This old porch is like a steaming greasy
plate of enchiladas
with lots of cheese and onions
and a guacamole salad
The Cubs, losers of 8 straight, have identified the Cause of all their Woes. They dispatched Corey Patterson and Jason Dubois to AAA Iowa after yesterday's double-header. Patterson has hit .168 since the first of June.
By the way, Neifi Perez, who is 17 for his last 113 (.150), went hitless in 8 at bats in yesterday's double-header. He batted second in the first game, and led off in the second game.
The Yankees put Carl Pavano on the DL yesterday, and last night Tom Gordon felt some tightness in his shoulder. He'll have an MRI today.
Jeff Kent missed his second game with a strained hamstring. The left side of the infield - Valentin and Izturis - are already on the DL. Along with RF Drew, CF Bradley, and pitchers Gagne and Alvarez.
Keith Foulke had arthroscopic surgery on his left knee and may be out six weeks. Curt Schilling made his debut as Pawtucket's closer, and gave 2 runs in his inning of work. However, he was hitting 92 on the gun and throwing strikes.
Our old friend Carlos Delgado got his second day off of the season yesterday. In the fifth inning, however, the Marlins loaded the bases and Jack McKeon thought this would be a fine opportunity to use Delgado as a pinch-hitter. Carlos delivered his 10th career grand slam. Delgado also appeared as a bases loaded pinch-hitter during his other off day this season - but the first time he got an RBI the hard way, getting hit by a pitch.
Just a couple of weeks ago, Delgado was in the NL's top three in both slugging and on-base. A 5-43 funk has dropped him out of the Top 10. However, he's shooting up another leaderboard - he's now 5th in the league with 64 RBI.
Toronto and Texas are both three games back of current Wild Card leader, Minnesota. Three other AL teams are in between. Meanwhile, in the NL, the Wild Card leader Braves have a 3.5 game cushion on the next team, the Marlins.
Here's today's schedule:
AL
Cleveland (Lee 9-3, 3.68) at New York (Wang 5-3, 3.87) 7:05
Dtroit (Robertson 3-7, 3.35) at Tampa Bay (Kazmir 3-6, 4.27) 7:15
Boston (Arroyo 6-5, 4.15) at Baltimore (Ponson 7-6, 5.80) 7:35
Oakland (Saarloos 4-5, 3.94) at Chicago (Garland 13-3, 3.29) 8:35
Toronto (Halladay 12-4, 2.33) at Texas (Wasdin 0-0, 1.40) 8:05
Minnesota (Radke 5-8, 4.07) at Kansas City (Greinke 1-10, 6.09) 8:10
Seattle (Moyer 7-3, 4.58) at Los Angeles (Washburn 5-3, 3.06) 10:05
NL
Washington (Drese 6-7, 5.27) at Philadelphia (Tejeda 1-1, 1.96) 7:05
New York (Zambrano 4-7, 3.80) at Pittsburgh (Fogg 4-4, 4.42) 7:05
Milwaukee (Davis 9-7, 4.33) at Atlanta (Sosa 4-1, 3.02) 7:35
Chicago (Zambrano 5-4, 3.85) at Florida (Willis 13-3, 1.89) 7:35
Los Angeles (Houlton 4-2, 6.33) at Houston (Clemens 7-3, 1.41) 8:05
San Diego (Stauffer 2-4, 4.78) at Colorado (Wright 5-8, 5.14) 9:05
Cincinnati (Ortiz 4-6, 6.59) at Arizona (Halsey 5-7, 4.41) 9:40
St.Louis (Mulder 9-5, 4.63) at San Francisco (Schmidt 6-4, 5.11) 10:15
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