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Marcum throws gem as Blue Jays shut down A'sBaseball Betting Lines08/17/2010 - Oakland, CA (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Shaun Marcum pitched his first career complete game, allowing just one hit in a 3-1 Blue Jays win over the Athletics. Marcum (11-6) pitched no-hit ball through six innings before giving up a leadoff homer to Conor Jackson in the seventh. He walked just one and hit a batter while fanning five in the gem. "There's no what-ifs," Marcum said of a possible no-hitter. "I'm one of those guys -- I don't have no-hit stuff. So, it's just a combination of going out there, keeping the ball down and going from there." Jose Bautista hit his league-leading 37th home run of the season, an inside- the-parker, while Edwin Encarnacion added a two-run shot. Jose Molina went 4- for-4 in Toronto's fourth win in five games. Brett Anderson (3-4) was the hard-luck loser after giving up three runs -- two earned -- on seven hits and a walk in six innings. The A's have now lost four in a row. "Times like these are tough, but it's baseball. You get to play baseball for a living, it's not too bad. You have to come to the field and have fun every day," Anderson said. The game was scoreless until the fourth, when Bautista led off the inning with a home run. The ball appeared to bounce off the low portion of the foul pole just above the left field wall, but the ball remained in play, and Bautista sprinted around the bases easily without a play at home. In the fifth, Lyle Overbay began the frame by reaching on an error, and Encarnacion hammered an Anderson offering over the wall in left to give the Blue Jays a 3-0 lead. Meanwhile, Marcum was dominant. He retired the first eight batters before hitting Cliff Pennington with a pitch. Pennington was subsequently caught stealing to end the third. Marcum allowed a one-out walk in the fourth, but retired the other three hitters in the inning, and set down six of the next seven hitters to maintain the no-hitter through six innings. One Oakland batter reached on an error. However, Marcum's no-hit bid came to end in the seventh, as Jackson blasted the first pitch of the inning for a home run to left-center, cutting the Athletics' deficit to two. Marcum settled down, though, retiring the last nine batters he faced to polish off the victory. Game Notes Bautista has 11 homers in his last 20 games...Marcum had allowed 13 runs over 10 innings in his last two starts, both losses...The Athletics snapped a seven-game homerless skid with Jackson's shot. The team has not gone eight games without a HR since 1983...Toronto leads the season series, 4-1...Jackson was reinstated from the 15-day disabled list prior to the game. Additionally, outfielder Travis Buck was recalled from Triple-A Sacramento. To make room on the roster, Oakland optioned both infielder Jeff Larish and outfielder Chris Carter to Sacramento...Bautista recorded his second inside-the-park home run of the season.
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Teams that should be in: Michigan State, Indiana Should be in: Michigan State [21-8 (8-6), RPI: 20, SOS: 15] The Spartans made it four-for-four on the homestand, a gigantic accomplishment that leaves them in extremely good shape. MSU is only 1-6 on the road and is at Michigan and at Wisconsin to close things out, meaning the date with the Wolverines on Tuesday looms very, very large. Beating Texas early will hold up well, as will the rout of Bradley and the win over BYU, but will 8-8 be enough? It very well could be, as the computer numbers are good, but why chance it? Indiana [18-9 (8-6), RPI: 24, SOS: 32] Hmm ... good thing the last two are at Northwestern and home to Penn State, because IU might want to get both to feel completely safe after dropping its third in the last four, fading after halftime at Michigan State. Who knew the best nonconference win would be over Southern Illinois, which is a gift that keeps on giving for the Hoosiers. The win over Wisconsin also looks good on the mantel. Work left to do: Illinois [21-9 (9-6), RPI: 31, SOS: 25] A good performance at Penn State leaves the Illini in pretty good shape. Can they go to Iowa and take care of business to really look on their way? That's a huge game, as there is a possible cluster of teams that will end at 9-7. Illinois beat Bradley, but has lost to Xavier. A 9-7 mark and a semifinals trip in Chicago could be enough with the computer profile hanging in there, but it would be better not to mess around, clinching at least a tie for third. Purdue [18-10 (7-7), RPI: 47, SOS: 28] Couldn't get it done at Iowa, but did win at Northwestern to put 9-7 squarely in sight. Where does that leave the Boilermakers, though? Even if they beat Minnesota and Northwestern at home, that won't help the computer numbers. Nonconference wins over Virginia, DePaul and Oklahoma are solid, but not spectacular. The Boilers very well might need an upset in the B10 quarters to have a legit claim. Michigan [19-10 (7-7), RPI: 55, SOS: 53] Well, Michigan did what it needed to do, winning at Minnesota to take control of its fate. The Wolverines have Michigan State and an already-wrapped-up-the-league Ohio State at home to close, so the chances are there. Win both and we can talk. There is no marquee win yet in the profile, and the Wolverines were splattered in several games against name opponents. A mediocre computer profile fueled by a lack of road wins isn't helping, either. Iowa [16-12 (8-6), RPI: 80, SOS: 64] For the sake of being complete, we'll add Iowa, this season's Stanford. It's plausible that the Hawkeyes could get to 10-6 (at Penn State, vs. Illinois left), but where does that leave them after a gruesome nonconference performance where the best win was over ... Toledo? Iowa State? Cornell?? If they get to 10-6, we can start to look at what they need to do in the B10 tourney, although my gut sense is that they would need to make the final and have knocked off Ohio State or Wisconsin on the way to have any real claim. For more College Basketball betting lines go to MySportsbook.com Additional sports lines can be found at: www.Sportsbooks.com To bet on March Madness games this online sportsbook accepts credit cards.
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