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10:10 am PT - Dontrelle Willis (Florida) vs Tom Glavine (New York) - Willis is 11-3 with a 2.49 ERA in his career against the Mets. Glavine is 17-18 with a 3.83 ERA in his career against Florida.
10:35 am PT - Jason Bergmann (Washington) vs Jamie Moyer (Philadelphia) - Bergmann is 0-1 with a 3.29 ERA (7 games) against Philadelphia. Moyer is 7-4 with a 3.06 ERA against Washington/Montreal, but some of those games were played in 1986.
11:05 am PT - Brett Tomko (San Diego) vs Jeff Suppan (Milwaukee) - Tomko is 7-2, 3.70 against Milwaukee. Suppan is 3-3 with a 6.26 ERA against the Padres.
12:05 pm PT - Doug Davis Yusmeiro Petit (Arizona) vs Ubaldo Jimenez (Colorado) - Davis is 2-3 with a 3.00 ERA against Colorado. Petit will start instead of Davis as the DBacks have homefield clinched. Petit has never pitched against Colorado. Jimenez had no decision in his only other start against Arizona and gave up three runs in 6 2/3 innings.
What do the oddsmakers think:
Florida is +195 and New York is -210, Washington is +204 and Philadelphia is -220, San Diego is +105 and Milwaukee is -113, Arizona is +212 and Colorado is -230
San Diego is 89-72, New York, Philadelphia, and Colorado are 88-73.
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Wouldn't there be a playoff Monday for the NL East, with the loser playing SD Tuesday for the Wild Card?
The first teams, ever? No other team in history has had a season without anyone pitching a complete game, and this year there will likely be three such teams? Or am I misinterpreting this?
It's going to go from zero to three.
The only pitcher I could possibly see going the distance on any of those three teams would be Willis.
Great stuff, Bob, I'll be rechecking this post all afternoon.
So, East showdown Monday, east loser vs. San Deigo Tuesday, winner on tuesday vs. Colorado on Wednesday? Wouldn't that screw up the playoff schedule?
There are so many ways the Padres can get in without him, and the worst that happens is that they use him tomorrow instead of today, when he's more likely to be the best pitcher in the league again. It's clearly the right decision, even if they are starting Tomko.
Impossible. "None" is too much faith in Tomko.
As he did with the Giants and Dodgers, Tomko tricked the Padres with one good game. Then you get all his comments about how he's figured out what he's doing wrong, the last pitching coach messed him up but now he's doing the right thing because the current pitching coach lets him be himself. Then he loses the next game, but hey, nobody's perfect. If his pattern holds, the game today is the one in which he will really explode. Especially against the Brewer lineup. If Tomko is their only option, one could make an argument they'd be better off forfeiting the game to prevent neck injuries from the outfielders watching the balls fly over the fence.
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