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 Hello, and welcome to another edition of ‘Live-Blogging Shish on Baseball’. Tonight, it is a National League Showdown, between Los Angeles Dodgers and Washington Nationals.
This is the 2nd game of a 4-game series. This is a battle of the winners of the last two World Series Champions. Dodgers are trying to keep up with the San Francisco Giants in the NL West. They are 0.5 game behind San Francisco. For the Nationals, they are trying to chase the Mets. As Washington is 2 GB New York, for the NL East. Tonight’s Starting Lineups are left-hander Julio Urias for the Dodgers. While the Nationals will start their ace Max Scherzer. Urias comes in with a strikeout/walk ratio of 5.94 and a pitches/plate appearance of 3.69. As for Scherzer, he comes in with a K/BB of 5.95 and a P/PA of 4.19. It is Los Angeles Dodgers taking on Washington Nationals, coming up shortly. Starting Lineups: Los Angeles Dodgers:
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 Hello, and welcome to another edition of ‘Live-Blogging Shish on Baseball’. Tonight, it is a National League Showdown, between Chicago Cubs and Milwaukee Brewers.
This is the first of the three game series. Brewers have a 3 game lead on the Cubs. And Milwaukee has a 5 game winning streak. While the Cubs have a 3 game losing streak. Tonight’s Starting Pitchers are a pair of right-handed pitchers. Kyle Hendricks will go for the Cubs. And Freddy Peralta will start for the Brewers. Hendricks comes in with a strikeout/walk ratio of 4.12 and a pitches/plate appearance of 3.50. For Peralta, he comes in with a K/BB of 3.45 and a P/PA of 4.26. It is Chicago Cubs and Milwaukee Brewers, coming up shortly. Starting Lineups: Chicago Cubs: 1. Joc Pederson, LF 2. Ian Happ, CF 3. Javier Baez, SS 4. Kris Bryant, 1B 5. Jason Heyward, RF 6. Eric Sogard, 3B 7. Sergio Alcantara, 2B 8. Jose Lobaton, C 9. Kyle Hendricks, P Milwaukee Brewers: 1. Luis Urias, 3B 2. Christian Yelich, LF 3. Willy Adames, SS 4. Omar Narvaez, C 5. Avasail Garcia, RF 6. Jace Peterson, 2B 7. Keston Hiura, 1B 8. Jackie Bradley, Junior, CF 9. Freddy Peralta, P  Hello, and welcome to another edition of ‘Live-Blogging Shish on Baseball’. Tonight, it is an interleague game, between Cleveland Indians and Chicago Cubs.
Indians are trying to stay in the A.L. Central with the White Sox. There 2.5 GB for their division lead. But they are injuries from Frammil Reyes, and Shane Bieber may be hitting a wall, due to playing the shortened season last year. As for Cubs, they are roller coaster, they slump in April. Played like the 2016 World Series Championship Team in May, and last week dropped 5 out of 7 games to the Mets and Marlins. Indians and Cubs played against each other back in May, where the Indians swept the North Siders. Tonight’s Starting Pitchers are a pair of right-handers. Aaron Civale will go for the Indians. While Adbert Alzolay will start for the Cubs. Civale comes in with a strikeout/walk (K/BB) ratio of 3.38 and pitches/plate appearance (P/PA) of 3.77. For Alzolay, he comes in with a K/BB ratio of 3.88 and P/PA of 3.93. It is Cleveland Indians and Chicago Cubs, coming up shortly. Starting Lineups: Cleveland Indians:
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 Both teams are on winning streaks. Reds appear that they are back healthy with the additions of Joey Votto and Aristides Aquino returning to the lineup.
