Tampa took the rubber game of their series with the Twins, who were going to have Joe Nathan close the game if they needed a save.  Instead, they lost 12-5.  Michael Cuddyer continued his torrid summer in the losing effort, knocking in 3 more runs and hitting his 13th homerun.  Johnny Damon left the game with a hand injury, but X-rays were negative. Evan Longoria (3-6, 2 runs, 4 RBI), Sean Rodriguez (#4) and Kelly Shoppach (#5) all went yard for the Rays, who knocked around Francisco Liriano.

Adam Dunn had an RBI! (on a bases-loaded walk).  Juan Pierre stole a base!  The White Sox still lost to Bruce Chen and the Royals, who got 2 more RBI from Jeff Francoeur and another bomb from Eric Hosmer.  With a .277 average, 8 homers and 33 RBI, Hosmania has indeed arrived.

Miguel Cabrera (#18) hit the tie-breaking homerun in the 7th inning to propel the Tigers to victory in LA, salvaging one win on the Left Coast.  Mark Trumbo, his Angels counterpart at 1B, hit his 14th.

Guillermo Moscoso (7 IP, 2H, 1 BB, 5 K, and pronounced MosCOSCO!!!!!) now sports a 2.16 ERA and 1.04 WHIP on the season after shutting out the spectacularly anemic Mariners.   Resurgent Scott Sizemore knocked in both runs, including his 3rd homer of the year, and is now hitting .316 with 10 runs and 12 RBI in 23 games as an Athletic.  Eligible at 2b and 3b, he’s worth a look in deeper leagues.  The complete game loss went to Jason Vargas (5 H, 2 ER, 1 BB, 6 K) who was excellent again.  He’s got a 1.06 ERA in July after a 2.82 spot in June.

A night after Carlos Carrasco got rocked at the Jake, Justin Masterson made mincemeat out of the Bombers’ lineup, holding them to 3 hits in 8 scoreless innings.  Lonnie Chisenhall hit his first career homer for the Injins, and Derek Jeterinched one step closer to 3,000 hits with a double. Phil Hughes returned from the DL to toss 5 decent innings, and Mo Rivera would have been held out again with his recent tricep issue.

Break up the Nationals!  They’ve won 3 consecutive one-run games against the Cubs and are now 2 games over .500.  All Star candidate Michael Morse knocked 2 more hits and scored the go-ahead run on a perfectly executed suicide squeeze in the bottom of the 7th.  Drew Storen locked down his 22nd save, Ryan Zimmerman had 2 doubles and his 4th homer, Danny Espinosa hit his 16th homer and stole his 10th base, Carlos Pena hit his 18th, and Aramis Ramirez homered for the 8th time in the past 10 games in the loss.

Bud Norris picked up his 5th win in a white-washing of the Pirates, and, well, not much else interesting happened in that game.

Prior to the Red Sox beating the Jays (featuring yet another tightrope save by Jonathan Papelbon), Jon Lester hit the DL with a lat strain.  It’s apparently not serious, but the Sox can ill-afford to lose another starter, even with that bludgeoning lineup.  Jays’ catcher J.P. Arencibia left the game after being hit on the hand by a Papelbon fastball in the 9th inning, and more information will be known on Thursday.  Meanwhile, Jacoby Ellsbury hit his 10th homer, stole his 28th base and raised his average to .310 0n the season.  Congrats to whomever has him in your league.  Ricky Romero (4.1 IP, 9 H, 6 ER, 3 BB) stunk up the joint to pick up his 8th loss.

Speaking of stinking up the joint, Anibal Sanchez(4 IP, 6 H, 5 ER, 3 BB) got hit hard for the second straight start, and the Fish overcame a 4-0 deficit to beat the Phils on Mike Stanton’s walkoff homer (#17). Shane Victorino-fill in John Mayberry Jr., hit two bombs.

Without CarGo and Tulo in the middle of the Rockies lineup, it looks more like Todd Helton is visiting AAA than the other way around.  They got hammered again tonight by the Braves, who put up a 9 spot to back Jair Jurrjens’ 12th win of the year.  And stop the press – Dan Uggla homered for the second straight night!  Not as exciting as a bases-loaded walk, but his owners will take what they can get.

The Rangers swept the O’s behind 3 more hits and 3 more RBI from Michael Young, a big 3-run homerun from recently activated Mike Napoli, and a solid if unspectacular start from Alexi Ogando (now 9-3).  Vlad Guerrero homered for the O’s, who saw Jeremy Guthrie give up 6 earned runs in 5 innings.

A wild one in St. Louis for Albert Pujols’ return to the starting lineup.  The Reds blew an 8-0 lead only to come back and win 9-8 in 13 innings.  Cuban fireballer Aroldis Chapman registered his first major league save after Franny Cordero blew the opportunity in the 9th on a John Jay homer.  In addition to Jay, Chris Heisey (#10), Jay Bruce (#19, but just his second since June 1), Scott Rolen (#5), Fred Lewis (#2), and Matt Holliday (#13) all went deep. Pujols went 1 for 6 with an RBI.

The Mets swept the Dodgers behind another very solid start from Jonathon Niese (7 IP, 5 H, 3 ER, 1 BB, 6K) and some timely hitting.  Carlos Beltran hit 2 more doubles, closer-in-waiting Bobby Parnell struck out two more, and Matt Kemp stole his 25th base in the losing cause.  In closer news, saves opps are so rare in Dodgerland that Donnie Baseball called on closer Javy Guerra in the 9th inning of a losing game.

In San Diego, Mike Adams gave up an extremely rare run to tie the game in the 8th, and the Padres stole 4 bases (2 each by O-Dog and Bartlett) off Chris Stewart (who also committed 2 errors).  The game went into extras, and in the 10th inning, Brian Wilson and Luke Gregerson completed the rarest of feats – all six batters struck out.  Wilson struck ‘em all out looking; Gregerson retired all three Giants swinging. The game finished in the 14th inning when Pat Neshak surrendered a game ending blast to Nate Schierholtz (his 2nd of the game).

Written by Jesse Mendelson exclusively for TheFantasyFix.com

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