Here’s your
morning baseball briefing:
Game of the Day for Tuesday August 6:
Boston Red Sox 15, Houston Astros 10
Boston
survived a very ugly first inning when catcher Ryan Lavarnway tied a major
league record with four passed balls as he attempted to catch the knuckleballer
Steven Wright, making his season debut and pitching in a dome for the first
time. Wright lasted just one inning, but
Boston’s offense picked him up as Jacoby Ellsbury homered twice and Johnny
Gomes added a three-run shot to rally the Red Sox from an early five run
deficit to hand Houston their fifth loss in their last six games. Boston’s top four hitters combined for 11
hits, 7 RBI and 11 runs scored.
Rest
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): 1. The
Pittsburgh Pirates started up another walk-off streak when pinch-hitter Josh
Harrison hit a game-winning home run leading off the ninth inning.
A.L. MVP
Watch: Adam Jones, OF, Baltimore Orioles
Yesterday: 4-4, home run, 2 RBI and 2 runs scored and 1 stolen base
Season: .298, 23 HRs, 79 RBI
and 77 runs scored
On pace
for: .298, 33 HRs, 114 RBI and 111 runs
scored
N.L. MVP
Watch: Andrew McCutchen, OF, Pittsburgh Pirates
Yesterday: 2-3 with a walk, 2 RBI and one run scored
Season: .309, 15 HRs, 64 RBI,
70 runs scored and 23 stolen bases
On pace
for: .308, 21 HRs, 93 RBI, 102 runs
scored and 33 stolen bases
A.L. Cy
Young Watch: Justin Verlander, Detroit Tigers
Yesterday: 8 IP, 4 hits, 1 runs and 7 K’s in a win vs. Cleveland
Season: 12-8, 145 K’s and a
3.74 ERA
On pace
for: 17-11, 211 K’s and a 3.70 ERA
N.L. Cy
Young Watch: Mat Latos, Cincinnati Reds
Yesterday: 7.1 IP, 4 hits, 0 runs and 3 K’s in a win vs. Oakland
Season: 11-3, 145 K’s and a
3.21 ERA
On pace
for: 15-4, 209 K’s and a 3.20 ERA
News &
Notes: The Atlanta Braves have won 12 straight games.
The Los Angeles Dodgers finally lost a road game after
winning 15 consecutive.
The Detroit Tigers have won 10 games in a row.
1978 N.L. MVP Dave Parker is battling Parkinson’s disease.
Texas starting pitcher Colby Lewis is set to have hip
surgery and will miss the rest of the season.
History –
1960 World Series
Winner: The Pittsburgh Pirates beat the
New York Yankees 4 games to 3.
The Yankees won their 10th tenth pennant in
the last 12 years while Pittsburgh won their 6th overall pennant, and first
since 1927 when the Yankees swept them in the World Series 4-0. New York was heavily favored to win the 1960
World Series, but games aren’t played on paper, and this series would be
remembered forever in New York as the one Casey Stengel blew and in Pittsburgh for
the one second baseman Bill Mazeroski won.
Pittsburgh
had home field advantage, and Yankee manager Casey Stengel decided to save his
ace pitcher Whitey Ford to start Game 3 in New York, making him available to
start only two games if the series went seven. The Pirates quickly took advantage by winning
game one 6-4. The Yankees hammered the
Pirates 16-3 in Game 2, but regardless of the score how many runs they scored,
the series was tied a 1-1 and would resume in the Bronx for Games 3, 4 & 5.
Whitey Ford
worked his magic in Game 3 as he tossed a four-hitter, leading New York to an
easy 10-0 victory. Bobby Richardson hit
a grand slam in the first inning and Mickey Mantle added a two-run homer in the
fourth, his third in the young series (he hit two in the 16-3 Game 2 victory),
and the Yankees seemed destined to win another World Series. However, Pittsburgh had different ideas,
somehow winning Game 4 and 5 by close margins, 3-2 and 5-2, sending the series
back to Pittsburgh where they needed just one win to wrap up the series.
