NATIONAL LEAGUE
D6
S
EAST W L PCT GB L10 STR
Atlanta
Florida
CENTRAL W L PCT GB L10 STR
New York 1 0 1.000 — 1-0 W-1 Phila.
1 0 1.000 — 1-0 W-1 1 0 1.000 — 1-0 W-1
0 1 .000 1 0-1 L-1 Washington 0 1 .000 1 0-1 L-1
TODAY’S NL GAMES
PHILLIES AT NATIONALS, 7:05 ’09 W-L
’09 ERA
’09 TEAM RECORD
Hamels (L) 10-11 4.32 16-16 Marquis (R) 15-13 4.04 19-14
ROCKIES AT BREWERS, 1:10
Cook (R) 11-6 4.16 14-13 Davis (L) 9-14 4.12 13-21
GIANTS AT ASTROS, 2:05
Cain (R) 14-8 2.89 21-12 Myers (R) 4-3 4.84 5-5
DODGERS AT PIRATES, 7:05
Kershaw (L) 8-8 2.79 14-16 Ohlndrf (R) 11-10 3.92 14-15
CUBS AT BRAVES, 7:10
Dempstr (R) 11-9 3.65 13-18 Jurrjens (R) 14-10 2.60 17-17
CARDINALS AT REDS, 7:10
Wnwrght (R) 19-8 2.63 23-11 Cueto (R) 11-11 4.41 16-14
MARLINS AT METS, 7:10
Nolasco (R) 13-9 5.06 18-13 Maine (R) 7-6 4.43 8-7
PADRES AT DIAMONDBACKS, 9:40
Correia (R) 12-11 3.91 19-14 Kennedy (R) 0-0 0.00 0-0
TUESDAY’S NL GAMES
Giants
3 at Astros 0
Rockies Late at Brewers
TODAY’S AL GAMES
ORIOLES AT RAYS, 7:10 ’09 W-L
’09 ERA
’09 TEAM RECORD
Guthrie (R) 10-17 5.04 12-21 Garza (R) 8-12 3.95 15-17
YANKEES AT RED SOX, 7:10
Pettitte (L) 14-8 4.16 21-11 Lackey (R) 11-8 3.83 14-13
BLUE JAYS AT RANGERS, 8:05
Tallet (L) 7-9 5.32 10-15 Harden (R) 9-9 4.09 13-13
INDIANS AT WHITE SOX, 8:05
Carmona (R)5-12 6.32 10-14 Peavy (R) 9-6 3.45 9-7
TIGERS AT ROYALS, 8:10
Scherzer (R) 9-11 4.12 15-15 Hochevr (R) 7-13 6.55 9-16
TWINS AT ANGELS, 10:05
Pavano (R) 14-12 5.10 19-14 Santana (R) 8-8 5.03 12-11
MARINERS AT ATHLETICS, 10:05
5-4 3.74 9-6
Rwlnd-Smth (L)
Duchschrer (R)
--- ---- ---
Pittsburgh 1 0 1.000 — 1-0 W-1 St. Louis
1 0 1.000 — 1-0 W-1
Chicago 0 1 .000 1 0-1 L-1 Cincinnati 0 1 .000 1 0-1 L-1 xHouston 0 2 .000 1A 0-2 L-2 xMilwaukee 0 1 .000 1 0-1 L-1
GIANTS 5, ASTROS 2
Monday’s late game
Tim Lincecum pitched seven
scoreless innings and new- comer Mark DeRosa homered to spark San Francisco. Lincecum allowed four hits and struck out seven with no walks. Houston’s Roy Oswalt lost but extended his team rec- ord to eight straight opening day starts.
