Great Lakes beats West Michigan 1-0
After seven scoreless innings, the Great Lakes Loons used the bat of center fielder Leon Landry to break the silence Monday night with a solo home run to win 1-0 over the visiting West Michigan Whitecaps. The victory gives the Loons the 2-1 series win and the playoff tiebreaker should the two teams finish with the same record at season's end. The win was witnessed by a crowd of 4,413 Loons fans and 263 dogs in attendance for Bark on the Park Night at Dow Diamond.MIDLAND -- In the bottom of the eighth inning, the Whitecaps brought in relief pitcher Michael Torrealba to try and extend the scoreless game, but leading off for the Loons was Landry, who had other plans. On a 1-0 pitch, Landry ripped a 343-foot solo shot over the right-field wall.
"I've been having some decent swings on balls lately," Landry, who led the team with two hits, said after the game. "I was just trying to hit it hard and get on base to let the next guy knock me in, but that time I just got the good part of the bat on the good part of the ball and it sailed out of the park for me."
Landry's run was the only one of the game and helped preserve an excellent night turned in by two Loons pitchers.
Making his first start at Dow Diamond since returning to the Loons team last week from Triple-A Albuquerque was right-hander pitcher Tim Sexton, who pitched a Triple-A effort performance Monday. The Florida-native held the Whitecaps scoreless through seven innings, allowing two hits and striking out four. He tossed 94 pitches, 60 for strikes, before being relieved by new Dodgers acquisition Juan Rodriguez.
Following the game, Loons manager John Shoemaker said that Gonzalez had his best outing Monday, in which he tossed two hitless innings, fanning three and walking none for his first win. The two Loons pitchers combined to pitch a two-hit shutout over the Whitecaps, the Loons fifth shutout of the season.
Torreabla was charged with his third loss after surrendering the game-winning run during the one inning he pitched.
After an off day Tuesday, the Loons hit the road for a three-game series against the Dayton Dragons. RHP Zach Lee (8-3, 3.13) will get the start for the Loons opposite Dayton's RHP Josh Smith (10-7, 3.17).
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The win was witnessed by a crowd of 4413 Loons fans and 263 dogs in attendance for Bark on the Park Night at Dow Diamond. MIDLAND -- In the bottom of the eighth inning, the Whitecaps brought in relief pitcher Michael Torrealba to try and extend the
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We checked the top 5 current Dogs of the Dow, (the current Dow component stocks with the highest dividend yields), to see how their dividends stack up vs. their covered calls and cash secured puts. Selling covered calls can be an effective way to protect your portfolio in a down market.
The current Dow Dogs are:
As is often the case, Telecoms have the highest dividend yields in the group, with AT&T and Verizon topping the list. These 2 dividend paying stocks are in the Telecoms section of our High Dividend Stocks By Sector Tables . Two Healthcare dividend stocks and Tech giant Intel round out the list. Verizon has the most aggressive dividend payout ratio, and Intel the most conservative. Performance-wise, only Pfizer has gained much year-to-date, while Intel and Merck have lagged the others over the past year, which, in Intel’s case, belies the strong EPS growth over the recent past:
All 5 firms posted sequential EPS gains in the most recent quarter, but Pfizer was the laggard. Analysts don’t currently believe that Intel can improve a great deal next fiscal year, given the outstanding 160% EPS growth it had this past fiscal year, which gives INTC a high 12-month PEG. AT&T has the lowest 12-month PEG, 1.25, and the two healthcare stocks look very over-valued, when taken on a PEG basis. Looking out further, only Intel has a 5-year PEG under 1. Intel’s 10.12 P/E is also way below the average 16.41 P/E for the semi-conductor industry.
Financial Ratios:
AT&T and Intel are the clear winners in Mgt. efficiency ratios and margin, while Intel is nearly debt-free.
So, how do the dividends for these stocks compare to their January 2012 options? These call options range up to 3 times the dividend amounts . Selling a covered call from any of the trades listed below allows you to at least double your dividend, giving you a 10%-plus static yield, and the potential for additional assigned yield gains. You’ll also get some additional downside protection, via a lower break-even point, by selling covered calls. The catch is that you’ll have limited participation in upside price gains, should any of these dogs start to run. You can find more info on these and other covered call trades in our Covered Call Table.
Covered Calls:
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