In my last blog, I promised that I would talk a lot about Vin Scully, but I need to mention a few other things first. For the past few days, the Red Sox have been ready to clinch the AL East, but the Yankees had something to say about it. The Yankees, who are 11 games behind Boston, beat David Price and the Red Sox 6-4. Ever since the Red Sox acquired Price, I thought they paid way too much for Price, who is 17-9 with a 4.09 ERA. The Red Sox will play two more games against New York, and three against Toronto, who is five games back, and is two games over Baltimore, who is playing Toronto in a three game series that started yesterday. Toronto won the first game 5-1. Below is a link to MLB.com’s Standings page, where you can see what’s going on in the Wild Card, and division races.

http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/standings/index.jsp

In the NL Wild Card race, the three competing teams, the Mets,Giants,and Cardinals, each scored 12 runs. The Mets beat the Marlins 12-1, a game in which Yoenis Cespedes hit a home run that hit the Marlins’ home run sculpture, as you can see below.

http://m.mlb.com/nym/video/v1191534083/nymmia-cespedes-belts-homer-off-sculpture-in-miami/?tcid=mm_nym_vid&c_id=nym

The Giants beat the Rockies 12-3. In the fifth, Hunter Pence and Buster Posey hit back to back homers to highlight a four run inning. Posey’s homer, which you can see below, was his 1,000th hit.

http://m.mlb.com/video/v1192089783/colsf-posey-clubs-a-solo-homer-for-his-1000th-hit/?game_pk=449217

The Cardinals beat the Reds 12-5. In the fourth, Jose Fernandez’s childhood friend Aledmys Diaz hit a go ahead grand slam in his first game back from mourning with Jose’s family. The slam, which you can see below, was one of five homer for Saint Louis last night.

http://m.mlb.com/video/v1191394383/cinstl-diaz-crushes-grand-slam-to-leftcenter-field/?game_pk=449215

The three teams’ aces, Noah Syndergaard, Matt Moore, and Adam Wainwright, pitched last night, and Syndergaard and Moore were phenomenal. Syndergaard pitched 5 innings, allowed only one run, and struck out eight. Moore pitched 7.2 innings,allowed one run, and struck out 11. Since each team won, the Cardinals remain one game behind the Giants, who remain a half game behind the Mets, as you can see on the standings page showed earlier.