Big League Stew - MLB - Yahoo! Sports: The Juice: Marlins beat Arizona, but we salute D’backs anyway

Big League Stew - MLB - Yahoo! Sports Latest Big League Stew - MLB from Yahoo! Sports The Juice: Marlins beat Arizona, but we salute D’backs anyway 1 Jun 2011, 1:24 pm Nine innings, nine items to get you going. Ladies and gentleman of the Stew, take a sip of morning Juice. 1. The month nobody saw coming: Anibal Sanchez, Logan Morrison (pictured) and the Florida Marlins stopped Arizona's winning streak at seven with a 5-2 victory Tuesday night, but the Diamondbacks still finished May with a 19-9 record and in first place in the NL West. Howtheydothat? 2. Skip to my St. Lou: Little Skip Schumaker had a little infield hit to cap a three-run rally in the eighth for the St. Louis Cardinals, who jumped the Giants 4-3. 3. MarmLOL: Whoa, Carlos Marmol had a blowout; The Houston Astros nicked him for six runs in the ninth, coming from behind to beat the Cubs 7-3 at Wrigley. 20-year-old Jordan Lyles had a nice debut for Houston, too: One earned run allowed and five hits (with no walks) in seven innings. 4. Longo go longo: Evan Longoria, back hitting in the middle of the order, lined a go-ahead two-run homer in the eighth inning to propel Tampa Bay to a 5-4 victory against the Rangers. I'm not sure 84-year-old lefty Arthur Rhodes is the match-up that manager Ron Washington wanted there. 5. Fenway Park, home of the ... White ... Sox?: They won in Boston again — their 12th win in 14 games at Fenway — behind a lot of offense and another strong outing by Phil Humber, beating the Red Sox 10-7. 6. Sailing the high seas in style: Thanks to three runs in the eighth and two more in the ninth Pittsburgh Pirates, took out the Mets and R.A. Dickey 5-1. One more road victory — just ONE more — and the Bucs equal — EQUAL — their total from 2010, when they went 17-64 away from PNC Park. 7. Smoak on the Wieters: Justin Smoak's eighth-inning three-run homer trumps Matt Wieters' solo shot in Seattle's 3-2 victory against Baltmore. Wieters and Smoak were high school chums in So. Carolina, you know? Imagine that lineup. Two-ninths of it, anyway. 8. Off a Cliff: Danny Espinosa and Washington Nationals, they smacked Cliff Lee around like he's on the pay-no-mind list in a 10-2 thrashing of the Phillies. Espinosa had two homers in becoming the first guy to take Lee and Roy Halladay deep this season. 9. Sound-a-likes: Zack Greinke was better than Chad Reineke (where's Zach Kroenke when you need him?), and Corey Hart hit a home run at night helping the Brewers beat the Reds 7-2 and improve to 9-18 on the road. Follow Dave on Twitter — @AnswerDave — and engage the Stew on Facebook You are receiving this email because you subscribed to this feed at blogtrottr.com. If you no longer wish to receive these emails, you can unsubscribe from this feed.