Wednesday’s MLB Scores and Highlights at BetLM

Wednesday’s MLB Scores and Highlights

Can we breathe now? Look guys, you know what hap­pened in these games, so for­give me if I’m light on the details. We have full break­downs all over the place. I’m still in shock.

Rays 8, Yan­kees 7: Evan Lon­go­ria. Dan John­son. Oh my gods. Did that really hap­pen? [checks] Yes. Yes, it did happen.

Ori­oles 4, Red Sox 3: Con­grat­u­la­tions to Robert F***ing Andino on the cre­ation of his new mid­dle name.

Car­di­nals 8, Astros 0: No doubt about it. Bril­liant per­for­mance by Chris Car­pen­ter. A two-hit shutout. 11Ks. Yes, the Braves col­lapsed, but don’t under­sell the Car­di­nals’ surge. It takes both, and it does a dis­ser­vice to the Car­di­nals to make this all about the Braves gack-job.

Phillies 4, Braves 3: And it was a gack-job, but let’s not be con­tent to call this some episode of mass chok­ing. There were real peo­ple respon­si­ble here. The blown save by Craig Kim­brel in the 9th? The broken-bat sin­gle by Hunter Pence in the 13th? Both are on Fredi Gon­za­lez in my view. Kim­brel was mur­dered this year. Pence should have been walked. I can think of a half dozen games that Fredi’s small-ball, small-brain approach cost the Braves in 2011. And sure, any fan can say the same of his team, and I could say that of any Bobby Cox-led team of the pre­vi­ous 20 years. But Cox wouldn’t have let his team be as tight as these Braves have been the past three or four weeks. Just don’t see that ever hap­pen­ing.  It’s been real, Atlanta, but you didn’t belong in the play­offs in 2011. It’s pretty easy to see that now.

Padres 9, Cubs 2: Four RBI for Will Ven­able as the Padres destroy Ryan Dempster.

Brew­ers 7, Pirates 3: Mil­wau­kee wins its 96th game, which is a fran­chise best. Zack Greinke fin­ishes with an 11–0 home record this year. Which is pretty neat. 0 for 4 night for Braun, so I guess the fact that Jose Reyes left the game early didn’t matter.

Twins 1, Roy­als 0: A Carl Pavano shutout to end the sea­son. Bruce Chen threw eight shutout innings him­self. Maybe the Red Sox should have traded for him a cou­ple of months ago.

Rock­ies 6, Giants 3: The Giants world title defense is over. Can they all shave now?

Nation­als 3, Mar­lins 1: Stephen Strasburg’s late sea­son return is like that episode where Q sends the Enter­prise to another quad­rant to see the Borg, just as a tease of what they’ll have to face in the future. Every­one in the NL East is gonna hate that dude for the next decade.

Rangers 3, Angels 1: Mike Napoli hit two homers. One won­ders where this sea­son would be for the Angels if Napoli still played for them instead of Texas.

Tigers 5, Indi­ans 4: Nice, but the Rangers win means that Detroit has to go to New York to start the ALDS.

Blue Jays 3, White Sox 2: Chris Sale issued two bases loaded walks in the ninth. What an inspir­ing end­ing to the sea­son for the White Sox, my AL Cen­tral pick back in March.

Mets 3, Reds 0: No one cared at all about this game out­side of Jose Reyes tak­ing him­self out of it to guar­an­tee his bat­ting title. How very game-162.

Dodgers 7, Dia­mond­backs 5: Matt Kemp home­red, giv­ing him the home run and RBI crowns. He’s the first Dodger to do that in 70 years.

Ath­let­ics 2, Mariners 0: Gio Gon­za­lez starts the sea­son the way he began it in spring train­ing: dom­i­nantly. Of course on this night he could have thrown a 27-strikeout per­fect game and it may not have led any of the high­lights shows. Thems the breaks.

And another sea­son ends. The day-by-day ho-hum of this fea­ture is no longer oper­a­tive as we head into the Every­thing Frig­gin’ Mat­ters postseason.

I always have mixed feel­ings about this. The play­offs are great, sure. And last night — which was basi­cally play­off base­ball — was fan­tas­tic. Maybe the best night of reg­u­lar sea­son base­ball I can ever remember.

But to me at least the beauty of base­ball is all about those lazy Tues­day nights in June when noth­ing really mat­ters. Base­ball as a con­stant. As some­thing we enjoy all evening but then let go when we go to bed because, hey, there are 15 more games tomor­row, and they’ll help us to for­get our worries.

But that all hap­pened already. It will hap­pen again next year. Now it is over, and it’s time for the edge-of-your-seat stuff.

It’s been great see­ing you all here each morn­ing for our usual non­sense. Thanks for all of the fun folks.

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