Week 15: Wednesday Roundup

Alex Avila (hairy) and Daniel Descalso (hairiest) combined for 4.2 innings on the mound, allowing 3 runs on 6 baserunners,

STUDS: It was a great day to have a Rockie in your lineup, as the Diamondbacks used postion players to pitch the last 4.2 innings (!) of a 19-2 loss: Charlie Blackmon (PYB) homered, singled twice, scored 4 runs and drove in 3. Ian Desmond (PYB) homered, singled twice and drove in 5. DJ LeMahieu (AL) doubled twice, singled, walked and scored 4 runs. Elsewhere, Kenta Maeda (FF) continued his strikeout roll, notching 9 and allowing 1 run in a 5.2-inning win. Newly voted-in all-star Jesus Aguilar (SG) doubled twice, singled, walked and drove in 3. Ozzie Albies (R) homered twice and drove in 4 runs.

This is Lou Trivino. Or is it?

STUD DESPITE BEING A MET: Jacob deGrom (FDD) continued to slowly turn into a darker version of Bill Murray from Groundhog Day, reliving the same horror every five days or so: this time, he threw 8 shutout innings with 7 Ks and earned himself another no-decision because Mets. deGrom, who has been almost unquestionably the best pitcher in the NL (at least - his 6.0 WAR leads all pitchers in MLB), takes a lofty 5-4 record into the all-star break. Among pitchers with more wins than deGrom so far: Hector Velazquez, Mike Minor, Jeremy Jeffress, Robert Gsellman (MET VULTURE!), Ty Blach, Lou Trivino, Chris Stratton and, of course, Charlie Freakin' Morton.

DUDS: Yadier Molina singled and erred but dammit he did it THE RIGHT WAY. MLB writers responded by calling an emergency vote and putting him immediately in the Hall of Fame - his ceremony will be this weekend. Don't miss it. Ben Zobrist (PM) singled and erred but did it the wrong way, and has been banned from baseball for life. Joey Votto (BM) singled, walked and erred and was deported back to Canada. Travis Shaw (SG) walked and erred - he escaped unscathed, so far. Tyler Mahle (PM) allowed 5 runs and struck out 1 in a 2.1-inning loss. In fairness to Tyler, he allowed barely a quarter of the runs the Indians scored on the day.

These bat shards are now in the Vatican Museum.