Closer Monkey | 2026
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John Axford returns to closer role
August 18, 2015 Colorado Rockies – John Axford will again close for the Rockies. Walt Weiss announced the moved before Tuesday’s game, saying that Axford looked like himself again. Tommy Kahnle slides down to the set-up role. Updated hierarchy: Axford | Kahnle | Miller.
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Drew Pomeranz seems fine after forearm scare
August 18, 2015 Oakland A’s – A few days after complaining about the dreaded forearm tightness, A’s left-hander Drew Pomeranz was back in the mix last night, working a scoreless 6th inning with two strikeouts. We will keep an eye out for any injury news, but for the time being Pomeranz will bump Fernando Abad…
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Carson Smith struggles again; Nate Jones is filthy
August 17, 2015 Seattle Mariners – After a successful recent stretch in AAA, Danny Farquhar returned to the big leagues over the weekend and picked up a save in extra innings on Sunday. At the moment, he doesn’t factor in to the usual late-inning plans in Seattle, but given Carson Smith’s struggles (he blew another…
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Bruce Rondon blows save, Justin Grimm pitching well
August 16, 2015 Detroit Tigers — Blaine Hardy and Alex Wilson combined to pitch a scoreless eighth inning and it was Bruce Rondon again who got the call in the ninth. However, this time Rondon was unable to convert the save opportunity, as he blew the one run lead by giving up a leadoff home run. He…
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Sean Doolittle is almost back to save Oakland’s bullpen
August 15, 2015 Oakland A’s — Edward Mujica pitched the seventh and eighth innings with Oakland down two runs, and after the A’s tied the score, Fernando Rodriguez pitched the ninth. As the game stretched on, Drew Pomeranz worked the eleventh and twelfth, then suffered an apparent elbow injury in the thirteenth. The good news is that Sean Doolittle pitched…
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