All Trevor, All-Time
Sun, Sep 24, 2006
by Geoff Young
San Diego Padres closer Trevor Hoffman notched career save #479 at Petco Park on Sunday, sealing a second straight 2-1 victory over the Pittsburgh Pirates and passing Lee Smith as the all-time saves leader in Major League history. As we did yesterday when Hoffman tied the record, we’ll let the photos do the talking. Big thanks to Ducksnorts reader LaMar for the tickets, and congratulations, Trevor!
Update: I’ve posted more photos at Flickr.
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September 24, 2006 at 5:56 pm
Great pictures GY!
September 24, 2006 at 6:59 pm
100% awesome. Just a great end to a great series.
September 24, 2006 at 7:45 pm
GY, you’re welcome on the tickets. My son and I were wandering around UCR during his move-in day with the only contact to the game being my cell phone with the auto-refresh running. Even then we were high-fiving each other. I’m glad that you could use those tickets since I couldn’t and I’m glad that the game turned out to be so meaningful. Thanks for all you do for the rest of us here. BTW, great seats, huh?
September 24, 2006 at 8:04 pm
Way to go, LaMar … we all benefit’d from your tix!!!
OT … DavidB @ pdxbeavers.com saw this note that Padres are looking to San Antonio for AA … http://www.knoxnews.com/kns/sm.....46,00.html …
September 24, 2006 at 10:41 pm
Four pictures are up on my blog over at http://padres.mostvaluablenetwork.com .
Not the great seats I had for yesterdays game, but just as special in a different way. Since they are my season seats, I got to share the moment with people around me that I see twenty times a year.
…and things aren’t nearly as steady at maximum zoom I’m afraid…
September 25, 2006 at 7:50 am
I too shared the moment with my son at home. My daughter only cares about Khalil. It was great that channel 4 didn’t break from commercial and then afterward stayed with the celebration for 20 minutes. Frankly, I was nerveous. Any hit but a dinger I said. Mariano Rivera is only 60 or so behind, so the recond might not last all that long. But its neat to have the most in baseball ever, at least since 68 when they started tracking saves, and all drug free-allegedly.
Now, lets win the National League West…again/