San Francisco AB R H BI BBSO AVG
Rowand cf Renteria ss
5000 0 2 .000 3021 1 0 .667
Sandoval 3b 4010 0 1 .250 A.Huff 1b
Ishikawa 1b 0000 0 0 --- DeRosa lf B.Molina c Bowker rf Romo p
Medders p Br.Wilson p Uribe 2b
Lincecum p
Houston
Bourn cf
K.Matsui 2b Pence rf Ca.Lee lf Blum 1b P.Feliz 3b Towles c
Manzella ss Oswalt p
Sullivan ph Sampson p Byrdak p
4 1 1 0 0 0 .250 3211 1 1 .333
4 1 2 1 0 0 .500 4011 0 1 .250 0000 0 0 --- 0000 0 0 --- 0 0 0 0 0 0 --- 3 1 2 1 0 1 .667 1000 0 0 .000
Schierholtz rf 1000 0 0 .000
Totals
32 5 10 5 2 6 — AB R H BI BB SO AVG
4010 0 2 .250 4 0 2 0 0 1 .500 4000 0 2 .000 4 1 2 0 0 0 .500 4 1 1 0 0 0 .250 4011 0 1 .250 4011 0 1 .250 4 0 1 0 0 1 .250 1000 0 0 .000 1000 0 1 .000 0000 0 0 --- 0 0 0 0 0 0 ---
Keppinger ph 1000 0 0 .000 Gervacio p Michaels ph
Totals
San Francisco 030 000 110 — 5 10 0 Houston
000 000 002 — 2 9 0
LOB: San Francisco 5, Houston 7. 2B: Rent- eria (1), Blum (1), Towles (1). HR: DeRosa (1), off Byrdak.
Padres Late at D’backs
San Francisco IP H R ER BB SO ERA
Lincecum (W, 1-0)
Romo Medders
7 4 0 007 0.00 1 2 0 0 0 1 0.00
Br.Wilson (S, 1) C 0 0 001 0.00
Houston
Gervacio
Oswalt (L, 0-1) 6 7 3 3 2 3 4.50 Sampson Byrdak
B 3 2 2 0 0 54.0
IP H R ER BB SO ERA
1 2 1 1 0 1 9.00
1 1 1 1 0 0 9.00 1 0 0 0 0 2 0.00
Inherited runners-scored: Br.Wilson 1-0.
T: 2:34. A: 43,836 (40,976).
0 0 0 0 0 0 --- 1 0 0 0 0 0 .000
36 2 9 2 0 9 —
x-Late game
Around the horn
PERSONNEL DEPT.
Angels: LHP Scott Kazmir will start at Class A Rancho Cucamonga on Friday before rejoining Los Angeles. Kazmir, who began the season on the disabled list with a strained hamstring, is expected to pitch against the Yankees next week. Mariners: LHP Cliff Lee will throw a bullpen session Friday as he recovers from a strained abdominal muscle that has him starting the season on the 15-day disabled list. Mets: SS Jose Reyes went 1 for 3 and stole two bases while playing four innings in the field in an extended spring training game against New York’s Class A affiliate, as he deals with a hyperactive thyroid. Rangers: 2B Ian Kinsler hopes to begin playing in games for Class AA Frisco as he works back from a sprained right ankle. Rockies: An MRI exam of the injured right shoulder of closer Huston Street showed no major damage. Colorado doesn’t have an exact timetable for Street’s return. . . . LHP Greg Smith started Tuesday in place of the injured Jeff Francis. Smith did not pitch in the majors last year.
MARINERS SINK ATHLETICS
KLMNO
WEST W L PCT GB L10 STR
San Fran. 2 0 1.000 — 2-0 W-2 xArizona
1 0 1.000 A 1-0 W-1
xColorado 1 0 1.000 A 1-0 W-1 Los Angeles 0 1 .000 1A 0-1 L-1 xSan Diego 0 1 .000 1A 0-1 L-1
EAST W L PCT GB L10 STR
xBoston
1 0 1.000 — 1-0 W-1
Tampa Bay 1 0 1.000 — 1-0 W-1 xNew York 0 1 .000 1 0-1 L-1 Baltimore 0 1 .000 1 0-1 L-1 Toronto
0 1 .000 1 0-1 L-1
CENTRAL W L PCT GB L10 STR
Chicago
Detroit
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 7, 2010
AMERICAN LEAGUE
1 0 1.000 — 1-0 W-1 1 0 1.000 — 1-0 W-1
Cleveland 0 1 .000 1 0-1 L-1 Kansas City 0 1 .000 1 0-1 L-1 xMinnesota 0 1 .000 1 0-1 L-1
WEST W L PCT GB L10 STR
1 0 1.000 — 1-0 W-1
xLos Ange- les
xSeattle Texas
1 0 1.000 — 1-0 W-1 1 0 1.000 — 1-0 W-1
xOakland 0 1 .000 1 0-1 L-1
x-Late game
D-BACKS 6, PADRES 3
Monday’s late game
Stephen Drew hit an inside- the-park home run and Dan Haren held San Diego to three hits in seven innings in Ari- zona’s win. Mark Reynolds hit a two-run
homer, the only earned runs among the six given up by San Diego starter Jon Garland. Haren threw 20 of 24 first- pitch strikes and had a three- ball count against one batter.
