariano Rivera missed Wednesday’s game with a slight groin strain.
He is considered day-to-day. Rivera has compiled 38 saves, a 1.78 ERA, 0.90 WHIP and 61/9 K/BB ratio this season.
C.C. Sabathia notched his AL-leading 16th win on Wednesday night, limiting the Orioles to one run over seven innings.
Sabathia has now won six straight decisions. He scattered seven hits against one walk and nine strikeouts, with the only run scoring on a first-inning sacrifice fly by Nick Markakis. No surprise here, Sabathia has logged at least seven innings in eight of his last 10 starts. The big man leads the majors with 199 1/3 innings pitched.
Brad Penny blanked the Phillies over eight innings in his Giants’ debut on Wednesday night.
Everything the Giants were hoping for and then some, Penny limited the first-place Phillies to just five hits while fanning two and walking one. He looked like a new man on the mound, topping out at 97 MPH on his fastball. It’s easy to say that this is what happens when a pitcher moves to the National League, but Penny was facing one of the National League’s toughest lineups in one of the most homer-happy ballparks. He’s definitely worth a flier in NL-only leagues.
Josh Hamilton left Wednesday’s game with lower back pain after the fourth inning.
He incurred the injury by diving in to second base head-first on a double in the fourth. He finished the inning — scoring on a single by Nelson Cruz — but did not come out for defense in the fifth. Hamilton will be re-evaluated on Thursday and is day-to-day.
Grady Sizemore and the Indians are discussing elbow surgery that could end his season.
“We haven’t decided anything yet,” Sizemore said. “Right now, we’re playing it day by day. We’re talking about it, but that’s all we’ve done is throw [the idea] out there.” If Sizemore wants to hold off, he will definitely have the surgery immediately following the end of the season. He has been playing with an inflamed left elbow since spring training.
Adam Jones is expected to miss 2-3 weeks and possibly longer due to his sprained left ankle.
“Jones is going to be out indefinitely,” manager Dave Trembley said. “I couldn’t tell you when or if he’ll come back.” Hot-hitting Felix Pie will continue to man center field in Jones’ absence.
Yesterday’s Results
For the full scoop regarding yesterday’s games, read “And That Happened” at Shysterball.
American League NYA 10 BAL 2 (Recap and Boxscore) TB 8 BOS 5 (Recap and Boxscore) DET 4 CLE 2 (Recap and Boxscore) CHA 4 MIN 2 (Recap and Boxscore) OAK 10 KC 4 (Recap and Boxscore) SEA 3 LAA 0 (Recap and Boxscore) TEX 6 TOR 4 (Recap and Boxscore) National League FLA 8 ATL 7 (Recap and Boxscore) SF 4 PHI 0 (Recap and Boxscore) CHN 2 HOU 0 (Recap and Boxscore) CIN 5 PIT 3 (Recap and Boxscore) STL 10 MIL 3 (Recap and Boxscore) COL 5 NYN 2 (Recap and Boxscore) ARI 4 LAN 1 (Recap and Boxscore) SD 7 WAS 0 (Recap and Boxscore)
Check out Fangraphs’ scoreboard to see all the games in action.
