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Day in the majors
Aubrey Huff and the Orioles are certainly enjoying the new season. And surprising a lot of people.
“We’ve already had more fun than at anytime last year,” Huff said after Baltimore’s sixth straight victory, 8-1 on Tuesday, ruining the Texas Rangers’ home opener.
Huff matched a career high with four hits and drove in four runs after Scott Moore and Luke Scott hit early home runs in the first road game for the Orioles, who have the American League’s best record. The winning streak already equals their longest of last season.
Mets drop final Shea opener
Carlos Delgado and the Mets botched the final Shea Stadium opener the same way they squandered that big lead in the NL East last year.
April or September, doesn’t seem to matter. The Mets can’t find a way to hold off Philadelphia.
Jamie Moyer pitched six effective innings, Jayson Werth hit a tie-breaking single, and the Phillies rallied past New York 5-2 with the help of Delgado’s key error in the seventh.
“Definitely not the start we wanted to get off to,” Mets star David Wright said.
It was another late comeback by Philadelphia, which took advantage of the Mets’ epic collapse last September to win the division title. New York led by seven games with 17 to play but went 5-12 down the stretch and missed the playoffs.
Dice-K deals the Tigers yet another loss
Facing Daisuke Matsuzaka is perhaps not the best way to break a losing streak.
Matsuzaka allowed four hits in 6 2/3 innings with seven strikeouts and four walks in Boston’s 5-0 whitewash of the Tigers. Detroit, the only winless team in the majors despite the big leagues’ second-highest payroll, is 0-7 for the first time since dropping its first nine games in 2003 on the way to an AL record 119 losses.
“You get angry if people are going through the motions and if they’re not trying,” Tigers manager Jim Leyland said. “But that’s not what’s happening.”