Lee Hacksaw Hamilton – Thursday August 14th, 2014

Thursday August 14th, 2014

Padres-Sweep-Colorado (5-3)..Rymer Liriano “Monster Shot” HR onto 3rd deck bar-Western Metals Building…Abraham Almonte HR..Jedd Gyorko 4H…Padres won 5-row…won 9-of-11….(16-8) since All Star Break….Rockies lost 44-of-62 games since early June-when in 2nd place.
Padres-St Louis..Friars open tough 10G-road trip vs Cardinals…Eric Stults gets start.
Padres..MRI-Yonder Alonso-2nd MRI shows strained forearm injury serious-involves wrist-may have broken bone in hand while in on deck surgery…injury related to one he had last year and what happened early this year with muscles in forehand….headed to DL…Yanger Solarte-leaves with oblique injury.

Dodgers-L-Atlanta (3-2)..Ervin Santana 12th win year for Braves..Dodgers P-Hyun Jin-Ryu leaves game with possible quad injury-leg.
LA-Braves..close out series today..Roberto Hernandez starts for Blue.

Angels-W-Phillies (4-3)..Howie Kendrick 2R-single..Huston Street-31st save of season.
Halos have day off

Giants-W-Cubs…SF explodes for 7R-in-7th inning..pull to within 5G-of Dodgers.
Red Sox-W-Reds..Mike Napoli 2R-HR for Boston.
Cubs-W-Brewers..Javy Baez-Anthony Rizzo HRs for Chicago.
Washington-W-Mets..Asdrubal Cabrera HR for Nats.
Cardinals-W-Marlins..Justin Masterson 7-shutout innings for Redbirds.
Cleveland-W-Arizona..Zach Walter HR in 9th for Tribe
Diamondbacks-W-Indians..Arizona score wining run in 12th inning-earn split doubleheader.
TBay-W-Texas..Rays hit 3HRs early off Miles Mikolas.
Seattle-W-Toronto..Kendry Morales HR…Mariners streaking into wildcard contention won 8-of-9
Twins-W-Houston..Joe Mauer HR for Minnesota.
Orioles-W-Yankees..Adam Jones towering 3R-HR for Baltimore.
Detroit-W-Pirates..Nick Castellanos Triple-HR for Tigers.
KCity-W-A’s..Jason Vargas 3-Hit shutout for Royals.

MLB..Controversial day ahead..Owners meetings in Baltimore…Power struggle who replaces retiring Bud Selig…Rob Manfred from Commissioners office thought to be favorite…White Sox owner Jerry Reinsdorf pushing instead for Red Sox co-owner Tom Werner to get late vote…Manfred needs 24-“Yes” Votes to get the job…Bitter struggle about to begin.

Washington..OF-Jason Werth arrested speeding…doing (105-45mph) zone.
TBay..Former lst round pick Josh Sale-suspended 3rd time-drug involvement in minors..50G-suspension.
Phillies..P-Cole Hamels puts his mansion home up for sale outside city..expects to be traded.
Oakland..P-Jon Lester-traded to A’s-says he would consider re-signing as free agent with Red Sox.
MLB..Investigators clear Pirates pitcher Jeff Locke any wrongdoing…New Hampshire gambling had boasted to friends Locke was throwing games he was betting on…Locke lost starts because of injuries.

Rockies..SS-Troy Tulowitzki visits specialist looking at possible surgery torn hip labrum…OF-Carlos Gonzalez-knee examination-possible surgery.
Rockies..P-Brett Anderson-Surgery-Bulging disc in back-gone for year…1B-Mike Cuddyer begins rehab assignment.
Toronto…Edwin Encarnarcion-OF…2B-Adam Lind start rehab assignments.
Mets..Thinking of shutting down P-Matt Harvey-rehab-pushing too hard too early after surgery..P-Jeremy Heffner-re-tears elbow ligament on rehab outing.
Astros..1B-Jesus Guzman begins rehab assignment.

Chargers..Holdout 9-veterans from Wednesday practice-including Philip Rivers..resting for Friday game in Seattle..OG-Jeromey Clary facing likelihood will miss first 6W-season on PUP list-hip surgery slow to heal…Team practiced with hi volume jet engine sound pumped onto field so they could not use audibles but hand signals..won’t be a problem in preseason-but definitely in season..QB-Kellen Clemens threw 2-Intercptions.

Raiders..Owner Mark Davis met with San Antonio Spurs owner Peter Holt to discuss working together if franchise moved to Alamodome..Serious conversations.
NFL..1-Preseason game tonight…Chicago Bears-Jacksonville Jaguars.
NFL Network…TV Ratings for last Thursday Browns-Lions game-Johnny Manziel debut..all time record 2.8M-watched preseason game.

Dallas..Tony Romo to make lst preseason start this weekend-coming off 2-back surgeries.
Detroit..Demote-DT-Nick Fairley-has put on 10lbs weight in 2-weeks.
NEngland..Pulls off 2-Trades..Acquire GBay-DT-Jerel Worthy….Dallas-DT-Ben Bass.
Vikings..Not panic..QB-Ted Bridgewater throws 3-picks in one practice.

Denver..Starting LB-Danny Trevathan-out 8W-fractured kneecap.
Giants..Doctors refuse to clear LB-Jon Beason to practice-not recovered foot surgery.

Cowboys-Raiders…Scrimmage marred by big brawl that spilled into fans..Raiders fans threw punches…WR-Dez Bryant taunts Raiders players “I don’t know your name-but you know me.”

UCLA..WR-Devin Lucien-hospitalized for five hours-concussion-neck injury.
Notre Dame..QB-Ev Golson named starter..expelled from school in 2013 for cheating.
Nebraska..AD-Shawn Eichorst gives Vote of confidence to explosive coach Bo Pelini.
Colorado State..Fired AD-Jack Grahame after football stadium fund raising drive raised 43M of the required 110M needed..project suspended.

Lakers..Former star Michael Cooper-recovering from cancer surgery to tongue.
Clippers…California Court of Appeals rejects his big to set aside lower court ruling allowing sale of team to Steve Ballmer.

Indianapolis Star…Police in Rochester, NY probe of fatal racing accident…NASCAR driver Tony Stewart could be charged with reckless driving in death of driver Kevin Ward.
Syracuse Post-Standard…Father of Kevin Ward said Stewart should go to prison for being reckless on track during caution-no need for running his son into wall and then acting as he did in drive by under caution.
Rochester News-Democrat….Drivers on track say Stewart tried to splash mud on Ward during caution-revving engine-instead lost control of rear of car-hit Ward.

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