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The big bats of the Milwaukee Brewers proved too much for the New York Mets as the visitors rolled 9-2 Thursday night at Citi Field. RF Corey Hart and 3B Casey McGehee posted rbi to reach 100 rbi for the year while rookie CF Lorenzo Cain chipped in two hits and 3 runs driven in. [...]

Milwaukee starting pitcher Dave Bush(8-13,4.54) allowed 3 hits over 6 innings while also helping his own cause with a rbi single in the 3rd inning as the Brewers defeated the New York Mets 3-1 in game 2 as the visitors swept the day-night doubleheader at Citi Field in New York. All star LF Ryan Braun [...]

1B Prince Fielder capped a 2 run 8th inning rally with a game winning rbi single to center as the Milwaukee Brewers held off the New York Mets 8-7 Wednesday afternoon at Citi Field.  The teams combined for 29 hits(16 by Milwaukee) with each club having a huge inning(Mets 6 run 3rd, Brewers 5 in [...]

Rookie 2B Ruben Tejada doubled home fellow 1st year studs 1B Ike Davis and C Josh Thole for the winning runs in the 9th as the  New York Mets defeated the Milwaukee Brewers 4-3 Tuesday night at Citi Field. 3B David Wright hit a  two run homer while Tejada had 3 of the Mets 8 [...]

Monday night’s opener vs the Milwaukee Brewers was rained out and will  be part of a day-night doubleheader on Wednesday at 4:10 pm. Mike Pelfrey will pitch Tuesday while R.A Dickey and Jon Niese will throw Wednesday in the start of the Mets final homestand in 2010. For rainout policy information, please visit mets.com or [...]

Off until Monday’s game vs Milwaukee… Please follow the team at mets.com or at Matthew Cerrone’s Metsblog.com

The young and talented Florida Marlins jumped on starter Jon Niese for 5 first inning runs and never looked back as they handled the New York Mets 7-5 Wednesday night in Miami. Florida 2B Dan Uggla(3 hits,  run, 2 rbi) and 3B Wes Helms(hit, 3 rbi) led the Marlins 9 hit attack while rookie RH [...]

Armando Galarraga fell to 4-7 on the season with his second straight rough start in the Tigers 9-6 loss to Kansas City.  The first four innings went fairly well then the floodgates opened in the fifth and he gave four runs (blowing a 3-0 lead).  Alfredo Figaro and Eddie Bonine were also tagged for a [...]

1B Gaby Sanchez hit a tie breaking 3 run homer in the 8th leading the Florida Marlins over the New York Mets 5-2 Tuesday  night in Miami. 3B David Wright had 3 hits and homer #25 to pace NY while rookie LF Lucas Duda also hit a home run. Mets starter  Mike Pelfrey(15-9,3.75) pitched well, [...]

It’s been a rough year for Zach Greinke.  Coming off of his Cy Young season, he got off to a nice start in April (five starts, 2.56 ERA, 1.11 WHIP) only to get little run support and he went 0-2.  Since then, he’s looked mortal and he now finds his ERA sitting at a nice [...]

The Phillies take their seven game winning streak and hope to build on it as the second place Atlanta Braves come into town for a three game set.  The Phillies magic number is now 10 and while they can’t totally lock up the division in this seri…

The Dodgers are on the verge of being mathematically eliminated from the playoffs in what has been a weird year for the team.  First you have the whole divorce situation which is a bizarre drama by itself.  The latest has to do with the lawyer who dr…

The Reds were shut down by Bret Myers for most of this game and while they made some noise late, it wasn’t enough in the 4-3 loss.  Jay Bruce singled home Joey Votto to put the Reds on the board in the seventh and then Ramon Hernandez belted a t…

I went to bed after the seventh inning thinking the Tigers had this one in the bag.  I was kind of right because they won but the game went into the eleventh inning and thanks to the bottom of the order, the Tigers walked away with the win.  After this one being a pitchers duel [...]

Braves 1B Derek Lee’s 7th inning grand slam put Atlanta ahead for good as the Braves handled the New York Mets 6-3 Sunday afternoon at Citi Field.  R.A. Dickey(11-7, 2.92) ran out of gas in the frame and two relievers could not  escape the jam as well. Ex Brave Manny Acosta(2-1,3.34) served up the slam, [...]

I forgot to throw this up, but David Laurila talked to Tigers minor leaguer Scot Drucker.  Pretty good stuff especially on how the players keep up with some of the minor league sources like Baseball America. Tigers are winning now after a big seventh inning.

The Astros have had a tough season.  They got off to that rough start but after being considered one of the worst teams in baseball early on, they’re sitting just five games below .500.  At their worst, they were 19 games below .500 but since t…

Adam Dunn is having another nice home run season but he definitely has his share of flaws.  Still, with him being 30, you can probably say he’s about half way through his career and there’s already some noise as to whether Dunn can get int…

The Baseball Reference blog tackled Troy Tulowitzki’s last three games and put it in perspective.  With 13 RBIs, no other player has topped that total in a set of three straight home run games this year.  Only five of those are in double figures.

I’m about twenty minutes behind on the game (thank you TiVo) but the Tigers haven’t gotten anyone on base after ten hitters.  Check that, Sizemore just hit a home run right before I made myself look foolish for criticizing Leyland for hitting him second.  2-1 White Sox.  Now Raburn just got a double.  Interesting note [...]

Quite a few Twins fans held their breath today when Joe Mauer left today’s game because of a sore knee. The good news is, it doesn’t appear to be serious and Mauer is listed as day to day.  With the White Sox all but dead, that will give t…

I picked this up on Twitter but with the Phillies on the verge of getting into the postseason after a roller coaster season, outfielder Jayson Werth has hired Scott Boras to be his agent.  He made $7.5 million this year with the Phillies but he’…

Royals second baseman Chris Getz hasn’t played in over a week after getting his concussion but he’s on the way back into the Royals lineup.  Ned Yost says he has to run outside and if he can pass that test, he should be in the lineup in a …

This isn’t earth shattering news and it’s what’s everyone expected but Jacoby Ellsbury has been shut down for the season.  Ellsbury hasn’t played since mid-August and he was one of the many casualties in the Red Sox lineup this…

I was listening to the radio the other day and they were discussing the most disappointing teams.  The consensus pick was the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim but a close second was the St. Louis Cardinals.  Most people picked them to win the division h…

The Yankees lost a tough one to the Orioles this afternoon and with their razor thin lead, they were able to stay in first place because the Rays also lost.  Of course we all knew it was going to come down to this week’s four game series against…

The White Sox were in the playoff mix for some time and while their chances were still pretty slim the last week or so, that all went out the window this week with three straight losses to the Twins and now two more to the Detroit Tigers.  At this poi…

Alright, my personal losing streak is over as the Reds won in a big way yesterday against the Houston Astros.  Good hitting, check.  Good pitching, check.  Everyone got in on the action, check.  This was an all around good game as the Reds had the …

Scott Sizemore blasted a big three run home run in the top of the eighth inning to break a 3-3 tie in the Tigers 6-3 win over the White Sox yesterday.  It was just his second home run on the season in what’s been a disappointing year for the upstart second baseman.  It’ll be interesting [...]

The Twins won earlier this afternoon so that means the Tigers are 15 1/2 games back with 15 to play, ending even their formerly remote chances of making the playoffs.  Not surprising considering the Tigers are 25-36 since the All Star Break. Only the Kansas City Royals (21-37) have had a worse record. Jeff Passan [...]