— Mets 7, Braves 6 (10)
Mets scored three runs in 9th inning, two more in 10th.
Matt Olson hit two homers, including a game-tying HR in the 9th.
Mets are 38-53, 11 games out of the last playoff spot.
Freddy Peralta threw 103 pitches, only got 14 outs; the Mets’ infield defense sucks, especially at 1B. Peralta hasn’t gotten an out after the 6th inning in his last eight starts.
— Royals 15, Phillies 1
Royals had 22 hits, scored in every inning.
Cristopher Sanchez at home: 7-1, 0.86 in 11 starts.
Cristopher Sanchez’ last three road starts: 0-2, 10.93.
— Nationals 12, Astros 11
James Wood hit a grand slam, walked three times.
Curtis Mead/CJ Abrams were both 3-for-5, with 3 RBI
Nasim Nunez stole his 33rd base, most in the big leagues.
— Giants 10, Blue Jays 1
Heliot Ramos homered twice, had five RBI
Giants won for the first time in Landen Roupp’s hast 12 starts.
Toronto is 42-49, 3.5 games out of the last playoff spot.
— Bronx 5, Rays 1
Jose Caballero homered twice, had four RBI
Cam Schlitter tossed 8 IP; he is now 9-5, 2.01
Rays’ loss cuts their lead in AL East down to three games.
— Diamondbacks 8, Padres 0
Max Kepler homered, had four RBI.
Brandon Pfaadt allowed four hits in five scoreless IP.
San Diego has lost 9 of last 10 games; they’re 15-28 in their last 43.
— Brewers 4, Cardinals 3
Trailing 3-0, Milwaukee scored four runs in the 7th inning.
Dustin May threw 81 pitches on three days’ rest, lasted 4.2 IP.
Brewers lead the NL Central by 6.5 games.
— Famous birthdays, July 7th:
Ringo Starr, 86
Joe Spano, 80
Glenn Hoffman, 68
Ralph Sampson, 66
Billy Campbell, 66
Jorja Fox, 58
Chuck Knoblauch, 58
Stoney Case, 54
Brandon McCarthy, 43
Landon Akers, 29
— Movie of the Day: Tin Cup (1996)- A golf pro working at a driving range tries to qualify for the U.S. Open in order to win the heart of his successful rival’s girlfriend.
Kevin Costner is the star, Don Johnson is his rival, Rene Russo is the woman, Cheech Marin is Costner’s friend. Several pro golfers have cameos in the movie, as well as Jim Nantz and Ken Venturi, who were CBS’ #1 golf broadcasters back then.
I hadn’t seen this movie in a long time; it is weird, funny at times. Couple of armadillos are in the movie, walking across the west Texas highway. Armadillos are good.
— The president of Michigan State University makes $1M a year.
Tom Izzo, Michigan State’s basketball coach, makes $7.2M a year.
— NBA Summer League in Las Vegas starts Thursday, runs for 10 days, giving us stuff to watch during baseball’s All-Star break.
If you like the NBA, this is a great event to go see in person; it is reasonably priced, you can sit in an air conditioned gym and watch high quality basketball all day/night, and after all that, you’re still in Las Vegas, even if it is really, really hot there in July.
— Home Run Derby is on Netflix this coming Monday; if I was baseball commissioner, Home Run Derby would be televised where the most people can see it. MLB does a terrible job of promoting their product, and this is another example of that.
— Marlins’ P Eury Perez threw seven perfect innings in Sacramento Sunday; he threw 92 pitches but Miami took him out— it was only his third start coming off the injured list, and they want to protect one of their key pitchers, probably a smart thing to do.
— Nick Kurtz/Shea Langeliers are starters in the All-Star Game, first time since 1991 that the A’s will have two starters in an All-Star Game (Rickey Henderson/Dave Henderson).
— Baseball’s amateur draft is this Saturday; guys get to the major leagues faster these days, so we need to pay better attention to the draft.
— If the baseball playoffs started today (they don’t):
NL: Braves, Brewers, Dodgers. Wild Cards: Phillies-Cubs-Marlins
AL: Rays, Whits Sox, Mariners. Wild Cards: Bronx-Guardians-Rangers
