The first 9 outs St. Louis Cardinals starting pitcher Michael Wacha recorded on Wednesday were strikeouts. As impressive as that is any and every time I read his name here's what instantly goes through my mind "waka, waka, waka"
Dictionary.com defines the word "Pinata" as " a gaily decorated crock or papier-mâché figure filled with toys, candy, etc., and suspended from above...so that children, who are blindfolded, may break it or knock it down with sticks and release the contents." New York Yankees starting pitcher Michael Pineda deserves his own Pinata, so many baseball purists would love to knock the pine tar out of him.
Internet high five to the Texas Rangers for their sweep three game sweep of the Oakland Athletics. The A's had not lost back to back games all year and now travel to Houston for a 4 game set. The A's had just swept the Astros before being whitewashed by the Rangers. Meanwhile the Rangers head to Seattle for a weekend series, trying to match their season high five game win streak. During their first five game win streak, three of those wins were against the Mariners.
Speaking of the Seattle Mariners, they are one of three teams that avoided sweeps in their respective series by winning Wednesday night. Kyle Seager may have earned himself a bobblehead night with a two homerun game with the second one being of the walk-off variety.
The San Francisco Giants, after being outpitched the first two games of the series, decided to try to beat the Colorado Rockies with the long ball. The Giants hit 6 homeruns with the 6th being a grand slam in the 11th. Sigh, I stand by my prediction if the Rockies pitching can become mediocre, they will make the playoffs.
Lastly, the Washington Nationals avoided the sweep to the Los Angeles Angels thanks to 9th inning meltdown in the Angels bullpen. On paper, the rosters of the Nationals and Angels coulda/shoulda/woulda be World Series bound. I won't hold my breathe.
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