Today’s Games
Indians (58-74) @ Tigers (71-61), 1:05pm
Fausto Carmona (25, RHP) vs. Nate Robertson (31, LHP)
Yankees (85-48) @ Blue Jays (59-73), 7:07pm
Chad Gaudin (26, RHP) vs. Ricky Romero (24, LHP)
RedSox (77-55) @ Rays (72-60), 7:08pm
Clay Buchholz (24, RHP) vs. David Price (23, LHP)
Mariners (70-64) @ Athletics (59-74), 10:05pm
Ian Snell (27, RHP) vs. Brett Tomko (36, RHP)
Brewers (64-68) @ Cardinals (79-55), 2:15pm
Manny Parra (26, LHP) vs. John Smoltz (42, RHP)
WhiteSox (65-69) @ Cubs (67-64), 2:20pm
Carlos Torres (26, RHP) vs. Ryan Dempster (32, RHP)
Mets (59-74) @ Rockies (74-59), 3:10pm
Patrick Misch (27, LHP) vs. Jason Marquis (30, RHP)
Giants (73-60) @ Phillies (76-54), 7:05pm
Tim Lincecum (25, RHP) vs. Pedro Martinez (37, RHP)
Braves (70-63) @ Marlins (69-64), 7:10pm
Tommy Hanson (22, RHP) vs. Ricky Nolasco (26, RHP)
D'backs (61-73) @ Dodgers (79-55), 10:10pm
Billy Buckner (25, RHP) vs. Jon Garland (29, RHP)
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 NYA 85 48 .639 0.0 80 5BOS 77 55 .583 7.5 76 1
TB 72 60 .545 12.5 74 -2
TOR 59 73 .447 25.5 67 -8
BAL 54 80 .403 31.5 58 -4
American League Central DET 71 61 .538 0.0 68 3
MIN 67 66 .504 4.5 67 0
CHA 65 69 .485 7.0 66 -1
CLE 58 74 .439 13.0 63 -5
KC 51 82 .383 20.5 52 -1
American League West LAA 78 54 .591 0.0 74 4
TEX 75 58 .564 3.5 73 2
SEA 70 64 .522 9.0 61 9
OAK 59 74 .444 19.5 62 -3
National League East Pwins Diff PHI 76 54 .585 0.0 75 1
ATL 70 63 .526 7.5 74 -4
FLA 69 64 .519 8.5 65 4
NYN 59 74 .444 18.5 59 0
WAS 46 88 .343 32.0 55 -9
National League Central STL 79 55 .590 0.0 76 3
CHN 67 64 .511 10.5 68 -1
MIL 64 68 .485 14.0 63 1
HOU 63 70 .474 15.5 57 6
CIN 60 73 .451 18.5 57 3
PIT 53 79 .402 25.0 58 -5
National League West LAN 79 55 .590 0.0 81 -2
COL 74 59 .556 4.5 75 -1
SF 73 60 .549 5.5 71 2
ARI 61 73 .455 18.0 65 -4
SD 59 76 .437 20.5 53 6
Wildcard Standings American League BOS 77 55 .583 0.0 TEX 75 58 .564 2.5 TB 72 60 .545 5.0 SEA 70 64 .522 8.0 MIN 67 66 .504 10.5 National League COL 74 59 .556 0.0 SF 73 60 .549 1.0 ATL 70 63 .526 4.0 FLA 69 64 .519 5.0 CHN 67 64 .511 6.0
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 TB AAA Desmond Jennings.. 3 2 0 1 1 2 0 2 SB NYM AA Kirk Nieuwenhuis.. 5 4 2 0 1 0 1 3 R DET AA Casper Wells...... 3 3 0 1 1 1 0 KC AAA Alex Gordon....... 4 3 1 0 1 1 1 5 RBI ! STL A+ Charles Cutler.... 1 1 1 0 0 3 0 PIT A Robbie Grossman... 4 3 2 0 0 0 0 WAN A- J.P. Ramirez...... 4 3 0 2 0 0 0 BOS A- Michael Almanzar.. 4 2 1 1 0 1 1 3 R WAN A- Destin Hood....... 3 2 2 0 0 1 0 STL AAA Allen Craig....... 4 2 2 0 0 0 1 LA A Kyle Russell...... 2 1 1 0 0 3 1 HOU A Jay Austin........ 4 2 2 0 0 0 1 ORG LVL PLAYER IP H R ER SO BB HR Notes ATL A Julio Teheran..... 7 0 0 0 7 1 0 SEA A+ Steven Hensley.... 6 3 0 0 7 1 0 FLA AAA Andrew Miller..... 6 3 0 0 8 2 0 TEX AA Michael Kirkman... 7 2 0 0 6 2 0 NYY A- Adam Warren....... 5 5 2 2 6 0 0 TB A- Jason McEachern... 6 5 1 1 5 1 0 TEX A- Robert Ross....... 5 3 0 0 3 0 0 WAN AA Bradley Meyers.... 6 5 3 2 6 1 1 HOU A Ross Seaton....... 6 4 2 2 5 3 0 LA AAA Joshua Lindblom... 2 0 0 0 4 0 0 NYY A Andrew Brackman... 3 1 0 0 2 0 0 SF A- Jorge Bucardo..... 5 3 1 1 2 1 0 9 GB
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