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CF Carlos Beltran’s sacrifice fly capped a late comeback leading the New York Mets over the Arizona Diamondbacks 5-4 Saturday night at Citi Field. Beltran’s fly ball scored Jesus Feliciano, who led off the 9th with a triple, to complete a late Mets rally. After giving up a 2-1 led in the  7th and falling [...]

Two big homers hi-lighted a 5 run sixth inning, spoiling a 2 home run ,5 rbi game from Mets 3b David Wright, helping the Arizona DiamondBacks defeat New York 9-6 Friday night at Citi Field. 2B Kelly Johnson and C Miguel Montero homered vs LH Raul Valdez(2-3,4.85) in the game changing 6th to put the [...]

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Knuckleballer R.A. Dickey won his 7th game of the [...]

All world 1B Albert Pujols drive in the game winner with two outs in the 13th as the St Louis Cardinals defeated New York Mets 8-7 in 13 innings Wednesday night at Citi Field in Queens. Pujols heroics spoiled an incredible rally from the Mets, who came to the plate  facing a 6-0 deficit after [...]

The Tigers made a move to fill the gap left by Brandon Inge’s injury.  I’ll write more on this when I get a chance.

Monday night, the Tigers were held without a hit.  Last night, they picked up twelve hits and three walks and only managed to push two batters home.  It didn’t help that they struck out eleven times but that shouldn’t explain this.   The Rays picked up two of their three runs on a two run [...]

The New York Mets offense returned after a disastrous West Coast road trip(2-9) as they pummeled one of the top pitchers in the game , RHP Adam Wainwright and the St Louis Cardinals 8-2 Tuesday night at Citi Field.  Wainwright(14-6,2.23), who had neither control nor command of his tremendous curveball, allowed 6 hits and 6 [...]

It would have made for an interesting trivia question.  Name the last team to have a pitcher throw a perfect game (or even a no hitter) and then have one thrown against them in the same day.  Thanks again Jim Joyce. If you’re looking for some good, Max Scherzer did throw five shutout innings before [...]

San Francisco– The Giants fell to the Florida Marlins by a score of 4-3 Monday night in the bay. The NL Wildcard leaders had their chance late in the ninth, but couldn’t capitalize as Edgar Renteria struck-out to end the game with Freddy Sanchez sitting on third.
Pitcher Barry Zito pitched 6.1 innings, allowing six hits [...]

Things have not gone well for the Tigers since the All Star Break.  They’ve lost seven out of ten and they’re now short half of their infield and Magglio Ordonez is on the shelf for a while.    More then half of the players in the Tigers lineup in yesterday’s finale were playing in the minors [...]

Arizona– The San Francisco Giants have completed a four game sweep of the Diamondbacks. The club picked up win 56 Sunday afternoon behind eight solid inning from their ace. It took the Giants 10 innings but they prevailed with the  sweep, after a 3-2 victory.
The story coming into the game was the hitting streak of [...]

Arizona– The Giants continued their second half hot streak Saturday, whooping the Diamondback 10-4. Pitcher Madison Bumgarner is proving the hype and shined in his outing Saturday.  Bumgarner picked up his fourth straight win, pitching seven innings, striking out seven, and only allowing two runs. Bumgarner also helped his own cause Saturday, drawing a walk, [...]

Arizona– The Giants won again thanks to a great performance by Matt Cain, who threw eight shut-out innings. The Giants won 3-0, Buster Posey contributed with an RBI and continued his hitting streak, now at 16. Andres Torres and Aaron Rowand also added RBI, and  closer Brian Wilson added to his save total, now standing [...]

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Los Angeles– The Giants failed to complete the sweep of hated rival LA Wednesday, falling 2-0. Starting pitcher Barry Zito pitched well, going 7 1/3 innings, allowing just two runs. Zito was out-dueled by Dodgers pitcher Chad Billingsley, who threw a complete game shut-out.
The Giants had plenty of opportunity to win Wednesday, but fell short [...]

Rookie Barry Enright(2-2,2.66) threw 8 innings of 5 hit ball  while Justin Upton homered, leading the Arizona Diamondbacks over the slumping New York Mets 3-2 Tuesday night at Chase Field in Phoenix. C Josh Thole and RF Angle Pagan homered for the Mets but the club totaled only 6 hits. NY has lost 8 of [...]

