Fantasy Baseball Players of the Day – 6/5/08
Thursday, June 5th
Old Man Matt Stairs went 3 for 5 with 2 Runs, a HR, and 5 RBI. Manny Ramirez went 2 for 3 with a Run, a HR, and 5 RBI. Elijah Dukes went 4 for 6 with 3 Runs, a Triple, a HR, and 4 RBI. Chipper Jones went 4 for 5. Cristian Guzman went 4 for 5 with 3 Runs. Dan Uggla, Alexi Casilla, Mike Redmonds, Aaron Boone, Kory Casto, Michael Young, Milton Bradley, Tadahito Iguchi, and Ryan Theriot each had 3 Hits. Jason Michaels, Mark Worrell, and Ramon Vazquez each had 3 RBI. Joe Mather scored 3 Runs. Jeff Kent hit a pair of HRs.
Cole Hamels tossed a Complete Game three-hit Shutout to improve to 6-4 with a 3.36 ERA. Garrett Olson went 6-1/3 Innings allowing 2 Runs to improve to 5-1 with a 3.86 ERA. Todd Wellemeyer pitched six scoreless Innings allowing 5 Hits with 5 Ks to improve to 7-1 with a 2.92 ERA. He beat John “Can’t Buy Me Love” Lannan, who gave up 2 Runs on 4 Hits in 6 Innings. Jon Lester gave up 1 Run in 6-1/3 Innings with 5 Ks to improve to 4-3 with a 3.50 ERA. Paul Maholm went 8 Innings allowing 2 Runs to improve to 4-5. Jose Contreras gave up 1 Run on 4 Hits in 7 Innings to improve to 6-3 with a 2.76 ERA. Josh Banks (6 Innings, 5 Hits, 1 Run – his ERA sits at 0.39) and Mike Pelfrey (6 Innings, 1 Run) took no-decisions in their pitchers’ duel.
