Tuesday May 12 Bulletpoints

• Ryan Zimmerman increased his hitting streak to 30 games.  He's making it look easy, with another hit in his first AB today.  Who knows when he'll slow down?
• Adam Jones hit two home runs today, and drove in 4 runs.  Bedard is having a good year for Seattle, but you really have to wonder what they were thinking when they traded this kid away.  Average will obviously come down from the cool .363 its at right now, but I could see him hitting 25 bombs and batting  .300.  He's matured in a hurry.
• BJ Upton is still mired in a slow.  Going 0-4 today.  It may be time to bench him for a bit, if he can't get a hit off of Mark Hendrickson... he's obviously not seeing the ball well right now.
• Zach Duke continued his fantastic season, going 8 IP, 5 H/BB, 5 K's, 1 ER.  Sell high.  
• Brad Hawpe went 4-4 and drove in 5 RBI's for the Rockies.  He's now batting .359, and making owners who nabbed him look very smart.  He's almost a shoe in for 30 bombs and a .300 average, though.
• Troy Tulowitzki's quad is feeling better, and he was in the lineup on Tuesday.  He went 2-4 with a run scored.  Tulowitzki has been telling people that he's a slow starter and his skills are still there, and he's starting to prove it.
• Brad Lidge continued to struggle.  He notched his 5th save of the season, but gave up 3 hits and another earned run in the process.  I'm willing to bet Lidge gets a 15 day DL stint sometime in the near future, despite his claims that he's 100% healthy.  
• Roy Halladay flat out embarrassed the Yankees.  Guy hasn't lost a beat, he'll be in the Cy Young running again.
• Joe Beimel is clearly not the answer of the Nationals' pen.  He blew a 1 run lead in the bottom of the ninth on Tuesday when he gave up a 3 run home run to Pablo Sandoval.  I Unless you're desperate for saves, I'd suggest just staying away from the Nats' pen all together.
• The David Ortiz homerless streak continued on Tuesday.  And Ortiz went 0-3, bringing his average down to .218.  If there was ever a poster boy for steroid usage, I'd nominate Ortiz.
• Prince Fielder hit 2 bombs (giving him 7 on the year).  He'll take off from here.
• Dan Haren finally gave up some runs against the Reds.  He went 7 IP and gave up 3 earned.  His ERA is still at 2.09.  Still, beware, Haren is notorious for getting off to ridiculously strong starts and then having very mediocre second halves.

Back with more tomorrow.