San Diego
Gwynn cf Eckstein 2b
Headley 3b Venable rf Hundley c
AB R H BI BBSO AVG
4000 0 1 .000 4 0 0 0 0 0 .000
Ad.Gonzalez 1b 4221 0 1 .500 Blanks lf
4 1 1 1 0 0 .250 4021 0 0 .500 3000 0 0 .000 3000 0 1 .000
E.Cabrera ss 3000 0 2 .000 Garland p Mujica p
1000 0 0 .000 0 0 0 0 0 0 ---
Hairston Jr. ph 1000 0 1 .000 Stauffer p Stairs ph
Gallagher p
Totals
Arizona
C.Jackson lf S.Drew ss J.Upton rf
0 0 0 0 0 0 --- 1000 0 0 .000 0 0 0 0 0 0 ---
32 3 5 3 0 6 — AB R H BI BBSO AVG
4 0 1 0 0 0 .250 4 2 2 2 0 1 .500 4 2 2 0 0 0 .500
Ad.LaRoche 1b 4000 0 2 .000 M.Reynolds 3b 2112 2 1 .500 Montero c C.Young cf
3022 1 0 .667 4000 0 1 .000
EZRA SHAW/GETTY IMAGES
Seattle’s Ichiro Suzuki is congratulated by teammates after scoring in the top of the ninth inning, as the Mariners pull out a 5-3 opening night win over Oakland.
QUOTABLE
“I had a blast.”
— Atlanta rookie phenom Jason Heyward, who hit a three-run homer with his first major-league swing
STAT OF THE DAY
6 1
⁄3
No-hit innings thrown by Toronto RHP Shaun Marcum. The Blue Jays went on to lose to the Texas Rangers, 5-4.
TODAY’S GAME TO WATCH
Yankees at Red Sox 7 p.m., ESPN2
Right-hander John Lackey will make his Boston debut, opposite New York veteran Andy Pettitte.
ANGELS 6, TWINS 3
Monday’s late game
Hideki Matsui drove in the go-ahead run in the fifth and added an eighth-inning homer in his dynamic Los Angeles de- but, and Jered Weaver pitched six strong innings in the An- gels’ victory over Minnesota. Jeff Mathis and Kendry Mo- rales also homered as Los An- geles opened its 50th season and its run at a fourth straight AL West title with its sixth victo- ry in the last seven openers.
Minnesota AB R H BI BB SO AVG
Span cf
O.Hudson 2b 3010 0 0 .333 Mauer c
Morneau 1b 3110 1 1 .333 Cuddyer rf Kubel dh
5000 0 3 .000 4 0 1 0 0 1 .250 3010 1 1 .333
Delm.Young lf 4222 0 0 .500 Hardy ss Punto 3b Thome ph B.Harris 3b
Totals
1001 0 0 .000 1000 0 0 .000 1000 0 0 .000
32 3 7 3 3 8 —
Los Angeles AB R H BI BBSO AVG
E.Aybar ss B.Abreu rf
3 2 2 0 1 0 .667 4 0 0 0 0 0 .000
Tor.Hunter cf 2100 2 1 .000 H.Matsui dh
H.Kendrick 2b 4010 0 0 .250 B.Wood 3b J.Mathis c
Totals
TUESDAY’S AL GAMES
at Rays
Orioles
4 3
Yankees Late at Red Sox
Twins at Angels
Mariners Late at Athletics
Minnesota 020 010 000 —370 Los Angeles 210 010 02x —690
Late
LOB: Minnesota 7, Los Angeles 6. 2B: O.Hudson (1). HR: Delm.Young (1), off Jer.Weaver; J.Mathis (1), off S.Baker; H.Matsui (1), off Mijares; K.Morales (1), off Mijares.
