Major League Baseball: 2013 Season

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We exorcised Baltimore 11-0 tonight. The Houston Astros Baseball Club are now 36-70. The big part of the Astros' rout was a Grand Slam by Jason Castro to put the Astros up 9-0 at that point. This is only the second shutout win recorded by the Astros this season. The other was a 2-0 win at the Angels. Winning for HOU was Oberholtzer. Miguel Gonzalez was the BAL loser. We outhit the Orioles 15-7. Baltimore made the only error. All I'm wondering is... who pissed off the Astros tonight? They were in absolute Beast Mode tonight.

This Rubber Game will have a familiar face going to the mound for Baltimore- Bud Norris will pitch for the O's tomorrow. I wouldn't be surprised if we fail Thursday in some sort of way.


Elsewhere, here is just rundown of some other games completed up to the point of this post. Congrats to the winning pitchers and tough luck for the losing pitchers...

* TOUCHDOWN DIAMONDBACKS! Arizona won 7-0 at Tampa Bay. If this was the NFL, this would be the Cardinals beating the Buccaneers in an NFC conference match.

* It wasn't even close in Detroit. The Washington Nationals got run over in MoTown as the Detroit Tigers won 11-1. The Nationals turned into roadkill on this day.

* St. Louis' fall from grace continues as Pittsburgh won 5-4 at beautiful PNC Park in Pittsburgh.

* Staying in the Keystone State, something had to give in Philadelphia with two struggling teams- SF and PHI. It was San Francisco who didn't enjoy the East Coast hospitality given by Philadelphia, hammering PHI 9-2.

* They needed 10 innings in Oakland, and Toronto's three runs in the 10th helped them pull away to a 5-2 victory.

* The Miami Marlins won 3-2 hosting the New York Mets. Marisnick of Miami provided the only Home Run.

* Atlanta hammered the Colorado Rockies. The Mile High boys took a 9-0 beating and got buried below sea level in Atlanta.

* Texas cashed in a win with a walk-off jack. It was 2-1 in Arlington as the Rangers won over Patrick's Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim. Adrian Beltre was the hero.

* Cleveland handled their business well with a 6-5 victory in 10 innings at Progressive Field against the Chicago White Sox.



Congrats to all other winners up to and beyond the time of this post.
 
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3 out of 4 so far in this set from the Tribe against the Windy City ChiSox. Game 4 of the set will cap off tomorrow. Hoping for back to back sweeps. This makes it a 6 game winning streak for the Wahoos. Keep it up Tribe.

Still holding on to 2nd in the A.L. Central @ 59-48. We need some help .... can anyone beat Joeys Tiggers, give us a helping hand ? :lol:
 
Mariners and Red Sox going into the 13th tied at 4...

And now the 15th....
 
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I hope that game's in East Coast. It's always fun to think about how screwed the fans are, following their game past midnight. :lol:

So the Cards lost? Again? :ouch: I think I read that Molina was to be put on DL, too. More & more, it's looking like Wild Card for the Birds.

We will have two Wild Card teams in each league again this year?
 
The Reds finally decided to win a game again. And we've managed to gain a game on the Cards in the process, though now we are chasing the Pirates instead. Speaking of which, I can't believe the Pirates are going for the sweep against the Cards. Maybe this will be the year they don't fold down the stretch and finally finish above .500 for the first time in 21 years.
 
JohnBM01
...lifetime ban on Alex Rodriguez....
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Joey D
I don't think baseball will miss Rodriguez.
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^This. The only ones who will be missing him would be Yahoo! Sports; seems half their baseball articles have to mention him and/or Jeter.

I used to have a lot of respect for A-Rod. But no more.

So the Phillies stood pat at the trading deadline. Which probably means nobody wanted to meet their price for Cliff Lee.
 
a6m5
I hope that game's in East Coast. It's always fun to think about how screwed the fans are, following their game past midnight. :lol:

So the Cards lost? Again? :ouch: I think I read that Molina was to be put on DL, too. More & more, it's looking like Wild Card for the Birds.

We will have two Wild Card teams in each league again this year?
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Yeah, it was at Fenway. The Sox eventually won on a walkoff RBI single by Stephen Drew in the 15th. I hate when the Rangers play on the west coast, most of the games go until midnight...and they play in Oakland this weekend. Not ready for a 9pm central start tomorrow night. 👎

And yes, there will be two wild cards. Both will play in a one-game playoff to determine who goes to the LDS.
 
