#196---SF @ LA, 3/31/2011

Tim Lincecum v. Clayton Kershaw on opening day. Of course, at this point, the former was still the bigger name, but 2011 would flip it with Kershaw taking home his first Cy Young. On this day, they were pretty evenly matched, each going seven. Lincecum allowed one run, fanned five and walked three; Kershaw allowed none while fanning nine and walking one, so Lincecum was hung with the loss while Kershaw earned the win.

The Dodgers run off Lincecum came without the benefit of a hit. With one out Matt Kemp walked, James Loney grounded to short but Miguel Tejada threw away the throw to second. Juan Uribe was plunked, and then Buster Posey made a throwing error, allowing all Dodgers to take a base. Kemp would score the Dodgers second run when he walked to leadoff the eighth, stole second, and was driven in by James Loney. Pat Burrell took Jonathan Broxton deep in the ninth, but Brandon Belt closed his major league debut by lining to Uribe to end it.

#195---MIN @ CLE, 9/10/2010

Carl Pavano retired the last twelve Indians he faced; Fausto Carmona retired the last sixteen Twins he faced. Both tossed complete games, Pavano making 103 pitches while walking one and fanning three, Carmona making 108 while walking one and fanning seven. And look at the time of game – one hour, fifty-seven minutes.

#194---BAL @ KC, 5/14/2009

Following the games for which I’ve shown scoresheets on this blog, you can probably pinpoint the moment when MLB Network came into existence: this season, 2009, when suddenly there are scoresheets for random Orioles/Royals games. There’s not much of note in this scoresheet, as you might expect from a game between teams that would go 64-98 and 65-97 respectively. It could have had its biggest impact on draft position, except Baltimore won so it didn’t flip either team’s position in retrospect. It would have been a big deal if it had – Baltimore drafted third and nabbed Manny Machado, Kansas City was fourth and drafted Christian Colon.

#193---MIN @ CLE, 9/17/2008

Cliff Lee was fantastic in 2008, going 22-3 for a .500 team, but this was not one of his best performances. The Indians tied it at two in the fourth with solo shots from Jhonny Peralta and Travis Hafner and took a 4-2 lead in the fifth on Shin-Soo Choo’s two-run double. But Lee yielded hits to four of the first five Twins in the seventh, reknotting the game. Edward Mujica got out of the inning, then the Indians got back-to-back two-out doubles from Peralta and Victor Martinez to reclaim the lead 6-4. Rafael Perez and Jensen Lewis made it hold up.