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Amazin' Avenue (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
... Cardinals . In the second inning, he ran over to cover first base, entering into a footrace with Joe Thurston to beat him to the bag. Angel Berroa 's relay to 1st caused Niese to hyperextend his legs, leading to a hamstring injury. He returned to the mound to throw a couple of warm-up pitches to test his leg, and as he landed after tossing his first warm-up pitch, his hamstring literally...
Viva El Birdos (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
... without a veteran playing for free and a prospect at second. (Which makes it even weirder that Joe Thurston didn't get the Brad Thompson treatment—hopefully he'll spend his Memphis summer working on his footwork rounding second base, not standing next to it.) With that out of the way, the big news: the Yankees have finally beaten the Curse of Clay Bellinger . It was a tough road, but...
Viva El Birdos (Free subscription) | 26/10/2009
... an approach for Matt Pagnozzi ["don't swing"], his approach, provided he does not tell Joe Thurston to take that outside pitch and just pull it 500 feet, can be basically replicated by mortals.) We don't yet know what McGwire will say, if he accepts the job, and how sportswriters will respond to whatever it is. Which makes this the eye of the news-cycle hurricane. But while I'm...
True Blue LA (Free subscription) | 07/10/2009
... Albert Pujols , Skip Schumaker , Julio Lugo , Brendan Ryan , Mark DeRosa , Troy Glaus , Old Friend Joe Thurston Outfielders (4) : Matt Holliday , Colby Rasmus , Ryan Ludwick , Rick Ankiel Starting Pitchers (4) : Chris Carpenter , Adam Wainwright , Joel Pineiro , one of John Smoltz or Kyle Lohse Relievers (8) : Ryan Franklin , Kyle McClellan , Jason Motte , Trever Miller , Dennys Reyes ,...
Stan Musial's Stance (Free subscription) | 06/10/2009
... lit it up either (.250 OBP? Two XBH in 32 PA?). A bench of Jason LaRue, Julio Lugo, Rick Ankiel, Joe Thurston, and Troy Glaus won't strike fear in the hearts of Joe Torre, Charlie Manuel, and Jim Tracy. Unfortunately, this team doesn't have many other attractive options for the bench. Thirteen position players leaves 12 pitchers. Carpenter, Wainwright, Lohse, Pineiro, Smoltz, Franklin, Miller,...
Denver Post (Free subscription) | 06/10/2009
... us more."La Russa said he's going with 12 pitchers and 13 position players, and that utilityman Joe Thurston made the roster. He has not determined the final bullpen spots.John Smoltz and Kyle Lohse will be available in relief in Games 1 and 2 on Wednesday and Thursday in Los Angeles, and one of them will start Game 4 if it's needed on Sunday in St. Louis.La Russa said Smoltz, who has closing...
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 05/10/2009
... on the roster.La Russa said he's going with 12 pitchers and 13 position players, with utilityman Joe Thurston making the roster. He has not determined the final bullpen spots yet.John Smoltz and Kyle Lohse will be available in relief in Games 1 and 2 on Wednesday and Thursday in Los Angeles, and one of them will start Game 4 if necessary on Sunday in St. Louis.La Russa said Smoltz, who has...
True Blue LA (Free subscription) | 29/09/2009
... .236 Those "triple slash" stats are about the equivalent of "Sloppy" Joe Thurston this season: .229 / .319 / .336 Conclusion: The Dodger bullpen is pretty damn good overall. If you believe the bullpens are a big playoff factor, you shouldn't predict that the Dodgers get swept. All stats from the awesome Baseball-Reference.com , except HR/9, which I calculated from their...
Baseball Digest Daily (Free subscription) | 28/09/2009
... wanted to give it up again, which leads to the reasoning behind 130 pitches. Tough night for Joe Thurston , though, as he was hitless in his two at-bats before being replaced by Mark DeRosa and he made an error that led to one of the runs against Wainwright. You don’t want to say that they took Sunday’s game less seriously than others, but the lineup was a little on the wacky...
Purple Row (Free subscription) | 27/09/2009
More photos » by David Zalubowski - AP Unfortunately, he touched the plate Browse more photos » A night after the Rockies collected around first base to celebrate a walk-off win, St. Louis met midfield to celebrate clinching the NL Central at Coors Field after defeating the Rockies 6-3. For the second straight start, Ubaldo Jimenez struggled in the first inning. For the second straight...
Viva El Birdos (Free subscription) | 26/09/2009
... the pitcher in DeRosa's spot would have been the obvious choice. At best, Khalil Greene and Joe Thurston are emergency third basemen. If either of them were a halfway viable option, DeRosa would've left the game. Second, Tony's becoming increasingly comfortable w/ using Skip in CF. He started in CF Monday against lefty Wandy Rodriguez , giving us an inkling that he might do this in the playoffs...
