Yardwork: I’ll see your Gagne and raise you an Izzy
Baseball May 10th. 2008, 12:22pm
Brewers 4, Cards 3
Rickie Weeks had a game winning two run single after the Cards closer got the first two Brewers out on two pitches. Isringhausen now leads the world in blown saves with five. As the AP put it in the game recap: The Brewers were a pitch away from another miserable loss. Then Cardinals closer Jason Isringhausen started throwing like a second-grader again.
Awesome.
Cubs 3, Diamondbacks 1
Ted Lilly pitched seven innings, struck out ten and had an RBI, for what was just the fifth Cubby win in 14 tries. Arizona enjoyed 46 degree weather at Wrigley to help cool their highest scoring offense.
Indians 6, Blue Jays 1
Casey Blake hit a go-ahead, two-run double in a six-run seventh inning. That was a lot of numbers in that sentence. C.C. Sabathia got the win over Roy Halladay, striking out nine in seven strong.
Rays 2, Angels 0
James Shields threw a complete game one-hitter, striking out nine and failing to walk a man. Evan Longoria had the walkoff blast before returning home to the waiting, open arms of Tony Parker. (tsk, tsk)
Twins 7, Red Sox 6
Brendan Harris had two hits and two RBI before leaving with a hamstring problem. His replacement, Mike Lamb, knocked the game winner off Jonathan Papelbon. The Twins announced a plan to sabotage all their players’ hamstrings going forward. ÂÂ
13 Responses to “Yardwork: I’ll see your Gagne and raise you an Izzy”
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May 10th, 2008 at 12:24 pm
3 straight shut-outs for the rangers. things are looking up for my boys.
May 10th, 2008 at 12:26 pm
I saw that. What’s gotten into them?
May 10th, 2008 at 12:27 pm
Evan……Eva…….What’s the difference?
May 10th, 2008 at 12:29 pm
What about Papelbon? He is killing my FB this week.
May 10th, 2008 at 12:35 pm
the marlins win their 7th straight and then sign hanley for 6 years/70 million and they dont make the mother bleeping round up? seriously? come onnnnnn!
May 10th, 2008 at 12:45 pm
fucking johan is going down today
May 10th, 2008 at 12:49 pm
How bout them AL-Central leading Twins? It would have been dumb to do, but I wonder what would have happened had they held on to Johan.
May 10th, 2008 at 12:51 pm
@cortes: they’re my team of the week. But only until they never lose again.
May 10th, 2008 at 1:00 pm
Looks like Chris Perez is going to be called up and be put into the closer role, at least temporarily. Izzy has lost his confidence(he basically said so himself), so sending him back out there night after night would be counter-productive, IMO. This is one time when La Russa needs to throw loyalty out the window.
May 10th, 2008 at 1:19 pm
@ bruce.. just curious b/c perez is from the U.. have they officially called him up? or just speculation?
May 10th, 2008 at 1:23 pm
To sum up, the closers for the top four teams in the NL Central have a combined 16 blown saves, and the division still has more plus .500 teams than any place but the NL East. It could be exciting, or it could be putrid. Or both. But until they have fewer blown saves than the Reds have wins, the whole division should be banned from Yardwork.
@cortes: 5th straight for the fish (Peavy effect).
May 10th, 2008 at 1:26 pm
damn peavy
May 10th, 2008 at 1:48 pm
@cortes- Joe Strauss(the team’s beat writer) said it’s most likely going to happen, from what he’s heard. Plus Izzy, himself, said it’s time for him to step out of the role, at least for now.