Here’s your
morning baseball briefing:
Game
of the Day for Monday July 22:
Los Angeles Dodgers 14,
Toronto Blue Jays 5
Ordinarily
this game doesn’t seem like a big deal, but in Los Angeles it’s a huge
deal. The Dodgers won their eighth
consecutive road game and vaulted into first place in the N.L West for the
first time this year with a season-high 14 runs. Second baseman A.J. Ellis went 4-6 including a
two-run homer, and had a career-high five RBI, and seventh hitter Skip
Schumaker (right fielder) hit a three-run shot to break the game open and rout
the Blue Jays in Toronto. Making the
game even cooler was Paul Stanley of the rock band KISS who threw out the
ceremonial first pitch.
All of the day’s 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): 0. There
were no walk-off wins on Monday.
A.L. MVP
Watch: Chris Davis, OF, Baltimore Orioles
Yesterday: 2-4 with 3 RBI
Season: .314 batting
average, 37 HRs, 97 RBI and 74 runs scored.
On pace
for: .312 batting average, 60 HRs, 158
RBI and 121 runs scored.
N.L. MVP
Watch: Andrew McCutchen, OF, Pittsburgh Pirates
Yesterday:
2-5 with 2 home runs and 4 RBI
Season: .308
batting average, 14 HRs, 55 RBI, 21 stolen bases and 60 runs scored.
On pace
for: .307 batting average, 23 HRs, 91
RBI, 35 stolen bases and 100 runs scored.
A.L. Cy
Young Watch: Matt Moore, Tampa Bay Rays
Yesterday:
Complete game shutout vs. Boston, 4 hits
allowed and 4 strikeouts.
Season: 14-3
record with 112 strikeouts and a 3.17 ERA.
On pace
for: 22-4 record with 183 strikeouts and
a 3.18 ERA.
N.L. Cy
Young Watch: Bronson Arroyo, Cincinnati Reds
Yesterday:
Complete game shutout at San Francisco, 7 hits
allowed and 6 strikeouts.
Season: 9-7
with a 3.19 ERA.
On pace
for: 14-11 record with a 3.15 ERA and
122 strikeouts.
News &
Notes: Milwaukee Brewers all-star outfielder Ryan Braun was
suspended for the rest of the regular season and playoffs by major league
baseball for violating MLB’s drug policy.
He admitted to using performance enhancing drugs (PED’s) when MLB
presented him with overwhelming evidence of his illegal actions.
The Chicago Cubs traded their best starting pitcher Matt Garza
to the Texas Rangers for five players (no current starters), 2 pitchers, a
backup third baseman, and two players to be named later.
History –
1949 World Series
Winner: The New York Yankees beat the
Brooklyn Dodgers 4 games to 1.
The Yankees
and Dodgers met for the second time in three years in an all-New York World
Series (the Yankees defeated the Dodgers in seven games in 1947) as both teams
finished with identical 97-57-1 records and each won their league by exactly
one game. The Yankees were led by new
manager Casey Stengel who would go on to win five consecutive World Series in
his first five years with the team. The
teams split 1-0 games at Yankee Stadium as Yankee outfielder Tommy Heinrich
ended Game 1 by leading off the ninth inning with a walk-off home run off
Dodger starter Don Newcombe, who tied a World Series record by fanning 11
Yankees as the losing pitcher. The teams
crossed the Brooklyn Bridge where their fans cheered the Dodgers and booed the
Yankees as they arrived at Ebbets Field for games 3, 4 & 5. The Yankees won all three games as Joe Page,
Eddie Lopat and Vic Rashi won their starts by the scores of 4-3, 6-4, &
10-6, and the Yankees celebrated their 12th World Series title in
Brooklyn. For the series, the Yankees
outscored the Dodgers 21-14 and outhit them 37-34. Hall of Famers in the series included for the
Yankees: manager Casey Stengel, first baseman Johnny Mize, catcher Yogi Berra,
outfielder Joe DiMaggio, and shortstop Phil Rizzuto; and for the Dodgers:
shortstop Pee Wee Reese, catcher Roy Campanella, outfielder Duke Snider, and
second baseman Jackie Robinson.
Tomorrow: 1950 World Series – New York Yankees vs. Philadelphia
Phillies
Trivia -
Today’s Question: How many World Series titles has Yogi Berra won as a player?
Yesterday’s
Question: What year were the most no-hitters
thrown?
Answer: Seven no-hitters were
thrown by major league pitchers in the modern era in one season: 1990, 1991,
& 2012.
