Keith's Sports Journal: Foul Ball: Battle of Futility

Boston 5 Tampa Bay 16: In the battle of futility, the Rays were able to manage to come out on top. Dice-K gave up seven runs in the first two innings all earned to go along with the two home runs he gave up to Johnny Damon and Sam Fuld. Four different Rays players had three RBIs in the game. When everyone decided in the pre-season that the Red Sox were going to play in the World Series this year, did they forget that Boston had a terrible pitching staff?

Seattle 8 Toronto 7: The Mariners are going to be bad this season, really bad. That didn't stop them last night though from coming back from a 7-run deficit starting in the seventh inning to beat the Blue Jays and snap their 7-game losing streak. The Mariners started the rally in the seventh by scoring two runs. Then in the eighth inning Seattle scored five runs without hitting a home run. In the ninth inning, Luis Rodriguez knocked in the game-winning runs. There was magic in those blueish/greenish uniforms the Mariners wore last night.

Detroit 0 Texas 2: Justin Verlander was Cained on Monday afternoon. Verlander pitched a complete game, gave up two runs, and picked up the loss. The Rangers scored all their runs in the seventh inning while three Rangers pitchers combined to give up only four hits to the Tigers and no runs. Instead of Leyland smoking a carton of Cools, my friend RJBO may be the one who will smoke a carton of cigarette's each night after watching this team.

White Sox 1 Oakland 2, 10 Innings: Mark Buehrle took a no-hitter into the sixth inning only to give up a hit and then eventually watch Matt Thornton blow the save in the ninth. To be fair to Thornton though, the A's tied the game in the ninth off a Juan Pierre throwing error. Kurt Suzuki hit a home run in the tenth inning to give the A's the victory.

Anaheim 0 Cleveland 4: Where the hell did the Indians come from? The Tribe beat Anaheim to win their eighth straight game, their longest winning streak since the last time the Indians made the playoffs. Asdrubal Cabrera and Matt LaPorta each homered and Mitch Talbot pitched eight shutout innings striking out four. Quite the run for the Indians.

NY Mets 6 Colorado 7: The Mets are so useless.

Chicago 5 Houston 4: The Cubs opened up the game with a 5-0 lead by the third inning. Marlon Byrd, Starlin Castro, and Darwin Barney (That has to be a fake name, right?) combined for seven hits, five runs, and three RBIs. The Cubs bullpen damn near blew the game until Carlos Marmol saved them with a four-out save.

Create a Caption: Throw the Gyroball, son.