David Price went seven against the A’s allowed five hits, no runs with one walk and three ring ups. David and the Tigers defeated the A’s 1-0. David was throwing the heater at 93-94 and 95 a couple of times and threw some nice breaking balls at key times. He had some trouble but got out of all of the jams he got himself in. David improved to 4-1 on the season with a 2.97 ERA, a 1.17 WHIP (walk and hits per innings pitched, very good number for Dave) and has 14 walks and 57 strikeouts on the year. David has 1,204 strikeouts in nine years of pitching, an average of 133 K’s per year, and his first year with the Rays, the tail end of 2007, he was a closer.
The Tigers are now 28-21 and two and a half game back of the AL Central division leading Minnesota Twins and KC Royals, which are at 28-18.
Sonny on the hill for the A’s tonight vs the Yankees at O.co. Coliseum in Oakland. Sonny is 5-2 with a 1.77 ERA, 18 walks and 61 K’s. He faces Chris Capuano of the Yankees, who is 0-2 with a 7.36 ERA.
Pedro and the Pirates are on fire. The Pirates have won seven in a row and Pedro is hitting better. The Pirates are now 25-22, six back of the division leading Cardinals, which are at 31-16. The second place Cubs are at 25-21.
Festus Ezeli finished the clinching game for the Warriors over the Rockets to send them into the Finals versus the Cavs with 12 points and nine boards and played some pretty good defense against Dwight Howard, who finished with 18 points and 16 boards, but was five of 13 from the field, so not a great percentage for a center who is taking high percentage shots. Fes looks like he’s in Steve Kerr’s plans for the NBA finals against the Cleveland Cavaliers. The series start next Thursday, June 4th, @ 8 PM CT/ 9 PM ET on ABC. Like the Warriors over LeBron and the Cavs in 7.
Our baseball team has been inconsistent this year.. We haven’t shown that we have a solid 1-2-3 starting pitching rotation and now we’ll need solid day four and five pitchers. Our defense has been pretty good, but our hitting with runners in scoring position has been erratic. But we kind of limped into the postseason last year and won it all, so this is doable again, possibly. We are the No.1 seed in our regional this weekend with our first game against Lipscomb, which beat us in the regular season 3-1, slated for a 7 PM CT/8 PM ET first pitch on ESPN3. We finished the season 42-19, No.2 seed Radford finished 43-14 and won the Big South. Nop.3 Indiana, the number three seed, is 34-22, and Lipscomb is 39-18. Radford and Indiana square off 2 PM CT/ 3 PM ET on ESPN3.
We’ll need to get good pitching from Carson, Walker and Pfeifer and guys like Kilichowski and Kyle Wright will need to pitch like they did last weekend at the SEC tournament where they were both terrific. If we can get good pitching and we hit in the clutch, we have a good chance to advance to the super regional, where, if Illinois were to win their regional, we would go to the Illini. If some other team defeats Illinois at their regional, we would host the Super Regional.
