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Monday’s 6-pack
Major league leaders in RBI:
37— Jose Ramirez Clev, Pete Alonso NYM
35— Giancarlo Stanton NYY
32— Nolan Arenado StL, CJ Cron Colo, Rowdy Tellez Milw
31— Aaron Judge NYY
29— JTurner LA, Goldschmidt StL, Story Bos, TTurner LA
28— Ty France Sea, Shohei Ohtani LAA
Quote of the Day
“Even a broken clock is right twice a day.”
Stephen Hunt
Monday’s quiz
The two coaches in the Dallas-Golden State series both played college ball in the Pac-12; Steve Kerr played at Arizona. Where did Jason Kidd go to college?
Sunday’s quiz
In the old USFL in the 80’s, Steve Spurrier coached the Tampa Bay Bandits.
Saturday’s quiz
Hall of Famer Dick Williams was the first manager to lead the San Diego Padres to a World Series, in 1984.
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Monday’s Den: Wrapping up a sports weekend……..
13) Turns out it was a bad beat Sunday:
— Mariners-Red Sox had a 9.5 total; game was 4-4 in 10th inning, after Red Sox blew a 3-2 ninth inning lead. Boston has bases loaded in 10th; Franchy Cordero hits a walk-off grand slam to put the game over the total.
— Phillies 4, Dodgers 3 (10)— LA led 3-2 and were one out away from a win; Phillies had bases loaded, but hit a routine ground ball to 2B Max Muncy, who booted the ball and two runs scored. Ugly loss.
— Twins 7, Royals 6— Kansas City led 6-0 after seven innings, but their bullpen imploded.
12) Orioles 7, Rays 6 (11)— Tampa Bay led 6-3 in 7th inning, blew the lead, then lost in extra frames, Orioles’ third walk-off win in the last four days.
Tampa Bay has still won 22 of last 25 games vs Baltimore, but lost two of three this weekend.
11) New Jersey 26, Houston 25— Generals scored on a QB sneak on last play of the game, third week in a row Houston lost in the last 0:05. New Jersey has won five games in a row.
Houston has led all six of its games at halftime, but lost the last five.
10) USFL is fun to watch; it isn’t the NFL, the QB play just isn’t there, but the coaching is very good, you can learn a lot of football by listening (they allow more access) and the players bust their butts to try and win. It’ll be be better when they get to their various cities and fans go to the games. Football with no fans is……..odd.
Through six weeks, 17 of 24 USFL games have been decided by nine or fewer points.
9) Sunday was the 24th anniversary of the day Andre Dawson was intentionally walked five times in the same game; first four times, Cincinnati got the next guy out, but the Cubs finally won the game in the 16th inning, after Dawson’s fifth intentional pass.
8) This is part of why hitting is more difficult now; Seattle’s Ty France batted five times the other night in Boston, but those five AB’s came against four different pitchers. Hitting is lot more difficult when you only see a pitcher once.
7) Nolan Ryan was a Hall of Fame pitcher, threw seven no-hitters; how the hell did he lose 292 games in his career? His record was 324-292, striking out 5,714 hitters in 5,386 IP. Ryan threw 222 complete games in his career. How did he lose 292 games?
6) Injury stuff:
— Cards’ P Steven Matz (shoulder) left Sunday’s game after 4 pitches.
— Bronx reliever Chad Green is set to have Tommy John surgery
— Brewers put P Freddy Peralta (shoulder) on the IL.
— Tampa Bay put reliever Andrew Kittredge (back) on the IL.
5) If the baseball playoffs started today (they do not):
— NL Mets, Brewers, Dodgers. Wild Cards: Padres, Cardinals, Giants
— AL New York, Twins, Astros. Wild Cards: Angels, Rays, Blue Jays
4) Pitchers Taylor/Tyler Rogers are the 10th set of twin brothers who both made it to the major leagues; Taylor is San Diego’s closer, Tyler is a reliever with the Giants.
3) Colorado catcher Brian Serven got his first two big league hits Saturday; they were both home runs. He is 3-10 in first three big league games; apparently in his first game with Colorado, Serven hit a foul ball into the stands, and his mother caught it, which doesn’t happen a lot.
2) Michigan basketball coach Juwan Howard turned down a chance to interview for the Lakers’ vacant coaching job; Lakers’ GM Rob Pelinka was a Michigan teammate of Howard, who has some NBA coaching experience as an assistant with Miami.
1) Warriors 109, Mavericks 100:
— Wiggins scored 27 points, was +22 in 40:00 he played.
— That means Dallas was +13 in the 8:00 Wiggins was on the bench.
— Luka Doncic scored 40 points, grabbed 11 rebounds.
— Golden State leads this series, 3-0
— No NBA team has ever won a playoff series after trailing 3-0.
