Posted on 09/17/2013 3:24:30 PM PDT by campaignPete R-CT
THE WILD SIDE: It's a scramble for the two AL wild-card spots, with a half-dozen teams trying to claim them. Texas, Cleveland and Tampa Bay are at the top, but wobbling.
Pinch-hitter Justin Morneau's single sent Pittsburgh over the Cubs 3-2 Sunday, leaving the Pirates even with St. Louis for the NL Central lead.
WHAT'S THE FORECAST?: Wicked weather always seems to wreak havoc at the end of the season. Cleveland waited out a rain delay of nearly 4 1/2 hours in Chicago before beating the White Sox 7-1 Sunday night. Just watch - somewhere, a storm will sweep into another stadium at the most inopportune time.
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Alex Rios hits for the cycle!
Congrats to the Pirates, I hope they win the WC card game against Dusty “the arm mangler” Baker. Big year for them, AJ Burnett a few days ago became the first Pirate pitcher to ever K 200 in a season.
Congrats to Rios as well, I wish he would he had done it in a W Sox uniform.
He was gonna be out for the CCeason next week anyway along with the rest of his team.
Burnett became the first Pirate hurler to K 200 in a season since Oliver Perez in 2004. And Bob Veale did it 4 times in the 1960s.
Well that’s what MLB network (the guy almost sounded like he didn’t believe it) told me and other outlets are repeating it.
http://www.kffl.com/gnews.php?id=872211-pirates-a.j.-burnett-reaches-200-strikeout-mark
What gives? That’s pretty big boner. Looking it up, Perez had 239!
Well, Burnett is the first post-1900 Pirate *righthander* to strike out 200 batters, so maybe what they were saying was a bit more nuanced than you remember.
HA!
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