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Rockies 10, Cubs 6: Dreamy leads Rockies past Cubs and Ubaldo's wildness
The Colorado Rockies (12-15) overcame a very shaky outing by Ubaldo Jimenez to beat the Chicago Cubs (17-13) and Ryan Dempster Saturday in Tucson. Colorado scored three in the first with a walk, two singles and a Garrett Atkins home run. Ubaldo's implosion led to a 6-4 deficit in the eighth...
Rockies 9, Giants 7: Rockies hang on for second win
Franklin Morales makes case for rotation spot Clint Hurdle gave 8 innings to two fifth starter hopefuls Saturday. Franklin Morales (1-1) started and pitched four shutout innings for the win, lowering his spring ERA from 9.00 to 5.00. He even collected a single off Giants starter Matt Cain. ...
Sekacpuc? A's 6, Red Sox 3
You know what I liked best about this SWEEP OF THE FRICKIN' RED SOX? The fact that the A's did virtually everything right in the three games, from hitting to pitching to defense to Geren's strategic moves, but rarely got lucky and never seemed to be playing above their heads. They simply...
Macha was right: A's 12, Rangers 6
OK, I'll admit it: I'm emotionally and financially invested in Rich Harden not succeeding. (For those of you who missed it, mikeA and I made a wager last year that Harden wouldn't reach 10 more starts + saves for the A's. As of today, mikeA's only 5 starts/saves away from winning.) But he just...
We get our walks the old-fashioned way -- we *earn* them: A's 7, Royals 1
If you look at the boxscore of today's game, Evel Knieveland and Snake Hochevar Canyon don't appear to have pitched completely different ballgames: Eveland: 5.2 IP, 95 pitches/53 strikes, 4 BB, 3 K Hochevar: 4.2 IP, 98 pitches/58 strikes, 3 BB, 4 K Eveland, however, only gave up 3 hits (and...
Shouldn't have been that close: Indians 7, A's 1
Cliff Lee was virtually unhittable today. With some better defense behind him, he could have been literally unhittable: with the exception of Garko's Tyrone Power impersonation on Buck's "triple" in the 2nd, and Pherhalhtha's subsequent underplay of Ellis's run-scoring infield "single," the A's...
Winning pretty ... then ugly ... then pretty again: A's 9, Indians 7, AccuWeather 1
Rarely does a win feel as bad as that. The A's stomped out to a big lead against C.C. Sabathia and a couple Indians relievers, taking a 9-1 lead on the strength of a whole lot more doubles, and more excellent PAs by Bobby Crosby (3/3, 2 BBs). Then Joe Blanton and Fernando Hernandez started...
... and the offense falls off a cliff: Indians 2, A's 1
Joe Blanton once again pitched a very good (not great) game for the A's, shutting the Tribe down for 6 innings; but Joe tired in the 7th inning, and his mechanics and control began to slip, and the Indians squeezed across 2 runs on a potential double-play grounder muffed by Barton and a...
Is the Dallas Braden Experiment over?
Inland Empire 3, A's 2 I'm not sure which was shorter today -- Dallas Braden's start, or the AN game thread. A tough irony for Braden, in that the one start in a long time where he seemed to be relatively effective in shutting down the opposition, he was pulled after 3 innings. Whether it's his...
So *that's* what a Major League offense looks like
Boston 11, A's 6 The Red Sox haven't been the offensive juggernaut of this year's Yankees, nor have they quite lived up to their own recent powerhouse performances. Yet they're still third in the AL in runs scored, comfortably above the second or third tier of offenses. And today demonstrated...
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