Wednesday’s 6-pack
Las Vegas Raiders’ last six head coaches:
2025— Pete Carroll, 3-14
2023-24— Antonio Pierce, 9-17
2022-23— Josh McDaniels, 9-16
2021— Rich Bisaccia, 7-5
2018-21— Jon Gruden, 22-31
2015-17— Jack Del Rio, 25-23
Quote of the Day
“I’ll get to the bottom of this……if I have to go all the way to the top.”
Colonel Flagg, M*A*S*H*
Wednesday’s quiz
In the great TV show The Odd Couple, Oscar/Felix share ownership of a greyhound dog that ran in Florida. What was the dog’s name?
Tuesday’s quiz
In the movie The Natural, the baseball scenes were filmed in Buffalo.
Monday’s quiz
Mets 2B Marcus Semien has been in the major leagues for 14 years; he broke into the big leagues with the Chicago White Sox.
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Ivan Herrera hit a walk-off homer for St Louis.
Pirates had tied the game with two runs in the ninth.
Cardinals are 7-1 in extra-inning games.
— Nationals 9, Mets 6
James Wood hit an inside-the-park grand slam.
Mets led this game 5-0 in the second inning.
Bo Bichette homered twice, had four RBI.
— Brewers 5, Cubs 2
Jacob Misiorowski allowed three hits in six shutout IP.
Brice Turang homered, was 3-for-4, scored twice.
— Rays 4, Orioles 1
Yandy Diaz had a home run and a double.
Griffin Jax allowed one run in his five IP.
Tampa Bay is 12-2 against its AL East rivals.
— Major League leaders in runs scored:
49- James Wood
40- Aaron Judge
39- Brice Turang, Drake Baldwin
— Famous birthdays, May 20th:
Leroy Kelly, 84
Cher, 80
Dave Thomas, 77
Terry Nelson, 75
Wendell Tyler, 71
Bill Willoughby, 69
David Wells, 63
Timothy Olyphant, 58
Jayson Werth, 47
JT Ginn, 27
— Mets have already played 10 extra inning games; they’re 6-4 in extra inning games, 5-9 in one-run games.
— Nationals are 14-20 vs righty starting pitchers, 10-5 vs lefties.
NBA conference finals:
— Spurs 122, Thunder 115, 2OT’s
Victor Wembanyama had 41 points, 24 rebounds.
Dylan Harper had 24 points, seven steals.
Spurs are 5-1 vs Oklahoma City this season.
San Antonio leads series, 1-0
— Knicks 115, Cavaliers 104, OT
Cleveland led 93-71 with 7:52 left in the game.
Very bad beat if you had the Cavaliers, +6.5.
Knicks were +25 in the 17:00 that Landry Shamet played.
Knicks lead the series, 1-0.
— Movie of the Day: Fast Break (1979)- Gabe Kaplan plays a guy who runs a New York City deli, but he really wants to be a basketball coach. He writes a lot of letters trying to get a job coaching; finally, an obscure school in Nevada hires him.
Former NBA star Bernard King is one of the players he recruits, as is former UCLA player Michael Warren. Former UCLA coach Jim Harrick is the basketball advisor for this movie; he has a non-speaking role during the climactic game at the end.
— Managing a fantasy baseball team is more fun than rooting for a team, because I have a say about what goes on with my team. Rooting for the A’s, a team that doesn’t really try to win, is aggravating on many levels. At least in fantasy baseball, if my team loses it is my fault.
Problem is, sometimes you wake in the morning and see that the catcher you traded for went on the Injured List with an oblique injury; not good. First game he played for my team, he got hurt, second time that happened in the last week.
Oy.
— White Sox 2, Mariners 1
White Sox scored two runs in the top of the 9th.
Chicago has won eight of its last ten games.
Seattle didn’t have a hit after the first inning.
— Dodgers 5, Padres 4
Freddie Freeman homered twice, had three RBI.
Six Dodger relievers combined to throw five shutout IP.
Dodgers take over first place by half a game over the Padres.
— Diamondbacks 5, Giants 3
Ketel Marte hit a walk-off three-run homer.
Arizona is 24-23, 8-7 in one-run games.
Giants slip to 20-29, 10-17 on the road.
— Reds 4, Phillies 1
Chase Burns struck out nine guys in six IP.
Burns is 6-1, 1.83 this year; he was 0-3, 4.57 last year.
Kyle Schwarber (illness) sat out his second straight game.
