Old Time Family Baseball

White Sox 2, Yankees 0 - Philip Humber may finally be making good on that Johan Santana trade, going six and a third no-hit innings against the Yankees. While the White Sox finally won, it wasn’t even all that inspiring as they managed only three hits off of AJ Burnett. Either Burnett is back, rendering all that preseason worrying moot (3.52 ERA) or the White Sox offense has a lot to answer for.

Marlins 5, Dodgers 4 - How long do you think the MLB editors were sitting on this one, patiently waiting for their moment to strike:

Jamey Carroll picked up two hits and a stolen base in the loss and was already the fifth best shortstop as ranked by fWAR coming into game.

Diamondbacks 4, Phillies 0 - One walk between the two teams. That’s beautiful.

Reds 9, Brewers 5 - Chris Narveson who has picked up buckets of strikeouts despite seemingly pedestrian had his luck run out today. Narveson lasted only 2.1 innings while allowing 8 hits and 7 runs as the Reds moved to half a game in front of the Brewers to 12-11. Drew Stubbs stole two bases and is on pace to steal over 50 of them this season.

Blue Jays 6, Rangers 4 - Jose Bautista homered again (yawn) and drew two walks (double yawn). Colby Lewis took his third consecutive loss and has yet to get out of the sixth inning. I will be very, very upset if last year proves to be his swan song.

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Rockies 5, Cubs 3 - Darwin Barney hit his first career home run, Kosuke Fukodome picked up five hits to move his average to .478, and Starlin Castro committed three errors in a single inning. You know, your standard Cubs game.

Pirates 4, Nationals 2 - Paul Maholm struck out eight and Brandon Wood did his best to fool Pirates fans into believing the old hype: He went 1-4 with a double, didn’t strike out once, and two of his outs were of the hard hit variety. Fortunately, nary a soul made the trek out to see these two teams battle in the rain. Announced attendance was over 12,000, but announcers said it couldn’t have been more than a few hundred.

Padres 5, Braves 3 (13 innings) - Playing games in Petco Park seems to make games take on an amusing narrative as the Braves continued to get baserunners and find new ways to erase them. One was thrown out at third on a comebacker to the pitcher, one was thrown out at second on a bunt, and one was doubled off of first base after Chris Denorfia’s amazing catch.  Ryan Ludwick hit the two-run home run to end this one.

Angels 5, Athletics 0 - Jered Weaver: 6-0, .99 ERA. His ERA is lower than the McChicken on the dollar menu.