Stephen Piscotty Drives In Five As A's Drop Mariners; Milwaukee Retakes Second Place As Christian Yelich Socks Grand Slam

Players of the Day for Sunday, September 2, 2018

American League

Piscotty: 2 HR, 5 RBI

Stephen Piscotty smacked a pair of home runs, propelling the Oakland A's to an 8-2 victory over the visiting Seattle Mariners.

The win earned a 2-2 split between the AL West rivals and helped the A's keep pace with the Astros, 4-2 winners over the Angels Sunday. Oakland trails Houston by 2 1/2 games. Seattle is eight games back. With the Yankees losing 11-7 to Detroit, Oakland picked up a game in the wild card chase. They are 4 1/2 behind the Yankees, in the second wild card spot.

Piscotty got the A's on the board in the fifth, tying the game with a solo shot. A sac fly in the sixth made the score 5-1 and his three-run belt in the eighth finished off Oakliand's scoring. Piscotty's five RBI upped his season total to 64. The homers were numbers 20 and 21 for the A's right fielder.

Oakland remains home on Monday, welcoming in the Yankees for a three game series which may impact the wild card race significantly. Game one is scheduled for a 4:00 pm EDT start.


National League

Yelich: Grand Slam

Just five days after hitting for the cycle, Milwaukee's Christian Yelich helped the Brewers retake second place from St. Louis with a grand slam in a 9-4 victory at Washigton.

Yelich got to the plate with the bases full in the fifth inning, after the Brewers had already plated three runs in the frame on Keon Broxton's three-run blast.

Yelich's .316 batting average is second best in the National League behind Cincinnati's Scooter Gennett's .319. The Brewer's outfielder has 27 home runs and 81 RBI on the year. The grand slam was the first of his career.

Milwaukee's win boosted the team past the Cardinals in the NL Central, five games behind the Cubs. Milwaukee also took over the top wild card slot as St. Louis lost to the Reds in 10 innings, 6-4.

The Brewers head home Monday for the first of three critical games with the Cubs. Game time is 2:10 pm EDT.

Orioles Swamp BoSox As Trey Mancini Belts A Pair; Stephen Piscotty Drives St. Louis Win

Players of the Day for Wednesday, April 12, 2017

American League


On Tuesday, the Orioles were rocked by the Red Sox, 8-1, but, on Wednesday, they got their just desserts, hammering five homers out of Fenway Park in a 12-5 revenge win.

Mancini: 2 HR, 4 RBI

The five dingers, two of which were produced off the bat of rookie left fielder, Trey Mancini, all came in the first three innings as the O's built a 9-0 lead, mainly off knuckle-baller Steven Wright, who was victimized for eight earned runs on eight hits over a mere 1 1/3 of an inning.

In total, the Orioles racked up 17 hits against five Red Sox throwers.

Mancini keyed a five-run first inning via a three-run blast to center field, then completed the home run barrage with a solo shot over the Green Monster in the third. The rookie has played in five games for the O's this season and is currently batting .267. The homers were the first two of the season for the 6'4" right-handed slugger.

Piscotty: 5 RBI

The Orioles head to Toronto for a four game series beginning on Thursday, while the Red Sox host the Pirates in a make-up game from an April 6 rain-out.

At 5-2, the Orioles lead the AL East by one game over Tampa Bay.

National League

The St. Louis Cardinals got a little banged up the at the opening of the season, especially when they visited the Washington Nationals, losing the first two of their three-game series by scores of 14-6 and 8-3.

On Wednesday afternoon, however, life as a Cardinal got a little bit better as St. Louis took the final game, 6-1.

Starter Mike Leake threw seven scoreless innings, allowing four hits and no walks, striking out seven en route to his first win of the season, but it was right fielder Stephen Piscotty who carried the day, going 3-for-5 with a single, double and a ninth inning three-run homer to cap the game off, driving in five of the six Cardinal scores.

Piscotty doubled in the first run in the first inning and singled home the third run in the fifth. The homer was the first of the year for Piscotty, who is batting .273, precisely what he hit in 582 at-bats last year.

The St. Louis win was their third of the season against six losses, placing them last in the NL Central division. Washington fell one game behind the Mets in the NL East. St. Louis heads to New York for a three-game series with the Yankees starting on Friday.

Mike Moustakas 3-for-3 with HR as Royals Clinch AL Central; Cardinals Streak at 5 as Stephen Piscotty Stars

Players of the Day for Thursday, September 24, 2015

American League


Kansas City became the first team to clinch a division title, wrapping up the AL Central with a 10-4 victory over the visiting Seattle Mariners.

Moustakas: 3-3, HR, 3RBI

With their win and the second-place Twins losing to Cleveland, 6-3, Kansas City is 11 games up in the division with just 10 left to play.

Mike Moustakas, who reached base on all five of his plate appearances, broke a 1-1 tie in the second inning with his 21st home run of the season, a solo shot to right field. Moustakas walked in the third, doubled in the fifth, walked and scored in the seventh, and singled in a pair of runs in the eighth, scoring the Royals' final run on a triple by Alex Rios.

The powerful third baseman finished 3-for-3 with three runs and three RBI, raising his season total to 76 and his batting average to a robust .282.

Kansas City currently has the best record in the league at 89-63. Toronto is next, with a 87-65 mark. The team with the best record would have home field through the divisional and championship rounds and would also face the wild card in the first round of the playoffs.

Productive Rookie Piscotty

Winners of their last two, the Royals open a three-game series with Cleveland at Kauffman Stadium, in Kansas City, Missouri, on Friday.

National League

St. Louis extended its late-season winning streak to five straight with a 7-3 win over visiting division rival Milwaukee Thursday night.

The Cardinals continue to remain four games up on the Pirates, winners of six straight with a 5-4 win over the Rockies. A team with the utmost in balance, St. Louis keeps finding new heroes every night. In their latest victory, Stephen Piscotty, a part-time rookie who has played in 58 games this season, took the spotlight by going 3-for-4 and driving in the final four runs for the Cardinals with his 6th home run and a pair of RBI singles.

After Jhonny Peralta tied the game at 3-all with a three-run homer in the fourth, Piscotty unknotted it with a solo shot into the left field seats, then proceeded to drive in a pair of runs in the fifth and one more in the seventh. Piscatory has, in his short time in the big leagues, distinguished himself with 37 RBI and a .313 batting average with 14 doubles and four triples. He was promoted from AAA Memphis earlier this season and is also an excellent fielder at a variety of positions. He played both first base and left field in Thursday's contest.

St. Louis needs a combination of six wins or six losses by Pittsburgh to clinch the division title. Both teams have nine games remaining in the regular season and will meet this coming Monday for a three-game series in Pittsburgh with will likely determine the division crown.

The Cardinals play game two of their four-game set with the Brewers Friday night at Busch Stadium. Game time is 8:15 pm EDT.