Royals Lose 4-3 in 15 As Broxton Blows Save
Chance

Highlights:

• Paulino pitched a great game. 7 IP, 9 Ks, 2 BB, 0 Runs
• Broxton allows two runs to tie up the game in the top of the ninth.
• Nate Adcock pitched great in long relief giving up only 1 run in 5 innings. The run was the game winning HR by Adam Jones.
• The Royals mustered 12 hits, only 2 went for extra bases.
• The home plate umpire missed a call at home in the 9th that would have allowed the Royals to win the game.

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Moyer leads Rockies past Diamondbacks 6-1 (Yahoo!
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DENVER (AP) Jamie Moyer handcuffed the Arizona Diamondbacks at the plate and in the field, pitching neatly into the seventh and driving in two runs with an infield single in Colorado’s 6-1 win Wednesday night.

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Game 36 Overflow Thread #2

Game 36 Overflow Thread #2

3-3 game in the 11th

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Rockies 6, Diamondbacks 1: Moyer Can Still Pitch.
And Hit. Kind Of. Maybe Rogers too. And Fowler. ....... Maybe. Not Definitely. Just Maybe. A Little. I Guess. I'm Noncommittal Here. ......TRADE EVERYONE!

The Rockies got their five game homestand off to a pretty good barely good enough start, with one of their best luckiest wins in what feels like ages. Unlike his past few starts which featured adjustment to old man speed the second time through the lineup, old useless Jamie Moyer was skillfully luckily able to keep the Diamondbacks from making that adjustment. He allowed one run on six hits and two walks through six and a third innings while striking out five, and pitched to his second win of the year, setting the record for oldest pitcher to win a game again at 49 years and over 9000 days, which he will re-establish every time he wins until Julio Franco returns from converting to a pitcher.

The Rockies first broke the game open against Arizona starter Patrick Corbin in the second inning. Jordan Pacheco Not Chris Nelson singled in infield popup machine Troy Tulowitzki to get the Rockies on the board, and the slumping, terrible, worst player ever Dexter Fowler hit his second triple of the season to clear the bases for a 3-0 lead. In the fourth inning, an awkward infield hit from the bat of Moyer scored Pacheco from third, and Fowler, who had doubled, from second base. The final Rockies run came one inning later after strikeout waiting to happen Tyler Colvin tripled, and wild free swinging Carlos Gonzalez singled him in. Yay Colvin! Trade Fowler! DFA everyone.

Our infinitely unintelligent manager Jim Tracy pulled the Walking Dead after he allowed two doubles to Arizona in the seventh. Forgettable and mediocre Josh Roenicke Whatshisface and Esmil how is he still on this team Rogers finished the game with good lucky clean outings. Trade Rafael Betancourt for prospects! DFA Dan O'Dowd.

I wish we didn't win this game because now everyone is going to be wrong and think we're a good baseball team. We need to lose every game until they make the team good again or they're just delaying the inevitable.

.........

Sigh. Now you all know how I feel reading these comments lately. But I'm not bitter or passive aggressive or anything. Right?

15 - 21 -Infinity - Infinity

Games Back: All of them.

Streak: One day closer to another loss.

Games Left: Too many

Tune in tomorrow at 1:00 Mountain to see Trevor Cahill trounce Juan Nicasio. I mean, it's not like we can win baseball games or anything.

via www.fangraphs.com

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Fish Cap: Marlins 8, Braves 4

Two three-inning runs for the Marlins helped them get their first win of a short two-game series over Atlanta, 8-4. Mark Buerhle receives his third win of the season and Giancarlo Stanton belted a two-run home run in the seventh to seal a big road win.

Source: FanGraphs

Attendance: 21,106

Hero of the Game: Austin Kearns (.021)

Goat of the Game: John Buck (- 0.06) (Buehrle received the same score, but since he got the win, he's off the hook.)

Play of the Game: Austin Kearns two-run RBI double in the fourth inning.

Coming into tonight's game, Miami struggled to find a win on the road. They had a seven-game losing streak on their backs coming into the capital of Georgia. Now, as many bad streaks have this season, this one is forgotten.

