Yardwork: Greinke Is a Golden God
Baseball May 27th. 2009, 11:00am
Royals 6, Tigers 1: Zack Greinke pitched his fifth complete game of the season, upping his record to 8-1. Through 10 starts, his stats remain simply absurd, but the Halladay groupies will argue that six of Greinke’s wins have come against the mediocre central. Commence inspiring sports roundtable.
Twins 5, Red Sox 2: Justin Morneau’s three-run shot off Jon Lester in the fifth was the difference. He has 11 RBI in his last five games. Big Papi was dropped to sixth in the batting order. This storyline might, might eventually go from hilarious to sad, even for me.
Dodgers 7, Rockies 1: The Dodgers continue to win without Manny. Seriously, Eric Milton? I’m guessing one more week until Jeremy Schaap sits down with Joe Torre for a wild discussion on his secret sauce to success.
Giants 4, Braves 0: Tim Lincecum threw eight shutout innings of five-hit ball. He looks like a witch.
Mets 6, Nats 1: Ryan Church is on the DL, Reyes is on the DL and Beltran is out until the weekend, but they got 127 pitches, nine scattered hits and a complete game from Livan Hernandez. Sheff helped pick up the slack on offense as he angrily drove in three runs.
Orioles 7, Blue Jays 2: That’s eight straight losses for the evaporating Blue Jays.
Phils 5, Marlins 3: Joe Blanton went seven and fanned 11, and in an ironic twist, Brad Lidge came on in the ninth to clean up a mess rather than create one.
White Sox 4, Angels 2: Bartolo Colón? You bet your ass, Bartolo Colón. He went 6 2/3 and allowed just one run.
Cards 8, Brewers 1: Adam Wainwright homered off Suppan. That’s all you need to know.
A’s 4, Mariners 3: Jarrod Washburn’s six shutout innings were wasted as the A’s scored four in the seventh, going ahead on a two-run single from Jason Giambi. If I see one comment about this game, I will be floored.
Indians 5, Rays 1: Even if I were to tell you that Jake Taylor drove home from the game in a bullpen car and that Kenny Lofton came on in the ninth to record his first career save last night, it’s safe to say no one in Cleveland would even care today; or notice.
Can’t argue with Billy Martin here, that hit and run action looks pretty addictive:
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May 27th, 2009 at 11:03 am
Yeah, Greinke’s ERA has done nothing but gone up since April. He sucks.
May 27th, 2009 at 11:08 am
the cardinals pitching staff has given up 7 runs in the past 8 games. now if we could just get some consistent offense…
May 27th, 2009 at 11:10 am
O/T: did anyone see the new show Mental?
May 27th, 2009 at 11:11 am
@KC: It’s amazing that his ERA is still under 1. I gotta look up what Pedro’s best ERA was while in Boston, I don’t think he was ever below 2.
May 27th, 2009 at 11:12 am
Greinke was simply awesome last night. Edwin Jackson pitched well, but not nearly good enough against ZG. Greinke is so impressive, I was almost at a loss for words.
May 27th, 2009 at 11:13 am
Actually, he had a 1.74 in 2000 and somehow only won 18 games (went 18-6).
May 27th, 2009 at 11:25 am
TSH - Wow. 1.74 is amazing. It isn’t even June and Greinke is getting a lot of innings. Wonder how he’ll hold up. I mean, he can’t keep this up. Right?
Chelsea - Jackson was pitching awesome last night until that botched throw to first on the bunt. Must of rattled him.
May 27th, 2009 at 11:27 am
Yeah Greinke only pitches against the bad teams. Totally his fault. I say we keep the cy award from him if he continues to win against bad teams.
May 27th, 2009 at 11:28 am
On another note, the Royals offense has lapsed back to form. I knew the early season offense was too good to be true.
May 27th, 2009 at 11:30 am
Seriously, they should make him a traveling pitcher and have him only face the top offenses in the AL for each start.
May 27th, 2009 at 11:31 am
Ironic indeed.
May 27th, 2009 at 11:35 am
Actually, he had a 1.74 in 2000 and somehow only won 18 games (went 18-6).
Roider Clemens in 2005 w/ the Astros always amazed me (only 13-8 w/ a 1.87 ERA). Guy had NO support all season
May 27th, 2009 at 11:37 am
Randy Johnson had 14 losses in 04 with a 2.60 ERA.
May 27th, 2009 at 11:40 am
I was about to kill him, but he actually went 17-8 a year later in his first season as a Yank. Still hate him.
May 27th, 2009 at 11:41 am
It should be renamed the CRY award and just given to the best AL East pitcher.
May 27th, 2009 at 11:41 am
+1
May 27th, 2009 at 11:49 am
Stop hatin. Kid can ball, stacks paper, and gets bitches.
May 27th, 2009 at 11:52 am
KC - Jackson’s line from last night was good, but not good enough. Yes, the errors were huge but all Greinke needed was two runs.
Jackson: 6.1 IP, 7 H, 4 R, 2 ER, 1 BB, 2 SO
Greinke: 9.0 IP, 6 H, 1 R, 1 ER, 0 BB, 8 SO
May 27th, 2009 at 11:57 am
Upon a closer review, he looks like Arye Gross.
May 27th, 2009 at 12:17 pm
I don’t care who Greinke is facing. The guy has an arsenal. His confidence in spotting his fastball is insane. He has no issue throwing a 3-2 fastball on the outside corner at the knees instead of grooving it across the plate. And his curveball is fantastic. The Tigers lineup is not as potent as years past, but they still have a pretty decent corp of hitters, and Greinke just owned them all night.
May 27th, 2009 at 1:06 pm
Orioles 7, Blue Jays 2: That’s eight straight losses for the evaporating Blue Jays.
Thanks to the awesome Adam Jones and rookies Nolan Reimold and Jason Berken. Wieters will be called up Friday and another young arm will get his first chance in the show.
May 27th, 2009 at 2:39 pm
Livan can throw 180 pitches every game, the problem is they are usually hit very hard by the other team.