Vegas Bet: Lastly, here’s an
actual bet you can make at a Las Vegas Sports Book: Over/Under 15 combined runs in the Reds-Giants doubleheader today.
Yesterday’s
Bet: Over/under
14 combined strikeouts by Max
Scherzer and Chris Sale in their head-to-head matchup tonight.
Result: Over. They combined for 16 strikeouts (Sale 11, Scherzer 5).
Standings
| American League East | National League East | |||||||||
| Team | W | L | GB | Strk | Team | W | L | GB | Strk | |
| Boston | 60 | 41 | - | L 1 | Atlanta | 56 | 43 | - | W 1 | |
| Tampa Bay | 59 | 41 | ½ | W 6 | Philadelphia | 49 | 50 | 7 | L 2 | |
| Baltimore | 57 | 43 | 2½ | W 5 | Washington | 48 | 51 | 8 | L 4 | |
| N.Y. Yankees | 52 | 47 | 7 | L 2 | N.Y. Mets | 43 | 52 | 11 | L 1 | |
| Toronto | 45 | 53 | 13½ | L 5 | Miami | 36 | 61 | 19 | W 1 | |
| American League Central | National League Central | |||||||||
| Team | W | L | GB | Strk | Team | W | L | GB | Strk | |
| Detroit | 54 | 44 | - | W 2 | St. Louis | 59 | 37 | - | W 1 | |
| Cleveland | 52 | 47 | 2½ | L 1 | Pittsburgh | 58 | 39 | 1½ | W 2 | |
| Kansas City | 45 | 51 | 8 | L 2 | Cincinnati | 56 | 43 | 4½ | W 1 | |
| Minnesota | 42 | 54 | 11 | W 1 | Chi. Cubs | 44 | 53 | 15½ | W 1 | |
| Chi. White Sox | 39 | 57 | 14 | L 1 | Milwaukee | 41 | 57 | 19 | L 1 | |
| American League West | National League West | |||||||||
| Team | W | L | GB | Strk | Team | W | L | GB | Strk | |
| Oakland | 58 | 41 | - | W 2 | L.A. Dodgers | 51 | 47 | - | W 4 | |
| Texas | 55 | 44 | 3 | W 1 | Arizona | 51 | 48 | ½ | L 1 | |
| Seattle | 47 | 52 | 11 | W 7 | Colorado | 48 | 52 | 4 | L 1 | |
| L.A. Angels | 46 | 51 | 11 | L 2 | San Francisco | 45 | 53 | 6 | L 2 | |
| Houston | 33 | 65 | 24½ | L 6 | San Diego | 44 | 56 | 8 | W 1 | |
Tuesday July 23 Schedule with probable pitchers in parentheses. My picks to win
are highlighted. Yesterday’s picks: 7-8 Overall:
523-395
Times EST| 7:05 PM | Pittsburgh | Cole (4-3) | @ | Washington | Jordan (0-2) |
| 7:05 PM | Cincinnati | Reynolds (0-0) | @ | San Francisco | Zito (4-7) |
| 7:07 PM | L.A. Dodgers | Capuano (3-6) | @ | Toronto | Redmond (1-1) |
| 7:10 PM | Tampa Bay | Hernandez (5-10) | @ | Boston | Lester (8-6) |
| 7:10 PM | Atlanta | Medlen (6-9) | @ | N.Y. Mets | Torres (0-1) |
| 8:05 PM | N.Y. Yankees | Hughes (4-9) | @ | Texas | Ogando (4-2) |
| 8:10 PM | Detroit | Porcello (6-6) | @ | Chi. White Sox | Santiago (3-5) |
| 8:10 PM | Baltimore | Hammel (7-6) | @ | Kansas City | Chen (3-0) |
| 8:10 PM | San Diego | Ross (0-4) | @ | Milwaukee | Hand (0-1) |
| 8:10 PM | Oakland | Parker (6-6) | @ | Houston | Cosart (1-0) |
| 8:15 PM | Philadelphia | Pettibone (5-3) | @ | St. Louis | Miller (9-6) |
| 8:40 PM | Miami | Fernandez (5-5) | @ | Colorado | Chacin (9-4) |
| 9:40 PM | Chi. Cubs | Wood (6-6) | @ | Arizona | Corbin (11-1) |
| 10:05 PM | Minnesota | Gibson (2-2) | @ | L.A. Angels | Hanson (4-2) |
| 10:10 PM | Cleveland | McAllister (4-5) | @ | Seattle | Ramirez (0-0) |
| 10:15 PM | Cincinnati | Cingrani (3-1) | @ | San Francisco | Surkamp (0-0) |
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