For the Brewers, they are fighting with the Cubs for first place. And they are looking like they could have the pieces in place for a run this year. Tonight’s Starting Pitchers are right-hander Vladimir Guitterez for the Reds. While the Brewers, will go with left-hander Eric Lauer. It is Cincinnati Reds and Milwaukee Brewers, coming up shortly. Starting Lineups: Cincinnati Reds:
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 Hello, and welcome to another edition of ‘Live-Blogging Shish on Baseball’. Tonight, it is an American League Clash, between New York Yankees and Minnesota Twins. Both teams are struggling and are plagued with injuries.
For the Yankees, they are won’t have Aaron Hicks for the year due to having wrist surgery. But they are hoping to have their first basemen Luke Voit as he is recuperating from an oblique injury. Twins have injuries but is doesn’t appear that their season ending for Mitch Garver (groin) and Max Kepler (hamstring) soon. What both the Twins and Yankees don’t have is time, as they are looking at a month-and-half from deciding if they will be buyers or sellers at the July 31st Trade Deadline. Tonight’s Starting Pitchers are a pair of right-handers. Gerrit Cole will start for the Yankees. While the Twins will throw Randy Dobnak. Cole enters tonight’s game with a strikeout/walk ratio of 9.45 and a pitches/plate appearance of 4.14. As for Dobnak, he comes in with a K/BB ratio of 2.75 and P/PA of 3.36 It is New York Yankees taking on Minnesota Twins, coming up shortly. Starting Lineups: New York Yankees: 1. DJ LeMahieu, 1B 2. Aaron Judge, RF 3. Gleyber Torres, SS 4. Giancarlo Stanton, DH 5. Gio Urshela, 3B 6. Rougned Odor, 2B 7. Miguel Andujar, LF 8. Kyle Higashoika, C 9. Brett Gardner, CF Minnesota Twins: 1. Jorge Polanco, 2B 2. Josh Donaldson, 3B 3. Trevor Larnach, LF 4. Nelson Cruz, DH 5. Ryan Jeffers, C 6. Alex Kirilloff, RF 7. Miguel Sano, 1B 8. Andrelton Simmons, SS 9. Gilberto Celestino, CF Live-Blogging Shish on Horse Racing: Stakes Races at Hawthorne and Prairie Meadows 06/04/20216/4/2021 Hello, and welcome to another edition of ‘Live-Blogging Shish on Horse Racing’. Tonight, it is stakes races from Stickney, Illinois’ Hawthorne Racecourse and Altoona, Iowa’s Prairie Meadows.
At Hawthorne This Weekend, it is the 3-year-old Cardinal and Violet Harness Races. On Saturday, it will be the Filly Violet Pace and Sunday are the Cardinal and Violet trots. But tonight, it is the Colt Cardinal Pace as the 2nd race of the night at Hawthorne. While Hawthorne has a weekend of stakes races, Iowa’s Prairie Meadows has 3 stakes races. Beginning in Race #6 it is the Jim Rasmussen. Then it is followed by the Panther Stakes. And then the trilogy of stakes races concludes with the Prairie Mile. Here are those races:  Hello, and welcome to another edition of ‘Live-Blogging Shish on Baseball’. This Afternoon, it is a Monday Matinee in the American League East as Tampa Bay Rays take on Toronto Blue Jays.
Rays are the hottest team in baseball. Winners of 10 straight games. And they are tied with the Boston Red Sox for the AL East Division Lead. As for the Blue Jays, this series is a struggle for them. They would like to salvage the finale of this 4-game Friday-to-Monday series. And would like to stay in AL East contention as they will head to Buffalo and possibly back to Toronto. This Afternoon’s Starting Pitchers are left-hander Ryan Yarbrough for the Rays and the Jays will throw right-hander Ross Stripling as a featured pitcher. Yarbrough comes in with a strikeout/walk ratio of 3.50 and pitches/plate appearance of 3.61. As for Stripling, he comes in with a K/BB ratio of 3.63 and a P/PA of 3.89. It is Tampa Bay Rays and Toronto Blue Jays, coming up shortly. Starting Lineups: Tampa Bay Rays: 1. Randy Arozarena, LF 2. Austin Meadows, DH 3. Brandon Lowe, 2B 4. Manuel Margot, RF 5. Ji-Man Choi, 1B 6. Taylor Walls, SS 7. Joey Wendle, 3B 8. Mile Zunino, C 9. Kevin Kiermaier, CF Toronto Blue Jays: 1. Marcus Siemen, 2B 2. Bo Bichette, SS 3. Vladimir Guerrero, Junior, 1B 4. Teoscar Hernandez, RF 5. Randal Grichuk, DH 6. Lourdes Gurriel, Junior, LF 7. Santiago Espinal, 3B 8. Jonathon Davis, CF 9. Reese McGuire, C  Hello, and welcome to another edition of ‘Live-Blogging Shish on Baseball’. Tonight, it is an interleague game, between Milwaukee Brewers taking on Kansas City Royals.
