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Thursday June 22, 2006 12:29 pm

Dealing To The Dish: National League 6.22.06




Posted by Dennis Velasco Categories: MLB, News,

The Rocket is back!Interleague games played in National League ballparks:

Toronto Blue Jays @ Atlanta Braves
A. Burnett (0-1, 6.30) vs. H. Ramírez (2-2, 5.06)
- A.J. Burnett makes his first start coming off the DL and he couldn’t be pitching against a sadder sack of baseball players right now than the Atlanta Braves.  The Braves are losers of nine straight games and spiraling down the division standings.  Will the Braves actually NOT win the N.L. East division?  Or will they make a huge turn at the All Star break?  I think it’s the Mets season, personally.

Minnesota Twins @ Houston Astros
F. Liriano (6-1, 2.16) vs. R. Clemens (0-0, 0.00)
- Roger Clemens is back!  The Rocket will be launching!  You all know this already, don’t you?  There was only more overexposure when Barry Bonds was chasing The Babe.  In any case, Clemens has looked dominant in his rehabilitation starts and should do well tonight.  However, for the other team, the Minnesota Twinkies, young gunner Franscisco Liriano (aka the Johan Santana clone) will try to ruin the old man’s season debut.  Liriano has been stellar as a starter and don’t be surprised to see a 1-0 game.

Seattle Mariners @ Los Angeles Dodgers
F. Hernández (7-6, 5.02) vs. B. Tomko (5-6, 5.45)
- The Mariners are 8-0 in interleague play this season and look to sweep the Dodgers tonight.  “King” Felix Hernandez takes the mound for the Mariners and has won four straight decisions, despite looking very shaky in two of those outings.  The Dodgers have dropped five games in a row and need to stop the losing because the N.L. West leading Padres have been winning.

And the only NON-interleague game:

Cincinnati Reds @ New York Mets
E. Milton (4-3, 4.14) vs. P. Martínez (6-3, 3.01)
- Poor Billy Wagner.  Wagner came into the ninth inning of last night’s game with the Mets leading 5-4.  Unfortunately he blew the save and gave up two runs to the Reds for a Mets loss.  Keep your head up, Billy.  Despite the disappointing loss, Mets faithful have to be happy seeing SS Jose Reyes hitting for the cycle.  Yes, folks, the boy is good… even if his OBP isn’t high as one would like a leadoff hitter’s OBP to be.  Reyes just manufactures runs.  The Reds will try to take the third game of the four-game series this afternoon, sending Eric Milton to the mound.

That’s all I got.  Enjoy the games!

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