REDS hold serve in Game 1 vs BUCCOS...TIGERS SCHERZER gets to 10-0...RANGERS get a shaky 8-7 "W"...but its a "W"!...A CUP of JOE in the SHOW Report Monday Night Recap

Reds Pitcher Mike Leake holds the Pirates Line Up at bay allowing six hits and one run while striking out three Buccos as the Red go One-Run Bombs multiplied by four. Pirates Starter Francisco Liriano pitched well enough to win the ball game as he went six allowing five hits and two runs on Big Flies via One-Run Shots. With the Win the Red Legs move within 2 1/2 of the Cards and the Pirates fall four games back of the NL Central Leading Redbirds. Three more in this nip and tuck series as the Cards beat the Cubs tonight 5-2.

Detroit Tigers RHP Max Scherzer moves to 10-0 as he just went through the O's Line Up like a hot butter knife through Parkay Sticks of Margarine. Scherzer went six innings and striking out 10 O's Hitters while allowing a run on seven hits. The Tigers Offense chased O's Starter Jake Arrieta after a 4 2/3 and ten hits while getting five ducks to cross the dish. Tigers CF Austin Jackson goes 3 for 4 and scored twice while Miggy Cabrera also goes 3 for 4 scoring once and knocking in two. The O;'s fall back two games of the idle Red Sox and the tigers hold their 5-game lead over the Royals.

Rangers needed all eight runs versus the Athletics after the A's put up a crooked Six Runs in the top half of the fourth. Rangers back stop A.J. Pierzynski went 2-run shot and and Rangers RF Nelson Cruz went Two Big Flies and including a two run bomb in the 5th to get the lead back to the Rangers. Neither starter lasted in this one as a Men's Slow-Pitch Game broke out in that hot air in Arlington, Texas. The Rangers coming off a 1-5 week needed this one as they pull within two games of the AL West leading A's.