The Marlins did everything they could early to put some runs up for their starter Mark Buehrle tonight. Coming into tonight, the former White Sox ace couldn't get much run support. He didn't have that worry about.

A three-run fourth followed up by a three-run fifth put the Marlins in good position to end their division road losing streak, but it was Giancarlo Stanton who sealed the deal on each side of field -- a two-run home run in the seventh after making a leaping dive saving two runs in the fourth.

Buerhle had it all going for him. He did allow four earned runs in his six innings of work, however, opposing starter Mike Minor only went 4.2 innings while allowing the six runs in the two big middle innings.

Atlanta did try to make things interesting by scoring three in the sixth, but Steve Cishek and Randy Choate came in to secure that lead. Choate picked up six sixth hold of the season.

Omar Infante keeps his bat hot with a 3-for-5 night, all singles. Austin Kearns made his presence known through a two-double night as he brought in the pair in the fourth.

Atlanta and the Fish go back at it Thursday with a 7:10 p.m. first pitch.

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Darvish wins again with 4-1 victory over As
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ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) Expectations for Yu Darvish were every bit as big as the contract he signed to move from his native Japan.

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Astros Bats Awaken, Beat Brewers 8-3

It's good to be home as the Astros celebrated their homecoming by breaking out of an offensive funk to put up an eight spot against the Brewers Wednesday night. Sure the Brewers didn't arrive in Houston until 4 this morning, and Randy Wolf had an ERA of 5.63 coming into the game, but it was night to see the offense break out of their slump. Hopefully the offensive uprising will also show up tomorrow against Shawn Marcum.

Pitching

Perhaps slightly overshadowed by the offensive outburst was Bud Norris who pitched a great ballgame. In 3 starts in May now Bud Norris has pitched 19 innings with 21 strikeouts against 6 walks, and has only allowed 1 earned run. He has also only allowed 7 hits during that time period. In tonight's contest Norris cruised through his first three innings before allowing a leadoff homerun to Corey Hart in the fourth. After that Norris fell into a nice rythym and retired the next eleven in a row before allowing a single in the seventh. He ended his evening with a strikeout of Taylor Green, good enough for his ninth strikeout of the evening.

Rhiner Cruz relieved took over for Norris in the eigth and had a 1-2-3 inning with a strikeout. He came back out for the ninth and lost the strikezone issuing back-to-back walks to Aramis Ramirez and Corey Hart. Mills had seen enough at that point and brought in lefty Wesley Wright. Wright allowed both inherited runners to score on a triple by pinch hitter Johnathan Lucroy, but then recorded two groundball outs to end the game.

Offense

The Astros jumped on Brewers starter Randy Wolf scoring 6 runs on 7 hits in the first 4 innings. The Astros first got on the board in the bottom of the 2nd when Carlos Lee got things started with a lead off single. Jed Lowrie then hit a shot to left that had Ryan Braun guessing it was hit just to the right of the Crawford Boxes, but the ball bounced off the left field wall and Braun was stuck in the carem. That was enough to allow the big man to score all the way from first on Lowrie's RBI double. Justin Maxwell followed with an RBI single up the middle to give the Astros a 2-0 lead. The Astros struck again in the third where Bud Norris got things started with a leadoff single. Later Altuve hit a single, and Martinez followed with a walk to load the bases for El Cabello, who responded with a two-run single up the middle. Lowrie then hit an RBI double fielding error by Corey Hart that plated Martinez.

The Astros put the finishing touches on Wolf's night in the fourth when Jason Castro got things started with a walk, and reached second base on a sacrifice bunt by Norris. Schafer then hit an RBI single to plate Castro. Altuve followed with a walk, and then he and Schafer stole second and third base. Schafer later trotted home on a sacrifice fly by J.D. Martinez. That was it until the 7th where Carlos Lee hit his third homer of the year.

Overall the offense had a good game and timely hits, but only Carlos Lee recorded multiple hits going 3-4 with a homerun. J.D. Martinez did not get a hit, but looked good at the plate and hit the ball hard in his first at-bat. Hopefully he is on the verge of coming out of his slump.

Tommorow nights game features Shaun Marcum against J.A. Happ. Happ struggled his last outing and is looking to right the ship at home where he has a 5.40 ERA on the season so far.

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