Waiting the extra day for the anticipated pitching duel between Tampa phenom David Price and established ace CC Sabathia only temporarily seemed worth the delay.
And while the Yankees have made waiting until the latter stages of games worth their fans’ while for several weeks, Saturday turned out to be the exception in that regard, too.
The Yanks appeared primed for another cream-pie comeback by scoring twice to tie in the eighth inning, but Mariano Rivera coughed up four runs on three hits – and was pulled from the game in the ninth – in an ugly 9-7 loss to the Rays at the Stadium.
The Big Unit was held up by Mother Nature, putting history on hold.
Randy Johnson’s bid for 300 wins was postponed Wednesday night after a series of thunderstorms left the field at Nationals Park unplayable for Johnson’s San Francisco Giants and the Washington Nationals.
At 10:47 p.m. EDT — more than 3 1/2 hours after the scheduled 7:05 p.m. first pitch — Nationals president Stan Kasten announced that the game had been called and would be made up as part of a doubleheader, starting at 4:35 p.m. on Thursday.
Jim Thome hit the 550th homer of his career in the eighth inning to put the White Sox ahead and Chicago went on to beat the Oakland Athletics 6-2 on Monday night.
A.J. Pierzynksi homered and Scott Podsednik scored two runs for the White Sox, who won for the fourth straight time and have won 10 of its last 13 overall.
Oakland reliever Craig Breslow (1-4) allowed a leadoff walk to Scott Podsednik in the eighth inning. After Alexei Ramirez popped up a bunt attempt, Jermaine Dye singled off Santiago Casilla. On a 1-2 pitch, Thome hit an opposite field home run to left-center to put the White Sox up 5-2.
Cubs ace Carlos Zambrano was suspended for six games by Major League Baseball on Thursday, a day after his tirade during a game against the Pirates.
Zambrano said he won’t appeal the penalty, which included a fine. Barring rainouts, he is eligible to return next Thursday and start that night at Atlanta.
Carlos Zambrano’s tantrum kept escalating. The emotional ace of the Cubs went wild, throwing a ball into the outfield, heaving his glove, and then whacking a dugout drink dispenser with a bat.
It was an outpouring of anger yesterday in Chicago that likely will lead to a suspension for the excitable righthander.
As he argued a close play at the plate, Zambrano appeared to nudge umpire Mark Carlson and was ejected. That set off the 6-foot-5-inch, 255-pound righthander in the seventh inning of the Cubs’ 5-2 win over the Pittsburgh Pirates.
Fernando Martinez will not get a chance to extend his seven-game hitting streak for the Buffalo Bisons tonight. He will, however, get a chance to start a one-game hitting streak for the New York Mets.
The Mets called up the red-hot Bisons prospect this afternoon after placing Ryan Church and Jose Reyes on the disabled list. Mets manager Jerry Manuel started Martinez in right field Tuesday against the Washington Nationals in Citi Field. He struck out in his first at-bat in the second inning.
Gregg Zaun endured his fair share of losing streaks in five years with the Toronto Blue Jays, and now he’s contributing to one from the other side.
The 38-year-old catcher singled to left field off Blue Jays starter Brian Tallet in the bottom of the fourth inning Monday afternoon, the winning hit in a 4-1 Baltimore Orioles victory on Memorial Day in the United States.
"I left a pitch that Zauney could handle and he hit a single," Tallet said. "That was the difference in the game, believe it or not."
