Here’s your daily baseball briefing:
Scores
Walk-Off
Win Streak
0
Longest
Winning Streak
5 – Los Angeles Angels and Los Angeles Dodgers
Longest
Losing Streak:
5 – Tampa Bay Rays
League
Leaders
American
League:
Batting Average-
.358 Miguel Cabrera, Detroit Tigers
Home Runs
- 47
Chris Davis, Baltimore Orioles
RBI - 130 Miguel Cabrera,
Detroit Tigers
Pitching
Wins – 19 Max Scherzer, Detroit Tigers
Strikeouts
- 215,
Yu Darvish, Texas Rangers
E.R.A. - 2.68
Anibal Sanchez, Detroit Tigers
National
League
Batting Average-
.334 Chris Johnson, Atlanta Braves
Home Runs
- 32
Pedro Alvarez, Pittsburgh Pirates
RBI - Paul
Goldschmidt, Arizona Diamondbacks
Pitching
Wins – 15 Adam Wainwright, St. Louis
Cardinals
Strikeouts
– 201 Clayton Kershaw, Los Angeles
Dodgers
E.R.A. - 1.89 Clayton Kershaw, Los Angeles Dodgers
MVP
Watch
American
League: Mike Trout, OF, Los Angeles Angels
Yesterday:
2-4
with 2 runs scored and 2 stolen bases
Season: .335,
23 HRs, 82 RBI, 95 runs scored and 31 stolen bases
On pace
for: .336,
27 HRs, 98 RBI, 114 runs scored and 37 stolen bases
National
League: Joey Votto, 1B, Cincinnati Reds
Yesterday: 1-4 with a home run, RBI and a walk
Season: .306, 21 HRs, 64 RBI and 89 runs scored
On pace
for: .305,
25 HRs, 75 RBI and 105 runs scored
Cy
Young Watch
American
League: None from yesterdays’ games
National
League:
Mat Latos, Cincinnati Reds
Yesterday:
Complete
game win, 9 IP, 4 hits, 2 runs and 2 K’s vs. St. Louis
Season: 14-5,
172 K’s and a 2.98 ERA
On pace
for: 16-5,
203 K’s and a 2.98 ERA
History
1979 World
Series – Baltimore vs. Pittsburgh
The 1979 World Series was a rematch of the
1971 World Series won by Pittsburgh in seven games, and this series went the
distance too, and featured high offenses and bad breaks. Baltimore had home field advantage, and on a
rainy night for Game 1, the Orioles took advantage of two Pirates’ first inning
errors to score five runs, all of them they would, winning 5-4. Game 2 was tied at two in the ninth when
catcher Manny Seguillen slapped a pinch-hit RBI single into right field that
plated the winning run, and Baltimore went easy in the ninth as the 3-2 loss
evened the series at one apiece.
Pittsburgh hosted
Game 3, and fans eager for a celebration were sent home with an 8-4 defeat when
the Orioles came back from an early 3-0 deficit to win easily. Baltimore kept on hitting in Game 4, pounding
out 17 hits a 9-6 win, aided by a six-run eighth inning that gave the Orioles a 3-1 series lead and reason for
optimistic revenge.
The Pirates
fought off elimination in Game 5 with a 7-1 win where all the runs were scored
after the fifth inning, and the series would return to Baltimore to decide a
champion with the Orioles up 3-2.
For the first
six innings in Game 6 at Memorial Stadium in Baltimore, pitchers Jim Palmer of
the Orioles and John Candelaria of the Pirates were locked in a scoreless duel,
but Pittsburgh broke through with two runs in each the seventh and eighth
innings and hung on to win 4-0, forcing a Game 7 just like 1971.
Like Game
6, Game 7 started slowly but finished strong, and Pittsburgh outfielder Willie
Stargell took over the game, going 4-5 including a towering two-run home run in
the sixth inning to propel the Pirates to a 4-1 win and their 4th World Series
title in franchise history. He was named
series MVP, hitting
.400 with a record seven extra-base hits, while matching Reggie Jackson's
record of 25 total bases, set in 1977.
Pittsburg Wins 4-3
For the series,
Pittsburgh outscored Baltimore 32-26 and outhit them 81-54. Hall of
Famers in the series include for the winning Pirates: pitcher Blyleven
and outfielder Willie Stargell; and for the Orioles: manager Earl Weaver,
pitcher Jim Palmer, and first baseman Eddie Murray.
Tomorrow: 1980 World Series – Kansas City Royals vs. Philadelphia
Phillies.
Trivia
Today’s
Question: 1979 was the last year the Pittsburgh Pirates played in a
World Series, and the franchise has struggled to win since. With them likely to make the playoffs this
year, when was the last year they were in the playoffs?
Yesterday’s
Question: What team did 1978 New York
Yankee manager Bob Lemon pitch for 17 seasons, winning 20 games seven times?
Answer: Cleveland Indians
Vegas
Bet
Over/Under 14 combined
innings & strikeouts tonight by Detroit starter Max Scherzer vs. Boston.
Yesterday’s
Bet: Over/Under combined 14
strikeouts by National League pitchers Clayton Kershaw and Stephen
Strasburg in their game.
Result: Push. Kershaw struck
out 4 and Strasburg 10.
Standings
| American League | National League | |||||||||
| EAST | W | L | GB | STRK | EAST | W | L | GB | STRK | |
| Boston | 82 | 57 | - | Lost 1 | Atlanta | 84 | 53 | - | Won 1 | |
| Tampa Bay | 75 | 61 | 5.5 | Lost 5 | Washington | 69 | 68 | 15 | Lost 1 | |
| Baltimore | 73 | 63 | 7.5 | Won 2 | Philadelphia | 63 | 75 | 21.5 | Won 1 | |
| NY Yankees | 73 | 64 | 8 | Won 1 | NY Mets | 62 | 74 | 21.5 | Lost 2 | |
| Toronto | 63 | 75 | 18.5 | Won 1 | Miami | 51 | 85 | 32.5 | Won 2 | |
| CENTRAL | W | L | GB | STRK | CENTRAL | W | L | GB | STRK | |
| Detroit | 81 | 57 | - | Won 1 | Pittsburgh | 80 | 57 | - | Won 1 | |
| Cleveland | 72 | 65 | 8.5 | Lost 1 | St. Louis | 79 | 58 | 1 | Lost 1 | |
| Kansas City | 71 | 66 | 9.5 | Won 2 | Cincinnati | 77 | 61 | 3.5 | Won 1 | |
| Minnesota | 60 | 76 | 20 | Won 2 | Milwaukee | 59 | 78 | 21 | Lost 4 | |
| Chicago Sox | 56 | 80 | 24 | Lost 4 | Chicago Cubs | 58 | 79 | 22 | Lost 1 | |
| WEST | W | L | GB | STRK | WEST | W | L | GB | STRK | |
| Texas | 79 | 58 | - | Lost 2 | LA Dodgers | 82 | 55 | - | Won 5 | |
| Oakland | 79 | 58 | - | Won 4 | Arizona | 69 | 67 | 12.5 | Lost 2 | |
| LA Angels | 64 | 72 | 14.5 | Won 5 | Colorado | 65 | 74 | 18 | Lost 1 | |
| Seattle | 62 | 75 | 17 | Lost 2 | San Francisco | 61 | 76 | 21 | Lost 1 | |
| Houston | 45 | 92 | 34 | Lost 1 | San Diego | 61 | 76 | 21 | Won 1 | |
Schedule
Tuesday September 3
Probable pitchers in parentheses.
My picks to win are highlighted. Yesterday’s Picks: 7-8 Overall: 831-623
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