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September 5, 2013

Extra! Extra!

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Players don’t often get a chance to hit two home runs in extra innings, but Matt Adams broke an 0 for 17 slump with a home run in the 14th for the Cardinals and another in the 16th as St. Louis beats Cincinnati 5-4. Adams gave the Cardinals a 4-3 lead in the fourteenth inning, but for the second night in a row, a Ryan Ludwick single led to Billy Hamilton entering the game, stealing second, and scoring on a single. Hamilton has yet to record a plate appearance, but scored two runs in two games! That set up Adams’s 16th inning home run, which did hold up.

The innings data from the Day by Day Database goes back to 1974, and this was just the third time in the regular season that someone hit two home runs in extra innings, but the second time this season. Mike Young accomplished the feat on 5/28/1987, and John Mayberry repeated it three months ago, on 6/4/2013.

The Cardinals, will leave Cincinnati with the first wild slot in hand.

July 31, 2011

Adams, Not Bell

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I saw a report that the Rangers acquired Heath Bell, but the official word just came down, and instead Texas picked up the Padres’ Mike Adams:

The Rangers will control Adams through next season, which is one of the reasons they targeted him over Padres closer Heath Bell. He is making $2.53 million this season and should likely jump to the $4-5 million range for next season.

Adams allowed two home runs and and nine walks in 48 innings while striking out 49 this season. He’s good on the road, too, so his numbers are not that inflated by PETCO Park.

The Rangers give up LHP Robbie Erlin and RHP Joe Wieland. Both are young propects with high strikeout rates and low walk rates in the minors. A nice deal for both teams, as Texas should have shortened their games to six innings with their bullpen acquisitions.

September 7, 2010

Padres Win

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What a relief! The Padres break their ten-game losing streak with a bullpen only game. Tim Stauffer makes his second emergency start of the season, allowing one run over four innings. Six more relievers held the Dodgers to one run over the last five innings as San Diego won 4-2. Mike Adams gets the win as the most effective reliever on the night. He was the sixth man to take the mound, but pitched 1 2/3 innings while walking one and striking out three. He’s been consistently great over the last three seasons, allowing a .176/.239/.264 slash line since the start of the 2008 season. One thing the Padres do well as an organization is find relievers who are consistently good over multiple seasons.

The offense didn’t exactly light things up, going one for seven with men in scoring position and 7 for 30 over all. The Dodgers out hit and out walked them, but San Diego scored two runs on outs, and that was the difference.