Sports Report for 8/19/08

8/19/08 – Sports Report

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Baseball – 10-5 (16-7-70%)
Football – 0-0 (0-0)

Major League Baseball
In the American League, Boston def. Baltimore 7-2. Dice-K gets his 15th win of the season for Boston (15-2). You gotta ask yaself. If Dice-K wouldn’t have gotten hurt, would he be 20-2 right now? Kevin Youkilis also hit his 24th homer of the year for Boston. Cleveland def. Kansas City 9-4. Grady Sizemore hit his 28th homerun of the year for Cleveland. Toronto def. The Yankees 2-1. AJ Burnett DOMINATED the Yankees by striking out 13 for his 16th win (16-9). BJ Ryan got his 24th save for Toronto. Tampa Bay def. The Angels 4-2. For the Angels, Vladimir Guerrero hit his 23rd homer of the year. Detroit def. Texas 11-3. Armando Gallaraga got his 12th win of the season (12-4). Matt Joyce hit two homers for Detroit (11,12). Minnesota def. Oakland 13-2. MY WHITE SOX def. Seattle 5-0 to keep the lead in the AL Central. Jim Thome hit his 26th homer of the year for MY SOX.

In the National League, Philadelphia def. Washington 5-4. Brad Lidge got his 31st save of the year for Philly. The Mets def. Atlanta 7-3. Houston def. Milwaukee 5-2. Jose Valverde got his 32nd save of the year. The Cubs def. Cincinnati 5-0. Rich Harden struck out 10 for his 8th win of the year (8-2). Pittsburgh def. St. Louis 4-1. Arizona def. San Diego 7-6. Adam Dunn hit his 33rd homer of the year for Arizona. Colorado def. The Dodgers 8-3. Matt Holliday hit his 24th homer of the year and Brad Hawpe hit his 22nd for Colorado. Florida def. San Francisco 6-0. Jeff Cantu hit his 22nd homer of the year for Florida.

When it comes to the playoffs, it looks like this…
American League
EAST – Tampa Bay by 4 ½ games over Boston.
CENTRAL – Chicago by 1 game over Minnesota.
WEST – The Angels by 15 ½ games over Texas.
WILDCARD – Boston
National League
EAST – NY Mets by 1 ½ games over Philadelphia.
CENTRAL – Chicago by 6 games over Milwaukee.
WEST – Arizona by 1 game over The Dodgers.
WILDCARD – Milwaukee

National Football League
New England releases TE Marcus Pollard.
Atlanta releases WR Joe Horn.
Arizona Cardinals star WE Anquan Boldin has asked to be traded.
The Cincinnati Bengals have RE-SIGNED WR Chris Henry to a 2 year deal.

National Basketball Association
G Gordon Giricek signed to play over seas in Turkey for 2 years.
Currently, in the Olympics, Team USA is leading Australia 106-78 with 4:33 left in the 4th quarter. I will have final results on tomorrow’s report. Kobe Bryant has 23 points at this point to lead Team USA.

Pro Wrestling
WWE Smackdown from 8/16 drew a 2.4 rating, which is up from last weeks 2.0 rating.
WWE Raw from 8/18 drew a 3.3 rating, which was up from last weeks 3.1 rating.

Here are the results from ECW on Sci-Fi for Tuesday Night…
ECW on Sci Fi Tapings
Tuesday, August 19, 2008
Live! From Moline, IL
Dark Match: Takeshi Morishima def. Jamie Noble
Ricky Ortiz def. Gavin Spears
John Morrison, The Miz & Chavo Guererro def. Tommy Dreamer, Super Crazy & Evan Bourne
Mark Henry def. Matt Hardy to retain the ECW World Championship

Here are the Smackdown Tapings for This Friday Night…
WWE Friday Night Smackdown! Tapings
Moline, IL
August 19, 2008
General Manager Vickie Guererro was wheeled out and announced that at Unforgiven, Smackdown would hold it's own 5-man scramble match for the WWE Championship. Matches would be held during the show to determine the participants.
Maria v. Natalya ended in a no contest when Maryse ran out and attacked Maria. Michelle McCool ran down to make the save.
Armando Estrada, Funaki, Super Crazy, Scotty Goldman (Colt Cabana), and unknown wrestler, Curt Hawkins, Zack Ryder, Jimmy Wang Yang and Vladimir Kozlov and Brian Kendrick are participants in an over the top rope battle royal to determine one of the contestants in the Main Event of Unforgiven. Brian Kendrick wins after Big Show arrives and tosses everyone out of the ring. Kendrick is caught by his body guard and summarily tossed back in once Show leaves.
Another R-Truth promo aired.
MVP def. Festus via count out to qualify for the Unforgiven Championship Scramble match.
WWE U.S. Champion Shelton Benjamin def. Finlay to qualify for the Unforgiven Championship Scramble match. Mike Knox interfered to setup the finish. Knox got a very strong reaction.
Jeff Hardy def. The Great Khali to qualify for the Unforgiven Championship Scramble match. Triple H was at ringside on commentary. He took out Khali's manager and then hit Khali with a chair to setup the finish.
May Not Air: After the match, Triple H took the mic and talked about the championship scramble and it's opponents. He botched the promo at first but then started over cracking a joke about how this wasn't live and he gets second chances. Kenny Dykstra eventually came bounding down to the ring, interrupting the promo and got himself a pedigree for his efforts.
La Familia came out to the ring and called the Undertaker down to the ring. Vickie begged him for forgiveness. Taker said he wasn't looking for that, he was looking for their souls. La Familia beats Taker down as Vickie rolls off to the back. Taker eventually fought them off and then posed in the ring afterwards.
Post-Taping Bonus Match: WWE Champion Triple H defeated The Great Khali in a Street Fight.