Great day for a baseball fan.
Strike out artists all over the bigs today.
Big time flame throwers.
These are insane K per 9 IP ratios:
Sale 10.53
Lester 10.21
Mad Max 10.64
Darvish 10.42
Greinke 10.03
In additon to those monster studs you got Tim Hudson getting the rock out there in San Fransisco.
Hudson owns a 0.88 WH/IP in nine starts, and that's after the Rockies roughed him up last start.
0.88 WH/IP and a 2.13 ERA, those are Pedro and Maddux type numbers.
That start is no a slam dunk, Cubbie hitters have hurt Hudson in the past.
Dream Weaver also gets the start today up there in Seattle for LA.
Like Hudson, his start is not a walk in the park either, that Elias can really pitch for the Mariners, he's one of those 'could be a very good one' youngster. Nasty lefty.
Not to mention Cano is getting real hot, he's up to .332 and mashing, he's got help too, Seagar is legit, that Jones at the top of the order looks like a player, Smoak can bomb them even though he can't hit for average, Ackley is a sneaky hitter too.
Talk about up and comers, Alex Cobb is healthy and he's going up a borderline Hall of Fame Mark Buehrle.
Cobb's numbers in four starts are like Hudson's, ungodly. 1.40 ERA and 0.86 WH/IP is as good as it gets.
Do we even have to speak about Buehrle's fantastic career?
Lance Lynn and his Cards go up against the Yanks in St. Louis.
Lynn can strikeout double digits on any given start too, will his walks get in the way tonight?
Good matchup with another younster Phelps, even though Phelps has been around awhile.
Cole Hamels gets a Philly start today.
Matt Garza too.
But the monster, must see, feature game has to be Detroit at Oakland.
Sonny Gray versus Mad Max.
My goodness, talk about a great matchup.
The two best American League teams.
Sonny Gray already in the legit class, even the doubters are sold on him.
Oakland does pretty much every thing right, fundamentaly sound, and can hit too.
Max, Tiger strikeout machine, and his thumpers Hunter, and A-Jax, and V-Mart, and Kinsler, aand Miggy.
You got to crush them to get the ball out in Oakland, can Gray keep them in the park, can Max keep Oakland off the bases?
Wow ! What agame this could be.
You like lefties?
You got eleven of them starting tonight.
DeLarosa
Niese
Hamels
Stults
Miley
Buehrle
Sale
Elias
Greinke
Lester
Chen
There are three games with totals of 6.5 or under listed.
There are several more with 7 flat.
If you think all this great pitching holds to form, the salami is 119 total runs.
Great day for baseball