What are you doing here? Shouldn’t you be grilling by the pool?
Yankees 7, Mariners 1
Sad day for Jason Vargas, as he gives up six earned over three, striking out all of one batter. Even with this outing I sorta feel like Vargas might be traded near the deadline in a Jarrod Washburn kind of way, where a team doesn’t understand what pitching in Seattle means. CC Sabathia quite surprisingly was successful against the Mariners in Marinersland. Justin Smoak was the only guy to get to Sabbathia with a solo shot in the sixth. Nick Swisher homered to ever so slightly break out of his slump. Seattle is very much in the AL West (almost first place type in, as Neyer notes in his AL Contenders’ Wishlist post). Boy are the divisions silly.
Cardinals 4, Rockies 3
Kyle Lohse.
Dodgers 8, Marlins 0
Clayton Kershaw. But way more than Kyle Lohse. Kershaw allows all of three baserunners while striking out ten for the complete game shutout. Ricky Nolasco on the other hand managed o give up fifteen hits and eight run in five innings. Rafael Furcal makes a brief return to the living with a 3-5 day which included a homerun. Rafael Furcal makes me sad.
Blue Jays 13, White Sox 4
Not as close as the score would indicate. Corey Patterson has nine hits in his last two games. Here he goes 4-5 with a homer and three RBI. I always love a good Corey Patterson revival tease, though were he to suddenly become the player he was supposed to be all those years ago when he was with the Cubs people would just assume he’s getting good stuff from Jose Bautista. Speaking of Bautista, Ken Rosenthal (I know, right?) wrote a great takedown of the holier than thou speculators on the guy’s case. Aaron Hill hits his first homerun of the season in the 1st inning. He was a highly touted fantasy sleeper coming into the year because of an unfathomably low BABIP in 2010. Stat nerds don’t know a damn thing. At least it was a grand slam though. Edwin Encarnacion also homered for the first time this year for the Jays. Ricky Romero went seven innings while allowing only two earned runs while John Danks got crushed, again, giving up nine earned runs in four innings. He’s now 0-8 but it looks like he’ll get to keep his job while the immortal Phil Humber is likely going to be shifted back to the bullpen, ending the Sox grand experiment with a six man rotation. If somebody could find out where Adam Dunn is I sure would appreciate it.
Update! So Ozzie went sorta insane, even for Ozzie. The breakdown.
Braves 2, Reds 1
Martin Prado hit the go ahead two run homer and threw out Paul Janish in the 8th so Braves fans should probably pretend he’s their second baseman instead of Dan Uggla (especially since he can actually play the position), who I note is being needlessly demoralized through the world of tweets. Please don’t hurt my Uggla, for the sake of my foolish decision to draft him this year quite often (literally for the first time ever). He’s hitting .178 with a .327 slugging percentage in the first year of a five year 62.5 million contract. That hurts. Right in the balls. Johnny Cueto had a good outing but Jair Jurrgens had an even better one. Kimbrel picks up his fifteenth save.
Rays 7, Indians 0
Justin Masterson got stomped and Jeremy Hellickson did some stomping. Much more importantly Avril Lavigne used some naughty language at the Trop on Saturday night. You see the Rays occasionally have concerts after games in an attempt to draw fans and Avril was filling in for .38 Special, who was supposed to rock Tampa this weekend. I’ll have more on this situation as it develops.
Brewers 6, Giants 0
Yovani Gallardo has been fantastic in May and he continued that with probably his best start this year (I’m not looking it up. You look it up. Then you can feel right). He goes eight, allowing four hits and a walk while striking out five. Matt Cain got sorta beat up by the Brew Crew. Pablo Sandoval is reportedly nearing a rehab assignment so Giants fans have some small hope for offense soon. Brewers are now only 2.5 back in the National League Central and as a Cardinal fan they absolutely terrify me.
Rangers 7, Angels 6
Joakim Soria and Neftali Feliz. They hate you. They hate me. Michael Young had a moment with George W. Bush in this one, so that’s nice.
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