It's August 4th, 2008. Welcome aboard.
Happy 46th birthday to Roger Clemens. Also, happy 35th birthday to Bobby Howry. Is it a coincidence that these two gentlemen share a birthday? Positively.
Also happy birthday to Scott Linebrink. Sadly, your streak of 70+ appearance seasons seems to be coming to an end this year. Injuries... The streak of seven straight 70+ appearance seasons (1996-2002) held by the legendary Wedsel "Buddy" Groom, Jr. is safe for now.
How's this for a coveted Major League record: Mike Stanton has the most career appearances for a pitcher with fewer innings pitched than appearances (1178 appearances spread over 1114 innings).
Anyway, today in baseball history... Joel Youngblood has a truly one of a kind day. As starting centerfielder for the Mets in a game at Wrigley Field, he goes 1 for 2 with 2 RBI on a 2 RBI single off of Fergie Jenkins, then leaves the game in the 4th... because he was traded to the Expos. He goes to Veterans Stadium that very day and replaces Jerry White in right field in the bottom of the 6th. Then in the top of the 7th, he singles off Steve Carlton. Amazing! A hit for two different teams off two different hall of fame pitchers in one day!
This weekend was a lot of interesting.
- Ken Griffey, Jr. goes 3-7 with 2 RBI for the White Sox
- Manny Ramirez 8-13, 2 HR, 5 RBI for the Dodgers
- Jason Bay 4-11, HR, 3 RBI for the Red Sox
- Randy Johnson wins # 293 Friday
- Mike Mussina wins # 264 Saturday
- Greg Maddux wins # 352 Sunday
- Ichiro ties Ellsbury with 35 SB on the season. Ichiro hadn't stolen a base since July 5th. Ellsbury hasn't stolen one since July 1st.
- The White Sox gave up 19 hits on Saturday AND Sunday. You have to go back to July 21 and 22 of last year to see something worse: Yankees rack up 20 hits vs the Devil Rays on the 21st and 25 more the next day.
I think Ozzie Guillen has a brilliant plan: Tire out those Royals by running bases after base hits. Give up about 11-14 in the first few innings and by that time, they'll be tired and the White Sox offense can start swinging away. Didn't work. Especially since Boone Logan came into the game, and as we all know, Boone Logan is the cause of more runs than an onslaught of Taco Bell burritos.
Saturday, we were also teased with a Paul Konerko home run. By the time he was done on sunday, he was comfortably back at .212 following a signature 0-4 performance including a tailor made double play ball, the 206th occurance of such an event. He is now tied for 72nd all time in double play groundouts.
Day off for the Sox, Ehren Wassermann needs to recharge. And the team needs to watch a tape of saturday's game so they can 1) identify right away (like Leo Mazzone did) that balls up and out over the plate will be crushed and 2) identify that Trey Hillman was able to identify that his starting pitcher (Kyle Davies) didn't have it before the game got out of hand.
Anyway, that's all for me today. Tune in Tuesday 1:30-3 PM icbsportschicago.com
I gone.
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