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Sunday, May 12, 2013

Sully Baseball Daily Podcast - May 12, 2013

On today's episode of The Sully Baseball Daily Podcast, I honor baseball mothers, especially the mom who produced the three Molina brothers and also the Waner brothers.

I also wonder if there are superstitions that foil someone trying to hit for the cycle.

Mark Buehrle, Jose Tabata, Adam Wainwright and Justin Morneau owned baseball on May 11, 2013.

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Sully Baseball Daily Podcast - May 12, 2013

Saturday, May 05, 2012

The Marlins are having the ugliest winning streak ever

Back on April 28, I wrote a blog post about how my two World Series picks looked kind of shaky.
The Angels looked bad and the Marlins were flopping on the deck.

They finished April losing 8 of 9, had the Ozzie Guillen/Fidel Castro lunacy and the excitement seemed to have died off for the new ballpark.

It may be entertaining for the Showtime series being made about the Marlins, but it looked like they were going to be a bust.

I had stayed up late to watch a few Miami games recently. I saw the end of an extra inning game between the Giants and Marlins and another between the Padres and Marlins.

Both were ugly games for Miami. Heath Bell imploded on May 2 and the Giants rallied to tie the game and send into extra innings.

And last night, Bell was even worse and the Padres came back to tie it.

Both times the home crowd went nuts and Miami seemed crushed.

But an interesting thing happened in both of those games.
The Marlins won. The other team NEVER got that final hit.

The Giants had the winning run at second with one out and stranded him.

Last night the Marlins jumped out to a 5-0 first inning lead and blew it. They took another lead into the 9th, but Heath Bell lost it and San Diego had the winning run on second with nobody out and on third with one out.

And in the 11th, San Diego had a runner on second with one out but couldn't score.

Both times the Marlins won.

In fact in 4 of the last 5 games, the Marlins had a chance to lose the game. A bases loaded double play by Buster Posey in the 8th inning of the May 1 game prevented the Giants from winning. Two days later, the Marlins won even though the Giants put the winning run at the plate.

A bounce here and there and the Marlins would have lost 12 of 13 games.

In fact, and I didn't realize this until a second, but the Marlins are on a 5 game winning streak.
I have no recollection of a winning streak this long where the team SEEMS like they are losing.

Maybe this is why my pick of the Marlins seems like a smart one.
They will eventually get hot. Mark Buehrle pitched a desperately needed complete game to save the bullpen.

If they can win like this when they are NOT feeling good, imagine when they actually get into a groove.

Either way, Showtime is following the correct team this year!

Wednesday, May 02, 2012

The Most Recent No Hitter For Each Franchise (Updated for May 2, 2012)

No hitters are a strange beast, aren't they?

The Padres and Mets have had multiple Cy Young winners and have historically played in pitchers parks. Yet those franchises have never had a pitcher throw a no hitter.

Meanwhile the Angels and the White Sox just keep throwing them. Phillip Humber got one after Mark Buehrle notched a few. And less than a year after Ervin Santana tossed one for the Angels, Jered Weaver became the 6th Angels pitcher to toss one.

This might have been more of what the doctor ordered for the Angels than a Pujols homer.

Let's update the list.

THE MOST RECENT NO HITTERS
FOR EACH FRANCHISE

LOS ANGELES ANGELS OF ANAHEIM
Jered Weaver - May 2, 2012.
9-0 over Minnesota.

CHICAGO WHITE SOX

Phillip Humber - April 21, 2012

4-0 over Seattle. (Perfect Game.)

DETROIT TIGERS
Justin Verlander - May 7, 2011.
9-0 over Toronto.

MINNESOTA TWINS
Francisco Liriano - May 3, 2011
1-0 over Chicago White Sox

PHILADELPHIA PHILLIES
Roy Halladay - October 6, 2010
4-0 over Cincinnati. (Playoff Game)

TAMPA PAY RAYS
Matt Garza - July 26th, 2010
5-0 over Detroit.