Brewers and Royals are fighting for their respective divisions. They are both in third place. And looking to find some momentum, to catch the Cardinals (Brewers 3 GB in NL Central) and White Sox (6.5 GB in AL Central). Tonight’s Starting Pitchers are a pair of right-handers. Corbin Burnes will go for the Brewers, while Brad Keller will go for the Royals. Burnes comes in with a strikeout/walk ratio of 58.00 K/BB and has a 4.00 pitches/plate appearance. Keller comes in with a K/BB ratio of 1.86 and a 3.93 P/PA., 1.81 K/BB, 3.93 P/PA. It is Milwaukee Brewers taking on Kansas City Royals, coming up shortly. Starting Lineups: Milwaukee Brewers:
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 Hello, and welcome to another edition of ‘Live-Blogging Shish on Baseball’. Tonight, it is a National League Showdown, between St. Louis Cardinals and San Diego Padres.
Cardinals are enjoying their big offseason transaction of Nolan Arenado. The 11-time World Series Champions are leading the National League Central by 3 games, heading into today’s action. Padres are 2.5 games behind the Giants in National League West. However, they have a COVID-19 setback. As Fernando Tatis, Junior, Eric Hosmer, and Wil Meyers are the starters who either tested positive or quarantined. So, the Padres are hoping to weather the storm and hope their starters will return. But tonight, it the Padres are going to look to Manny Machado and Trent Grisham to give them some offense. Tonight’s Starting Pitchers are a pair of right-handers. Johan Oviedo will go for the Cardinals. While Joe Musgrove will go for the Padres. Oviedo comes in with a strikeout/walk ratio (K/BB) of 3.25 and his pitches per plate (P/PA) of 3.82. For Musgrove, his K/BB ratio is 7.71. While his P/PA is 3.99. It is St. Louis Cardinals and San Diego Padres, coming up shortly. Starting Lineups: St. Louis Cardinals:
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Game Location: Triphahn Center Ice Arena, Hoffman Estates, IL
Hello, and welcome to another edition of ‘Live-Blogging Other Sports’. Tonight, it is an American Hockey League game, between Iowa Wild (Minnesota Wild Affiliate) and Chicago Wolves (Carolina Hurricanes and Nashville Predators). Here’s the Wolves’ Division Championship Scenarios for tonight: Wolves get a point against Wild, Wild is eliminated from Central Division Championship contention. A Wolves win and a Griffins loss, and Chicago Magic Number is down to 3 points. Wolves (18-5-1-2, 39 points) would like to win the Central Division. As there will be no Calder Cup Playoffs, the winner of the Central Division gets the Sam Pollock Trophy for this division crown. For the Wild (12-12-4-0, 28 points). They have played two more games than the Wolves but have one less game remaining than Chicago. So, it is regulation win or be eliminated from Division Title Contention. Wild comes in with a -18-goal differential. While Wolves’ goal differential is +39. Wild convert 13.2% of their power plays into goals, while killing 80.2% of their penalties. As for the Wolves, they convert 24.3% of their power plays and kill 82.2% of their penalties. It is Iowa Wild and Chicago Wolves, coming up shortly. |
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