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The dynamic duo of the Milwaukee Brewers -1B Prince Fielder and LF Ryan Braun- drove in 5 of the 6 runs, leading the home team to a 6-3 victory over the depleted New York Mets Tuesday night at Miller Park.  Mets ace lefty Johan Santana(9-6, 3.34) had some unfortunate luck but also gave up 9 [...]

Brewers rookie 3b Casey McGehee’s 6th inning grand slam more than made up for the 2 runs his error allowed, helping Milwaukee defeat the struggling New York Mets 10-6 Monday night in Wisconsin. Milwaukee banged out 19 hits and was led by SS JJ Hardy’s near cycle(4 for 4 with a single, homer and double). [...]

The Dodgers and Rockies took it into the 13th inning on Monday, and it ended with a walk-off two-run shot by Andre Ethier.
Randy Wolf and Ubaldo Jimenez had just about equal numbers the entire way. Wolf gave up just four hits, with his only mistake being a two-run homerun in the fifth inning, though the [...]

In the finale of an embarrassing weekend for Mets fans everywhere, NY handed the rival NY Yank$$s 3 runs and lost 4-2 Sunday night at Citi-Field. Mets pitchers walked 11 Yank$$s(1 with the bases loaded) and could not turn two crucial plays in the first inning, costing the club 3 runs. Starting pitcher Livan Hernandez [...]

It seems like forever since the Tigers played in the World Series, then after their loss to the Cardinals, made an offensive push by trading a package of prospects to the Yankees for Gary Sheffield.  Shef is with the Mets and while he never lived up to the hype, never did the cornerstone of the [...]

This game had a ton of stuff going on.  First, it was the ESPN Sunday game of the week.  Chien Ming Wang was fighting for his job and then the Yankees were going for their fifth straight win.  Of course the game didn’t disappoint and even better the Yankees won.  Mark Teixeira drove in two [...]

The Dodgers took a 1-5 loss on Saturday and 2-4 loss on Sunday for their second straight series loss.
Eric Milton suffered the loss on Saturday, giving up four runs on seven hits through five. McDonald and Mota tossed a few scoreless innings before Leach gave up a solo homerun in the ninth for the Mariners [...]

After a rough stretch, the Reds have now won their last two and they’ve won three of their last four. Today’s game was particurlarly impressive because the Reds not only put eight runs on the board, but they also got a very solid start by Micah Owings. He gave up just one run [...]

I never mind calling myself out when it’s a good thing.  I can be honest (and I have to be because this blog is my paper trail) about how I was somewhat against the Ugueth Urbina for Placido Polanco trade (I thought they should have went after a higher end prospect) and I was dead [...]

New York Yank$$s off-season free agent acquisition A.J Burnett(6-4,3.93) stoned the Mets for 7 innings, allowing only a 1 hit, leading the Yank$$s to a 5-0 win Saturday night at Citi-Field. C Jorge Posada’s 6th inning 3 run homer was the big blow while RF Nick Swisher’s solo shot in the 3rd proved to be [...]

The Tigers didn’t make an error in this game.  Outside of that, the hitters were held to just three hits and Alfredo Figaro was shelled to the tune of eight runs through six frames.  It looks like Jim Leyland left Figaro out there to give the pen a rest because most of the damage in [...]

The New York Yank$$s pounded out 14 hits and scored 5 runs late, pulling away to defeat the injury depleted New York Mets 9-1 Friday night at Citi-Field.  Yankees free agent prize threw 7 innings of 3 hit ball while CF Brett Gardner had a career high five hits. Noted steroid cheat and Yankees 3B [...]

Clayton Kershaw evened his record at 5-5 while the Dodgers beat the Mariners, 8-2, in the first game of the series.
Kershaw pitched a perfect first three innings before giving up a run in the fourth. He gave up another in the sixth and left with a 7-2 lead after six, tallying eight K’s for the [...]

The Reds haven’t been winning much, but they’ve still managed to hang on to their 3 1/2 game deficit because nobody in the Central is playing particularly well.  Last night, the Reds opened up their series with the Indians by getting squashed 9-2 and it was ace Aaron Harang who got pummelled.  He gave up [...]

It’s been a while, but the Tigers finally lost last night, ending their winning streak at seven games.  It’s too bad too because the Tigers jumped all over Astros starter Wandy Rodriguez and by the end of the two innings, the Tigers had a 4-0 lead.  That’s all they’d score though and the Astros would [...]

