This is the last game of the 2010 regular season for all teams in MLB.The American League standing are set except that Tampa and New York are tied; wins and loses today win determine not if they go to post season play - only where. The wild card placement will play these same Minnesota twins in the first round.
A bazaar finish in the National League today could result in 2 separate 1 game play-offs. If San Fransisco loses and the Braves and Padres win the result would be a three way tie. This could result in two, 1 game play off double header - which they'd have to play at the appropriate home fields!
At 1:35 PM EDT, at Turner Field, Atlanta is facing the Philadelphia Phillies. Here's the Box Score as of 4:34 PM EDT - the final:
Inn. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
PHI 0 0 2 0 0 0 2 3 0 7 5 0
ATL 0 0 1 4 2 1 0 0 x 8 14 2
San Diego is at San Fransisco a 4:05 PM EDT start.
Here's the standing as of the start of today's schedule:
NL Standings as of the AM, October 3, 2010
National League
EAST W L PCT GB HOME ROAD RS RA DIFF STRK L10
x-Philadelphia 97 64 .602 - 54-30 43-34 765 632 +133 Won 3 7-3
Atlanta 90 71 .559 7 55-25 35-46 730 622 +108 Lost 2 4-6
Florida 79 82 .491 18 40-40 39-42 714 715 -1 Won 1 3-7
NY Mets 79 82 .491 18 47-33 32-49 655 650 +5 Won 2 5-5
Washington 68 93 .422 29 41-40 27-53 653 741 -88 Lost 3 5-5
CENTRAL W L PCT GB HOME ROAD RS RA DIFF STRK L10
x-Cincinnati 90 71 .559 - 48-32 42-39 787 683 +104 Won 1 5-5
St. Louis 85 76 .528 5 51-29 34-47 730 640 +90 Won 4 8-2
Milwaukee 77 84 .478 13 40-41 37-43 748 801 -53 Lost 1 7-3
Houston 75 86 .466 15 41-39 34-47 607 729 -122 Lost 3 2-8
Chicago Cubs 75 86 .466 15 35-46 40-40 685 763 -78 Won 3 6-4
Pittsburgh 57 104 .354 33 40-41 17-63 585 861 -276 Lost 1 4-6
WEST W L PCT GB HOME ROAD RS RA DIFF STRK L10
San Francisco 91 70 .565 - 48-32 43-38 694 583 +111 Lost 2 6-4
San Diego 90 71 .559 1 45-36 45-35 665 578 +87 Won 2 5-5
Colorado 83 78 .516 8 52-29 31-49 769 711 +58 Lost 7 1-9
LA Dodgers 79 82 .491 12 44-36 35-46 664 691 -27 Won 1 6-4
Arizona 65 96 .404 26 40-41 25-55 712 833 -121 Lost 1 5-5
Toronto Blue Jays @ Minnisota Twins - Game 4
October 3, 2010
Target Field, Minneapolis, Minnesota
2:10 PM ET
Starting Pitchers: LHP Marc Rzepczynski (5.56 ERA 3-4) v RHP Nick Blackburn (5.55 ERA 10-11)
Score Card Coding update
This score card has code breaks in it that hide 9 extra innings of AB boxes and the code that expands the /innings totals boxes, the pitchers lines. The code breaks can be removed in the code in the time it takes to come back from the commercial break between the 9th and 10th inning.
If anyone wants to have a look at the new code or wants use it to score in their own blog - the code is available in a Google Doc by clicking on the button below. I checked the code at W3C Validation Service portal as a W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Strict Document type and it came back citing 7 errors that all say it doesn't like the tag "table". Well tough! (obviously I don't know what I'm doing, but it IS a table - if it's anything at all - and it works!)
(https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=1ErOa0rBYvI9YVSraJlizpEKIpijLk7d7BVhNXP5v3pc)
Game Notes:
Fastest game EVER. Well not, but wow - that was fast! Game time: 2:01.
