Nobody can possibly do what John Autin does with his amazing game reviews, but he’s been quiet for a couple of days, so I humbly chip in a few notes on yesterday’s games, and welcome others to add their own.
–Felix Hernandez’s Game Score of 93 was the highest against the Rangers since a Johan Santana 17K, 0BB game in August 2007.
–Jeff Francoeur of the Royals actually had two hits, a walk and an RBI, all in the same game, for the first time since April last season.
–Craig Kimbrel has now had 21 appearances in a row in which he has pitched at least one full inning and also allowed zero walks. There have been only five longer such streaks in MLB history (two by Mariano Rivera), the longest being a 26-game streak by John Smoltz that ran from September 2003 to June 2004.
–Oakland got home runs from four different hitters for the first time since they got homers from five guys on September 11, 2009.
–The Braves have now scored at least 7 runs in their last four games against the Mets and won all four. The last team to do that to the Mets was Arizona in 2002. The only team to beat the Mets five times in a row while scoring 7 or more every time was the Milwaukee Braves back in 1964.
–Andrew McCutchen has a homer and at least one additional time on base in each of his last three games. The last Pirate to do that three games in a row was Ryan Doumit in 2008.