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.
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.
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.
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.
Oakland continued their trend of mediocre play on the road dropping the first game of their weekend set against Los Angeles.
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.
It has only been a little more than half a season but things have been pretty wild in the National League West so far.
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.
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.
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).
Sometimes it looks like nobody wants to win the National League West this season, doesn’t it?. Colorado has a golden opportunity this weekend as they face off with the suddenly scorching Los Angeles Dodgers.
There isn’t a team in the game employing a four-man rotation at the moment, which means that each week, each team will send out five different starting pitchers. That’s five players from each of Major League Baseball’s 30 teams, meaning that at least 150 different names will hit the betting board in a given week.
After winning yesterday, the Cincinnati Reds have the 4th best record in the National League but unfortunately that is only good for third place in their own division.
It is almost hard to believe, but with their loss to the New York Mets today, San Francisco has sunk all the way to last in the National League West.
The struggling Chicago White Sox dropped the opener of their series against Tampa on Friday night. It was the same old story of not getting much from their starting pitching as Dylan Axelrod couldn’t even get through 2 innings.
The Braves dropped the first game of their series against Philadelphia 5-4 Friday night. Atlanta still holds a 5 game lead in the National League East over Washington making this series way more important to the Phillies than the Braves.
St. Louis has been struggling lately with American League West clubs but they got the win yesterday over the Los Angeles Angels.