Jays finish 8 games over .500 - 85W - 77L. Very respectable.
Makes one wonder if this organization isn't quite a bit closer to feilding a contender next year than they have been in many years.
RBI are the key data point for this team that I would look at; that means making trades for guys with good averages and especially, exceptional OBP. 3B is a good place to make an improvement. Edwin Encarnacion has nice power numbers (20 HR, ), but .305 OBP is just horrible.
NL Wild Card Update
So Atlanta beat the Phillies (see box score above) and are thus presently a half game ahead of the San Diego Padres. If the Padre's beat Division rival San Fransisco all three teams will have identical 91-71 records, that means there will have to be two one game playoffs.
Box Score (ESPN) from San Fransisco at 5:05 PM EDT (end of the 3rd):
Inn 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
SD 0 0 0 0 2 0
SF 0 0 2 2 5 0
Box Score for the Jays/Twins game at ESPN.
| Final | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E |
Toronto Blue Jays | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 1 |
Minnesota Twins | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0 |
| Toronto Blue Jays | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | H | AB | BB | R | RBI | LOB | PO | A | E | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1. D. Wise, CF | K | BH9 x | FO8 | 1-3 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2. J. McDonald, SS | pop FO4 | GB1 DP 1-6-3 x | K / | BH9 - | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
3. J. Bautista, DH | LO7 / | FO9 / | Ks | FO7 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
4. L. Overbay, 1B | FO8 | 4-3 | 4-3 | 4-3 / | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
5. A. Lind, LF | Ks | 6-3 | HR7 RBI <> | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
6. E. Encarnacion, 3B | K / | HR7 RBI <> | pop8 FO4 / | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
7. J. Arencibia, C | pop FO4 | BB - | K | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
8. J. Hoffpauir, 2B | 5-3 | 4-3 / | FO8 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
9. M. McCoy, RF | 5-3 / | Ks | 5-3 / |
| /Inning Totals | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | Totals | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Runs | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hits | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Errors | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
LOB | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| Pitching | IP | H | R | ER | BB | K | HR | p/s | ERA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Marc Rzepczynski (lhp) W | 7.0 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 0 | 100-68 | 4.95 |
Jessie Carlson (lhp) | 1.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 10-7 | 4.61 |
Shawn Camp (rhp) S | 1.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10-8 | 2.99 |
| Minnesota Twins | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | H | AB | BB | R | RBI | LOB | PO | A | E | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1. D. Span, CF | 4-3 | Ks / | pb | #9 1,2 GB4 4-3 #9 2,3 | 4-3 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2. O. Hudson, 2B 5th N Punto 2B | 5-3 | GB6 IFBH SB <> | 4-3 / | FO9 / | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
3. J. Mauer, C 5th D Butra C ph 9th J Morales | 2BH7 -- | Ks | pop FO4 | FO8 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
4. D. Young, LF 5th B Revere LF | FO9 / | FO9 | FO8 | K | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
5. J. Thome, DH pr 2nd Plouffe DH | BH7 x | t1B | Eth3 #2 2,3 BH7 RBI -- | FO8 / | 4-3 / | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
6. M. Cuddyer, 1B 6th M Tolbert 1B | GB6 DP 6-3 x | BB - | K | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
7. J. Kubel, RF 3rd J Repko RF | LO9 / | Ks / | B b3(f) FS | Ks 1-3 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
8. D. Valencia, 3B | 6-3 | 6-3 | Ks / | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
9. J. Hardy, SS 9th A Casilla SS | FO9 | BB --- | K |
| /Inning Totals | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | Totals | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Runs | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hits | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Errors | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
LOB | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| Pitching | IP | H | R | ER | BB | K | HR | p/s | ERA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Nick Blackburn (rhp) L | 7.0 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 2 | 96-64 | 5.42 |
Jose Mijares (lhp) | 1.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 10-7 | 3.31 |
Glen Perkins (lhp) | 1.0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 13-10 | 5.82 |
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