I think I heard Melancon was sent done. Not sure.
Yes, he got the quick hook (too quick, IMHO, given his experience) and a bus ticket to Pawtucket. Junichi Tazawa is back with the big club.
Cliff Lee pitched ten scoreless innings. When was the last time someone did that? He’ll probably get an ND. Matt Cain pitched only nine scoreless. Giants bullpen now pitching in the top of the eleventh. What an amazing pitching duel.
The Philly bullpen blew it. To answer my own question, Lee’s teammate Roy Halladay was the last pitcher to pitch ten scoreless in '07. Aaron Harang also did it the same year.
That’s a good question. The last time I remember was when Jack Morris did it in the 7th game of the 1991 World Series.
Since complete game shutouts have lately become something of a rarity (50-75 per season for all of MLB), opportunities to take a shutout into extra innings are surely few and far between.
JFTR, the Nats have the best record in the NL right now.
I am almost as excited for them as I was for the Dodgers. There is a lot to like about that team right now, and I am glad they are doing well.
The narrative isn’t going to say so, but I am pretty impressed that LA went toe to toe with the Brewers the last two nights and really held their own. The end of last night’s game was bullshit, but non-robot umps giveth and non-robot umps taketh away I suppose.
I feel your pain. The Reds really suck right now.
They were the last pitchers to go 10 innings, but Mark Mulder was the last to go 10 *scoreless *innings in 2005.
The ridiculous thing about this game is that if they didn’t get pulled for PHs, they probably could have gone about twelve innings apiece - both starters averaged right around 10 pitches per inning. Well, the other ridiculous thing is that the full 11 inning game was shorter than all but one or two of the Red Sox games are going to be this entire season. The first 8 innings only took 1:35!
Thanks for correction. In my defense, I didn’t do my own research. The Mariners’ announcers were talking about the Phillies-Giants game and mentioned Halladay and Harang.
Yeah, that was the stat that really stood out for me.
Lee went 10 with 102 pitches, and Cain went 9 with 91. Amazing stuff.
Well, it looks like the Dodgers were finally on the right side of a one-run game against the Brewers today, instant replay issues aside. And Kemp apparently homered yet again!
I sure wish I’d managed to remember that the game was starting at 10am my time, though – it occurred to me apparently just after the last out of the game. sigh
More important, however, is the notch in the win column.
A notch in the win column and they are looking good even against an acknowledged good team like Milwaukee. Watching the series I would put the teams at just about even in terms of winning ability which means that LA maybe wasn’t just taking advantage of ah easy early schedule.
It’s not a team without holes, but they are better than I expected them to be.
Here’s hoping they continue their streak of beating teams they ought to be beating, as they’re currently on their way to Houston for the weekend.
On a related note, Juan Uribe, who is hitting just .235 but has been playing (based on my personal observation) some pretty solid defense at third, is out with some sort of hand issue and is going to see a specialist. Jerry Hairston played third today and took away a couple of hits and a run today with his defense, so let’s hope that holds up in Uribe’s absence.
Perhaps lost in the great pitching from last night was the fact that Bartolo Colon had a streak of 38 consecutive strikes during his 8-inning gem against the Angels.
I have never, ever seen or heard of anything like it.
I don’t even think I’ve seen a pitcher throw half that many strikes in a row.
I remember that clearly - that was only the second WS I ever paid attention to (the first being the '87 series), and I remember being thoroughly impressed with Morris. It was a strong factor in my finally becoming an actual baseball fan in 1992.
I forgot to post the other night, but thought I’d mention that the Seattle Mariners on Tuesday night got their 50,000th franchise hit and scored their 25,000th franchise run in the same inning (I think it was the same inning, anyway).
Curtis Granderson has 3 HR in 3 AB tonight. Will he get 4?
Well he only got a single but he still has a chance at one more AB.