THT Daily: May 28
Major League News for May 27
Scoreboard
Standings
Game of the Day
Yesterday’s Home Runs
Stats
Scoreboard
American League BOS 6 TB 4 (Recap and Boxscore) DET 3 CLE 1 (Recap and Boxscore) LAA 10 BAL 1 (Recap and Boxscore) Jered Weaver wins debut MIN 9 SEA 5 (Recap and Boxscore) Twins turn triple play NYA 15 KC 4 (Recap and Boxscore) 2 long HRs by A-Rod OAK 6 TEX 3 (Recap and Boxscore) TOR 3 CHA 2 (Recap and Boxscore) 11 innings National League ARI 7 CIN 0 (Recap and Boxscore) ATL 2 CHN 1 (Recap and Boxscore) LAN 3 WAS 1 (Recap and Boxscore) MIL 9 PHI 6 (Recap and Boxscore) NYN 7 FLA 4 (Recap and Boxscore) Glavine vs. Willis PIT 8 HOU 7 (Recap and Boxscore) 18 inning game SF 4 COL 1 (Recap and Boxscore) STL 4 SD 3 (Recap and Boxscore)
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. Other team graphs and stats can be found on our Team Page.
American League East BOS 29 18 .617 0.0NYA 27 20 .574 2.0
TOR 27 21 .563 2.5
BAL 22 28 .440 8.5
TB 21 29 .420 9.5
American League Central DET 35 14 .714 0.0
CHA 31 17 .646 3.5
CLE 23 25 .479 11.5
MIN 22 26 .458 12.5
KC 11 36 .234 23.0
American League West TEX 25 24 .510 0.0
OAK 23 26 .469 2.0
LAA 21 28 .429 4.0
SEA 22 29 .431 4.0
National League East NYN 29 19 .604 0.0
ATL 26 23 .531 3.5
PHI 24 24 .500 5.0
WAS 20 30 .400 10.0
FLA 15 32 .319 13.5
National League Central STL 32 17 .653 0.0
CIN 27 22 .551 5.0
MIL 26 23 .531 6.0
HOU 25 25 .500 7.5
CHN 18 30 .375 13.5
PIT 16 33 .327 16.0
National League West ARI 29 19 .604 0.0
LAN 28 21 .571 1.5
SF 26 23 .531 3.5
COL 25 24 .510 4.5
SD 25 24 .510 4.5
Game of the Day
You just can’t count out Atlanta. The Braves are 14-5 in their last nineteen games and now in second place in the NL East. This game marked the succesful return of Horacio Ramirez from the disabled list. The Cubs have been worse than Kansas City the last month (6-23) and lost this game on a botched relay throw.
ATLANTA (2) VS CHICAGO CUBS (1) - FINAL
ATLANTA ab r h rbi bb so lob avg
M Giles 2b 3 0 1 2 1 1 1 .239
E Renteria ss 4 0 1 0 0 0 2 .313
C Jones 3b 4 0 1 0 0 0 2 .307
A Jones cf 4 0 1 0 0 0 3 .271
J Francoeur rf 4 0 1 0 0 1 3 .249
M Diaz lf 4 0 0 0 0 0 3 .362
R Langerhans lf 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .242
B Jordan 1b 4 0 0 0 0 1 2 .227
A LaRoche 1b 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .241
B Pena c 3 1 1 0 1 0 0 .500
H Ramirez p 2 1 1 0 0 0 0 .750
K Ray p 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000
a-W Betemit ph 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 .280
C Reitsma p 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000
M Remlinger p 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000
Totals 33 2 7 2 2 4 16
a-struck out swinging for K Ray in the 9th.
BATTING: 2B - M Giles (11, S Marshall); B Pena (1, S Marshall); A Jones (11, S
Marshall). S - H Ramirez. RBI - M Giles 2 (10). 2-out RBI - M Giles 2. Runners
left in scoring position, 2 out - E Renteria 2, B Jordan 1, M Diaz 1, J
Francoeur 1. Team LOB - 7.
FIELDING: DP: 2 (B Jordan-E Renteria-H Ramirez, C Jones-M Giles-B Jordan).
CHICAGO CUBS ab r h rbi bb so lob avg
J Pierre cf 3 1 1 0 0 0 1 .231
J Hairston Jr 2b 2 0 0 0 0 1 0 .215
a-J Mabry ph 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 .180
S Eyre p 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000
T Walker 1b 4 0 2 1 0 0 1 .299
M Barrett c 4 0 1 0 0 0 1 .294
A Ramirez 3b 4 0 0 0 0 0 1 .241
M Murton lf 4 0 3 0 0 0 1 .277
J Jones rf 4 0 1 0 0 0 0 .277
R Cedeno ss 4 0 1 0 0 0 4 .279
S Marshall p 2 0 0 0 0 1 0 .158
B Howry p 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000
b-T Womack ph-2b 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 .263
Totals 33 1 10 1 0 2 10
a-flied out to center for J Hairston Jr in the 8th; b-singled to left for B
Howry in the 8th.
BATTING: 2B - M Murton (5, H Ramirez). S - J Hairston Jr , J Pierre. RBI - T
Walker (22). Runners left in scoring position, 2 out - T Walker 1, J Pierre 1,
R Cedeno 3, M Murton 1. GIDP - A Ramirez, M Barrett. Team LOB - 7.
