Baseball Digest Daily Blog: "Short Stops" Around the League

Jeff Francoeur doubled, homered and had 3 hits, but that wasn't enough to overcome Dontrelle Willis and the Marlins who beat the Braves, 4-3
Texas rallied from a 6 run deficit behind 2 RBI from Rod Barajas and Hank Blalock to nip the Tigers, 7-6
Orlando Hernandez bounced back from an awful start in Philadelphia to shutdown the Rockies, and Carlos Delgado and Carlos Beltran each hit solo homers as the Mets beat Colorado, 2-0
Cleveland bats erupted behind Ryan Garko (2-for-3, 3 runs, 2 RBI, HR) and Jhonny Peralta (4 RBI) to sting the Devil Rays, 9-4
Scott Hatteberg homered and drove in 3 runs, and Aaron Harang was brilliant as the Reds cruised to a 5-1 win over the Pirates
Roy Halladay won his 16th game of the year and Troy Glaus homered (his 33rd of the season) to lead Toronto to a 9-2 victory over Baltimore
Brandon Harper homered twice for Washington, but Aaron Rowand had 4 hits for Philadelphia and Abraham Nunez added 3 hits and 4 RBI to help the Phillies edge the Nationals, 12-10
Roger Clemens pitched 7 strong innings, allowing just one run on 6 hits as the Astros beat the Brewers, 3-1
Johan Santana was his typical self, and Torii Hunter homered and drove in two as Minnesota stopped the White Sox, 7-3
Nick Swisher and Jay Payton drove in 2 runs apiece as the A's jumped out to an early lead over Kansas City and hung on to win, 6-4
Juan Encarnacion hit a 3-run homer, and Chris Carpenter looked like his Cy Young self as the Cardinals beat the Cubs, 5-3
Chone Figgins singled in the winning run in the 9th inning to lead the Angels to a walk-off win and a sweep of the Mariners, 3-2
Derek Lowe scattered 5 hits over 8 innings to pick up his 11th victory in defeating the Giants, 5-2
Brian Giles had 4 hits and scored the game winning run in the 10th inning as the Padres outlasted the Diamondbacks, 2-1
Jason Giambi homered twice and drove in 5 runs as the Yankees came back to win their fourth straight over the Red Sox, 8-5

"Short Stops" Around the League - August 20, 2006

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