Marlins can't sell tickets to humans, try selling to dogs instead.

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Standings as of post time:

AL East
Boston (65-44)
Tampa Bay (64-44) 0.5 GB*
Baltimore (59-49) 5.5 GB
Yankees (56-51) 8.0 GB
Toronto (50-57) 14.0 GB

AL Central
Detroit (61-45)
Cleveland (60-48) 2.0 GB*
Kansas City (54-51) 6.5 GB
Minnesota (45-60) 15.5 GB
White Sox (40-66) 21.0 GB

AL West
Athletics(63-45)
Rangers (59-49) 4.0 GB
Mariners (50-57)12.5 GB
Angels (48-58) 14.0 GB
Astros (36-70) 26.0 GB

NL Central
Pirates (65-42)
Cardinals (62-44)2.5 GB*
Reds (60-49) 6.0 GB*
Cubs (49-58) 6.0 GB
Brewers (46-62) 19.5GB

NL West
Dodgers (57-49)
Diamondbacks(55-52) 2.5GB
Rockies (51-58) 7.5
Padres (50-59) 8.5 GB
Giants (47-59) 10.0 GB


NL East
Braves (63-45)
Nationals(52-56) 11.0
Phillies (50-57) 12.5 GB
Mets (48-58) 14.0 GB
Marlins (42-65) 20.5 GB

* Would play in the Wild Card game if the season ended today.
 
Rangers looking good so far against the D-backs. Darvish is being dominant and he has gotten run support, thanks to solo bombs by AJ Pierzynski and Mitch Moreland.
 
KM964
Yeah, it was at Fenway. The Sox eventually won on a walkoff RBI single by Stephen Drew in the 15th. I hate when the Rangers play on the west coast, most of the games go until midnight...and they play in Oakland this weekend. Not ready for a 9pm central start tomorrow night. 👎
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That's right, you guys are Central anyway.... It sucks for sports fans in eastern region if they like sleep!
KM964
And yes, there will be two wild cards. Both will play in a one-game playoff to determine who goes to the LDS.
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Ah, thanks. 👍 Last year, I was all giddy that Cards & Braves(couple of my favorite teams) were going to make it in as two wild card teams. That backfired for my Braves real fast. :lol:
 
Get out the brooms .... another sweep by the Tribe. The Tribe topped the visiting Chisox today by a score of 6-1, giving Cleveland the sweep. This makes it back to back sweeps for the Tribe. Great job guys, keep it up. This weekends match up will have the Tribe heading down to Florida to take on the Marlins for a 3 game set.

Then ........ all hell may break loose. The Tribe will head up north into the Motor City take on Joeys 1st place Tigers. The battle for 1st place in the A.L. Central is at hand. This is gonna be good.
 
I wouldn't be surprised if the Astros lost this series... and we did. It was 6-3 as Baltimore defeats Houston to further compound the Astros' futility. Maybe the Astros unleashed all of their offense on Wednesday and forgot to save some of that to try to win Thursday night's game. Damned sad to be a fan of such a last place team. Despite this, it's still my team. I'm not going to be a Rangers fan just because my Astros are so f:censored:ing lethargic. Does "Stop the Pain" mean anything, Astros? Even the Miami Marlins have their heads screwed on right and are winning games while the Astros are just habitually f:censored:ing up and losing. G:censored:-damned, motherf:censored:ing unacceptable bulls:censored: performance by the Astros. BULL-motherf:censored:-S:censored:!!!

Besides my Astros failing (again), congrats to Cleveland on their sweep of the Chicago White Sox. Miami Marlins beat the Mets 3-0 in Miami. St. Louis eviscerates Pittsburgh 13-0. THAT is how to avoid being swept- beat the crap out of the team who's been all over you in the series.
 
Rangers looked great tonight. The offense racked up 7 runs (3 solo homers) and Yu Darvish pitched one heck of a game. 7 IP, 5 H, 0 R, 0 BB, 14 K.

They gained a half-game on the A's today, heading to Oakland for 3. A sweep could put them half a game out of first.
 
Wow, that's a lot of 🤬🤬🤬 John. :lol:

Hey, I can relate to your pains ... really. I can remember going up to Cleveland (the old Municipal Stadium) to watch Tribe games. We would buy the cheap old bleacher seats waaaaay out there in no-mans land (binoculars were pretty much a must). This being when the Tribe sucked so bad that nobody went up to see them. By the end of the 2nd inning, we were sitting behind home plate, or where-ever we wanted to go, 1st base line, 3rd base line, we were everywhere. Pretty fun. Those were some hard times indeed, and yes, it was very aggravating to say the least. All I can say is just hang in there, it's tough, but it does get better. I might not seem like it will, but it will. Hell, we still growl about the Tribe as of this day, especially recent years. We do so good the 1st half, along comes August, then it's like ...

