Gather 'round, because it's time to recap the most recent diamond doings. Roll Call starts at Coors Field, where ... Say! Check out the horns on that purple dinosaur behind home plate! Oh, sorry, just trying out these cool binoculars I found in the Phillies bullpen.

Game of the Day
Rockies 4, Phillies 3 (10 inn.)

This is no exaggeration: Miguel Olivo(notes) had one of the best days in major league history. He went 5-for-5 and finished with a game-ending home run. Stats LLC reports that he's just the third player since 1952 to do that. The previous: Fred McGriff with the Braves in 1996 and Jim Northrup with the Tigers in 1969. Wowzers!

Further: Olivo's first three hits came against Roy Halladay(notes).

"Not many people do that to Halladay," Olivo said. "He's the greatest pitcher in the big leagues. But sometimes people make mistakes and you hit them."

Also no exaggeration: Olivo executed perhaps the greatest bat flip in major league history. It was epic. Check it out frozen below and

Give a man a phone and he can call a doctor.

Give a man an iPhone and he can go to a medical website on the Internet, make a self-diagnosis and then have doctors remove his appendix before it bursts.

That's exactly what happened in the case of San Diego Padres right-hander Tim Stauffer(notes), who was feeling a little bit punky in the wee hours Tuesday morning and did a little cybernetic investigation in his San Francisco hotel room.

Yes, there's an app for that. (I know ... I had to be the 4,599th person to say it.)

From the San Diego Union-Tribune:

Able to get to St. Mary's Hospital via taxi and address the issue before his inflamed appendix burst, Stauffer underwent a minimally invasive (one-stitch) laparoscopy.

Placed on the disabled list, Stauffer initially was projected to miss perhaps four weeks of playing time.

It's too bad for the Padres that Stauffer will miss any time; he's allowed only one earned run in 23 1/3 innings. His effort is a huge reason they're in first place

Gather 'round, because it's time to recap the most recent diamond doings. Roll Call starts at Citi Field in New York — hey, someone wake up Keith Hernandez! What was I saying?

Game of the Day: Mets 8, Nationals 6

There's Chris Carter, there's Chris Carter and then there's Chris Carter. There's also Cris Carter. This Chris Carter is Chris Carter, dubbed "The Animal" by manager Jerry Manuel in spring training no doubt because he plays the drums with the reckless abandon of a Muppet.

Joining Mr. Met and Ike Davis(notes) as the most recent folk hero for the New York Mets, Carter helped them rally from four runs down in the eighth inning. His two-run, tiebreaking double in his first at-bat for the Mets keyed the six-run frame.

"It's a great feeling. It's really special," Carter said. "I definitely felt like part of the team right there."

That happens when you produce right off the bus from the minors. The photo, by the way, shows Nats outfielder Josh Willingham(notes) losing Rod Barajas'

UPDATE: The Philadelphia Daily News is reporting that this is a done deal and that terms will be announced later Tuesday.

Come late June, the city of Toronto might not be big enough for French President Nicholas Sarkozy and Philadelphia Phillies' ace Roy Halladay(notes).

When leaders of planet Earth's biggest national economies meet near the Rogers Centre for the G20 Summit next month, security and congestion concerns might motivate Major League Baseball to move the Blue Jays-Phillies interleague series to Philadelphia.

Such a change not only would spoil Halladay's highly anticipated return to the True North (strong and free), but it also would give the Phillies 84 home games.

So, in one extreme scenario, the Blue Jays would lose three home gates the weekend of June 25-27 — one of which might be a Halladay start — and the two-time defending NL champions would be awarded three more home games than any other team in the majors.

Anybody got a problem with any of that?

The Fightins

Gather 'round, because it's time to recap the most recent diamond doings. Roll Call starts at Coors Field, where Denver's thin air must have affected Rockies manager Jim Tracy's ability to reason in the pivotal ninth inning.

Game of the Day: Phillies 9, Rockies 5

Not again with the bad managing! In Tracy's defense, the Rockies used a makeshift lineup and played awkwardly/poorly all night. But what was skip doing by telling right-hander Manual Corpas to intentionally walk Raul Ibañez in order to face Carlos Ruiz(notes) — the team's hottest hitter — in the ninth?

Ruiz proceeded to collect his fourth hit of the night, a single to left that scored Ryan Howard(notes) with the tie-breaking run. Ruiz, who homered earlier, is 15-for-30 over his past 10 games and batting .354 with a .969 OPS on the season.

Ruiz, who transforms into Mr. Choochtober come playoff time, has been producing like the postseason is already here.

From MLB.com:

"I was thinking that if I did it in the World Series, why

This is my favorite at-bat of the season until further notice.

New York Mets slugger David Wright(notes), a fine hitter who usually has a pleasant personality, lost himself in the moment during the ninth inning Sunday.

With his team trying to rally against San Francisco Giants closer Brian Wilson(notes), Wright took a very questionable strike three, then turned around and protested to umpire Paul Schreiber, using a diatribe of foul language that was juuuust loud enough to be picked up by microphones close to home plate at Citi Field.

Wright's first word was "No!" and he quickly devolved, expressing how Schreiber was "out of his [expletive] mind." The rest is unpublishable.

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It's Mother's Day, David, and you're holding a pink bat. Yet, you're swearing like a sailor. Looking at the replay, sure, you had plenty of reason to be upset, but it's not the kind of language you want to use around your mama.

Check out the photo to the right. Yeah,

Gather 'round, because it's time to recap the most recent diamond doings. Roll Call starts at Great American Ball Park in Cincinnati, where managers Lou Piniella and Dusty Baker took the seventh inning off while the game played on.

Game of the Day: Reds 5, Cubs 3

Perhaps it's because they have being employed by the Cubs in common (and it makes you do strange things), but there was bad managing in the seventh inning. In the bottom half, Piniella did not switch from starter Ryan Dempster(notes) to left-hander Sean Marshall(notes) against lefty slugger Joey Votto(notes). Marshall, who has been terrific out of the pen, might have muted some of Votto's power. We shall never know, as Votto hit a go-ahead three-run homer against Dempster.

Said Piniella: "If he'd told me he was tired, I would have taken him out. He was throwing the ball well. The guy hit it out of the ballpark. What are you going to do? The kid’s a pretty good hitter. It didn't work."

In the top half, it wasn't so much a

So THIS is where Dallas Braden(notes) gets his "Get off my mound, A-Rod!" attitude.

Her name is Peggy Lindsey and she is Braden's maternal grandmother.

Wearing a white and pink A's cap, Peggy Lindsey was among those in attendance at the Oakland Coliseum on Sunday to watch her grandson toss the 19th perfect game in major league history. Shortly after the last out, Braden and Lindsey embraced on the field. It was a neat Mother's Day moment, especially considering Braden lost his mother — Lindsey's daughter — to cancer when he was a senior in high school.

"Mama loves you!" Lindsey told her grandson.

"I love you!" Braden replied.

Wait a second — is that any way for a couple of toughs from the 209 area code to talk?

"Y'all ain't got nothin' to say — it was perfect," Braden told TV in a semi-joking, semi-brash manner.

OK, that's more like it, 209. By the way, the Oakland Athletics beat the Tampa Bay Rays by a 4-0 final.

Braden, of course, made news 2 1/2 weeks ago by arguing with Alex