There have been a bunch of times that it seemed like we were going to see the first no-hitter in the major leagues this season. But Anibal Sanchez’s bid came up just short against the Minnesota Twins.
Miguel Cabrera’s Triple Crown season was clearly not a fluke. Cabrera has been even more dominant thus far this season. After going 2-for-3 with a home run and three RBI in the Detroit Tigers’ 7-6 win over the Minnesota Twins, Cabrera now has 14 homers and 55 RBI in 45 games this season.
(The Boston Red Sox host the Minnesota Twins, Wednesday at 7 ET on ESPN and WatchESPN.) A pair of rookie starting pitchers take the mound at Fenway Park. Pedro Hernandez and Allen Webster were acquired by the Twins and Red Sox, respectively, in midseason trades.
A three-homer game one day, a cycle two days later? Adrian Beltre is channeling his inner-2004 self right now. After hitting three home runs against the Baltimore Orioles on Wednesday, Beltre hit his second career cycle against the Minnesota Twins.
Plenty of action on this busy Sunday in June with several late-inning dramatic comebacks to keep fans in their seats until the final pitch. NO SWEEP BY THE BAY Out west, the Oakland Athletics trailed 2-1 and were down to their last strike before Derek Norris’s first career home run sent the fans home happy with a 4-2 walk-off win over the San Francisco Giants.
There are just six major-league games on the schedule today, but still plenty of intriguing games and ace pitching matchups. Los Angeles Dodgers at Oakland Athletics, 3:35 ET Clayton Kershaw is coming off one of his worst starts of the season, when he allowed five runs (four earned) on a season-high-tying eight hits in a six-inning no-decision against the White Sox.
As we enter the third month of the season, here are some notes on the current major-league baseball standings that struck us as interesting: • There are 19 teams with a .500 or better record right now.
No team could use a stretch of favorable pitching matchups more than the Minnesota Twins, who entered Sunday with the worst record in the majors at 14-26. But, as teams far better than the Twins have learned the hard way, facing Zack Greinke at Miller Park is anything but favorable for opposing hitters.
Josh Hamilton homered for the ninth time in his past six games Saturday, sending C.J. Wilson’s 80 mph curveball into the right-field seats in the sixth inning of the Texas Rangers' 4-2 loss to the Los Angeles Angels.
The Tampa Bay Rays scored seven runs in the first four innings to roll past the Oakland Athletics for their 10th straight win at Tropicana Field. That’s the second-longest single-season home winning streak in franchise history, trailing only an 11-game run in 2008.
