Baseball Musings
Baseball Musings
August 08, 2003
Games of the Day

Seattle at NY offers a matchup between the teams with the two best records in the American League. Not a great pitching matchup as Franklin faces Weaver. Something else to think about as these two teams face off, however, is that we have a chance at an interesting four-way tie at the end of the season between NY, Boston, Seattle and Oakland. Let's assume that happen and all finish ahead of the Central winner. Normally, when two teams tie for the division lead and either would be the wild card, the one with the better head-to-head record gets the division. But in this case, that wouldn't be true. So you'd have to have a 1-game playoff for the division. Then the losers (because they would still be tied) would have to have a one game playoff for the wild card! That would be so cool.

The A's visit the windy city to take on the surging White Sox. It's the battle of the lefty Marks as Mulder faces Buehrle. Mulder has never lost to the A's, and Buehrle is 1-5 vs. the A's.

In San Francisco, a potential first round playoff preview as the Phillies send Randy Wolf vs. the Giants Jesse Foppert. Foppert is 3-1 over his last five games, but has not pitched well, posting a 6.20 ERA. Foppert gets hit hard by lefties, and the Phillies show a lot of power vs. righties, so I don't expect his ERA to go down much tonight.


Posted by David Pinto at 01:36 PM | Games | TrackBack (0)