Minnesota
Mijares Neshek
NOTEBOOK
Union might file grievance
Baseball players may file a collusion grievance charging owners with conspiring against free agents last winter. “We have concerns about the operation of the post-2009 free agent market,” new union head Michael Weiner said Tuesday in a telephone inter- view with the Associated Press. “We have been investi- gating that market. Our in- vestigation is far along but not yet complete.” The sides reached a stand- still agreement last year giv- ing the union additional time to decide whether to proceed with a grievance against teams alleging misconduct af- ter the 2008 season. Manage- ment denies any violation of the collective bargaining agreement, which states clubs may not act in concert with re- spect to free agents.
A global game
The percentage of major league baseball players born outside the 50 states dipped slightly from last year. It was 27.7 percent at the
start of this season, down from 28 percent on opening day in 2009. The Dominican Republic leads with 86 players in the majors, five more than 2009. Venezuela was next with 58, an increase of six from last year.
— From News Services
Jepsen Rodney
S.Baker (L, 0-1) 4C 5 4 433 7.71 Crain
IP H R ER BB SO ERA
1C 0 0 001 0.00
C 3 2 2 0 0 27.0 1 1 0 0 0 1 0.00
Los Angeles IP H R ER BB SO ERA
Jer.Weaver (W, 1-0)
6 5 3 326 4.50 1 2 0 0 0 1 0.00
1 0 0 0 1 0 0.00 Fuentes (S, 1) 1 0 0 0 0 1 0.00
Mijares pitched to 2 batters in the 8th.
Inherited runners-scored: Crain 2-0. HBP: by
Jepsen (O.Hudson). WP: S.Baker. T: 3:00. A: 43,504 (45,285).
K.Morales 1b 4 1 2 2 0 0 .500 J.Rivera lf
4 1 2 2 0 0 .500 4 0 1 1 0 0 .250 4000 0 3 .000
4 1 1 1 0 1 .250
33 6 9 6 3 5 —
3000 1 1 .000 4 0 1 0 0 1 .250
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Lannan’s struggles
continue with Phillies
John Lannan is the Nationals’ most reliable pitcher, the one who pitched the most innings — by more than 100 — and won the most games of Nationals hurlers last season. He was an easy choice for opening day. Lannan, though, is not quite an ace, not quite among the league’s very best. The one thing keeping him on the cusp may be the Phillies. Lannan has been mostly
excellent against the league and mostly a piñata against the Phillies. Lannan’s career numbers broken down: Overall: 20-31, 3.99 ERA Vs. Phillies: 0-7, 6.32
Vs. rest of league: 20-24, 3.70
Forget about the win-loss record; for a pitcher saddled with Washington’s defense and lineup for the past two-plus seasons, it’s irrelevant. His 3.70 ERA shows how good he’s been against everyone but Philadelphia. It would rank 20th among active starting pitchers with at least 400 innings pitched — right in front of Zack Greinke, Erik Bedard, Ben Sheets, Jered Weaver, Mark Buerhle, Ubaldo Jiménez and John Lackey. The Phillies ruined Lannan’s second opening day start. Of the 28 starters who opened their team’s
JONATHAN NEWTON/THE WASHINGTON POST
Against Philadelphia, the Nats’ John Lannan has lost every decision.
