Jeter got hit on the hand and is now leaving the game on a day where Cano was DH. Jeter is now leaving the game and it should be interesting what Joe Girardi does for the defense. He used Cervelli to PH for Jeter. Cervalli can play 3B but not SS. I don’t know if Chavez can play SS or 2b, he could move Chavez to either and Nunez is on 2b and could move to SS if needed of course or they could lose the DH in the 4th inning but then I don’t think Cervelli would have pinched hit.
Yanks are winning 4-1.
And the answer is Cervelli plays second for the first time in his Pro Career and Nunez to SS.
Justin Verlander is two innings away from his second no-hitter of this season. He would be the second Tigers pitcher to throw two of them in one season. The other was Virgil Trucks in 1952 - a season in which he went 5-19 overall.
The Blue Jays pounding on the Rangers on Robbie Alomar’s big day.
Alomar is the first Blue Jay player to have his number retired by the team. Other players have their numbers displayed on the “Level of Excellence” but the numbers are reused.
Interesting facts about retired numbers:
Alomar’s retired number is #12. The only other #12 retired by any team is Wade Boggs’s #12 by Tampa Bay, of all teams.
The highest real uniform number (e.g. actually worn by a player) retired by a team is Carlton Fisk’s 72.
Leaving aside #42, which is retired for all teams in honor of Jackie Robinson, the most-retired numbers are #4 and #5, though in the case of #5 one of them is not retired for a player (the Marlins retired #5 to honour Carl Barger, the team’s first president, who died before the Marlins began their first season.
I’m surprised about #5 being more retired than #1 or #3. Weren’t most numbers assigned to the person who batted in that particular order? I’d think lead-off and hitting in the 3-hole would be more likely to be a franchise player than #5.
But that was only really true in the 20s and early 30s. After that #1 & #3 went to any good hitter.
Side Note: #42 will have one additional retirement of course in a few more years. I’m sure the Yanks will have the ceremony for Mo Rivera even though saying it will never be worn again is pretty much redundant.
So the Red Sox apparently got Erik Bedard but as usual when Theo is involved, it’s a three-way deal with at least 7 moving parts and nobody can really figure out who’s going where.
And Ned Coletti has traded away the Dodgers top hitting prospect Trayvon Robinson to the Red Sox (by way of Seattle). Sigh. They are getting a catching prospect that I don’t know anything about plus a couple more back, but my gut reaction to the news is not a happy one.
Edit: Looks like it’s Seattle who gets to keep Trayvon per MLBTradrumors.com. Anyone know about the Sox catching prospect Tim Federowicz?
And he’s a couple of years away, even if the Dodgers forget about his hitting. He was the #3 catching prospect in the system and wasn’t going to beat out Saltalamacchia or Lavarnway even after 'Tek retires, and maybe wasn’t even going to beat out Exposito at the AAA level. IOW he was worth getting a 2-month rental of an injury-prone pitcher.
I think it’s a pretty good deal for everyone involved. Boston could use Bedard for the pennant race and postseason right now.
The Mariners get both Robinson and Chih-Hsein Chang, whose stock is really up this year as he is absolutely crushing the Eastern League. Chang can play some outfield, too. Given how awful Seattle’s hitting is, Chang might be one of the twelve best hitters in their organization right now. They needed young bats, and in Robinson and Chang they got young bats.
The Dodgers dealt an outfielder they did not really need for pitching they do.
I don’t think this tradition went much beyond the Yankees’ adoption of the practice. Uniform numbers finally came into common use a lot later than you’d expect - 1929, I believe - and I think the lineup order thing pretty much died on the vine.
As a Giants fan, I’m worried that it says more about them than the Reds. Fucking Zito bastard piss. Just give up on him and pay him to sit on his ass for 2 1/2 more years…
It says that the Giants aren’t really very good, even with the new bat.
Ok, so I am biased, I know I am, but honestly what is the difference between the Dodgers and the Giants right now? Both teams have elite level pitching, both teams have piss poor offense and the Giants happen to have an insane bullpen while the Dodgers pen has fallen apart. If the bullpen is the only difference between the teams I have to think that at least a little of this is luck on the Giants part. How many wins can a solid bullpen really account for? Isn’t this what the Padres were running on last year?
You hear sports analysts going on and on about how great the Giants are, but you can’t win if you can’t score and even the best pitching is going to give up a few runs eventually. Again, very biased I know there is a part of me that actively wants to see the Giants fall on their faces but trying to be objective I don’t see the Giants as actually being half as good as they seem.
I just noticed this. The Dodgers don’t need pitching (their system is nothing BUT pitching prospects) and the pitchers that they got are an org guy who will never see the bigs and a 7th inning guy. Rubby De La Rosa is raw but coming along and should be a solid #3 starter at the worst, if it all clicks (and it is looking like it might last night’s start not withstanding) he could be a #2. Kershaw is an ace and Billingsly is solid. All three of them are under team control for several years. That’s already better than most teams and they have pitchers coming. They are a few years away (because we don’t have James McDonald anymore, who it turns out is actually pretty good. Pirates fans are probably very happy with him.)
The team needs a catcher, but already have a +defensive catcher who can’t hit in AJ Ellis. The don’t have Carlos Santana who was the catcher that CAN hit because Uncle Ned traded him away for Casey Blake :rolleyes:, they don’t have James McDonald, who would have given the team the most insanely young and dominant pitching rotation in the majors because Uncle Ned traded him away for Octavio Dotel :smack::smack:, and now they don’t have Travon Robbinson who, yes might bust when he gets called up, but who could have been a valuable asset on a team that only has 2 players capable of playing outfield on a regular basis. Colletti has taken a team that was built to win championships and slowly but surely dismantled it so that it is now so bad it won’t even sniff .500 again this season or probably next.