5/19-5/20 Cheering, Venting, & Country Breakfast

[bigh0rt]

News, Notes, & Nonsense:

- Justin Verlander was nearly perfect, throwing a 1-hit, 2-walk, 12 strikeout shutout in a 6 - 0 win against the Pirates.

- Kevin Milwood was nearly as impressive with his own 2-hit, 1-walk, 9 strikeout complete game shutout. Not a typo. Kevin Milwood really did that.

- Andrew Eugene Pettitte was unavailable to testify in any court hearings on Friday, because he was busy shutting out the Reds over 8 innings of work. Yankee fans are anxious to see which Pettitte shows up more often this season: last night's Ace, or the mediocre version who pitched against the Mariners last week. I can only hope for the latter.

- Billy 'Country Breakfast' Butler slapped his 7th dong of the season last night. In 2011 he didn't belt his 7th homer until July 22nd. Those hoping for a breakout power year from Butler may be getting what they bargained for this season.

- J.P. Arencabia has now gone deep 4 times in his last 3 games, including twice against the Mets yesterday in a 14 - 5 drubbing where teammate Rajai Davis also left the park a pair of times. 'Sticky' Ricky Romero threw 6 innings of 1-run ball in the Win.

- Mike Trout stayed red hot, swiping his 4th base and going 3/4 chipping in both a Run and RBI. Trout has been liquid hot magma for the better part of the last 2 weeks and is yielding his patient owners with a huge early reward.

- Delmon Young took a brief break from being terrible to hit a homer, while Ryan Braun sent his 11th of the season into the stratosphere.

Today's Matchups:

STL: Westbrook (4-2, 2.35 ERA)
LAD: Kershaw (3-1, 2.22 ERA)

NYM: Batista (1-1, 4.26 ERA)
TOR: Morrow (4-2, 3.08 ERA)

OAK: Ross (2-3, 6.25 ERA)
SF: Vogelsong (1-2, 2.66 ERA)

CIN: Bailey (1-3, 4.35 ERA)
NYY: Nova (4-1, 5.44 ERA)

MIN: Pavano (2-3, 5.14 ERA)
MIL: Gallardo (2-4, 5.04 ERA)

MIA: Sanchez (2-1, 2.28 ERA)
CLE: Gomez (2-2, 3.75 ERA)

SEA: Vargas (4-3, 3.28 ERA)
COL: Friedrich (1-0, 1.38 ERA)

PIT: Burnett (1-2, 5.12 ERA)
DET: Smyly (1-0, 2.31 ERA)

CHW: Danks (2-4, 6.46 ERA)
CHC: Dempster (0-1, 1.74 ERA)

ATL: Delgado (2-3, 3.79 ERA)
TB: Cobb (0-0, 0.00 ERA)

TEX: Holland (3-2, 3.78 ERA)
HOU: Harrell (2-3, 4.40 ERA)

ARI: Kennedy (3-3, 3.81 ERA)
KC: Chen (2-4, 4.34 ERA)

BAL: Hammel (4-1, 2.68 ERA)
WSH: Detwiler (3-2, 2.75 ERA)

BOS: Lester (2-3, 3.71 ERA)
PHI: Blanton (4-3, 2.96 ERA)

LAA: Haren (1-4, 4.41 ERA)
SD: Stults (0-0, 0.00 ERA)

[bigh0rt]

Trotting Holland out there today, and that's about it...

[footballisbetter.com]

David Wright and Texiera both out today

[daullaz]

Going Dempster diving once again ...

[footballisbetter.com]

Hoping Dempster can get his first win today, since he is facing Danks.

I'm also interested in seeing how Cobb looks.

[CharlatanSin]

What the hell happened to Danks this year? I haven't been following him or the White Sox at all.

[Skin Blues]

Chris Davis still has more wins than Ryan Dempster, who has the second best ERA in the majors. LOL.

[kab21]

Pulling for Haren and Holland in my 24 tm dynasty. it would be nice if the real Haren showed up today or at least the real Padres.

[Skin Blues]

Morrow is now leading the league in ERA. Also has 42 Ks in 34 IP over his last 5 starts while allowing a total of 2 ER. Hate seeing him go out there every 5 days though, because he's so inconsistent. What use is there for an elite pitcher that can't throw a shutout every game?

[m16a]

Morrow...

Figures I run into the buzzsaw of the team with Prince, Doc, Holliday, and Morrow. First loss of the season. I suppose, getting it all out in one week is ok. On the other hand, a 20-8 drubbing so far is NOT fun...