season, only Carlos Zambrano and Vicente Padilla, judging by ERA, had a worse start. There are two reasons for
Lannan’s struggles against Philadelphia. First, the Phillies are the two-time defending National League champs and they habitually score more runs than any team in the NL. Second, they are one of the most left-handed teams in the majors, and the majority of their power — Chase Utley, Ryan Howard, Raúl Ibáñez — is left-handed. For Lannan, a lefty, only the first
part should be a problem. But Lannan might be one of the shakiest regular starting pitchers —left-handed or right-handed —
against lefties in baseball. Left-handers have an .840 OPS against Lannan in his career. Among left-handed pitchers, only Brian Burres, of the Orioles, has allowed a higher OPS versus left-handers since 2007. His OPS against left-handers is .843, and he only pitched 61
⁄3 major league
innings last season. One of Lannan’s primary focuses
this offseason was developing his slider in a way he could utilize it against lefties. He threw one Monday to Howard, and he launched it into the upper deck in right. The home run gave the Phillies the lead and led to a short day for Lannan.
—Adam Kilgore
K.Johnson 2b 4000 0 0 .000 Haren p
Heilman p G.Parra ph Howry p
Totals
3 1 0 0 0 2 .000 0000 0 0 --- 1 0 0 0 0 1 .000 0000 0 0 ---
33 6 8 6 3 8 —
San Diego 000 000 102 —352 Arizona
202 200 00x —680
E: Headley (1), E.Cabrera (1). LOB: San Diego 2, Arizona 6. 2B: Ad.Gonzalez (1), Headley (1). HR: Ad.Gonzalez (1), off Howry; Blanks (1), off Howry; M.Reyn- olds (1), off Garland; S.Drew (1), off Gar- land.
San Diego
Stauffer
Gallagher
Arizona
Garland (L, 0-1) 4 5 6 2 2 4 4.50 Mujica
IP H R ER BB SO ERA
1 1 0 0 0 1 0.00
2 2 0 0 1 2 0.00 1 0 0 0 0 1 0.00
IP H R ER BB SO ERA
Haren (W, 1-0) 7 3 1 1 0 4 1.29 Heilman Howry
T: 2:31. A: 49,192 (48,633).
1 0 0 0 0 2 0.00 1 2 2 2 0 0 18.0
MARINERS 5, ATHLETICS 3
Monday’s late game
Casey Kotchman hit a go- ahead two-run single with two outs in the ninth inning to go along with two earlier RBI in an impressive Seattle debut, lift- ing the Mariners to a season- opening victory against Oak- land. Kotchman hit an RBI double in the first and a third-inning sacrifice fly that staked ace Fe- lix Hernandez to a 3-0 lead Se- attle couldn’t keep to get him the win.
Seattle
I.Suzuki rf Figgins 2b
Kotchman 1b Bradley lf
Griffey Jr. dh Byrnes pr-dh Jo.Lopez 3b
AB R H BI BBSO AVG
4 1 1 0 1 1 .250 3 2 0 0 2 1 .000 4 0 2 4 0 1 .500 3 0 0 0 2 2 .000 3 0 1 0 1 0 .333 0 0 0 0 0 0 --- 4 0 0 0 0 2 .000
F.Gutierrez cf 4 0 1 0 0 1 .250 Ro.Johnson c J.Wilson ss
Totals
Oakland
R.Davis cf Barton 1b
R.Sweeney rf Kouzmanoff 3b K.Suzuki c
E.Chavez dh Ellis 2b
T.Buck lf
Pennington ss
Totals
Seattle Oakland
2 2 1 1 2 0 .500 3 0 0 0 0 0 .000
30 5 6 5 8 8 — AB R H BI BBSO AVG
4 1 2 1 0 1 .500 1 0 0 0 3 0 .000 4 0 1 1 0 0 .250 4 0 0 0 0 0 .000 3 0 0 0 1 0 .000 4 0 0 0 0 1 .000 2 1 0 0 2 1 .000 3 1 0 0 1 2 .000 3 0 2 1 0 1 .667
28 3 5 3 7 6 —
111 000 002 — 5 6 1 000 001 200 — 3 5 4
E: J.Wilson (1), Kouzmanoff (1), Barton (1), K.Suzuki 2 (2). LOB: Seattle 8, Oak- land 5. 2B: Kotchman (1), Griffey Jr. (1). HR: Ro.Johnson (1), off Sheets.
