Pennants are not won in April, they are lost. Cincinnati Reds I'm looking at you! Starting out the season having the St. Louis Cardinals taking two of three from you at home is forgivable. Going into New York and having the Mets take the first two games from you almost inexcusable. I will assume the Reds can avoid the sweep at the hands of the Mets but going into St. Louis for the next series, the feeling has to be that one out of three won't be enough.
In the dogfight that the NL Central will be for playoff seeding, the Pittsburgh Pirates were gifted two series with the Chicago Cubs with the St Louis Cardinals sandwiched in the middle. Anything less than 6-3 for the Pirates should be considered a failure to start the season. I would have waited until then before I extended the contracts of General manager Neal Huntington and manager Clint Hurdle.
Tonight's pitching lines from the Mariners Felix Hernandez (8.1 IP 6 hits 1 run 8 K's) and the Marlins Jose Fernandez (6.2 IP 3 hits 0 runs 8 K's) make me really hope the two pitchers face off against each other when their respective teams play a three game series April 18 through 20th.
The Boston Red Sox page on MLB.com only allows me to go back to 2000. This is the first time in the new millennium that the Red Sox have lost their 1st two home games of a season.
The last undefeated team in the MLB is the Detroit Tigers. That in and of itself is not that shocking. The fact they are only 4-0 and are the last perfect team is the surprising part.
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