THE NUMBERS DON'T LIE!
The Twins Santana continued his dominance of the NL on Tuesdaywith his victory over the Expos. That was Minnesota's first visitto Montreal and they beat a very good pitcher in Zach Day.
The White Sox gave coach Ozzie Guillen a nice victory in hisreturn to Florida where he was a coach with the World Series champslast year. Konerko was on a 10 game hitting streak, but with noDH in NL parks, the White Sox started Frank Thomas. A. J. Burnettreturned to his old form with a 6 inning one hitter.
The Royals are only 7-20 on the road as they make their firstvisit to Atlanta. Chipper Jones played third base for the firsttime since NL playoffs in 2001.
The Yankees start Tanyon Sturtze on Wednesday and if this guygets the victory, the PINSTRIPERS are a lock this year. This guywas useless with Tampa Bay and the Blue Jays the last two years.Even without good pitching the Yankees were 10-2 on recent homestand.
Diamondbacks had their first winning road trip last week going4-2 in Baltimore and Toronto.
The Indians 338 runs scored is tied with White Sox for the MajorLeague lead. Their .280 batting average is 3rd and there on basepercentage of .364 is first. As expected the experienced Traschelfor the Mets quieted the inexperienced Tribe on Tuesday.
The Mets have the best ERA in the majors with a 3.61 mark, whiletheir batting average is 2nd lowest at .246. They fired theirhitting coach Tuesday and replaced him with Don Baylor.
The Phillies sent future all-star second basemen Chase Utleyto the minors on Tuesday to get him more playing time and he wasvery depressed after the announcement. Once again the Phil's startingpitching was missing in action in the loss to the Tigers.
Oakland finished their home stand with an 11-1 record. Their3.27 batting average and 7.9 runs scored per game did not hurt.Their starting pitching 16-4 3.15 ERA in last 32 games is offthe charts. They did however lose for the first time to a NL Centralteam WHEN FORMER MANAGER Tony Larusso's team beat them Tuesday.
The Brewers continue to surge as this time a sensational performanceby Victor Santos beat the light hitting Mariners.
The Pirates losing streak is now at 10 courtesy of the AnaheimAngels, who played another game without a regular. Shortstop DavidEckstein continues to nurse a hamstring injury.
The Chicago Cubs are showing some tremendous heart after knockingoff the Astros again. Underrated Zambrano did not get the victory,but threw 6 strong innings.
Jose Lima continues to shine and the Orioles are in a funk. Whathas happened to the leadership of Tejada, Lopez and Palmeiro?
The home cooking helped the Reds end their season long sevengame slump at the hands of the Rangers. Who will be the firstto win 10 games, Johnson, Clemens or Rogers?
Pinella has the Devil Rays playing terrific ball and Huff isa legitimate all star contender.
