2012 Fantasy Baseball Daily Fix: Zack Greinke’s home/road woes continue
After throwing seven scoreless innings in his first start of the year at home, Greinke gave up eight earned runs in 3 2/3 innings at Chicago. The good news is that Greinke's next two starts come at home, but the bad news is that those numbers will even up through the course of the season.
Matt Garza had the kind of start that Greinke owners were expecting from their guy. Garza threw 8 2/3 scoreless innings and missed out on a shot at a shutout when he committed an error in the ninth that extended the game and took him out of the game with 119 pitches.
Joe Blanton is the forgotten starter for the Phillies and went undrafted in many leagues, but could be a popular FAAB pick-up after giving up one run in seven innings against Miami.
San Francisco's Madison Bumgarner bounced back from a rough first start to give up one run in 7 1/3 innings. His victory almost went away when Brian Wilson gave up three hits and one earned run in the ninth, but he held on to get his first save of the season.
Gio Gonzalez wasn't as lucky as Bumgarner as his seven shutout innings weren't enough for a win when Brad Lidge blew the save by allowing two runs in the ninth. Henry Rodriguez looks like a good bet to get the next save opportunity for the Nats.
Ian Kennedy looked to be in for a rough night when the first three Padres got a hit, but he got out of the inning by allowing just one run and then he finished up with five scoreless innings.
Mike Adams picked up a rare save for the Rangers, but that could be a sign of things to come after Joe Nathan blew a save the night before.
Javy Guerra got his fifth save in seven games for the Dodgers.
Drew Smyly of Detroit has been a hot pick-up and he gave up one run, but threw just four innings after tossing 90 pitches.
Ian Kinsler and Michael Young continued their hot starts for Texas with three hits apiece.
Minnesota's Josh Willingham is hitting over .400 after going 3-for-5 while Joe Mauer was 3-for-5 with his first homer.
Adam LaRoche has been another early surprise and had two hits and two RBIs to raise his average to .345.
Andrew McCutchen was 3-for-3 for the Pirates to push his average over .400.
Melky Cabrera is proving last year was no fluke as he went 2-for-4 to raise his average to .385.
Fantasy owners who hoped for a breakout year from Ian Stewart with the Cubs are being rewarded. He had two hits to raise his average to .292.
On the other end of the spectrum, Miami’s Gaby Sanchez is hitting .125 and Logan Morrison is at .188.
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