HAMELS ONE-HITS ELIMS
Cole Hamels, who entered Game Day 59 with an ERA near 5.00, twirled the best-pitched game of his BARB career, holding the league-leading Eliminators offense to just one hit in a the nightcap as Frostbite Falls swept a doubleheader at home, beating Worcester 1-0!
Hamels (5-3, 4.31) had it going on, fanning twelveWorcester hitters. In fact, so dominant was Hamels that the only Worcester hitter who didn’t take fan, Derek Jeter, was unable to get the ball out of the infield, do devastating was Hamels’s changeup. Mark Teixeira hit a solid line drive over short leading off the third for his club’s only safety. Meanwhile, Ryan Dempster pitched nearly as well (7.2 IP, 1 ER), but he did hang a ball for Carlos Beltran in the second, and Beltran hit it out of the park the other way to give his team (as it so happened) the only run that Hamels would need.
In the earlier game, Tim Lincecum (4-4, 2.80), had his problems, walking four hitters, but still came up a big winner thanks to Evan Longoria, who hit a pair of boundary belts off losing pitcher Joba Chamberlain (7-3, 2.89) and robbed Adrian Beltre of extra bases with the bags full in the seventh to preserve an eventual 6-4 win.
Despite the losses, Worcester (37-20) still leads BARB in wins and holds an eight-game lead over Frostbite Falls in the surprisingly one-sided Eastern Division.
HEARD AROUND THE LEAGUE:
Mark Reynolds drove in five runs with four hits, including his first homer of the season, as he finally got some playing time with veteran 3B Mike Lowell on the DL, as LOS ANGELES exploded for a season-high 14 runs in blasting visiting Texas. Tornadoes 3B Alex Rodriguez homered twice in losing cause for his club against eventual winner Justin Duscherer (4-4, 3.65). The Flyers are showing some life of late, having won four straight, their longest winning streak of the season . . . .Ryan Ludwick had a go-ahead sac fly in the ninth in his first game off the DL for POTTSYLVANIA, as the Creepers won 6-2 to make a winner of Brad Thompson (5-5, 7.28) in relief. He hit his team-leading 15th home run the next night in the first inning off Joe Saunders, but that was the only run that CASSELTON’s big lefty allowed in a 2-1 victory, going the distance to edge hard-luck pitcher Cliff Lee . . .YUMA’S Kevin Slowey went eight innings, but his throwing error on Mark Loretta’s comebacker led to three runs in the third as the host Finches held on to take the second game of a twi-night doubleheader. DARWIN won the opener 2-1 after getting another solid start from venerable knuckleballer Tim Wakefield, but it took an Aaron Rowand single off Matt Capps in the bottom of the tenth to do it. The Finches indicated that Josh Hamilton’s body is still bothering him and he may be confined to pinch-hitting duty for the time being….What’s a guy to do? Jayson Werth had a sensational game the previous week for FROSTBITE FALLS, hitting three home runs, two off Scott Baker, in the Squirrels 9-4 win on the road in Brooklyn. Werth remains a platoon player for the time being…
HAMELS ONE-HITS ELIMS
4 comments:
darwin having the second best record is still laughable
its because management is so keen to discussion and activity!
Well, after all, Darwin isn't competing in the East anymore. Let's see a show of hands of who thinks they would have the second-best record if they were having to play Worcester, F Falls and Brooklyn more often? Similarly, if the expansion team (St. Francis) was in the East, they would probably have the loop's worst record.
And, you know, let's ask ourselves this question: who thinks the Giants are going to end up with the second-best record in the NL? I don't. I don't even think they will finish second in the West. They've had ridiculous luck at times, and their road record is like 8th or 9th in the league.
SOMEONE's just a bit jealous, huh? Don't hate just because Timmy almost no-hit your team and Sanchez almost threw a perfecto against you (and completed the no-no)!
Please explain to me how all of this good pitching (which has been acknowledged by observers for months) is the result of ridiculous luck.
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