Morning Wood

Chicago White Sox 2 Baltimore Orioles 2 Suspended

Wanna know how to piss me off? Here's a good way! Well, have a White Sox game scheduled to start at 1PM, but then give it a nice two hour rain delay so that by the time the game starts, I have to leave to go to work. Then let me go work my eight hour shift to come home and watch the game I recorded when I get home. Then let me sit there for two hours watching the game ONLY TO SUSPEND THE FUCKING THING IN THE 12TH INNING. That will usually do the trick. Another way to piss me off? Have Brian Anderson try to lay down a suicide squeeze with Carlos Quentin on third and only one out in the 10th inning. Real smart there Oz. Got the infield drawn in, and all you need is a fly ball, but you want Brian to execute a suicide squeeze. Whereas if you just let him swing away, the game is probably over. Have you not paid attention to your team the last two years? What makes you think anybody not named Pablo Ozuna can lay down a bunt?

Oakland Athletics 14 Los Angeles Angels 2

The Athletics just continue to surprise. The team that was supposed to be one of the worst in baseball as they begin a total overhaul of the club is now the proud owner of the best record in the American League after beating down division rival Los Angeles on Monday. Frank Thomas had three hits off of his former teammate Jon Garland, including his first triple in six years. That's right, Frank Thomas tripled, and they still finished the game in under six hours. "That was priceless," winning pitcher Chad Gaudin said of Thomas' 12th career triple. "I played with the guy in '06, and I don't think I saw him beat out a ball -- much less go from home to third on a triple. It's uplifting. He told me a couple of days ago, 'I can run now.' And I said, 'Really.' And I'm thinking to myself, in 15 years, all of a sudden you can run now? And sure enough, he can run."

Arizona Diamondbacks 5 Houston Astros 3

While the Athletics have the best record in the American League, the team with the best record in baseball added another victory to their total on Monday, as the DBacks and Dan Haren took care of the Astros. Haren went 7.2 innings and allowed only five hits, while knocking in a run with a double to help his own cause. And all this coming off of a flu. "The flu's been going around the whole team and I had it early in the year," he said. "It was really bad. I lost weight and everything, but I'm finally getting back into my normal routine."

AL

• Yankees 5 Indians 2

NL

• Reds 4 Cardinals 3
• Giants 4 Rockies 0