Mike Napoli had a great day at the plate, going 3-4 with 2 HRs, but that came in a blowout win. Jordan Zimmermann, however, went 8 scoreless innings in a tight 2-0 Nationals’ win over the Braves. With Strasburg having early struggles, Zimmermann is currently the ace of the Nationals’ staff. This is Zimmermann’s 2nd MVP of Yesterday, and it makes him the first pitcher with more than one.
MVP Standings after the jump:
Pete Rose:
I’d walk through hell in a gasoline suit to play baseball.
Why haven’t there been as many big, long articles on the Continuum of late? Well, as I’ve said earlier, it has to do with the fact that coming up is the Baseball Continuum 1st Anniversary Spectacular! It’ll have new installments of the some of the most popular and notable features of the Continuum, such as Bizarre Baseball Culture and a more in-depth version of Famous For Something Else, follow-ups on some of my favorite articles and observations, and also featuring some appearances by others from around the baseball internet who are nice enough to answer my e-mails with something other than a polite decline and/or complete silence. Yes, on May 8, you’ll see the largest number of posts on this blog in memory. And it’ll be for you, the people who have provided the Continuum tens of thousands of views over the last year.
So, uhm, yeah. May 8. 1st Anniversary Spectacular. Be there.
Tim Hudson threw 7 innings of 3-hit ball, giving up one run. But don’t worry, he got that run right back with a home run of his own.
MVP Standings (after jump):
I forgot to do a quote of the day yesterday, so here are two quotes from Satchel Paige:
“If a man can beat you, walk him.”
“I ain’t ever had a job, I just always played baseball.”
Last night, during the Reds-Cardinals game, history was made: Donald Lutz made his debut, grounding out in his lone pinch-hit AB against Adam Wainwright.
What’s so special about that, you ask? Well, Lutz, in making his Reds debut, became the first German Major League Baseball player in history (there have been some that were born on military bases there or who came over to America as young children, but Lutz is the first player who can truly be said to be “from Germany”). Although born in Watertown, NY, he grew up and spent essentially his entire childhood with his mother in Germany, not playing baseball until his teenage years.
Who knows how long this first stint for Lutz will last (he is, after all, mainly on the roster right now as a replacement for Chris Heisey while he is on the DL), but still, it’s not every day you can say that something happened yesterday in baseball that hadn’t happened before. So congratulations to Donald Lutz, the first German MLB player in history.
Well, there was a 19-inning thriller between the Athletics and Angels last night, and the A’s finally came out on top when Brandon Moss went deep in the 19th for a walk-out. It was his second dinger of the night and his third hit.
Interestingly, it’s the second time Moss has been the MVP of Yesterday, as you’d see below the jump.
In the wake of NBA Center Jason Collins “coming out of the closet” today, and becoming the first “Big Four” active player to do so, I was reminded of a post I did earlier this month: The Biggest Stories That Haven’t Happened Yet. If you want to read it, just click the link to the left, or go below the jump to read a reprint. With the exception of the deletion of a call to go below the jump to read after the first paragraph of the story, it is printed completely as it originally was, with no changes, updates or corrections.
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