Game of the Day (4/27/91)

Braves 2, Astros 1 (13). Atlanta's Steve Avery took on Houston's Pete Harnisch in a matchup of young pitchers on their way to up-and-down-but-ultimately-pretty-good careers.

Game of the Day (4/26/91)

Yankees 3, White Sox 2 (11). Chicago's Greg Hibbard was making his second consecutive Game of the Day start; New York's Tim Leary was already making his third of the season.

Game of the Day (4/25/91)

Twins 4, Mariners 3 (10). Seattle's Erik Hanson was making his fourth start of the season - and his second that would turn into a Game of the Day. His opponent was Minnesota's Allan Anderson, who had won the AL ERA title in 1988, and three years later (at age 27) was well on his way out of the league.

Game of the Day (4/24/91)

Astros 1, Reds 0 (13). Cincinnati started Jack Armstrong, who in 1990 became probably the worst pitcher ever to start the All-Star game, and who spent 1991 earning the negative half of that title. He was opposed by a 22-year-old right-hander making his first major league start after a few relief appearances - one Darryl Kile, who would go on to a fine career lasting over a decade until his shocking death in 2002.

Game of the Day (4/23/91)

Rangers 6, Brewers 5 (11). Texas started Bobby Witt, a veteran who was starting a shortened and ineffective season in the middle of a long and mildly distinguished career. Milwaukee countered with Jaime Navarro, a younger pitcher who was having a better season and was on the way to a very similar (and slightly worse) career.

Game of the Day (4/22/91)

White Sox 8, Orioles 7. Baltimore's Ben McDonald and Chicago's Alex Fernandez were both promising young pitchers (McDonald was 23, Fernandez 21) on the way to pretty solid careers that would last most of the rest of the decade, but not into the next one.

Melog Rankings: Post-Monte Carlo 2016

For a couple of weeks in which there wasn't an overabundance of high-level tennis played, quite a bit has actually happened since the last Melog update. Former top-10 player Juan Monaco kicked his injury comeback into high gear by winning the title in Houston. Youngsters Jack Sock and Borna Coric both reached finals, something neither player has done very often in their careers to date. American teenager Stefan Kozlov reached his second career Challenger final in Le Gosier, solidifying his place in the top 300 in the ATP ratings.

And that was just the first week. Week 2 brought us Monte Carlo, which featured the return of Roger Federer, the non-return of David Ferrer (whose withdrawal led to a quarterfinal appearance from lucky loser Marcel Granollers), a first-match upset for defending finalist Tomas Berdych, a run to the final for Gael Monfils (whose loss in the last match dropped his record in tour-level finals to 5-19) and a return to the winner's circle for Rafael Nadal (whose won his ninth career Monte Carlo title, tying his own record for titles at one event).

Have I stalled enough yet? Because the biggest story of the last two weeks wasn't any of those things - it was that Novak Djokovic lost.

Sure, Novak loses sometimes; he now has six defeats in the last year. But one of those losses was due to health (an eye infection in Dubai this year), and another was in the round robin of the Tour Finals last year - an event that he would go on to win despite the defeat. This was the first completed match to eliminate Djokovic from title contention since August of last year.

It's more than that, however. Djokovic lost to Jiri Vesely in the round of 32. Vesely entered the match ranked #55 in the world by the ATP. Djokovic hadn't lost a match to a player ranked outside of Grand Slam seeding territory (the top 32) since 2010, which is before he first reached the #1 ranking. That is a VERY long time.

Let's see what this rather startling defeat does to the rating for the #1 player in the world.