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Mike Hampton
3 August 2009
Park. San Francisco began a mini three game road trip in Houston with a 4-3 loss to Mike Hampton and the Astros. The Giants, who fall to 21-and-32 on the road had to be feeling good after taking three of four from the Phillies, improving their home record to 37-and-16. All-Star Matt Cain was on the mound tonight, but it didn't materialize thanks to a lack of timely offense. Cain worked 8-innings, allowed 8 hits, 4 earned runs, no walks, and 5 strike outs, falling to 12-and-3 on the season. He did make a couple of mistakes, allowing home runs to Geoff Blum and Kaz Matsui - the latter home run hitting the right field foul pole. Cain also gave up some really hard-hit balls: a couple of triples by Hunter Pence and Michael Bourn, and three hits off the bat of Carlos Lee. San Francisco managed to bang out eleven hits, but left TEN men on base. They were able to scratch out a couple of hits and a late run of Houston closer Jose Valverde, who held on to record the save. Astros' starter
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27 July 2008
Here's a list of all the starters who make more than ol' Wishy-Washburn: Randy Johnson ($15.1M)Mike Hampton ($15.975M, courtesy of his monster Rockies deal) John Smoltz ($14M)Josh Beckett ($10.1M)Carlos Zambrano ($16M)Mark Buehrle ($14M)Javier Vazquez ($11.5M)Jose Contreras ($10M)CC Sabathia ($11M)Jake Westbrook ($10M)Roy Oswalt ($13M Gil Meche ($11.4M) Jon Garland ($12M)Jason Schmidt ($15.2M) Derek Lowe ($10M)Ben Sheets ($10.1M)Johan Santana ($16.9M)Pedro Martinez ($11.8M)Andy Pettitte ($16M)Mike Mussina ($11M)Carl Pavano ($11M)Matt Morris ($10M)Greg Maddux ($10M) Barry Zito ($14.5M)Chris Carpenter ($10.5M)Vincente Padilla ($11M)Kevin Millwood ($10.3M) AJ Burnett ($13.2M)Roy Halladay ($10M)
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22 July 2008
The Rockies have tried some different angles on this. One was to bring in sinkerballers. See Mike Hampton’s Coors line (17-10 with a 5.79 ERA in 33 starts) to see how that went. Maybe the ball doesn’t sink in thin air, either.
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25 June 2008
On the DL right now are: John Smoltz, Tom Glavine, Mike Hampton, Rafael Soriano, and Peter Moylan.
And that's only the pitchers. They're also missing Matt Diaz, Martin Prado and Mark Kotsay, while Chipper, Esco and now Infante are all aching in one way or another without (yet) going to the DL.
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