Category: Linescores of the Day

David Eckstein, St. Louis Cardinals

5-7 leadoff man David Eckstein hit a one out grand slam in the bottom of the 9th off Atlanta reliever Chris Reitsma to turn a 3-1 loss into a 5-3 Cardinal winner. Eckstein also doubled, walked twice, and stole a base in the game, not a bad day’s work.

David Dellucci, Texas Rangers

5 AB, 1 R, 3 H, 4 RBI, 1HR

David Dellucci hit his 19th homer of the season last night in leading Texas over the hapless Orioles. Dellucci is having his best all around season. His OPS is over .900 this year. He’s finally been given a chance to play regularly and he’s made the most of the chance.

Olmedo Saenz, Los Angeles Dodgers

5 ab, 1 r, 3 h, 6 rbi, 1 double, 1 HR

The Pirates’ pitching proved to be the cure for yet another poor offensive team last night as the Dodgers lead by Saenz pounded the Buccos. Saenz came into the game in a 1 for 11 slump and broke out of it in a big way. Olmedo’s performance overshadowed the first career homer for Pirates rookie Brad “Big Country” Eldred.

John Patterson, Washington Nationals

9 IP, 4 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 0 BB, 13 K’s (Win)

John Patterson continued to impress Thursday. After struggling for most of the previous 3 seasons the lanky 27 year old Texan seems to have found his stride this season in DC.

BRAD ELDRED — 4 ab, 1 r, 4 h, 3 rbi, 3 doubles, 1 hbp.

Doubled in the 7th to tie the game. Doubled in the 9th to win it.

Rookie Brad Eldred had the best game of his young career.

Eldred went 4-for-4, including a ninth-inning double that scored Rob Mackowiak to give the Pittsburgh Pirates a 9-8 victory over the Padres.

Eldred, who entered Wednesday with four hits in 23 at-bats after hitting .282 with 15 homers and 48 RBI in 54 games at Class AAA Indianapolis, tied the contest in the seventh with an RBI double.

Vladimir Guerrero, Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim

3 for 4, 2 HR, 2 runs, 5 rbis

Tough day to choose a LSOTD.  Fifteen players had 3 or more hits.  And Ortiz had an interesting outing against the Braves.

Vlad is doing his best to reward his fantasy owners with yummy stats after being out with the injury (yeah, I’m sure fantasy owners are foremost on his mind :-P).

Note: You probably won’t see any posts from me for a week or so.  I’m going on a well-deserved vacation.  The site will be left in the capable hands of the Baseball Zealot staff who will be posting in my absence.  I’ve told my wife that we need to schedule stops at wireless cafes so I may peek in and see how things are going. 

until then,

TBZ

 

 

Manny Ramirez, Boston Red Sox

1 for 1, rbi

Manny Ramirez, Boston Red Sox 1 for 1, 1 RBI Sometimes it’s not what you do, but it’s when you do what you do. Putting aside all rumors involving a trade out of Beantown Ramirez came up as a pinch hitter in the bottom of the 8th to deliver an RBI single to break a three-three tie. With two outs Edgar Renteria doubled, the Twins elected to intentionally walk David Ortiz, and the Boston faithful started chanting, “MANNY, MANNY, MANNY”. “Forget about the trade. This is the place I want to be,” Ramirez said. “They want to win. I want to win, too. I’m back.” Ramirez bounced a chopper up the middle to score Edgar Renteria and give the Red Sox their fifth consecutive victory. After Renteria crossed the plate, Ramirez took off his batting helmet and pointed both hands at the crowd in a double-barreled salute. “That’s hard not to get chills when that stuff is happening,” Red Sox manager Terry Francona said. “That’s about as electric as you’ll see it.”

Jonny Gomes, Tampa Bay Devil Rays

3 for 4, 3 HR, 3 runs, 3 rbis

Gomes hit the trifecta Saturday and Tampa Bay even won.  Gomes’ homers were all solo shots which might be indicative of his season.  I have researched this but given that he has 12 homers and only 24 rbis, it wouldn’t surprise me.

Followup:  Ok, I decided to research it a little.  Of the 6 AL players currently with 12 homeruns, Gomes has the least rbis with 24.  Anderson has the most bang for his buck with 68.  The average is 44.

Gomes can forgiven a little since he only has 151 ab.

Adam Dunn, Cincinnati Reds

3 for 5, 2B, 2 HR, 2 runs, 4 rbis

Ten total bases in this game for Dunn.  He accounted for half of the Reds’ offense. 

Dunn’s previous high in homeruns is last years’ 46.  At this pace, he is bound to pass that total.