{"id":3279,"date":"2012-09-05T10:01:12","date_gmt":"2012-09-05T14:01:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.broadstreetbelievers.com\/?p=3279"},"modified":"2012-09-05T10:01:12","modified_gmt":"2012-09-05T14:01:12","slug":"mlb-suicide-game-an-up-and-down-start-to-round-twelve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/?p=3279","title":{"rendered":"MLB Suicide Game: An Up-and-Down Start to Round Twelve"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After the rollover of Round Eleven, we start Round Twelve &#8211; most likely, the penultimate round of the year.\u00a0 There were 21 people in on Day One, with at least two more that will be joining for Day Two.\u00a0 The field went 17-13 on the first day, with three people winning a pair of games and one losing a pair.<\/p>\n<h2>The Pirates&#8217; Wandy Rodriguez beats the hapless team for which he used to play<\/h2>\n<p><em>11 of the 17 wins on the day were from this game, as the field improves to 58-21 with PIT and 252-117 in the NLC (best division, by far)<br \/>\n<\/em><strong>-Aaron<\/strong> is 4-0 with PIT &#8211; tied with WAS for most wins<br \/>\n<strong>-Bry<\/strong> is 4-0 with PIT and 19-2 in the NLC<br \/>\n<strong>-Dannell<\/strong> is 3-1 with PIT, tied with STL and CIN for 2nd most wins (WAS-5)<br \/>\n<strong>-Doogan<\/strong> improves to 11-3 overall this year<br \/>\n<strong>-Gillig<\/strong> wins his 14th game in the NLC &#8211; most of any division<br \/>\n<strong>-Kevin<\/strong> improves to 18-13 in the NL (10-12 in the AL)<br \/>\n<strong>-McGrath<\/strong> wins his 2nd game with PIT &#8211; he has no 3-win teams<br \/>\n<strong>-Mittenthal<\/strong> improves to 11-3 in his best division<br \/>\n<strong>-RyanSmith<\/strong> improves to 4-0 with PIT and 12-1 in the NLC<br \/>\n<strong>-Walsh<\/strong> evens his NLC record at 6-6<br \/>\n<strong>-Wojo<\/strong> improves to\u00a025-4 in the NL<\/p>\n<h2>AA Callup, Chris Rusin, doesn&#8217;t get out of the 2nd against the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Nationals<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><em>4 more wins for WAS give them 90 on the year &#8211; most of any team (STL is 2nd with 82)<\/em><br \/>\n<strong>-Bry<\/strong> improves to 41-13 in the NL<br \/>\n<strong>-Dannell<\/strong> wins his 5th with the Nats &#8211; most of any team<br \/>\n<strong>-Stumpf<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>-Wojo<\/strong> improves to 44-7 overall on the year<\/p>\n<h2>The reeling <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Dodgers<\/span> lose in 11 innings<\/h2>\n<p><em>4 Dodgers lossees drops their record to 59-41 on the year<\/em><br \/>\n<strong>-Kevin<\/strong> evens his NLW record at 3-3<br \/>\n<strong>-MattK<\/strong> loses his 3rd game with LAD, which is the 2nd most of anyone behind the Red Sox EIGHT losses<br \/>\n<strong>-McGrath<\/strong> falls to 13-7 in the NL (14-3 in the AL)<br \/>\n<strong>-RyanDoc<\/strong> has taken the Dodgers 7 times &#8211; tied with LAA and TEX for most of any team<\/p>\n<h2>Four Rockies pitchers combine to shutout the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Braves<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><em>3 Braves losses only bring them to 17 Ls on the year, with 42 Ws<br \/>\n<strong>&#8211;<\/strong><\/em><strong>Josh<\/strong> falls to 1-3 with ATL and 6-8 in the NLE<br \/>\n<strong>-Pat<\/strong> has made 6 of his 7 picks in the NL (3-3)<br \/>\n<strong>-RyanDoc<\/strong> picks up his second strike of the night and his first ATL loss of the year (3-1)<\/p>\n<h2>The great Jeremy Guthrie shuts down the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Rangers<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><em>The Rangers have now handed out 52 strikes this year &#8211; most of any team<br \/>\n<\/em><strong>-Boot<\/strong> falls to 3-4 in the AL<br \/>\n<strong>-Chad<\/strong> loses his first TEX pick of the year<br \/>\n<strong>-Mittenthal<\/strong> falls to 2-3 with TEX and 15-18 in the AL<\/p>\n<h2>Justin Masterson is solid in beating the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Tigers<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><em>The Tigers have now been selected 122 times this year &#8211; second most behind only WAS<br \/>\n<\/em><strong>-GrossJr<\/strong> is now 3-6 in the ALC<br \/>\n<strong>-Walsh<\/strong> falls to 5-7 in the ALC<\/p>\n<h2>Three single-game picks go 2-1 on Tuesday night<\/h2>\n<p><strong>-Dan<\/strong> (Giants-L) falls to 0-3 with SF in only 3 rounds played<br \/>\n<strong>-MattK<\/strong> (Angels-W) improves to 3-1 with LAA &#8211; his only 3-win team<br \/>\n<strong>-Tyler<\/strong> (Orioles-W) improves to 3-0 with the O&#8217;s and 8-2 in the division which they <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">LEAD<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<h2>OVERALL<\/h2>\n<p>23 entries<br \/>\nSTILL PERFECT, 2-0 (3) &#8211; Bry, Dannell, Wojo<br \/>\nSTILL PERFECT, 1-0 (6) &#8211; Aaron, Doogan, Gillig, RyanSmith, Stumpf, Tyler<br \/>\nSTILL PERFECT, 0-0 (2+) &#8211; Scott, Steve, maybe more to come<br \/>\nONE STRIKE, 1-1 (5) &#8211; Kevin, MattK, McGrath, Mittenthal, Walsh<br \/>\nONE STRIKE, 0-1 (6) &#8211; Boot, Chad, Dan, GrossJr, Josh, Pat<br \/>\nTWO STRIKES, 0-2 (1) &#8211; RyanDoc<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After the rollover of Round Eleven, we start Round Twelve &#8211; most likely, the penultimate round of the year.\u00a0 There were 21 people in on Day One, with at least two more that will be joining for Day Two.\u00a0 The &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/?p=3279\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1279],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlb-suicide-game"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3279"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3280,"href":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3279\/revisions\/3280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}