Mets Walk-Off Winners Against Rivera

Game of the Day for Tuesday 5/28

New York Mets 2, New York Yankees 1

The Mets spoiled Mariano Rivera’s last game at Citi Field by scoring two runs in the bottom of the ninth to pull out a walk-off victory in front of a home crowd that waited two hours for the game to start after it was delayed by rain.  Matt Harvey started the game for the Mets and was brilliant, allowing just one run on six hits, while striking out ten in eight innings, but once again settled for the no-decision.  Yankee starter Hiroki Kuorda was equally brilliant, throwing seven innings of shutout ball before handing it over to the bullpen.  Down 1-0 in the ninth, Daniel Murphy doubled off Rivera, David Wright then singled him home to tie the game, reached second on Brett Gardner’s throwing error, and scored the winning run when Lucas Duda singled to center.  It was the first time in Rivera’s 19-year Hall-of-Fame career that he failed to record an out, and it was his first blown save of the season.

Rest of the day’s scores:

Tuesday, May 28, 2013
RESULT	WIN	LOSS	SAVE
Atlanta 7, at Toronto 6	Gearrin (2-1)	Weber (0-1)	Kimbrel (16)
Colorado 2, at Houston 1	Belisle (2-2)	Veras (0-4)	Betancourt (11)
at Washington 9, Baltimore 3	Duke (1-1)	Gausman (0-2)
Pittsburgh 1, at Detroit 0	Melancon (1-0)	Ortega (0-2)	Grilli (21)
Philadelphia 3, at Boston 1	Lee (6-2)	Dempster (2-6)	Papelbon (10)
at Cincinnati 8, Cleveland 2	Latos (5-0)	McAllister (4-4)
at Tampa Bay 7, Miami 6	Rodney (2-2)	Dunn (1-1)
Chi. Cubs at Chi. White Sox	Postponed
St. Louis 4, at Kansas City 1	Lyons (2-0)	Santana (3-5)	Mujica (16)
Minnesota 6, at Milwaukee 5	Pressly (2-0)	Badenhop (0-2)	Duensing (1)
at LA Dodgers 3, LA Angels 0	Ryu (6-2)	Blanton (1-8)
at Oakland 6, San Francisco 3	Parker (3-6)	Kickham (0-1)
San Diego 6, at Seattle 1	Volquez (4-5)	Maurer (2-7)

Consecutive days with a walk-off win: 5  The New York Mets and Tampa Bay Rays both walked-off winners on Tuesday.

A.L. MVP Watch:  Joey Bautista, OF, Toronto Blue Jays (2^nd mention).  Bautista had three hits on Tuesday, including his 12^th home run, and scored three runs, and is on pace to hit .298 with 37 HRs, 87 RBI and 105 runs scored.

N.L. MVP Watch:  Jean Segura, SS, Milwaukee Brewers.  Segura went 6-7 on Tuesday, all singles, and raised his N.L. leading batting average to .365.

History – 1915 World Series

          Winner: Boston Braves 4-0 against the Philadelphia Athletics

For the second straight year, a Boston team would beat a Philadelphia team in the World Series (in 1914 the Boston Braves beat the Philadelphia Athletics).  It was a very competitive series in that all five games were decided by one run, and the Phillies would win the first game in Philadelphia before losing the next four, and wouldn’t win another World Series game until 1980.  The Red Sox won games 2, 3 &4 with an identical 2-1 score, and would finish the Phillies in Game 5, 5-4.  The total composite box score has the Red Sox outscoring the Phillies just 12-10, but they outhit them 42-27.  Even though Fenway Park opened this year, Boston would play their home games in the series at Braves Field to take advantage of the larger seating capacity and thus larger gate revenue.  A very young Boston pitcher named Babe Ruth who won 18 games in 1915 and led the team with four home runs, would only pinch-hit once in the series as Boston’s pitching was so strong.  Hall-of Famers in the series included for Boston pitchers Harry Hooper and Herb Pennock (did not play), outfielder Tris Speaker, and of course Ruth; and for Philadelphia pitchers Grover Cleveland Alexander and Eppa Rixey, and shortstop Dave Bancroft.

