Saturday Trends and Indexes 06/28

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Saturday's Six-Pack:

-- American League is just crushing the NL, 135-88, with two days left in interleague play this season. Shouldn't winner of the AL get home field in the World Series? But no.......

--......because TV runs everything, the All-Star Game decides who gets home field for the World Series. What a country.

-- Mets wore their blue hats on road for first time in 11 years.

-- Home team is now 15-2 in Ryan Dempster's last 17 starts.

-- Minnesota Twins have won ten games in row. Very good.

-- Arizona is 40-40 and still in first place. Not good.

[Udog]

Saturday's List of 13: Nobody asked me, but.........

13) How in the name of Bowie Kuhn does Coco Crisp get a pair of games knocked off his suspension, while Akinori Iwamura's suspension stays at three games? How is this fair?

12) Crisp went out of his way to incite trouble not once, but on two different occasions, June 4 and 5. Yet the Rays had pair of starting pitchers suspended, lost Carl Crawford for four games, while Crisp, the blatant instigator, gets five. Iwamura will miss the first game of the Boston series Monday.

11) Carlos Delgado has been getting ripped all week in papers in New York City, with writers demanding the Mets get rid of him, so of course, he knocks in nine runs in the first game of a day/night doubleheader in the Bronx Friday afternoon.

10) I wonder what its like to have your picture on front page of the paper, with people demanding you be fired, then two days later having one of the greatest games in baseball history?

9) Of course, after scoring 15 runs in the opener, Mets then got shut out by Sidney freakin' Ponson in the nightcap. Go figure.

8) Chan Ho Park tossed six shutout innings for the Dodgers in 6-0 win over Angels. He's apparently found fountain of youth.

7) Looks like Arizona might have been better off keeping their six prospects and not acquiring Dan Haren. Where would the A's be without Greg Smith and Dana Eveland? Diamondbacks are really struggling, but are still in first place.

6) Detroit is just one game under .500, as Jim Leyland has them on a roll, after 10 weeks of struggling. Bonine and Galarraga are the young starting pitchers who've helped during this streak.

5) Padres wore their awesome throwback uniforms Friday, the brown/gold ones worn during the Winfield/Randy Jones era in the 70's. They played lousy in 5-2 loss, but they looked great.

4) Phillies are also stumbling badly, blowing 5-1 lead in an 8-7 loss in Arlington. Phils are only team in major leagues who've only used five starting pitchers this season, yet their pitching is still dependent on 45-year old Jamie Moyer. Uh-oh.

3) Over 111,000 fans saw the two games in New York Friday.

2) Don't look now, but the Royals are hotter than hell, too, as rookie manager Hillman is doing really good job with them.

1) At what point do the Twins bring up Francisco Liriano? It seems ridiculous that hes still in the minor leagues.

[Udog]

MLB
Write-Up


Update

Saturday, June 28

Hot Pitchers
-- Petttitte is 3-0, 0.43 in three starts since Royals scored 10 runs against him June 7.
-- Billingsley is 2-0, 3.18 in his last two starts. Weaver is 3-0, 2.33 in his last three road outings.
-- Verlander is 2-0, 2.66 in his last three starts.
-- Lannan has 2.90 RA in his last six starts, but Nationals lost all six games, scoring 2-2-1-1-1-3 runs for him.
-- Parra is 5-0, 2.97 in his last five starts. Minnesota is 8-1 when Hernandez starts at home.
-- Lester is 3-0, 1.63 in his last four starts.
-- Cardinals are 3-0 in Boggs' starts, scoring 23 runs. Royals are 4-1 when Davies (3-0, 3.12) starts
-- Hamels is 2-1, 2.93 in his last four starts. Texas won Padilla's last three starts, giving the former Phil 23 runs.
-- Lincecum is 3-1, 3.06 in his last five road starts. A's are 6-0 at home when Duchscherer starts.

