Verlander gets 1,000th K, beats ChiSox (AP)

Justin Verlander struck out A.J. Pierzynski and headed toward the dugout, and his team’s head trainer saved the ball for him. It was his 1,000th strikeout. “I had no idea,” the Detroit ace said. “I’m not really one to follow statistics like that, so I’m glad somebody was paying attention.” Verlander pitched seven impressive innings [...]

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Game 19 Wrap: Rockies Totally Don't Get No-Hit;
Amart and JDub Are Bad Baseball Fans

The Rockies started out "strong", with Dexter Fowler walking, advancing to 2B on a passed ball by catcher John Buck, advancing to 3B on a scrappy groundout by Johnny Herrera, and then scoring when Troy Tulowitzki reached on an error.

Dexter Fowler singled in the 9th inning through the hole between 1B and 2B to break up the ensuing No-Hitter. Dexter Fowler is the freaking hero of the Colorado Rockies. I take back anything bad I said about him today, because he broke up a no-hitter and scored the only run in the game for Colorado.

I'm writing this from the bar with the Jdub, and our loud obnoxious cheering at the breaking up of said no-hitter was booed by the residing bartender.

This is Mike, co-owner of the Providence Tavern. He got kind of mad with us when we ecstatically cheered for Dexter's bouncing BS single. He called us bad baseball fans. Whatever, we have our pride.

Seriously though, this game was just the perfect storm for a pathetic game. None of the offense could get a single thing going. Carlos Gonzalez continued stinking. Tulo couldn't get anything going. Jhoulys Chacin's strike zone shrunk to the size of a graham cracker while Anibal Sanchez' grew to the size of a Buick. There's only so much blame you can place on the umpore, but good Lord this was a bad game. I'm shocked they didn't rule Dex' hit an error because Mike Stanton kind of bobbled the ball while gathering it in in RF.

Whatever, it's a loss. It's a frustrating loss. We'll move past it, the Rockies are a better team than Anibal Sanchez suggested tonight.

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Players who did bad: 

Everyone not named Dexter Fowler or Troy Tulowtizki

Players who didn't do so bad:

Dexter Fowler (.109 WPA)

Troy Tulowitzki (.057 WPA)

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Mets 4 D-Backs 1 April 22, 2011

The Mets won their second game in a row behind a really strong start by Mike Pelfrey. Pelf went 7 innings allowing 1 run and lowering his ERA by 2.5 runs. He looked like the Pelf when he was going strong last season, his sinker was working for strikes and he mixed in a couple ... Continue Reading

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Davis HR helps Mets rally past Arizona (AP)

Ike Davis hit a two-run homer and Mike Pelfrey had his first effective start of the season to lead the New York Mets to a come-from-behind 4-1 victory over the Arizona Diamondbacks on Friday night. Shut down by Joe Saunders for six-plus innings, Davis hit a drive to straightaway center field off Esmerling Vasquez (0-1) [...]

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Marlins Sanchez loses no-hit bid in 9th (AP)

Florida’s Anibal Sanchez took a no-hitter into the ninth inning before giving up a broken-bat leadoff single to Colorado’s Dexter Fowler, and the Marlins beat the Rockies 4-1 on Friday night. Sanchez (1-1) struck out nine and allowed one unearned run as he bid for his second career no-hitter before settling for a one-hitter.

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Verlander, Tigers beat slumping ChiSox (AP)

Justin Verlander pitched seven impressive innings through a misty rain, and Ryan Raburn drove in four runs to lead the Detroit Tigers over the Chicago White Sox 9-3 on Friday night. Verlander (2-2) allowed four hits, including two home runs by Carlos Quentin and another by Paul Konerko. He finished with eight strikeouts — including [...]

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The Easter Bunny Likes Baseball Cards in My House

I'm not big on giving out tons of candy to the kids. I'm not raising a pair of Todd Marinovich's, but I just don't want pass out chocolate and sugar by the basket. A little is fine. I'm have a soft spot for Peanut M&Ms and Reese's Peanut Butter Cups, but a basket filled with it? Not so much. 

Instead, the Easter Bunny at our house gives out baseball cards and packs of them. The boys usually get a few packs of Topps, maybe an Upper Deck pack, t-shirts, and some chocolate candy.

I'm thinking of getting a few Jumbo Topps packs and maybe even some old-school wax packs this year!

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Open Thread 4/22: Braves at Giants

Tommy Hanson vs. Madison Bumgarner

Braves lineup

1. Prado
2. Heyward
3. Chipper
4. McCann
5. Uggla
6. Freeman
7. Gonzalez
8. McLouth
9. Hanson

 

Giants lineup

1. Rowand
2. Sanchez
3. Huff
4. Posey
5. Sandoval
6. Burrell
7. Ross
8. Tejada
9. Bumgarner

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The Great Friday Link Out: April 22

Joe Posnanski offers a great look on players who may have put together solid cases for Cooperstown but were Not Famous Enough. I like the idea in general of alternate Hall of Fames, be it the Baseball Reliquary, Hall of Merit or a Hall of limited Fame that I proposed last year. Lots of people, [...]

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Springtime Data and Tool Wish List

Many people feel that there is too much data available for baseball right now, but if you are any bit like me, you can never have enough. What tools, websites or information would you want that is currently not available? Here is a list of[...]

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