Seattle
F.Hernandez 6C 3 3 3 6 4 4.05 White
IP H R ER BB SO ERA
B 2 0 0 0 0 0.00
League (W, 1-0) 1 0 0 0 1 0 0.00 Aardsma (S, 1) 1 0 0 0 0 2 0.00
Oakland
Sheets Blevins Breslow
IP H R ER BB SO ERA
5 4 3 2 4 3 3.60 2 0 0 0 2 3 0.00 C 1 0 0 0 0 0.00
Ziegler (L, 0-1) 1 0 2 0 2 1 0.00 A.Bailey
B 1 0 0 0 1 0.00
Inherited runners-scored: White 2-2, Ziegler 1-0, A.Bailey 2-2. IBB: off Ziegler (I.Suzu- ki). WP: F.Hernandez, Sheets. T: 2:47. A: 30,686 (35,067).
Orioles blow lead in ninth, lose season opener to Rays
by Jeff Zrebiec
Baltimore Sun
STEVE NESIUS/ASSOCIATED PRESS
Brian Roberts, left, walks off the field as Tampa Bay’s Carl Crawford celebrates his game-winning bases-loaded single in the ninth inning.
st. petersburg, fla. – Mi-
chael Gonzalez said all spring that he would be a different pitcher once the bright lights of the regular season came on. The velocity, low enough to generate concern all spring, would in- crease. The command that just wasn’t there for the previous five weeks would improve. The spotlight couldn’t have shined any more on the Orioles’ new closer. Trying to protect a one-run lead and a potentially satisfying opening day victory at sold out Tropicana Field, Gon- zalez faltered in his first save op- portunity. Carl Crawford lined a one-out bases-loaded single to right field to score two runs and send the Tampa Bay Rays pouring out of the dugout to celebrate a dramatic 4-3 victory . It couldn’t have been a more painful ending for the Orioles in what they hope will be a much- improved team. Relievers Matt Albers, Will Ohman and Jim Johnson had all done their job af- ter starter Kevin Millwood ran out of gas in the sixth inning with two men on and no outs and the
Orioles leading by just one. Gonzalez, who was signed to a
two-year, $12 million deal this offseason to secure games like this one, will shoulder much of the blame for the defeat. But in reality, it should have never got- ten to that point where the Ori- oles needed the reliever to get the final three outs under the con- straints of a one-run lead. The Orioles got solo homers by Adam Jones, Felix Pie and Matt Wieters, but they went a woeful 1 for 12 with runners in scoring po- sition. They had runners on sec- ond and third with no outs in both the fourth inning and the ninth and came up with no runs. The final missed opportunity came when Miguel Tejada lined out with the bases loaded to end the ninth. Tejada, who finished 0 for 5 but did make a couple of nice plays in his first career game at third, threw his hands up in the air in frustration. Gonzalez got the first out of the ninth by striking out Pat Burrell, but Sean Rodriguez followed with a single and then pinch hit- ter Kelly Shoppach doubled off the left-field wall, just missing a homer by a couple of feet. The Orioles intentionally walked Ja- son Bartlett to load the bases
with one out and set up a lefty- lefty matchup between Gonzalez and Crawford. It backfired as Crawford jumped on Gonzalez’s second pitch. Right fielder Nick Marka- kis’ throw home was late and off line and the Rays celebrated. After introductions and the normal Opening Day pomp and circumstance, the Orioles 2010 season officially got underway at 7:11 p.m. Orioles leadoff man Bri- an Roberts, whose status for the season was in doubt because of a herniated disk in his back, didn’t waste any time, hacking at James Shields’ first pitch and flying out. Adam Jones followed with the Orioles’ first hit, a missile that caromed off the base of the center field wall for a double. Shields stranded Jones to end a first in- ning where the Rays ace threw just six pitches. Making his seventh opening
day starter, Millwood also dodged trouble in the first. Ben Zobrist laced a two-out double and Mill- wood quickly fell behind 3-0 to Evan Longoria. However, he worked back in the count and then got Longoria to swing through a 91 mile per hour fast- ball for the third strike.
jeff.zrebiec@baltsun.com
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