— If the baseball playoffs started today (they don’t):
NL: Braves, Brewers, Padres. Wild Cards: Padres-Cardinals-Cubs
AL: Rays, Guardians, A’s. Wild Cards: New York-White Sox-Rangers
Las Vegas Raiders’ last six head coaches:
2025— Pete Carroll, 3-14
2023-24— Antonio Pierce, 9-17
2022-23— Josh McDaniels, 9-16
2021— Rich Bisaccia, 7-5
2018-21— Jon Gruden, 22-31
2015-17— Jack Del Rio, 25-23
Quote of the Day
“I’ll get to the bottom of this……if I have to go all the way to the top.”
Colonel Flagg, M*A*S*H*
Wednesday’s quiz
In the great TV show The Odd Couple, Oscar/Felix share ownership of a greyhound dog that ran in Florida. What was the dog’s name?
Tuesday’s quiz
In the movie The Natural, the baseball scenes were filmed in Buffalo.
Monday’s quiz
Mets 2B Marcus Semien has been in the major leagues for 14 years; he broke into the big leagues with the Chicago White Sox.
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Wednesday’s Den: Mid-week musings…….
— Cardinals 9, Pirates 6 (10)Ivan Herrera hit a walk-off homer for St Louis.
Pirates had tied the game with two runs in the ninth.
Cardinals are 7-1 in extra-inning games.
— Nationals 9, Mets 6
James Wood hit an inside-the-park grand slam.
Mets led this game 5-0 in the second inning.
Bo Bichette homered twice, had four RBI.
— Brewers 5, Cubs 2
Jacob Misiorowski allowed three hits in six shutout IP.
Brice Turang homered, was 3-for-4, scored twice.
— Rays 4, Orioles 1
Yandy Diaz had a home run and a double.
Griffin Jax allowed one run in his five IP.
Tampa Bay is 12-2 against its AL East rivals.
— Major League leaders in runs scored:
49- James Wood
40- Aaron Judge
39- Brice Turang, Drake Baldwin
— Famous birthdays, May 20th:
Leroy Kelly, 84
Cher, 80
Dave Thomas, 77
Terry Nelson, 75
Wendell Tyler, 71
Bill Willoughby, 69
David Wells, 63
Timothy Olyphant, 58
Jayson Werth, 47
JT Ginn, 27
— Mets have already played 10 extra inning games; they’re 6-4 in extra inning games, 5-9 in one-run games.
— Nationals are 14-20 vs righty starting pitchers, 10-5 vs lefties.
NBA conference finals:
— Spurs 122, Thunder 115, 2OT’s
Victor Wembanyama had 41 points, 24 rebounds.
Dylan Harper had 24 points, seven steals.
Spurs are 5-1 vs Oklahoma City this season.
San Antonio leads series, 1-0
— Knicks 115, Cavaliers 104, OT
Cleveland led 93-71 with 7:52 left in the game.
Very bad beat if you had the Cavaliers, +6.5.
Knicks were +25 in the 17:00 that Landry Shamet played.
Knicks lead the series, 1-0.
— Movie of the Day: Fast Break (1979)- Gabe Kaplan plays a guy who runs a New York City deli, but he really wants to be a basketball coach. He writes a lot of letters trying to get a job coaching; finally, an obscure school in Nevada hires him.
Former NBA star Bernard King is one of the players he recruits, as is former UCLA player Michael Warren. Former UCLA coach Jim Harrick is the basketball advisor for this movie; he has a non-speaking role during the climactic game at the end.
— Managing a fantasy baseball team is more fun than rooting for a team, because I have a say about what goes on with my team. Rooting for the A’s, a team that doesn’t really try to win, is aggravating on many levels. At least in fantasy baseball, if my team loses it is my fault.
Problem is, sometimes you wake in the morning and see that the catcher you traded for went on the Injured List with an oblique injury; not good. First game he played for my team, he got hurt, second time that happened in the last week.
Oy.
— White Sox 2, Mariners 1
White Sox scored two runs in the top of the 9th.
Chicago has won eight of its last ten games.
Seattle didn’t have a hit after the first inning.
— Dodgers 5, Padres 4
Freddie Freeman homered twice, had three RBI.
Six Dodger relievers combined to throw five shutout IP.
Dodgers take over first place by half a game over the Padres.
— Diamondbacks 5, Giants 3
Ketel Marte hit a walk-off three-run homer.
Arizona is 24-23, 8-7 in one-run games.
Giants slip to 20-29, 10-17 on the road.
— Reds 4, Phillies 1
Chase Burns struck out nine guys in six IP.
Burns is 6-1, 1.83 this year; he was 0-3, 4.57 last year.
Kyle Schwarber (illness) sat out his second straight game.
— If the baseball playoffs started today (they don’t):
NL: Braves, Brewers, Padres. Wild Cards: Padres-Cardinals-Cubs
AL: Rays, Guardians, A’s. Wild Cards: New York-White Sox-Rangers
