Game of the Day (6/7/84)

Twins 5, Rangers 4. Texas's Danny Darwin pitched pretty well for quite a long time (21 big league seasons), and ended up with a losing record to show for it. Minnesota's Ken Schrom pitched pretty badly, for the most part, and for a relatively short time - and ended up breaking even in terms of wins and losses. Don't ever let anyone tell you life is fair.

Game of the Day (6/6/84)

Braves 5, Giants 4 (11). Atlanta's Pete Falcone was in the last season of a mediocre 10-year career, which started with the Giants. San Francisco's Jeff Robinson was just beginning his own mediocre 9-year major league stint, which would come to an end with... the Cubs. (This would have been much cooler if I could have ended that sentence with "the Braves," but reality doesn't usually let you do things like that.)

Game of the Day (6/5/14)

Brewers 8, Twins 5. Willy Peralta has started out nicely for Milwaukee, posting a 3.03 ERA that's at least partly backed up by his peripheral statistics. It's also less than half of the ERA of the opposing pitcher in this game; Minnesota's Kevin Correia is sitting at 6.11.

Game of the Day (6/5/84)

Red Sox 5, Yankees 4. Al Nipper was just starting out with the Red Sox; Shane Rawley was rapidly approaching the end of a two-and-a-half year stint with New York. Both were workmanlike starters over the course of careers of moderate length (though Rawley's was over twice as long).

Game of the Day (6/4/14)

Indians 7, Red Sox 4 (12). Cleveland's Corey Kluber faced Boston's Brandon Workman in a matchup of pitchers who fall into the general category "reasonably young right-handers who do not seem to be stars but are pretty OK."

Game of the Day (6/4/84)

Tigers 6, Blue Jays 3 (10). The Tigers, having gotten off to arguably the best start in baseball history at 35-5, were finally in a bit of a slump; they had lost 6 of 9 since playing their 40th game. Their task would be no easier in this one, as they sent back-of-the-rotation starter Juan Berenguer against a Toronto team with the second-best record in baseball and their ace, Dave Stieb.

Game of the Day (6/3/14)

Royals 8, Cardinals 7. Kansas City sent James Shields to the mound against Jaime Garcia of St. Louis. It was the Royals' ace against the Cards' #5 starter... insert joke about almost equalizing the quality of the two teams here.