A win!!! And a closer who closed in Aceves!

1-3 wahoo!

Rays beat the Tigers 4-2

Rays beat the Red Sox 1-0

Phew! .500 through the month although really it should have been more. That said it could have been less but for a few heroics. Pitching has been pretty good this season, just the bats have only come alive sporadically. Seems like we're splitting every home series 2-1 and every road series 1-2. If we can get a couple of sweeps we should be good.

Mo done for the year tearing his ACL.

Split a two game series with the Cubs last night off the back of another comeback. Much needed.

Seeing as nobody has mentioned it, isn't it great to see the Orioles challenging even at this early stage? Camden Yards is one of the grounds that I'm going to go to when I win the lottery. It's one of those stadiums that's always looked great and is up there on my visit list with the likes of Wrigley Field and the two new New York stadiums. Double header today with Texas that I'm going to tune into I think.

It certainly is!!! I can't believe it's taken so long for the penny to drop that pitching wins ballgames. Over the last few years they've been no higher that 27th in the majors for team ERA and, surprise surprise, have been whipping boys. A new GM, new head coach and an improved pitching staff and the wins are clocking up. I don't think they're strong enough to be in contention at the end of the season but at this point I'll settle for a season above 500. It'll be interesting to see what they do in terms of trades if they still have a chance bit further down the road.



It's a great ballpark, been there a couple of times. Never been to Wrigley or any of the NY parks but went on a tour of Fenway, unfortunatly the Red Sox were on a road trip so didn't get to see a game there. Standing at the bottom of the green monster was pretty cool though.

Sox have passed the beyond help stage. Valentine is struggling, rotation is struggling.

All over the place.

It's a very good start and I think it's good enough to propel them to at keep above .500 to near the All Star break. I was the same a couple of years ago with the Reds but we skipped a year too when we won the NL Central.



That's excellent

rlI first injected Clemens with steroids in 1998rl. Awful news if true, which I expect it is. One of the game's greatest careers just ruined like that. Tragic. I'm on the side of those that says you can't vote somebody into the HoF if they've taken performing enhancing drugs.

Clawing back the lead on the Orioles now. Cano starting to get hot.

Agreed. Couldn't believe the story the other day about the juror being kicked out for falling asleep. If you've got to do jury service surely this is the trial you want. I know it's dragged on a bit but it's got to be the most interesting one out there at the moment.

Go Rays

Don't know what the Reds are doing today. Consecutive innings with errors on basic hits to load the bases with none on. Incredible. Tied game now from SAC fly. The Cuban Missle's first ER allowed this year. Sheesh.