The Baseball Continuum

A look at baseball (and other things)

With apologies to his teammate Derek Holland, Alex Rios– who cycled last night- is the MVP of Yesterday.

Standings, as usual, after the jump:

Alex Rios may have had one of the best nights of the season last night. Heck, he might have had one of the best nights of all time!

He went six-for-six!
He was four-for-four against Justin Verlander!
He stole two bases!
He’s the first person in history to do that well against Verlander, and only the second in the modern era to get that many hits and SB in a game (Sammy Sosa did it before).

Standings, as always, after the jump: