Nomar No Mas!

Hold on there Buckaroo! Take a look at the NL Central standings and you may be just a tad surprised at where the Bucs are sitting. Yep, you read that right... Pittsburgh is over .500 this late in May! Last time that happened was nearly 7 years ago. Now, we won't go into the "how" in this particular instance because that's a mighty touchy subject to the Dodgers and.. the Umpires.. and, probably MLB at this time. But, suffice it to say the Bucs won a close game in the late innings with a nifty little hit and run that scored the winning run from first base. That's baseball. Well done Bucs!

Slide on over to the AL Central and you may be just as surprised to see where the ChiSox are sitting... uh, ya... nearly in the cellar and 8 games under .500 for the year. Yikes. But, hey.. it's early ; )

Part of the reason is the offense only has one player hitting over .300 on the year. Yesterday it was Carlos Quentin trying to up his average a few points by stroking out 3 hits, including a HR and 5 RBIs to lead the Sox over the Angels in a shutout. Another few games like that and Carlos might be able to sneak back to .300 on the year. He does have 23 RBIs to rank near the top of the league.

Detroit is sitting directly on that .500 mark at 18-18 thanks to V-Mart, Victor Martinez who is doing his best to fit in with the Tigers. Victor had a big 3 hit day to up his average to .293 on the season. He posted an HR and 3 RBI outing to help Detroit's run away win over the Blue Jays. The Tigers are 3 games back in the Central and trail both KC and those 22-11 Indians.

All in all though, not alot of fireworks in Monday's league action. So, let's look back to 1934 and see if something special happened at the plate. Hmm.. yup, You might recognize the name Lou Gehrig.

Well, he had himself quite a day 77 years ago. Lou was ailing and tired after 5 innings and took himself out of the game. But, by that time.. he had already smoked 2 Home Runs and rapped out two doubles that gave him 7 RBIs as the Yankees pasted the White Sox. Yea, I'd be tired too. Way to go Lou but.. ya ain't getting the YH.

Because... a dozen years ago a fella named Nomar Garciaparra had himself one heck of a day. Nomar racked up 10 RBIs on the strength of two Grand Slams and a two run HR. Wow! No Mas! No Mas!