Red Sox (70-46) vs Royals (58-53)
The Boston Red Sox have been the hottest team in the division of late rebuilding a little cushion between them and Tampa.
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Dodgers (63-50) vs Cardinals (66-47)
It only took Los Angeles 2 pitches to knock Cardinals starter Shelby Miller out of the game last night – courtesy of a Carl Crawford liner to the elbow. After he was ready to go they absolutely drilled Jake Westbrook who was supposed to start today’s game and in hindsight was obviously not ready to go.
Los Angeles Dodgers (59-49) vs Chicago Cubs (49-60)
Los Angeles continued their winning ways with a ho-hum victory over Chicago Friday night.
Mets (46-54) vs Nationals (50-54)
The New York Mets jumped all over the Washington Nationals in the day game of their doubleheader with Washington. They won 11-0 as they smacked around Nats starter Jordan Zimmerman, who is having a great season.
Angels (48-53) vs A’s (60-43)
Los Angeles jumped on A’s starter Bartolo Colon in the first but could do no damage after that in losing the first game of their set against Oakland last night.
Cubs (45-55) vs Giants (46-55)
Chicago is definitely playing for next year at this point so it is going to be tough to try and forecast them for the rest of the season.
Cardinals (62-37) vs Braves (57-45)
St. Louis enters this weekend set in Hotlanta having just swept the Philadelphia Phillies. Over the course of the three games they gave up just 5 runs and and are on a 4 game winning streak that has them a couple of game ahead of Pittsburgh, who is showing no signs of disappearing.
Rays (60-42) vs Red Sox (61-42)
Through the first three games the Tampa Rays have gained on the Red Sox even further and now enter Thursday`s series finale with a chance to take first place the American League East.
Reds (58-44) vs Dodgers (53-47)
The Cincinnati Reds are 7-3 in their last 10 games but they have made up zero ground in their division, the very challenging National League Central.
Pirates (56-38) vs Reds (54-42)
Pittsburgh came out flat out of the All-Star break, continuing their spate of recent average play. Starter Francisco Liriano had his worst outing in a while giving up 5 ER in less than 5 innings.
A’s (56-40) vs Angels (45-49)
Oakland continued their trend of mediocre play on the road dropping the first game of their weekend set against Los Angeles.
Yankees (51-44) vs Red Sox (58-39)
Depending on how you are looking at it the New York Yankees are either the luckiest or unluckiest team in the American League. Unlucky because they have been beset by injuries big time but lucky because they are 7 games over .500 and still in the hunt, technically.
Diamondbacks (50-45) vs Giants (43-51)
It has only been a little more than half a season but things have been pretty wild in the National League West so far.
Cardinals (56-35) vs Cubs (41-50)
St. Louis took the opener of the series on Friday afternoon behind swing starter Joe Kelly. It was a tight game, 3-2, and it looks like Cardinals have found their way again heading into the break.
Rangers (53-40) vs Tigers (51-41)
The Texas Rangers lost the series opener last night and come into Saturday having lost 3 in a row. They find themselves just a game back of the Oakland A’s in the American League West even though they have a couple of more wins than the Tigers.
Blue Jays (44-47) vs Orioles (51-42)
Toronto dropped the final game of their series against Cleveland as a rookie making his first start (Danny Salazar) out-pitched the reigning National League Cy Young winner (R.A. Dickey).
