Here’s your
morning baseball briefing:
On Sunday the Baseball Hall of Fame inducted three pioneers who have been dead for more than seven decades. It marked the first time since 1996 that no living player was inducted. Jacob Ruppert Jr., Hank O' Day, and James "Deacon" White were all honored yesterday with a ceremony in Cooperstown attended by families, friends and baseball fans. O' Day and White were players before the turn of the century, and Ruppert owned the Yankees from 1915 until his death in 1939.
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): 1. The
Los Angeles Dodgers, New York Yankees and Toronto Blue Jays all walked-off
winners on Sunday.
A.L. MVP
Watch: Edwin Encarnacion, 1B, Toronto Blue Jays
Last Week: Batted .521 (12-23), 2 HRs, 7 RBI.
Season: .278, 28 HRs, 82 RBI
On pace
for: .277, 43 HRS, 127 RBI
N.L. MVP
Watch: Paul Goldschmidt, 1B, Arizona Diamondbacks
Last Week: Batted .260 with 2 HR’s, 7 RBI and 7 walks.
Season: .303, 23 HRs, 85 RBI
On pace
for: .303, 35 HRS, 132 RBI
A.L. Cy
Young Watch: Max Scherzer, Detroit Tigers
Last Week: 2-0 with 12 strikeouts and a 1.29 ERA
Season: 15-1, 164 K’s and a 3.00
ERA
On pace
for: 23-1, 155 K’s and a 2.98 ERA
N.L. Cy
Young Watch: Clayton Kershaw, Los Angeles Dodgers
Last Week: 1-0 with a 8 strikeouts and 1 earned run allowed vs.
Cincinnati.
Season: 10-6, 156 K’s and
1.97 ERA
On pace
for: 15-9, 247 K’s and a 1.95 ERA.
News &
Notes: Los Angeles Angel’s first baseman and two-time MVP Albert
Pujols was placed on the 15-day DL with a tear in his right foot and is
expected to miss significant time, possibly the rest of the season.
History –
1953 World Series
Winner: The New York Yankees beat the Brooklyn
Dodgers 4 games to 2.
The Yankees
and Dodgers met for the fourth time in seven years to determine a champion,
with the Yankees winning in 1947, 1949 & 1952. They were gunning for their record fifth
straight title while the Dodgers were still looking for their first, having
also lost in 1916 & 1920 as the Brooklyn Robbins.
The Yankees had home field advantage this time and they won
game one 9-5 behind home runs from Yogi Berra and Joe Collins. Billy Martin and Mickey Mantle homered in
Game 2 as the Yankees won 4-2, setting the stage for Ebbets Field in Brooklyn
for the next three games. Brooklyn
pitcher Carl Erskine shined in Game 3 as he set a new World Series record with
14 strikeouts as the Dodgers won 3-2. Brooklyn
evened the series with a 7-3 win in Game 4, but the Yankees rebounded in Game 5
with an 11-7 win behind home runs from Mantle, Martin, Gene Woodling and Gil
McDougald.
The series shifted back to the Bronx for Game 6 where
Brooklyn outfielder Duke Snider tied the game at three with a two-run ninth
inning home run, but the Yankees rallied in the bottom of the ninth as Billy
Martin singled home Hank Bauer with the series-winning run for his record 12th hit
of the World Series. Martin saved the
1952 World Series with his diving catch of Jackie Robinson’s popup, and now he
won this series with a single up the middle.
The gritty second baseman now had a permanent place in Yankee history as
the New York won their fifth consecutive World Series and 16th overall.
Hall of
Famers in this series included for New York: manager Casey Stengel, first
baseman Johnny Mize, catcher Yogi Berra, outfielder Mickey Mantle, shortstop
Phil Rizzuto, and pitcher Whitey Ford; and for the Dodgers: shortstop Pee Wee
Reese, catcher Roy Campanella, outfielder Duke Snider, and second baseman
Jackie Robinson.
Tomorrow: 1954 World Series – Cleveland Indians vs. New York Giants.
Trivia -
Today’s Question: Billy
Martin went on to manage the Yankees five different times, and only once did he
finish the season as a World Champion.
What year was that?
Yesterday’s
Question: What two teams have played the
most World Series against each other?
Answer: The New York Yankees and Brooklyn
Dodgers, who met eleven times in a World Series, with the Yankees winning eight
of them.
Vegas Bet: Lastly, here’s an
actual bet you can make at a Las Vegas Sports Book: Over/Under 5 runs allowed in the Angels-Rangers
game today featuringpitchers Jeff Weaver and Matt Garza.
Yesterday’s
Bet: 13 runs scored by both teams in the Mets-Nationals doubleheader
on Friday.
Result: Over. They combined to score 14 runs with the Mets
winning 11-0 and losing 2-1.
Standings
| American League East | National League East | |||||||||
| Team | W | L | GB | Strk | Team | W | L | GB | Strk | |
| Boston | 63 | 43 | - | W 2 | Atlanta | 60 | 45 | - | W 3 | |
| Tampa Bay | 62 | 43 | ½ | L 1 | Washington | 52 | 54 | 8½ | W 3 | |
| Baltimore | 58 | 48 | 5 | L 2 | Philadelphia | 49 | 56 | 11 | L 8 | |
| N.Y. Yankees | 55 | 50 | 7½ | W 1 | N.Y. Mets | 46 | 56 | 12½ | L 3 | |
| Toronto | 48 | 56 | 14 | W 1 | Miami | 40 | 63 | 19 | W 1 | |
| Central | Central | |||||||||
| Team | W | L | GB | Strk | Team | W | L | GB | Strk | |
| Detroit | 59 | 45 | - | W 3 | St. Louis | 62 | 40 | - | L 3 | |
| Cleveland | 56 | 48 | 3 | W 4 | Pittsburgh | 61 | 42 | 1½ | L 1 | |
| Kansas City | 51 | 51 | 7 | W 6 | Cincinnati | 59 | 47 | 5 | L 3 | |
| Minnesota | 45 | 57 | 13 | L 1 | Chi. Cubs | 48 | 55 | 14½ | W 3 | |
| Chi. White Sox | 40 | 62 | 18 | L 3 | Milwaukee | 43 | 61 | 20 | L 1 | |
| West | West | |||||||||
| Team | W | L | GB | Strk | Team | W | L | GB | Strk | |
| Oakland | 62 | 43 | - | W 3 | L.A. Dodgers | 56 | 48 | - | W 3 | |
| Texas | 56 | 49 | 6 | L 4 | Arizona | 54 | 51 | 2½ | L 2 | |
| Seattle | 50 | 55 | 12 | W 1 | Colorado | 51 | 55 | 6 | W 1 | |
| L.A. Angels | 48 | 55 | 13 | L 3 | San Diego | 48 | 58 | 9 | W 2 | |
| Houston | 35 | 69 | 26½ | L 1 | San Francisco | 46 | 58 | 10 | L 4 | |
Monday July 29 Schedule with probable pitchers in parentheses. My picks to win
are highlighted. Weekend picks: 28-18
Overall: 578-430
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