God 🤬 these guys royally suck, 🤬 Tribe.

Been there, done it, hang in there bud. :cheers:
 
The Reds have a couple of "Bark in the Park" games a season. Not sure if you have to pay for a ticket for the dog though.

Anyway, we have a tough, important series against the Cards starting tomorrow. I have a feeling it won't go well. They are gonna be playing pissed after losing so many in a row (and they clearly showed that today with the castration of the Pirates in their finale with them). We will be playing pissed as well, but it'll probably only amount to the usual 0-2 runs. This is Cincinnati after all, where out major sports teams continually manage to fail after glimmers of hope. And on that note, John, rejoice in the fact that at least your Texans have knocked out the Bengals in the wild card round 2 years in a row. I think the last time a professional (not including the Cyclones hockey team) Cincinnati team won an opening playoff MLB series or NFL game was something like 1995. I'm too bothered to look it up.
 
I read that with being struck out 1,003 times this season after tonight's game, we have taken the fewest number of games to surpass being struck out 1K times or more in a season in MLB history. Sad.


As for the Reds, St. Louis is almost always a "for real" team. The NL Central basically comes down to St. Louis and Pittsburgh with you Cincy guys on the outside looking in. That is... unless the Brewers and Cubs somehow make an L.A. Dodgers-type comeback to make it a four-horse race. This is a big chance for the Reds to gain some much needed ground on St. Louis in the NL Central. If they want it, they need to pound out some wins. Maybe even try to pull a sweep.
 
Top of the ninth, Giants in Philadelphia. Phillies holding a 1-0 lead on superb pitching by Cole Hamels (Matt Cain wasn't too shabby either). Jonathan Papelbon comes on to nail down the win. But he starts the inning by giving up four straight base hits to put the Giants up 2-1 and racking up his sixth blown save of the season.

The Phils load the bases with nobody out in the bottom half of the inning. Fly balls to short left and short right (both barely off the infield cutout) and a grounder to short, and Papelbon takes the loss.

Earlier in the game, the Phils had runners thrown out at the plate with less than two outs on two separate occasions.

The only bright spot was watching Cody Asche get his first major league base hit. My son and I had just watched him this past Friday and Saturday going a combined 2 for 7 in Pawtucket vs the Pawtucket Red Sox with a homer and five RBI's before his callup Tuesday.
 
BobK
Top of the ninth, Giants in Philadelphia. Phillies holding a 1-0 lead on superb pitching by Cole Hamels (Matt Cain wasn't too shabby either). Jonathan Papelbon comes on to nail down the win. But he starts the inning by giving up four straight base hits to put the Giants up 2-1 and racking up his sixth blown save of the season.

The Phils load the bases with nobody out in the bottom half of the inning. Fly balls to short left and short right (both barely off the infield cutout) and a grounder to short, and Papelbon takes the loss.

Earlier in the game, the Phils had runners thrown out at the plate with less than two outs on two separate occasions.

The only bright spot was watching Cody Asche get his first major league base hit. My son and I had just watched him this past Friday and Saturday going a combined 2 for 7 in Pawtucket vs the Pawtucket Red Sox with a homer and five RBI's before his callup Tuesday.
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Papelbon is really earning his money. 6 Blown Saves since beginning of June.
 
a6m5
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Is he expected to close? Thanks for the info. 👍
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No. He's expected to set up for Jansen.
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Just another bullpen arm. I don't think they are expecting him to fit a certain "role."

They just figure him to be better than what they'll get out of Jose Dominguez or Carlos Marmol for the rest of the season. Hopefully he's more than a ROOGY.
 
Good luck to your team(s) this weekend. My Astros will head out to Justin country and take on the Minnesota Twins for a three-game set that will conclude this road trip.
 
Now media outlets (such as NBC and USA Today) are reporting the suspensions will be handed out Monday.

Just give them out already. I want to know A-Frauds fate.
 
Looks like the Reds game is already over. Down 9-0 as pretty much expected in only the top of the 5th inning. Only 4 innings into the series, and it feels like the sweep is already on. :grumpy:

Edit: Make that 10-0. As I was typing this out, the Cards decided to add a solo homer.
 

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