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In a game Joe Torre seemed to have given up on sometime during breakfast on Thursday, the Kid did what he does and then some. Throwing 6 shutout innings on Saturday, Lincecum also went 3 for 4 at the plate with 3 RBIs, defeating the Dodgers single-handedly. It was clear to this viewer what the awestruck Dodgers fans were experiencing by the time the wunderkind got out of runners on ...

Despite being 4-7 and having lost the first three series, there are many signs that this Mets team will not only avoid a years-end collapse, as I thought would happen, but be able to give the better teams in the league a run for it.Santana, Pelfrey, and Perez are off to great starts. Combined they've allowing only one run in the last 21 innings of their starts, against two very ...

The Colorado Rockies’ Ubaldo Jimenez threw the first no-hitter of 2010, as well as the first no-hitter by a Rockies pitcher ever, yesterday against the Braves.  He gave up six walks and notched seven strikeouts, which meant it took him 128 pitches to finish off his no-no. That’s a lot of pitches for a mid-April game.  In fact, it was the highest single game pitch total so far in the 2010 season. Jimenez has ...

A day later, the excitement is starting to sink in for Rockies fans. For years Rockies pitchers struggled to throw a complete-game shutout, let alone a no-hitter. The Rockies organization was about pounding the baseball and winning baseball games with football scores. Ubaldo Jimenez' no-hitter underscores once again that the organization's decision to build from within was the right way to go. To say it took patience is ...

When Aaron Rowand has to leave a game, you know that he's hurting bad. When he doesn't show up in the lineup the next day, it's a good sign there's something really wrong. Rowand is a gamer, and has shown that since he started his career. He doesn't rub it when he gets hit, and he flies around the outfield with reckless abandon, once breaking his nose on the centerfield wall ...

Ubaldo Jimenez's no-hit bid was pretty impressive last night. After walking six through the first five innings, the Rockies' young right-hander went on to retire the remainder of Braves opposition without a hitch to seal up his place on Colorado history as their first hurler to boast a no-no. From a Braves' fans perspective, it's okay to be frustrated. It's okay to be coy in your reaction to last night's transgressions (as in: ...

...is to score an average of a run per inning. It sounds like a tall order, but until Tim Lincecum shut down the Dodgers offense on Saturday, the team was leading the league in runs scored. The Dodgers are still currently second in runs scored, tied with the Giants at 68 and trailing only Philadelphia; the Phillies have 78. However, the Dodgers lead the majors in batting average at a blistering .312 ...

The Mets haven't had a lot of reasons to celebrate in the last few years. Epic collapses and injury plagued seasons have seen to that. So when the Mets beat the Cardinals last night in a bizarre 20 inning affair, Mets management was rushing to capitalize on the rare good fortune. Mets Executive VP Dave Howard summed up the feelings of the front office. ...

For those of you who drafted Martin Prado, or at the very least picked him up off the waiver wire, you’ve got to be happy with his current hot streak—and 14 game hitting streak—despite the streak coming to an end Saturday night thanks largely in part to Ubaldo Jimenez’s no hitter. But as with any hot player in fantasy baseball, the trendy question is always whether or not the player is ...

Mariano Rivera is the greatest closer in baseball history, but once upon a time, long, long ago, there were relief pitchers who were asked to do things that no one in his right mind would want Mariano Rivera to do, because not even the great Rivera could do them. September 30, 1952 Brooklyn Dodgers' manager Charlie Dressen announced that rookie right handed relief pitcher Joe Black would start the first game of the 1952 ...