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Monday’s Scores and Highlights

Giants 8, Rock­ies 1: Lince­cum had a no hit­ter into the sev­enth inning. As I was watch­ing it in the den, my wife walked in. She loves Tim Lince­cum, so I said “hey, your boyfriend has a no-hitter going in the sev­enth.”  She said “Is that good?”  I’ve been mar­ried to this woman for almost 16 years and we’ve been together for over 20 and absolutely zero base­ball knowl­edge has rubbed off on her. There’s an aggres­sive, tena­cious amount of igno­rance there, bor­der­ing on the hos­tile. Maybe it’s for the best. If she was into base­ball, she prob­a­bly would try to do some­thing about her Tim Lince­cum fix­a­tion. Timmy struck out 10 in seven and two-thirds.

Indi­ans 7, Roy­als 3: A tight one in reg­u­la­tion between the top two teams in the AL Cen­tral. Though they would pile more runs on in the 10th, Shel­ley Duncan’s RBI dou­ble that inning ended up being the game-winner. So two of the Cal­caterra ladies had rea­son to be happy last night, even though they were both obliv­i­ous of it. My wife because of her active igno­rance of her boyfriend’s even­tu­ally spoiled accom­plish­ment, my daugh­ter because her minor league base­ball crush got his hit after her 8:30 AM bedtime.

Dodgers 4, Braves: 2:   I couldn’t watch all of this one because of the time dif­fer­ence, but I switched to it as soon as Lincecum’s no-hitter was bro­ken up. Thanks to MLB.tv I had my choice of announc­ers. Do I watch my favorite team’s crew, or do I watch the bad guys’ crew? The for­mer is Chip Caray. The lat­ter is Vin Scully. Who do you think I watched?  In the top of the sec­ond inning Scully said the fol­low­ing, and this is an exact quote: “Dan Uggla — U-G-G-L-A. It is a Swedish name, and it means owl.”  You can never go wrong with Scully.

Red Sox 9, Blue Jays 1: I hit this one up yes­ter­day after­noon. Still no word if the real Dice-K has been found. I don’t know that anyone’s look­ing. We may have a Mar­tin Guerre sit­u­a­tion at work here. Except in this case, I think every­one will be just fine if Arnaud du Tilh is allowed to stick around.

Brew­ers 6, Phillies 3: John Axford blew the save by allow­ing a pinch-hit RBI sin­gle to Pete Orr, and they played on dead­locked until the 12th. That’s when Kyle Kendrick came in for Philly. While he pitched the entire 12th inning, Kendrick didn’t retire any­one who didn’t will­ingly give them­selves up. Here’s how the inning went: walk, attempted sacrifice/Kendrick throw­ing error, sac­ri­fice, HBP, run-scoring wild pitch, inten­tional walk, RBI sac­ri­fice, inten­tional walk, RBI sin­gle, but the third out on an out­field assist. Oy.

Rays 5, White Sox 0: In the Power Rank­ings yes­ter­day I exco­ri­ated the Mariners for mak­ing Adam Kennedy the DH and bat­ting him cleanup last week. In this one Joe Mad­don did the same for Felipe Lopez. Lopez, how­ever, went 3 for 4 with a dou­ble a homer and three RBI. Sam Fuld went 4 for 4, and his leg­end grows. Eight shutout innings for David Price.

Twins 5, Ori­oles 3: Eight straight losses for Bal­ti­more. Drew Butera — who else? — swings the big stick for the Twins, going 2 for 3 with a dou­ble and three RBI. Matt Capps allowed a homer in the ninth but got the save any­way. Which is an improvement.

Pirates 9, Reds 3: Travis Wood takes a cue from Edin­son Volquez and allows three runs in the first inning and the Reds never really recov­ered. Wood gave up six runs on eight hits in all. No home runs for Pitts­burgh, but every Pirate starter except the pitcher got a hit, and most of them had two hits.  Only bright spot for Cincy: Aroldis Chap­man pitched a score­less ninth, hit­ting triple dig­its on the radar gun mul­ti­ple times. The ball­park radar gun reg­is­tered 106 once, but that was obvi­ously hot. But even if it was, what, four or five miles per hour over, it ain’t like Chap­man was throw­ing meatballs.

Cubs 1, Padres 0: It was 34 degrees at the time of the first pitch, so the fact that this was a 0–0 game through nine innings is kind of under­stand­able. Car­los Zam­brano shut out the Padres on three hits while strik­ing out eight dur­ing his time in the game. Tim Stauf­fer did the same on four hits over seven. Cub­bies win it when Tyler Colvin dou­bles in Geo­vany Soto in the bot­tom of the 10th.

Rangers 7, Angels 1: C.J. Wil­son strikes out nine in seven innings and Ervin San­tana shows us that there’s a long ways down from Mt. Haren­Weaver to the val­ley in which the rest of the Angels rota­tion resides (4 IP, 10 H, 6 ER).

Tigers 8, Mariners 3: Detroit comes from behind when they put up a 6-spot in the sev­enth inning. Or, as Eric Wedge put it after the game, “that sev­enth inning got ugly there.” A win, but a costly one for Detroit, as they lose Vic­tor Mar­tinez to a groin injury in the second.

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