Yardwork: All About the NL West
Uncategorized June 4th. 2007, 12:58pm
Diamondbacks 4, Mets 1: The best race in baseball is taking place in the NL West, where Arizona surged into a first-place tie with the Dodgers and Padres on the strength of another impressive performance from Doug Davis. The D-Backs took two of three in Queens, and if Randy Johnson can become a reliable third wheel in that rotation …
Red Sox 5, Yankees 6: A-Rod, who seems to frequent a Dallas swinger club, drilled an opposite-field, game-winning homer in the 9th off Papelbon as New York took two of three in Boston. A friend of ours sent us an email later saying, ‘there’s hope!’ but we reminded him New York is 12.5 out in the East, and their only hope is the Wild Card. Or should Red Sox fans be nervous?
Detroit 9, Cleveland 2: Crazy Gary Sheffield homered and Jeremy Bonderman upped his record to 5-0 as the Tigers salvaged a split in Cleveland.
St. Louis 8, Houston 6, 10 innings: The Cards had a four-run lead, lost it, and then won it in the 10th on Albert Pujols’ second homer of the game. St. Louis browbeat the Houston pitching staff with five homers, and somehow, are only 6.5 games back of the struggling Brewers in the NL Central.
Blue Jays 4, White Sox 3: Ozzie-watch will be in full effect this week after the Chi Sox dropped three of four in Toronto. It’s gotten so bad, the White Sox had trouble at the border, too.
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June 4th, 2007 at 2:39 pm
Yank fans are suddenly feeling their oats because they took two from the Bosox when Okajima and Papelbon, Youkilis and Lowell showed they were a little human? That win took required a number of system failures before the Bosox mean machine sputtered. Beckett walked a lead-in runner who eventually scored while Donnelly failed to cover the inning and was replaced by Okajima who the Bosox are rely on too much. Lowell and Youkilis failed to bring in the runner on third base, which would have given them a two run cushion. Still, the Bosox had a chance to win in the 9th but Lowell pooped out with a lame swing. The Yanks got on their knees and thanked God for that win. Let’s see what’s left once Chicago gets a piece of them.
June 4th, 2007 at 2:44 pm
I’m hoping that Gary will continue to hit better the crazier he becomes. Much like Pedro Cerrano, by the time the ALCS comes around, he will probably sacrifice a live chicken and then hit for the cycle. And if he wants a baby for the World Series, I’ll steal him a baby.
June 4th, 2007 at 2:55 pm
I absolutely loathe Minute Maid Park(AKA the Juice Box). In any other park in the majors, Phat Albert would’ve had four big flies yesterday. Who the hell puts a friggin’ hill in the outfield? Oh yeah, the same team that has a shorter LF than most little league parks, that’s who.
June 4th, 2007 at 3:15 pm
@spidergirl24: You might not want to look now, but the Sox only lead the season series 7-5. And it was the Yankees, not the Sox, who blew a lead in 4 out of the six played in the Fens. But even with the Yanks coughing it up, aside from two fluky starts by Julian Tavarez, the Bombers would be winning the tiebreaker.
And the tiebreaker’s going to come into play, because once the Rocket and Baby Rocket come back, Boston will once again nervously look at the standings and wonder if it will be yet another replay of ‘78. Boston Massacre reprise last year, double-digit comeback this year.
June 4th, 2007 at 7:02 pm
For the love of God, can we PLEASE shut up about the freakin yanks and the sawx??!?! Big hint — nobody outside of those cities cares! You want a list of teams who are closer to 1st place than Noo Yawk? How about Baltimore, Toronto, Seattle, Philly, Chicago (Sox AND Cubs), Reds, Rockies and Pirates. Seriously, they’ve got the worst team money can buy, just go away already and leave the rest of us in peace.
June 4th, 2007 at 7:31 pm
Bulldoghockey07:
No yankee smack talk plz.
They’ve got a monster 1 game lead on last place Tampa, and are a game and a half behind my Orioles. Also, it’s June, and no longer too early in the season.
come back if they’re 5 games back.
Spidergirl24: No Red Sox smac, talk plz.
Ummm….Ramirez, Ortiz, Papelbon, and Okijima all put out some turds on that field. Not just that jonny-come-lately Lowell.
Also, it’s June, and it’s Sox-Yanks. Sawx smack talk in June is like throwing 58000 black cats onto the Fenway infield. Taunt ye not, the baseball gods especially when the yanks are involved, especially in June. Of all people, a Sawx fan should be aware of this.
If I were a Sox fan I’d think twice about opening my yap until we’d clinched, and no sooner.
June 4th, 2007 at 10:08 pm
BulldogHockey-Rocket’s playing on a half a groin. Bosox keep starting their knucklehead knuckballer who just serves up juicy HRs. Okay, Konowalchuk-I’m reserving my talk for August. By the way, I’m just an adopted Bosox fan, having spent a sizeable amount of my adulthood in San Francisco. I don’t have that hangover history about the Yankees and Bosox. So I’ll just bark and complain about the Giants when they play the Dodgers.