BASERUNNING: SB - J Pierre (15, 2nd base off H Ramirez/B Pena).
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ATLANTA - 020 000 000 -- 2
CHICAGO CUBS - 100 000 000 -- 1
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ATLANTA ip h r er bb so hr era
H Ramirez (W, 1-0) 7 7 1 1 0 2 0 5.40
K Ray (H, 5) 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 1.50
C Reitsma (H, 3) 2/3 1 0 0 0 0 0 5.91
M Remlinger (S, 2) 1/3 1 0 0 0 0 0 2.87
CHICAGO CUBS ip h r er bb so hr era
S Marshall (L, 3-3) 6 7 2 2 2 2 0 5.03
B Howry 2 0 0 0 0 1 0 2.28
S Eyre 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 1.46
Pitches-strikes: H Ramirez 87-58; K Ray 10-7; C Reitsma 9-5; M Remlinger
10-6; S Marshall 93-59; B Howry 27-19; S Eyre 11-9. Ground balls-fly balls: H
Ramirez 13-6; K Ray 1-2; C Reitsma 1-1; M Remlinger 1-0; S Marshall 6-10; B
Howry 4-1; S Eyre 1-1. Batters faced: H Ramirez 26; K Ray 4; C Reitsma 3; M
Remlinger 2; S Marshall 27; B Howry 6; S Eyre 3.
UMPIRES: HP--Phil Cuzzi. 1B--Jerry Crawford. 2B--Chuck Meriwether. 3B--Brian
Onora.
T--2:36. Att--41,526.
Weather: 75 degrees, partly cloudy. Wind: 6 mph, in from right.
Yesterday’s Home Runs
The following stats are provided by Hit Tracker, which logs the projected distance of each home run (if it flew uninterrupted back to field level) and its “standard” distance, which is corrected for weather conditions.
Hitter Pitcher True Dist Std. Dist. HR # Rodriguez, Alex NYY Affeldt, Jeremy KC 445 457 12 Rodriguez, Alex NYY Affeldt, Jeremy KC 440 442 13 Hall, Bill MIL Franklin, Ryan PHI 426 438 12 Castillo, Jose PIT Gallo, Mike HOU 427 423 4 Morales, Kendry LAA Loewen, Adam BAL 397 417 2 Hudson, Orlando ARI Mercker, Kent CIN 421 414 1 Salmon, Tim LAA Bedard, Erik BAL 398 412 6 Stinnett, Kelly NYY Affeldt, Jeremy KC 398 408 1 Nevin, Phil TEX Zito, Barry OAK 402 406 9 Hillenbrand, Shea TOR Nelson, Jeff CWS 386 403 7 Bay, Jason PIT Rodriguez, Wandy HOU 425 402 15 Castro, Ramon NYM Willis, Dontrelle FLA 403 401 2 Ibanez, Raul SEA Bonser, Boof MIN 404 399 7 Howard, Ryan PHI Wise, Matt MIL 390 399 16 Murphy, Tommy LAA Loewen, Adam BAL 383 398 1 Ordonez, Magglio DET Byrd, Paul CLE 406 388 12 Castro, Juan MIN Moyer, Jamie SEA 389 384 1 Borchard, Joe FLA Glavine, Tom NYM 383 382 4 Sizemore, Grady CLE Verlander, Justin DET 369 379 9 Weeks, Rickie MIL Franklin, Ryan PHI 367 378 5 Burnitz, Jeromy PIT Wheeler, Dan HOU 404 377 8 Bellhorn, Mark SD Wainwright, Adam STL 381 371 3 Cuddyer, Michael MIN Moyer, Jamie SEA 371 366 6 Rollins, Jimmy PHI Bush, Dave MIL 374 360 5 Giles, Brian SD Ponson, Sidney STL 378 355 5 Lee, Carlos MIL Floyd, Gavin PHI 351 334 17
THT’s Stats
FIP (Fielding Independent Pitching) is a measure of a pitcher’s core strengths (strikeouts, walks and home runs). A pitcher’s ERA will generally be close to his FIP and ERA will usually move toward FIP when there is a big difference between the two. Following is a list of the biggest differences so far. Note that two White Sox are at the top of the list, and that Scott Elarton appears to be “lucky” to have a 4.76 ERA.
Team Last First ERA FIP Diff CHA Contreras Jose 1.83 3.77 1.94 CHA Buehrle Mark 2.62 4.50 1.88 KC Elarton Scott 4.76 6.47 1.72 DET Verlander Justin B 2.55 4.27 1.71 OAK Zito Barry 3.16 4.82 1.65 DET Robertson Nate 3.02 4.47 1.45 TOR Lilly Ted 4.00 5.32 1.32 DET Rogers Kenny 3.32 4.62 1.30 SD Young Chris 4.32 5.55 1.23 PHI Myers Brett 2.86 4.08 1.22 STL Carpenter Chris 2.63 3.78 1.15 TB Fossum Casey 5.46 6.59 1.12 CIN Arroyo Bronson 2.29 3.33 1.04 BOS Beckett Josh 3.80 4.82 1.02 LAN Lowe Derek 2.90 3.82 0.92 CHN Zambrano Carlos 3.45 4.37 0.92 SF Schmidt Jason 2.78 3.68 0.89 ATL Thomson John 3.04 3.92 0.88 NYA Mussina Mike 2.72 3.58 0.85 STL Mulder Mark 3.74 4.52 0.78
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