Tagged: Halladay

Around The League (AL) 05/01/09

So…boys and girls… In the interest of time I’m going to skip over yesterday’s roundup. Also, besides the Sox game, there were only 3 other games.

That being said… I usually wont skip over days with few games. I just happened to have finals-related business to attend to.
As many of you might know. Finals do take priority.

Anyway… Lets get this started:

1)Minnesota Twins

The Mauer… ACTIVATED:

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Mister Joseph Mauer, you never fail to impress me do you?
As most of you already know, Mauer was activated off the DL on Friday. Boy, was he ready to come back.
In the 1st inning. Mauer did what he does best. Hit the home run.
By the time the game was over, Mauer had gone 2 for 3.
Nice day Joe.

Other stellar performances of the night included our favorite Minnesotan Canadian: Justin Morneau. Who also went 2 for 3 with 3 RBIs/1 HR

Slowey was a bit off on the mound that day giving up 5, but the Minnesota bullpen ripped through giving up 0 ER over 4 innings.

2) New York Yankees
Angels bullpen fails to understand “hold”:
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So.. Weaver sucked pretty hard his first inning… giving up four runs.
Oddly enough, he bounced back and pitched the next five scoreless.
This is where the “penfail” comes in

FYI: Penfail is my new term for when a bullpen blows a game. Don’t like it? Live with it.

So… Angels had just massively rallied in the top of the 6th, and Yankees had gotten shut down by weaver in the bottom.
On to the 8th/9th
Rodriguez gives up two runs
Arredondo gives up two runs
Fuentes can still save right?
Wrong.
Blown save… courtesy of Brian Fuentes (God, I bet you’re missing K-Rod bad right now.)

As for the Yankees… they continue to take advantage of bad pitching quite well.
Their park also continues to astound me with the massive amount of home runs and a ridiculous amount of carry on every hit.

Yanks top performer was Jorge Posada, who went 2 for 4 with 4 RBIs

Someone needs to settle that pen down.

3)Toronto Blue Jays
On Halladay…

Roy Halladay.. is… just.. too good.
Although he did give up 3 ER, he pitched a ******** 8 innings with 6 Ks
Halladay is now 5-1

The best in batting came from Barajas as he went 3 for 5 with 2 RBIs

Orioles need to get their game back. Badly.

4)Cleveland Indians
Rally Killer

It was just too damn close for the Tigers on Friday. Things just didn’t go right for them
Armando Galaragga, usually a solid and masterful pitcher on the mound, gave up 5 runs.
Bad game, shake it off and try again.
The tigers did manage to rally up in the 8th only to be killed one run short of tying it up.

Pavano got the win pitching 7 innings with only 2 ER

My head seems to be aching pretty badly… so for now we must part.
Will be writing about Friday’s Sox game as soon as this headache clears up.

Getting a tylenol,
-Mike