The Daily Fix: Indians Call Up Jason Kipnis, CarGo Injures Wrist & Other Fantasy Baseball News
Carlos Gonzalez re-aggravated his right wrist from earlier in the year and there is a possibility he could hit the DL. We should have further info today.
Kyle Blanks will be rejoining the Padres after smashing the ball in Triple-A with a 1.137 OPS! On the downside, the "Savior of San Diego", Anthony Rizzo, has been optioned back to Tucson.
David Wright is supposed to come off the DL today and rejoin the team against the Marlins. It’s good news for fantasy owners who have been without their stud third baseman since mid-May, but his return probably won’t make much of a difference for the Mets who stand 12.5 games behind Philadelphia.
Albert Pujols hit his 3rd home run in the last 6 games since the All-Star break. He has some major catching up to do in the 2nd half if he wants his numbers to look anything like they normally do at the end of the season.
After putting together a string of relatively good performances, Javier Vazquez fell right back into his horrid 2011 season. San Diego tagged Javy for 5 runs in 4.1 innings. Vazquez may be the leading strikeout king of the last 10 years but his 82 K's in 107 innings isn't anything to brag about.
On any other day, CJ Wilson’s 8 innings of 2 hit ball would earn him the win. Unfortunately he was matched against Jered Weaver, who held Texas scoreless and earned his 13th win. Weaver lowered his league leading ERA to 1.81.
Like Wilson, CC Sabathia got the short end of the stick throwing 8 innings of 2 run ball against the Rays, denying his 15th win. Instead, Jamie Shields, (who has joined the elite this year) won his 9th game holding the Yanks to 1 run over 7.2. Evan Longoria popped his 12th homer of the year.
Justin Verlander won his 13th game, tying him with Weaver and 1 behind Sabathia.
Verlander pitched 8 innings, holding the Twins to 5 hits and 1 run while striking out 9. His 162 K’s are best in the AL and only 5 behind Clayton Kershaw for best in the league. Jhonny Peralta continued his all-star like year going 3-4 and hitting his 15th homer.
Ian Kennedy outdueled Zack Greinke. Kennedy held Milwaukee to 4 hits and improved to 11-3 on the year. Justin Upton, Miguel Montero and Kelly Johnson had his back all going yard in the 4-0 win.
The best pitching matchup of the day goes to Shaun Marcum in San Francisco against Matt Cain. Plenty of big names hurling today though like Cole Hamels, Felix Hernandez, Daniel Hudson, Max Scherzer, Colby Lewis, Jair Jurrjens, Trevor Cahill, Phil Hughes, Chris Carpenter & Bud Norris.
Written by Evan Marx exclusively for TheFantasyFix.com
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