Last Updated on June 7, 2007 9:51 am by admin
SCOREBOARD
Friday, June 8
Houston at Chicago White Sox (8:11 p.m. EDT). The Astros and White Sox meet in a rematch of the 2005 World Series.
STARS
Wednesday
– Justin Verlander and Gary Sheffield, Tigers. Verlander threw seven shutout innings and Sheffield had a pair of homers and five RBIs in a 10-0 win at Texas.
– Carl Crawford, Devil Rays, drove in four runs and Tampa Bay won 6-2 over Toronto.
– Chien-Ming Wang, Yankees, threw a five-hitter, leading New York to a 5-1 win in Chicago.
– Jimmy Rollins, Phillies, hit a go-ahead, three-run homer in the seventh inning, rallying Philadelphia to a 4-2 victory over New York.
– Brandon Webb and Chris Young, Diamondbacks. Young hit a solo homer a night after his game-ending shot in the 10th and Webb threw seven scoreless innings in Arizona’s 1-0 win over San Francisco.
500
Trevor Hoffman became the first major leaguer with 500 career saves when he closed out the San Diego Padres’ 5-2 victory over the Dodgers on Wednesday night. Hoffman set the career record with his 479th save on Sept. 28 against Pittsburgh, breaking Lee Smith’s old mark of 478. Hoffman finished 2006 season with 482.
LIFTOFF
Roger Clemens appeared set to make his 2007 major league debut Saturday against the Pittsburgh Pirates after throwing 54 pitches during batting practice at the New York Yankees’ minor league complex Wednesday. The seven-time Cy Young Award winner made 21 throws in the outfield and eight warmup tosses Wednesday before his 20-minute batting practice session against players from the Yankees’ extended spring training team.
SIDELINED
The Chicago White Sox placed third baseman Joe Crede on the 15-day disabled list because of lower back inflammation on Wednesday. The 29-year-old Crede has a history of back problems, and it’s been a nagging issue all season. After deciding not to have offseason surgery to repair two herniated discs, he is hitting .216 with four homers and 22 RBIs – a steep drop from last year when he batted .283 with 30 homers and 94 RBIs.
BOUNCE BACK
tained a cut lip and went to a hospital for stitches.
SLUMPING
The New York Mets lost their season-high third straight and fourth in five games, 4-2 to Philadelphia on Wednesday. … The White Sox have lost nine of 11 after a 5-1 loss to New York. … Texas lost 10-0 to Detroit and have lost 11 of 14, leaving them with the worst record in the major leagues at 21-38.
STREAKING
Philadelphia’s Adam Eaton improved to 5-0 with a 1.98 ERA in his career against the Mets after a 4-2 win on Wednesday. … St. Louis has won six of seven and pulled five games behind first-place Milwaukee in the NL Central with a 6-4 win over Cincinnati. … Arizona won for the 11th time in 12 games, 1-0 at home against San Francisco.
SNAPPED
Luis Castillo’s major league-record errorless streak for second basemen ended at 143 games in Minnesota’s 8-5 win over Los Angeles.
SPEAKING
ugs will be taken into account.
SEASONS
June 8
1940 – Harry Craft of Cincinnati connected for a home run, a triple, a double and two singles in seven at-bats to lead a 27-hit attack as the Reds pounded the Dodgers 23-2 at Brooklyn.
1950 – The Boston Red Sox beat the St. Louis Browns 29-4 at Fenway Park and set major league records for runs scored; most long hits, 17 (nine doubles, one triple and seven homers); most total bases, 60; most extra bases on long hits, 32; most runs over two games, 49; most hits in two games, 51, including 28 this game.
1968 – Howie Bedell’s sacrifice fly in the fifth inning ended Don Drysdale’s record streak of 58 2-3 consecutive scoreless innings. The Los Angeles Dodgers beat the Philadelphia Phillies 5-3.
1969 – The New York Yankees’ No. 7 was retired on Mickey Mantle Day. A crowd of 60,096 came to Yankee Stadium to honor Mantle and watched the Yankees sweep the Chicago White Sox 3-1 and 11-2.
1996 – Warren Morris hit a two-run homer with two outs in the bottom of the ninth inning to give Louisiana State a 9-8 victory over Miami in the championship game of the College World Series.
2001 – Damion Easley became the ninth Detroit player to hit for the cycle as the Tigers beat Milwaukee 9-4. Easley hit an RBI double in the third inning, a three-run homer in Detroit’s six-run fifth, a single in the sixth and a triple in the eighth.
2005 – Yankees third baseman Alex Rodriguez became the youngest member of the 400-homer club when he hit a solo shot in the eighth inning of New York’s 12-3 win over Milwaukee.
Today’s birthdays: Pete Orr, 28; Kenji Johjima, 31.