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With interleague play stretching through Sunday, note that the Royals, Indians, Athletics, Blue Jays, Rays, Twins, White Sox and Tigers are all in NL parks, which means notable DH regulars such as Travis Hafner and Jim Thome most likely will be relegated to pinch-hitting.

Time	Visitors		L/R	Record	ERA	WHIP		Home		L/R	Record	ERA	WHIP
1:10 p.m.		Zack Greinke	R	4-1	1.93	1.11	@		Burke Badenhop	R	1-2	5.97	1.48
1:15 p.m.		Cliff Lee	L	6-0	0.67	0.67	@		Edinson Volquez	R	6-1	1.12	1.26
1:30 p.m.		Justin Duchscherer	R	3-2	2.20	1.08	@		Jo-Jo Reyes	L	1-1	4.30	1.70
1:35 p.m.		Carlos Villanueva	R	2-4	6.00	1.60	@		Josh Beckett	R	4-3	4.21	1.11
1:35 p.m.		Shaun Marcum	R	4-2	2.22	0.81	@		Kyle Kendrick	R	3-2	4.87	1.60
1:35 p.m.		John Lannan	L	3-4	3.74	1.55	@		Jeremy Guthrie	R	2-3	4.18	1.29
2:15 p.m.		Edwin Jackson	R	2-3	3.47	1.30	@		Kyle Lohse	R	3-2	4.91	1.36
2:20 p.m.		Phil Dumatrait	L	1-1	3.96	1.46	@		Jason Marquis	R	1-3	5.26	1.73
3:05 p.m.		Brandon Backe	R	2-5	4.62	1.68	@		Kason Gabbard	L	1-0	2.12	1.42
3:05 p.m.		Kevin Slowey	R	0-3	5.79	1.07	@		Jeff Francis	L	0-4	6.27	1.63
3:35 p.m.		Brad Penny	R	5-4	5.09	1.49	@		Jered Weaver	R	2-5	4.86	1.34
4:05 p.m.		John Danks	L	3-3	2.74	1.15	@		Matt Cain	R	2-3	4.17	1.44
4:10 p.m.		Nate Robertson	L	1-4	6.04	1.53	@		Randy Johnson	L	3-1	5.40	1.48
4:10 p.m.		Shawn Estes	L	1-0	2.57	1.57	@		Felix Hernandez	R	2-4	3.38	1.47
8:05 p.m.		Oliver Perez	L	3-3	4.61	1.56	@		Chien-Ming Wang	R	6-1	2.90	1.17

All times are ET.

Out
John Buck, C, Royals (bereavement)

Day-to-day
Coco Crisp, OF, Red Sox (migraine)
Blake DeWitt, 3B, Dodgers (back)
Mark Ellis, 2B, Athletics (hamstring)
Matt Holliday, OF, Rockies (back)
Mike Jacobs, 1B, Marlins (quadriceps)
Juan Uribe, 2B, White Sox (hamstring)

Hitters: Your Indians must be benched. Edinson Volquez comes in having allowed just two earned runs over his past three starts. Considering the opposition in those three starts all rank in the top five in team OPS, that's quite a feat. … Pat Burrell is hitting just .227 in May after hitting .326 with eight home runs in April, so be sure to bench him against the Blue Jays' Shaun Marcum, who has a 2.22 ERA and is coming off eight shutout innings. … It might not last long, but Clint Barmes is hitting .452 in May, and he has hit more than 50 points better at Coors Field in his career, to boot. … James Loney is in the midst of an eight-game hitting streak that has boosted his average from .270 to .290. … Stephen Drew has taken full advantage of his home games, hitting .337 at hitter-friendly Chase Field. Orlando Hudson also has been appreciably better (three home runs, .535 slugging percentage) at home, an encore of 2007 (.893 home OPS versus .738 road OPS). … The Mariners have hit poorly overall, but they have still hit left-handers, to an extent. They rank eighth in OPS against left-handers and did hand Cliff Lee his worst start of the season. Adrian Beltre, Jose Lopez and even Wladimir Balentien are solid starts against Shawn Estes, who is coming off his first start since 2006.

Pitchers: Zack Greinke faces one of his tougher tests of the season against the Marlins, who rank fifth in team OPS on the season and third during the month of May. Greinke has allowed five home runs in his past four starts, and the Marlins rank second in homers in 2008. Greinke is a risky proposition, at least for a pitcher with a sub-2.00 ERA. … The Reds have hit lefties pretty well, led by Brandon Phillips (six home runs, .422 average), Joey Votto (.293 with three homers) and Ryan Freel (.362 average), so there's as good a chance as any that we see Lee's first poor start of the season. … Since allowing seven earned runs in 2 1/3 innings versus the Twins early in April, John Danks has been borderline dominant, with a 1.46 ERA and 31 strikeouts in his past 37 innings. The Giants have hit .281 as a team in May, so Danks might not walk all over them, but he deserves to be owned in more than 67 percent of leagues and should start against the Giants. … Four of Randy Johnson's six starts have resulted in four or more earned runs. The only exceptions were against two of the worst offenses in the National League (the Giants and Padres). And with four home runs allowed in his past 15 innings, Johnson could end up getting hit quite hard when all is said and done.

Hitters: Chris Duncan has two homers in the past week and is up to a .301/.416/.494 line against righties. … Akinori Iwamura has six multi-hit games in his last seven games, and faces Kyle Lohse, who has allowed 19 earned runs his past three starts. … David Murphy has excelled in a platoon role, hitting .321, with four of his five home runs and 22 of his 26 RBIs coming against righties.

Pitchers: Kyle Kendrick has four quality starts in a row, two against legitimate offenses (the Diamondbacks and Braves). Sorry, the Blue Jays (.623 OPS against lefties, 28th) do not qualify in that category. … More because of his opponent than anything, Jeremy Guthrie is worth a spot start on Sunday, but he also gets credit for pitching well against the Red Sox (six innings, two earned runs and seven strikeouts) and his decent numbers of 2008. He hasn't had fewer than five strikeouts in any of his past five starts. … Even though Jeff Francis' ERA is now a bloated 6.27 this season, with 20 of his 33 earned runs coming at the hands of the Diamondbacks (second in the NL in runs scored), you must forgive him. The weak-hitting Twins (26th in OPS) are a great bounce-back opponent. … Jered Weaver is fortunate he gets the Dodgers with Rafael Furcal on the shelf. Furcal was the team's best, most consistent hitter among a struggling offense. It's enough to push Weaver firmly into the start category. … Though Oliver Perez is a hit-or-miss pitcher - he has allowed both zero runs and five-plus runs three times each - the Yankees actually have the lowest OPS in the majors against lefties, a weakness exacerbated by the absence of A-Rod and Jorge Posada. And with eight strikeouts in his last start against a team that does hit lefties well (Cincy), Perez has something to build on.

Some thunderstorms are expected in Atlanta by Sunday evening, but chances are more likely the game is played mostly unscathed. … Some showers also are expected in the early evening in Boston, but the worst will be missed. … Thunderstorms in Philadelphia could threaten the Blue Jays-Phillies game; it's one of the day's legitimate rainout threats. … The Sunday night game in New York also might be delayed by showers. … Royals-Marlins, Tigers-Diamondbacks and Padres-Mariners are weather-proof.

Adam Madison is a fantasy baseball analyst for ESPN.com