Lots of terrific performances in baseball last night, and none by the Red Sox, whose only positive quality was seeing their game shortened by rain.
Oakland pitcher Bartolo Colon owned the American League with seven shutout innings in Boston as the A’s got back into the win column.
Howie Kendrick of the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim owned the American League as a hitter. He homered twice including a walk off shot in the 11th inning, giving the Angels a much needed win over the first place Rangers. In all, Kendrick went 3-5 with two homers and four runs batted in.
Atlanta Braves star Justin Upton homered in both ends of a double header sweep against the Colorado Rockies. He has 11 for the year so far and is making the Diamondbacks look foolish for dealing him. He owned the National League last night.
Meanwhile the amazing Adam Wainwright of the Cardinals easily owned the National League as a pitcher. He let up his first walk of the year (he has one in 37 1/3 innings) and got the win pitching into the 9th, letting up no runs and striking out 9.
They all owned baseball on April 23, 2013
My explanation for “Who Owns Baseball” can be found here.
At the end of the year, we will tally up who owned baseball the most individual days and see how it compares to the final MVP and Cy Young vote.
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So let’s update the tally taking into account their heroics last night.
Players with Multiple Votes:
Leaders for the National League Hitter
Bryce Harper – 3
Zack Cozart – 2
Buster Posey - 2
Justin Upton - 2
Leaders for the National League Pitcher
Adam Wainwright - 3
Clayton Kershaw – 2
Cliff Lee – 2
Shelby Miller - 2
Barry Zito - 2
Leaders for American League Hitter
Prince Fielder – 2
Justin Maxwell – 2
Leaders for American League Pitcher
Derek Holland – 2
Clay Buchholz – 2
Yu Darvish – 2
Guys Who have been king for One Day in Baseball
Alexi Amarista, Bronson Arroyo, Homer Bailey, Madison Bumgarner, A.J. Burnett, Miguel Cabrera, Robinson Cano, Shin-Soo Choo, Alex Cobb, Bartolo Colon, Kevin Correia, Chris Davis, Wade Davis, R.A. Dickey, Jacoby Ellsbury, Yovani Gallardo, Adrian Gonzalez, Carlos Gonzalez, Gio Gonzalez, A.J. Griffin, Matt Harvey, Travis Hafner, Felix Hernandez, Austin Jackson, Adam Jones, Howie Kendrick, Hiroki Kuroda, Jon Lester, James Loney, Jed Lowrie, Lance Lynn, Manny Machado, Paul Maholm, Justin Masterson, Joe Mauer, Andrew McCutchen, Michael McKenry, Will Middlebrooks, Matt Moore, Brandon Moss, Mike Napoli, Daniel Nava, Bud Norris, Angel Pagan, Gerardo Parra, Andy Pettitte, Brandon Phillips, A. J. Pierzynski, Albert Pujols, Wandy Rodriguez, Sergio Romo, Wilin Rosario, CC Sabathia, Ervin Santana, Drew Smyly, Nick Tepesch, Troy Tulowitzki, Will Venable, Matt Wieters, Jake Westbrook, Ryan Zimmerman,
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