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Greinke impresses Greinke
Greinke impresses Greinke
Kansas City righthander Zack Greinke, baseball's best pitcher so far this season, threw his fifth complete game for his eighth win Tuesday. He even impressed himself with his latest performance.
"It was one of those days when almost everything's working," Greinke said on MLB.com. "And I was like, 'Just keep it right there. They can't do much with you if you keep it like that.' "
One of Greinke's goals was not to walk a batter. He didn't.
"I wasn't really worried about walking anybody at any time," he said. "When you do that, it makes pitching a lot easier and hitting a lot harder, but it's not often when you can do that."
The Boom Brothers
Apparently, the White Sox' Jayson Nix was not about to let his brother, Laynce, outshine him Tuesday night.
Laynce hit his fourth homer of the season for the Reds off Houston's Roy Oswalt, putting him two ahead of Jayson. "Yeah, I saw that right before I went out," Jayson said on MLB.com.
Then in a game that began on West Coast time, Jayson went on to hit a pair of homers in Chicago's 4-2 win over the Angels to tie Laynce with four.
It was the first time the Nix brothers hit homers on the same night, which put them in pretty exclusive company. Jason and Jeremy Giambi, Billy and Cal Ripken Jr., Billy and Tony Conigliaro, Matty and Jesus Alou, Hank and Tommie Aaron, and Paul and Lloyd Waner are brother tandems who homered on the same night. But they did so while playing on the same team.
Surprise: Jeter leads voting
The first AL balloting update for the All-Star Game was released, and for what seems like the 100th consecutive year, Derek Jeter is the leading vote-getter at shortstop. He is almost 400,000 votes ahead of the runner-up, Toronto's Marco Scutaro.
Speaking of the all-star voting, can it get any tackier? It's bad enough that fans can vote up to 25 times on MLB.com and all 30 club Web sites on an on-line ballot that's sponsored. There's also an All-Star Game Selection Show - sponsored, of course - so fans can watch what they already know. Fans will then be able to select online the final player on each roster. And for fans not weary of voting, they will have the opportunity to participate in the official voting for the Ted Williams Most Valuable Player Award for the All-Star Game. The award is also sponsored.
Noteworthy
Catcher Jorge Posada may return to the Yankees for their weekend series against Cleveland. He's been on the DL with a strained right hamstring. . .The Orioles put righthander Koji Uehara on the 15-day DL with a hamstring injury and activated DH Luke Scott, who missed 16 days with a strained left shoulder. . .Royals manager Trey Hillman was suspended from last night's game against Detroit for arguing a called third strike on Willie Bloomquist during Monday's game. . .Oakland's Nomar Garciaparra went back on the DL with the same calf injury that sidelined him for three weeks.
Contact staff writer Ray Parrillo at 215-854-2743 or rparrillo@phillynews.com
