Here’s your
daily baseball briefing:
Game of the Weekend for June 21-23, 2013:
Sunday – Pittsburgh Pirates 10, Los Angeles Angels 9
This game took a wild turn in the ninth inning when the
Pirates, trailing 6-3, tagged Angels closer Ernesto Frieri for three runs to
tie the game, and in the tenth scored four more times to take a 10-6 lead. Pirates closer and major league save leader Jason
Grilli pitched the bottom of the tenth and surrendered three runs to the Angels
and had men on second and third before striking out Mike Trout to end the
game. The Pirates completed the road
sweep with the win and have the second best record in baseball while the Angels
find themselves 11 games out of first place in what has been a very frustrating
season.
Rest of
the Weekend Scores:
Consecutive
days with a walk-off win (where the home team scores the winning run in the
ninth inning or later that immediately ends the game): 13 Friday
night the Toronto Blue Jays walked off winners against Baltimore; Saturday saw
the Phillies, Giants and Diamondbacks all walk off winners; and yesterday the
Seattle Mariners walked off winners in the tenth on Kendrys Morales’s pinch-hit
three-run home run.
A.L. MVP
Watch: Chris Davis, 1B/OF, Baltimore Orioles. Davis continued his career season last week
by hitting .348 with four more home runs (27) and ten more RBI (70) and is on
pace to hit .335 with 58 HRs and 151 RBI.
N.L. MVP
Watch: David Wright, 3B, New York Mets. Wright hit .361 last week with three home
runs, five RBI and five runs scored to help lead the Mets to series wins
against Atlanta and Philadelphia. He’s
on pace to hit .308 with 27 HRs, 94 RBI and 27 stolen bases.
A.L. Cy
Young Watch: Max Scherzer, Detroit Tigers. Scherzer won both his starts last week to improve
to a perfect 11-0 as he struck out 10 Orioles on Monday and six Red Sox on
Saturday while allowing just three total runs.
He’s on pace to go 24-0 with 267 strikeouts and a 3.03 ERA.
N.L. Cy
Young Watch: Matt Harvey, New York Mets.
Harvey (7-1) won twice last week, first in Atlanta where he struck out
13, and again on Sunday in a rain shortened six innings where he two-hit the
Phillies in Philadelphia. He’s on pace
to go 16-2 with 280 strikeouts and a 2.08 ERA.
History –
1933 World Series
Winner: New York Giants defeated the Washington Senators 4 games to
1.
The Giants had a new manager in 1933 after John McGraw
retired, and Bill Terry, the last player to hit .400 at this time, took over
for the hall-of-fame manager and beat the Senators in five games, thanks
largely to their pitching aces Carl Hubbell and Hal Schumaker, and two extra inning
wins in the final games. The Senators
were playing in their third World Series, having won in ’24 and lost in ’25. This was the first time in seven years that neither
the New York Yankees nor the Philadelphia Athletics won the American League
pennant. Hubbell and Schumaker combined
for three wins and just four runs allowed as the Giants outscored the Senators
16-11 and outhit them 47-37.
This was the Giants first World Series title since 1922 and
fourth overall (’05, ’21 & ’22).
Hall of famers in the series included for the Giants - manager/first baseman
Bill Terry, pitcher Carl Hubbell, outfielder Mel Ott and shortstop Travis
Jackson, and for the Senators - manager/shortstop Joe Cronin, and outfielders
Goose Goslin, Heinie Manush and Sam Rice.
Trivia -
Today’s Question:Who was the last player to hit more than 50 home runs in a
season? Who was the first?
Yesterday’s
Question: How
many career home runs did Babe Ruth hit as a New York Yankee?
Answer: Ruth
hit 659 of his 714 career home runs with the Yankees.
Vegas
Bet: Lastly,
here’s an actual bet you can make at a Las Vegas Sports Book: Over/Under 2 RBI for Chris Davis tonight against
Cleveland.
Weekend
Bet: Over/Under 8 strikeout by Clayton Kershaw against the Padres.
Result: Under.
Kershaw struck out 7.
Standings
| American League East | National League East | |||||||||
| Team | W | L | GB | Strk | Team | W | L | GB | Strk | |
| Boston | 45 | 33 | - | L 2 | Atlanta | 44 | 33 | - | W 1 | |
| Baltimore | 42 | 34 | 2 | L 3 | Washington | 37 | 38 | 6 | L 2 | |
| N.Y. Yankees | 41 | 34 | 2½ | L 1 | Philadelphia | 36 | 40 | 7½ | L 1 | |
| Toronto | 38 | 36 | 5 | W 11 | N.Y. Mets | 30 | 42 | 11½ | W 1 | |
| Tampa Bay | 39 | 37 | 5 | W 1 | Miami | 25 | 50 | 18 | W 1 | |
| American League Central | National League Central | |||||||||
| Team | W | L | GB | Strk | Team | W | L | GB | Strk | |
| Detroit | 42 | 32 | - | W 2 | St. Louis | 47 | 29 | - | L 3 | |
| Cleveland | 38 | 36 | 4 | L 1 | Pittsburgh | 46 | 30 | 1 | W 4 | |
| Kansas City | 35 | 38 | 6½ | W 1 | Cincinnati | 45 | 32 | 2½ | W 1 | |
| Minnesota | 34 | 38 | 7 | W 1 | Chi. Cubs | 31 | 43 | 15 | W 1 | |
| Chi. White Sox | 31 | 42 | 10½ | L 1 | Milwaukee | 31 | 43 | 15 | L 1 | |
| American League West | National League West | |||||||||
| Team | W | L | GB | Strk | Team | W | L | GB | Strk | |
| Texas | 44 | 32 | - | W 5 | Arizona | 41 | 34 | - | L 1 | |
| Oakland | 44 | 34 | 1 | L 2 | San Francisco | 38 | 37 | 3 | L 1 | |
| Seattle | 34 | 43 | 10½ | W 2 | Colorado | 39 | 38 | 3 | W 2 | |
| L.A. Angels | 33 | 43 | 11 | L 3 | San Diego | 38 | 38 | 3½ | L 2 | |
| Houston | 29 | 48 | 15½ | L 1 | L.A. Dodgers | 32 | 42 | 8½ | W 2 | |
Monday 6/24 Schedule with
probable pitchers in parentheses. My picks to win are highlighted. Weekend
Picks: 21-24 Overall:
424-318
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