I ain't what I used to be, but who the hell is?
-- Dizzy Dean
The Angels beat the Yankees, maintaining their 3.5 game lead on Oakland, who won yet again. The Bombers fall to 2.5 behind the Red Sox, and they'll be trotting out their 13th different starting pitcher this afternoon: Johnson 22, Mussina 22, Pavano 17, Brown 13, Wang 12, Wright 4, Leiter 3, Henn 3, Small 2, Sturtze 1, May 1, Redding 1.
Hideo Nomo, Jobu, the Stottlemyre family... all waiting their turn.
Oakland's opened up 1.5 game lead over the Yankees in the Wild Card chase. The Twins are 2 games back.
In the NL, the Nats keep losing and the Braves keep winning. Atlanta's lead is now up to 4 games in the division, and Washington is also a game behind the Astros in the hunt for the Wild Card.
And in the division it is my sad duty to report on every couple of weeks... it's come to this. The first place Padres have sagged to a game below .500 and are bringing in Chan Ho Park to bail out their rotation.
And when you're trying to make sense of all the trade rumours, here's a pointer from Will Carroll:
"Watch the language teams use closely. One report I read stated that two teams hadn't spoken. E-mail's a pretty cool invention."
I'll be at the ballpark today for Dustin McGowan's debut. And then I'm going to disappear for a few days. I'll be back on Wednesday.
The Saturday sched:
AL
Chicago (Contreras 6-6, 4.36) at Baltimore (Cabrera 8-8, 4.67) 1:15
Los Angeles (Washburn 6-6, 3.28) at New York (Chacon 1-7, 4.09) 1:15
Detroit (Robertson 5-8, 3.52) at Oakland (Zito 9-8, 3.59) 4:05
Cleveland (Sabathia 6-8, 5.24) at Seattle (Franklin 5-11, 4.71) 4:05
Texas (Benoit 2-1, 2.00) at Toronto (McGowan 0-0, 0.00) 4:07
Kansas City (Greinke 3-12, 6.05) at Tampa Bay (Waechter 3-6, 5.30) 6:15
Minnesota (Lohse 7-9, 4.45) at Boston (Arroyo 8-6, 4.26) 7:05
NL
Washington (Patterson 4-2, 2.58) at Florida (Burnett 7-6, 3.48) 1:15
St.Louis (Suppan 9-7, 4.16) at Los Angeles (Lowe 7-10, 3.81) 4:05
Arizona (Gosling 0-2, 4.13) at Chicago (Hill 0-0, 4.22) 4:05
San Francisco (Schmidt 7-5, 4.53) at Milwaukee (Sheets 6-7, 3.45) 7:05
Pittsburgh (Redman 5-10, 3.99) at Atlanta (Davies 4-3, 4.32) 7:05
New York (Glavine 7-8, 4.69) at Houston (Pettitte 8-7, 2.73) 7:05
Philadelphia (Lidle 8-9, 4.63) at Colorado (Cook 0-0, 0.00) 8:05
Cincinnati (Harang 6-9, 3.97) at San Diego (Lawrence 5-10, 4.21) 10:05
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