         

Trivia - Today’s Question:

Yesterday’s Question:  Who holds the Braves franchise record for most career pitching wins?

Answer:  Warren Spahn, with 356 career wins.

Vegas Bet:  Lastly, here’s an actual bet you can make at a Las Vegas Sports Book:Over/Under 4 earned runs allowed by Tim Lincecum tonight against Oakland.

Yesterday’s Bet:  Over/Under 2.5 runs scored by Miami today against Tampa Bay.

Result:  Over.  The Marlins scored an incredible 6 runs.

Standings

American League
American League East
Team	W	L	GB	Strk
Boston	32	21	-	L 1
N.Y. Yankees	30	21	1	L 3
Baltimore	28	24	3½	L 1
Tampa Bay	27	24	4	W 3
Toronto	22	30	9½	L 1
American League Central
Team	W	L	GB	Strk
Detroit	29	21	-	L 1
Cleveland	27	24	2½	L 5
Chi. White Sox	24	25	4½	L 1
Kansas City	21	28	7½	L 7
Minnesota	21	28	7½	W 2
American League West
Team	W	L	GB	Strk
Texas	32	20	-	L 3
Oakland	30	23	2½	W 5
L.A. Angels	23	29	9	L 2
Seattle	22	30	10	L 1
Houston	15	37	17	L 1
National League
National League East
Team	W	L	GB	Strk
Atlanta	31	20	-	W 1
Washington	27	25	4½	W 1
Philadelphia	25	27	6½	W 1
N.Y. Mets	20	29	10	W 3
Miami	13	39	18½	L 7
National League Central
Team	W	L	GB	Strk
St. Louis	34	17	-	W 3
Cincinnati	33	19	1½	W 2
Pittsburgh	32	20	2½	W 1
Chi. Cubs	20	30	13½	W 2
Milwaukee	19	31	14½	L 4
National League West
Team	W	L	GB	Strk
Arizona	30	22	-	W 3
Colorado	28	24	2	W 1
San Francisco	28	24	2	L 2
San Diego	23	28	6½	W 1
L.A. Dodgers	22	28	7	W 2

Wednesday Schedule 5/29 with probable pitchers in parentheses.  My picks to win are highlighted.  Yesterday’s Picks: 10-3 Overall:  355-269

Times EST

2:20 PM	Chi. White Sox	Danks (0-0)	@	Chi. Cubs	Feldman (4-4)
7:05 PM	Detroit	Sanchez (5-4)	@	Pittsburgh	Burnett (3-5)
7:05 PM	Boston	Lackey (3-4)	@	Philadelphia	Kendrick (4-3)
7:05 PM	N.Y. Mets	Hefner (0-5)	@	N.Y. Yankees	Phelps (3-2)
7:05 PM	Cincinnati	Arroyo (5-4)	@	Cleveland	Masterson (7-3)
7:05 PM	Washington	Zimmermann (8-2)	@	Baltimore	Tillman (4-2)
7:10 PM	Toronto	Rogers (1-2)	@	Atlanta	Medlen (1-5)
7:10 PM	Tampa Bay	Hernandez (2-5)	@	Miami	Koehler (0-2)
8:05 PM	Arizona	McCarthy (2-3)	@	Texas	Grimm (4-3)
8:10 PM	Milwaukee	Estrada (4-2)	@	Minnesota	Deduno (0-1)
8:15 PM	Kansas City	Mendoza (1-2)	@	St. Louis	Lynn (7-1)
8:40 PM	Houston	Bedard (0-2)	@	Colorado	Chatwood (3-0)
10:05 PM	L.A. Dodgers	Capuano (1-3)	@	L.A. Angels	Weaver (0-1)
10:10 PM	Seattle	Saunders (3-5)	@	San Diego	Stults (4-4)
10:15 PM	Oakland	Milone (4-5)	@	San Francisco	Lincecum (3-4)