The Padres opened a four-game series against Arizona with a 3-1 victory last night, narrowing the Diamondbacks' lead in the NL West to two games. Geoff Blum and board game czar Milton Bradley homered for San Diego, and Jake Peavy once again dominated, striking out 11 over seven innings to earn his career-best 15th win.
During one stretch from the second to the fourth inning, Peavy struck out seven straight batters, which you ordinarily don't see unless Adam Dunn is allowed to bat out of turn. Also, in a heartwarming twist, Peavy's first-inning K of Orlando Hudson made him the Padres' all-time strikeout leader. It was #1037 for his career, which moved past the legendary, uh, Andy Benes. Alert the Hall of Fame!
Other MLB scores: John Lackey, deathly ill, pitches complete game shutout against M's in opener of AL West showdown… Mike Mussina battered again as Tigers roll Yanks 16-0. Verlander goes seven strong, allows just three hits… Giants win fifth straight by beating Rockies, now only 12 games under .500.
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And the Indians turned a ho-hum 5-4-3 Triple Play their first since '92
What in the HELL is going on with the AL east teams getting absolutely shit on lately? Its not even the sexy kind of shit on that I joke about watching at home so no one thinks i really watch it at home, I'm talking about the depressing kind.
And the White Sox win. Yeah! Take that, Devil Rays!
(They still suck).
What in the HELL is going on with the AL east teams getting absolutely shit on lately?
And everyone who's not a fan of an AL East team is smiling right now. Karma, baby.
The New York teams lost by a combined 25-2 last night. Shining day for New York sports. Hey, there's always tennis!
@ Hero… just because we are stuck in a league with the Yanks and Sox doesn't mean the O's lost 30-3 because of Karma, we havent had a good season past the month of May since the mid-90's. Don't hold them wierd talkin northerners taint the rest of us.
I pooped a second baseman!
-Jake Peavy
The headline for this thread should be: MIKE MUSSINA HAS NO IDEA HOW TO PITCH, ENJOYS GAY SEX.
@Enrico Pallazzo: If Mussina pitches the same amount of innings this season as he did last season, last night's start only cost Steinbrenner $168,585.12. That's value, my friend.
@CTC: Can the little shit hit? Because that would be awesome.
Between the Yankee decapitation, ConVick's gulity plea and the Gonzalez resignation, Monday was pretty awesome. Thanks for crushing my buzz, Owen Wilson.
Whee! Nobody is reading this thread anymore.