After taking the first game of the series against the White Sox, the Dodgers lost the second and lost the series in extra innings in Thursday’s 5-6 loss.
The Dodgers gave Chad Billingsley a 4-0 lead by the fifth, but Billingsley gave up two in the fifth and three go-ahead runs in the sixth, courtesy of [...]

Mets ace lefty Johan Santana battled control issues early but overcame them, leading the NY Mets to a huge 3-2 victory over the rival St. Louis Cardinals.  The injury depleted Mets put together a three run fourth inning vs Cards ace righty Chris Carpenter(5-2,1.78) hi-lighted by rookie 1B Nick Evans two out two run double. [...]

The White Sox came back to take the second game of the series with a 10-6 win over the Dodgers on Wednesday.
Randy Wolf was able to earn a decision, but it came with a loss after he gave up five runs on seven hits. Wolf gave up a solo homerun in the first followed by [...]

 
The New York Mets received another great performance from waiver pick up Fernando Nieve and banged out 16 hits, leading them to a decisive 11-0 rout of the St. Louis Cardinals Wednesday night at Citi-Field. Nieve, now 3-0, pitched 6 shut out innings while new clean up hitter RF Ryan Church had 3 hits and [...]

Hiroki Kuroda was one out away from a complete game in the Dodgers’ 5-2 win over the White Sox. He gave up a solo shot in the second, but the Dodgers had already given him a 3-0 cushion by then. Kuroda gave up just one other hit besides the homerun until the ninth. He left [...]

RH Joel Pineiro won for the first time in 5 starts and superstar 1B Albert Pujols drove in 2 runs late in the game, leading the St. Louis Cardinals to a 3-0 win over the New York Mets Tuesday night at Citi-Field.  The game was only 2 hours and 13 minutes and featured a 52 [...]

Interleague play is sitting well with the Reds.  They lost their opener against the Blue Jays last night so that pushes their losing streak to three games.   What’s just is bad is everyone but the Cardinals are stinking it up in the Central so had we gotten a nice little winning streak together, the Reds [...]

This would have been a fun game to be at.  You had a solid pitcher’s duel through the first six frames before the Tigers opened it up a little bit with a two run blast in the seventh by Brandon Inge.  Then the Cubs took the lead in the eighth with a home run by [...]

The New York Mets got contributions from the entire line-up as well as a much needed strong start from veteran Tim Redding, leading them to a 6-4 victory over the rival St. Louis Cardinals Monday night at Citi-field.  NY had 14 hits, led by C Omir Santos’ 4,  while 1B Daniel Murphy(2 hits) homered. 2b [...]

Just when you thought things could not get worse, Mets superstar CF Carlos Beltran was just placed on the 15 day DL with his right  knee problem.  The have recalled super prospect Fernando Martinez to fill the roster spot. Beltran joins 1B Carlos Delgado, SS Jose Reyes, Set-up man J.J. Putz and starting pitchers Oliver [...]

The NY Mets bullpen, one of the strongest in all of MLB, sprung a leak Sunday afternoon and The defending AL Champion Tampa Bay Rays took advantage, defeating the New York Mets 10-6 at Citifield. Rays star CF B.J. Upton tremendous 2 run shot in the 4 run 7th highlighted the 6 run explosion over [...]

After a late-inning comeback by the Angels on Friday night, the Dodgers took the last two games for the series win over cross-town rival Angels.
Chad Billingsley held the Angels to four runs (three earned) on Friday, with three of the runs coming in the sixth inning to allow the Angels to tie it up. Mota [...]

It’s a funny world.  The Reds scored eight runs yesterday but lost.  Today, they got a solid but not great start from Aaron Harang yet lost 4-1.  The Reds got just six hits and two of those were by Johnny Gomes.  The lone run came in the eighth inning when Brandon Phillips drove home Chris [...]

This shit has to stop.  The Yankees scored two runs in the ninth, but they stranded the tying run at third base in a 6-5 loss to the Marlins.  The big ninth inning his was a two run triple by Brett Gardner and he also singled earlier in the game.  Alex Rodriguez singled and drove [...]

Not too shabby.  The first place Brewers (at the time) rolled into town for a three game series and they left with three losses as the Tigers took care of business in a 3-2 win this afternoon.  Brandon Inge had the big hit with a three run blast and that was all the Tigers needed [...]