Los Angeles– The San Francisco Giants stole Tuesday’s game from the Los Angeles Dodgers in the ninth inning. The Giants put up a fight and closed the door, winning 7-5 with three runs in the last stanza.
The boys from the bay got some help from a mistake by acting Dodgers manager, Don Mattingly. With one [...]

Los Angeles–  The San Francisco Giants muscled up Monday night and took down their hated rival, the Los Angeles Dodgers 5-2.  The Giants now bring their record to 2-5  versus the Dodgers this year, and move to 10-20 in against the division. Despite those dismal numbers the Giants moved back into second-place in the NL [...]

The Arizona Diamondbacks pounded out 18 hits, scoring 6 runs of Mets starter Mike Pelfrey(10-5,4.01) in less than 2 innings, vanishing New York 13-2 Monday night at Chase Field in Phoenix. Arizona 3B Mark Reynolds,C Miguel Montero,1B Adam Laroche and CF Chris Young had 3 hits apiece for the hosts while Young and Reynolds homered. [...]

San Francisco– The Giants put up a fight but ultimately fell short, Sunday afternoon at AT&T Park. The Giants scored in the first inning to take the lead, 1-0. They also scored two in the ninth to take the game to extra innings. Phenom Buster Posey continued to put up numbers, using a sacrifice fly [...]

Closer Francisco Rodriquez(1-2,2.68) blew his 5th save in 26 chances costing ace Johan Santana(7-5,2.87) a victory but 1B Ike Davis doubled home LF Jason Bay for the winning run in the 10th, helping The Mets win 4-3 over the host San Francisco  Giants Sunday afternoon at AT&T Park in California.  The win helps NY avoid [...]

After taking the first two games from the Philadelphia Phillies, the Cubs appeared to be on their way to another victory on Saturday.  They took a 1-0 lead into the ninth inning due to a tremendous performance from Randy Wells who threw seven shutout …

San Francisco– The Giants continued their winning ways, taking their streak to five on Saturday. Matt Cain went seven innings, picking up his seventh win. Cain had plenty of help from his teammates Saturday night. The Giants busted out the bats and put up a total of eight, winning 8-4.
After scoring only three runs in [...]

The San Francisco Giants errupted for 5 runs in the 2nd inning hi-lighted by a 3 run homer from CF Andres Torres, helping them defeat the slumping New York Mets 8-4 Saturday night at AT&T Park.  The hosts had 12 hits and destroyed NY LHSP Hisanori Takahashi(7-4, 4.69) for 6 runs in 2 and two [...]

LH SP Barry Zito(8-4, 3.51) struck out 10 in eight impressive innings of 2 hit ball while 1B Aubrey Huff had 3 hits and scored  the games lone run, leading the San Francisco Giants(49-41) over the New York Mets(48-42) 1-0 Friday night at AT&T Park in California.  NY managed 3 hits all game with one [...]

The San Francisco Giants behind Tim Lincecum got an important win to begin the 2010 second half. Lincecum went the distance and shut out the New York Mets on Thursday night. This is the fourth shut out of Lincecum’s career, his tenth win on the season, and the 50th win of Lincecum’s MLB lifetime. 50 [...]

Two time NL CY Young winner Tim Lincecum showed why he is one of the top pitchers in the game leading the San Francisco Giants over the New York Mets 2-0 Thursday night at AT&T Park in California. Lincecum pitched a complete game 6 hitter while 3b Pablo Sandoval’s 2nd inning rbi double supplied all [...]

Good news on all fronts with the New York Mets returning to action Thursday night in San Francisco. The club’s franchise player, 3b David Wright, had 2 hits(ONLY player with multiple hits) and a stolen base in Tuesday’s Major League All Star game.  Better yet, the National League won the contest (AND homefield advantage in [...]

The All Star Game is in the books and if the Tigers make it to the World Series, they won’t get home field advantage this year because the National League won 3-1 last night.  Growing up, the National League won most years and it wasn’t until the nineties when things switched around.  Miguel Cabrera went [...]

The 2010 MLB All-Star game was a feat for the National League, winning the midsummer classic for the first time since 1996. The game was a tense one, from what I could tell.
After sifting through the normal Fox routine, which means the terrible commentating trio of Joe Buck, Tim McCarver, and Chris Rose, along with [...]