Whitey Ford
once again pitched a complete game in Game 6 as the Yankees hammered the
Pirates 12-0 to force a Game 7. But he
was unavailable to pitch again, and the Yankees would need him. Game 7 was one for the ages as Pittsburgh
jumped out to an early 4-0 second inning lead, but New York stormed back and
took a 5-4 lead in the sixth on Yogi Berra’s two-run home run, and increased
that lead to 7-4 needing just six outs to complete the comeback and win their 19th
World Series title. The game was just
getting interesting and Pittsburgh never gave up, somehow scoring five runs topped
by Hal Smith’s three-run homer that gave the Pirates a 9-7 lead going into the
ninth inning. New York still had life as
they pushed across the two tying runs on three singles, and the final game of
the World Series was tied heading into the bottom of the ninth inning.
Bill
Mazeroski then did the unthinkable….he led off the ninth with a game winning, World
Series winning, walk-off home run that barely cleared the left field wall that
propelled the Pirates to their first World Series win since 1925 and third
overall. His home run remains the only
Game 7 walk-off home run in World Series history. The mighty Yankees had been defeated, and Casey
Stengel would never manage them again, fired after the series for “being too
old” at 70. For the series the Pirates
were outscored by an astounding mark of 55-27 and outhit 91-60. Hall of Famers in the series included for
Pittsburgh: second baseman Bill Mazeroski and outfielder Roberto Clemente; and
for the New York: manager Casey Stengel, catcher Yogi Berra, outfielder Mickey
Mantle, and pitcher Whitey Ford.
Tomorrow: 1961
World Series – New York Yankees vs. Cincinnati Reds
Trivia -
Today’s Question: Only one other time has a World Series ended on a walk-off
home run. When and how hit it?
Yesterday’s
Question: What is the all-time record for most
consecutive road wins?
Answer: 21, by
the 1983-1984 Detroit Tigers.
Vegas Bet: Lastly, here’s an
actual bet you can make at a Las Vegas Sports Book: Over/Under 2 runs allowed by Matt Harvey today vs.
Colorado.
Yesterday’s
Bet: Over/Under
14 combined strikeouts by Justin
Verlander and Justin Masterson in their matchup tonight.
Result: Under.
13. Verlander (7) Masterson (6)
Standings
| American League | National League | |||||||||
| EAST | W | L | GB | STRK | EAST | W | L | GB | STRK | |
| Boston | 69 | 46 | - | Won 1 | Atlanta | 69 | 45 | - | Won 12 | |
| Tampa Bay | 66 | 46 | 1.5 | Lost 1 | Washington | 54 | 59 | 14.5 | Lost 3 | |
| Baltimore | 62 | 51 | 6 | Won 1 | Philadelphia | 51 | 61 | 17 | Won 1 | |
| NY Yankees | 57 | 55 | 11 | Lost 3 | NY Mets | 50 | 60 | 17 | Won 1 | |
| Toronto | 53 | 60 | 15 | Won 3 | Miami | 43 | 68 | 24.5 | Lost 3 | |
| CENTRAL | W | L | GB | STRK | CENTRAL | W | L | GB | STRK | |
| Detroit | 66 | 45 | - | Won 10 | Pittsburgh | 68 | 44 | - | Won 3 | |
| Cleveland | 62 | 51 | 5 | Lost 2 | St. Louis | 66 | 46 | 2 | Won 1 | |
| Kansas City | 57 | 53 | 8.5 | Lost 1 | Cincinnati | 62 | 51 | 6.5 | Won 1 | |
| Minnesota | 49 | 61 | 17 | Won 1 | Chicago Cubs | 49 | 63 | 19 | Lost 5 | |
| Chicago Sox | 42 | 69 | 24 | Won 2 | Milwaukee | 48 | 65 | 20.5 | Won 1 | |
| WEST | W | L | GB | STRK | WEST | W | L | GB | STRK | |
| Oakland | 64 | 48 | - | Lost 2 | LA Dodgers | 62 | 50 | - | Lost 1 | |
| Texas | 64 | 50 | 1 | Won 3 | Arizona | 57 | 55 | 5 | Won 1 | |
| Seattle | 52 | 61 | 13 | Lost 2 | San Diego | 52 | 61 | 10.5 | Lost 1 | |
| LA Angels | 51 | 61 | 13 | Lost 3 | Colorado | 52 | 62 | 11 | Lost 3 | |
| Houston | 37 | 75 | 27 | Lost 1 | San Francisco | 50 | 62 | 12 | Lost 1 | |
Schedule for Wednesday August 7 with probable pitchers in parentheses. My picks to win
are highlighted. Yesterday’s picks: 9-6 Overall: 639-478
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