ARIZONA DIAMONDBACKS
Edwin Jackson - June 25, 2010
1-0 over Tampa Bay

OAKLAND A'S
Dallas Braden - May 9, 2010
4-0 over Tampa Bay. (Perfect Game.)

COLORADO ROCKIES
Ubaldo Jimenez - April 17, 2010
4-0 over Atlanta.

SAN FRANCISCO GIANTS
Jonathan Sanchez - July 10, 2009.
8-0 over San Diego.

CHICAGO CUBS
Carlos Zambrano - September 14, 2008.
5-0 over Houston.

BOSTON RED SOX
Jon Lester - May 19, 2008.
7-0 over Kansas City.

FLORIDA MARLINS
Anibal Sanchez - September 6, 2006.
2-0 over Arizona.

HOUSTON ASTROS
Roy Oswalt, Peter Munro, Kirk Saarloos, Brad Lidge, Octavio Dotel and Billy Wagner -
June 11, 2003.
8-0 over New York Yankees.

ST. LOUIS CARDINALS
Bud Smith - September 3, 2001
4-0 over San Diego.

NEW YORK YANKEES
David Cone - July 18, 1999.
6-0 over Montreal. (Perfect Game.)

PITTSBURGH PIRATES
Francisco Cordova and Ricardo Rincon - July 12, 1997.
3-0 over Houston. (10 innings.)

LOS ANGELES DODGERS
Hideo Nomo - September 17, 1996.
9-0 over Colorado.

TEXAS RANGERS
Kenny Rogers - July 28, 1994.
4-0 over California. (Perfect Game.)

ATLANTA BRAVES
Kent Mercker - April 8, 1994.
6-0 over Los Angeles.

SEATTLE MARINERS
Chris Bosio - April 22, 1993.
2-0 over Boston.

KANSAS CITY ROYALS
Bret Saberhagen - August 26, 1991
7-0 over Chicago White Sox.

WASHINGTON NATIONALS (AS MONTREAL EXPOS)
Dennis Martinez - July 28, 1991.
2-0 over Los Angeles. (Perfect Game.)

BALTIMORE ORIOLES
Bob Milacki, Mike Flanagan, Mark Williamson and Gregg Olson - July 13, 1991.
2-0 over Oakland.

TORONTO BLUE JAYS
Dave Steib - September 2, 1990.
3-0 over Cleveland.

CINCINNATI REDS
Tom Browning - September 16, 1988.
1-0 over Los Angeles. (Perfect Game.)

MILWAUKEE BREWERS
Juan Nieves - April 15, 1987.
7-0 over Baltimore.

CLEVELAND INDIANS
Len Barker - May 15, 1981.
3-0 over Toronto. (Perfect Game.)

Bonus

WASHINGTON SENATORS
Bobby Burke - August 8, 1931
5-0 over Boston.

Mets and Padres... you are STILL on notice.

The Nationals are KIND of on notice. When they were the Expos, they notched 4 of them and there have been several Washington Senators to do the trick.

But do us a favor, Nats. Throw one and have it be more cut and dry.

Congrats to Jered Weaver.

Saturday, April 21, 2012

The Most Recent No Hitter For Each Franchise (Updated for April 21, 2012)

Of COURSE it was Phillip Humber who throws the first no hitter of the year. With all the aces in the bigs, it was a guy with 11 career wins who gets to inch his name into history.

Mark Buehrle, you are no longer on the board unless you throw your THIRD no hitter (and this time with the Marlins.)

Let's update the list.

THE MOST RECENT NO HITTERS
FOR EACH FRANCHISE

CHICAGO WHITE SOX

Phillip Humber - April 21, 2012

4-0 over Seattle. (Perfect Game.)

LOS ANGELES ANGELS OF ANAHEIM
Ervin Santana - July 27, 2011.
3-1 over Cleveland.