With the most anticipated pitching matchup of the day happening tonight (Chris Carpenter v. Cliff Lee) lets take a look at what has been going on everywhere else in the bigs...
The Yankees are handing the Mets their dignity with a 15-0 thrashing. Johan Santana blew up, giving up 9 runs in 3 innings of work. AJ Burnett on the other hand went 7 shutout with 8 K's.
The Phillies have come back against the Red Sox, who gave Josh Beckett a 4-1 lead to work with which was not enough today as the Philly offense woke up, thanks to the top half of their line up (9 for 20 with 8 RBI 7 runs and even a Ryan Howard stolen base!).
The historically bad LOLNats went up 4-0 against the Rays only to lose 5-4. Washington is now 6-11 in 1 run games and sports a very impressive .262 winning percentage on the season (16-45). The list of the worst teams in history (MLB after 1903) will certainly contain this team as they are the worst team since the 2003 Tigers.
Ivan Rodriguez caught his 2,225th game in his career, putting him 2nd all time with Bob Boone and one behind another 'Pudge', Carlton Fisk. Pudge Rodriguez's Astros are currently up 6-3 on the Diamondbacks.
Ryan Theriot hit a walk off single for the Cubs in their 3-2 win over the Twins.
The Marlins stomped the Blue Jays 11-3 behind Ronny Paulino's 2 home run day.
In a rematch of the 1909 World Series, Honus Wagner led his Pirates past Ty Cobb and his Tigers...kind of. The jersey's were the same, but the names were different. Dontrelle Willis was again forced to leave before the 5th inning as his control helped the Bucs win 6-3 behind the super hot rookie Andrew McCutchen and 3 RBI's from Robinzen Diaz.
Trevor Hoffman lost his first game of the season when A.J Pierzinski hit an RBI single in the top of the 9th to push the ChiSox past the Brewers.
In other games, the Orioles crushed the Braves 11-2, KC beat Cinci 7-1, and the two LA teams won, the Dodgers beating the Rangers 6-3 and the Angels beat the Padres 6-0. Matt Cain continued to recieve run support as the Giants are beating the Oakland A's 7-1 in the 9th, and Colorado continues to play exceptional ball, as they are leading the Mariners 7-1 in the 7th inning. That would make it 11 in a row for the Rockies if they hold on to win.
Joe Mauer went 3-5 today, raising his average to .414. According to Dave Pinto at Baseball Musings this makes his odds of hitting .400 in a 162 game season a bit under 1 in 100, and based on a 140 game season, which reflects Mauer's likely at-bat total due to his stint on the DL, to 1 in 613. Even if he doesnt hit .400, Mauer is still having by far his best season, which is quite scary for the rest of the AL Central.
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