Cold Pitchers
-- Webb is 0-2, 8.80 in his last three starts. Miller is 2-3, 5.53 in his eight home starts this season.
-- Parrish is 12-12, 4.63 in 229 big league innings; he started 10 games for Orioles from 2000-4. Braves lost Hudson's last four road starts (0-2, 4.68).
-- JSantana is 0-3, 4.15 in his last four starts; Mets gave him a total of seven runs in the four games.
-- Cubs are 0-4 in Gallagher road starts; home side is 8-0 in his starts this season. Vazquez has 7.32 RA in his last four starts.
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-- Cueto is 0-3, 3.71 in his last three starts; Reds were outscored 17-2 in those three games. Byrd is 0-3, 9.64 in last three starts.
-- Francis is 1-2, 6.45 in his last four starts.
-- Backe is 1-3, 6.26 in his last five starts.
-- Taubenheim was 1-5, 5.40 for Toronto in eight starts the last couple of seasons. Jackson is 1-3, 6.14 in his last five starts.
-- Olsen is 0-2, 8.40 in his last three starts.
-- Baek, who started season with Seattle, is 0-2, 4.72 in his four starts with the Padres. Silva is 1-8, 8.88 in his last ten starts.

Hot Teams
-- White Sox are 17-4 in their last twenty-one home games.
-- Tigers won ten of their last thirteen home games.
-- Rays won five of their last six games.
-- Bronx won six of last eight road games.
-- Rangers won four of last five home games.
-- Red Sox won five of last six road games.
-- Royals won their last six games, scoring 42 runs.
-- Brewers won four of their last six games. Twins won their last ten games, allowing total of 25 runs.
-- Oakland is 9-4 in its last thirteen games. Giants are 11-6 in their last seventeen road games.
-- Mariners won three of their last four games.
-- Angels won 12 of their last 16 road games.


Cold Teams
-- Marlins lost four of last five games. Arizona lost six of its last seven games.
-- Cubs are 11-19 in their last 30 road games.
-- Reds lost nine of their last twelve games.
-- Rockies lost last five games, scoring total of eleven runs.
-- Blue Jays lost nine of their last twelve games. Braves lost 20 of their last 28 road games.
-- Mets are 5-5 with Jerry Manuel as manager.
-- Nationals lost four of their last six games.
-- Phillies lost ten of last twelve games.
-- Astros lost nine of their last twelve home games.
-- Cardinals are 3-7 in their last ten games.
-- Padres lost six in row, ten of their last eleven games.
-- Dodgers are 5-8 in their last thirteen home games.


Totals
-- Over is 6-1-1 in last eight Florida games.
-- Seven of last nine Cub games went over the total.
-- Under is 6-3-1 in last ten Cincinnati games.
-- Under is 6-2-1 in Colorado's last nine road games.
-- Under is 8-2 in Braves' last ten road games.
-- Over is 11-2 in Pittsburgh's last thirteen games.
-- Four of last five Bronx road games went over the total.
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-- Six of last eight Oriole road games went over the total.
-- Under is 6-0-1 in last seven Houston games.
-- Under is 10-3 in Phillies' last thirteen road games.
-- Over is 8-2 in Royals' last ten home games.
-- Six of last nine Milwaukee road games stayed under total.
-- Five of last six Giant road games stayed under the total; with a twilight start, Wolf behind plate and Lincecum-Duchscherer on mound, under almost looks too obvious here. .
-- Over is 6-2-1 in last nine Seattle games.
-- Last five Dodger games all stayed under the total.

Umpires-- Az-Fla-- Five of last six Gibson games went over the total.
-- Atl-Tor-- Six of last eight Diaz games went over the total.
-- Chi-Chi-- Under is 5-2 in last seven Kellogg games.
-- NY-NY-- Under is 8-2 when Estabrook is behind the plate.
-- Cin-Clev-- Five of last six Guccione games went over total.
-- Col-Det-- Underdog is 6-6 in last twelve Cousins games.
-- Bos-Hst-- Road team won five of last six Crawford games.
-- TB-Pitt-- Over is 11-5-1 in West games; underdog is 6-3 in his last nine games behind plate.
-- StL-KC-- Favorite won last ten Hudson games, with five of his last seven games going over total.
-- Mil-Min-- Favorite won last seven Davis games (over 5-2).
-- Blt-Wsh-- Under is 7-1 in last eight Scott games; underdogs won his last four games.
-- Phil-Tex-- Four of last five Meals games went over the total.
-- SF-A's-- Under is 9-2-1 in last eleven Wolf games.
-- Sea-SD-- Over is 3-1-1 in Eddings' last five games behind dish
-- LA-LA-- Home side won five of last six Nelson games; under is 3-1-1 in his last five.