Some tough-guy silliness… an in-state brouhaha: Khris Davis of Texas and
Lance McCullers Jr. of Houston were the main participants in a recent bench-clearing brawl and today the league handed out its punishment.
Davis will have to miss 3 games for his part in the brawl, while
McCullers Jr. was given 6 games. League officials announced their suspensions today.
Khris seems so chill though…
An achievement: Joey Votto hit his 300th career longball during a 5-1 win over the Milwaukee Brewers yesterday… meh.
70 of 162: Alex Wood (6-5, 4.32) @ Marco Gonzales (8-4, 2.61)
Win, 4-2. Marco was filthy in this one, bringing the heat – we clocked him in at 141 KPH during the 5th – and delivered a 7-inning, 6-hit, 2 earned performance that put us in a position to win the series and the offense would find a way to deliver.
Sam Haggerty went 1 for 2 with a 2-run blast that sealed the deal after the stretch,
Kelenic went 3 for 4 with two, two-baggers, and an RBI, and
JOC found a way to bring in a run early with a run-scoring single (his only hit of the day). In some unfortunate news… our closer,
David Robertson, left after facing two batters with an ankle sprain – he’s estimated to be back in a week, but, because we don’t want to mess around and rush the guy, we put him on the 16-day so that he’ll heal up properly and come back ready to do the dirt for us.
Elsewhere: Trevor Story, who is said to be interested in investing, heavily, into the Colorado cannabis industry, went 4 for 5 with two, two-baggers, 3 RBI, and 2 runs during an ‘all systems go’ dismantling of the San Diego Padres by a score of 12-3. Rockies hurler,
Austin Gomber, was clutch over 7 innings of work where he’d allow only 3 hits and a run while fanning 10. Oh, and there was another donnybrook – that’s two in two days -
Juan Soto of the Washington Nationals and
JT Brubaker of the Pittsburgh Pirates will be on the sidelines for a few days. They have been suspended for 6 and 12 games respectively by the league office for causing the bench-emptying free-for-all at the recent Nationals-Pirates game at Nationals Park. Buncha nerds, you ask me.
Record: 48-22, .685, 1st AL West
Up Next: We’ll welcome the 38-31, Tampa Bay Rays to town for four games… they’re a super, nationally popular ballclub, so we should be playing to a full house. Right? Right.