| time: | 7:05 p.m. PT |
| tv: | 4SD |
| sp: | Jake Peavy (14-5, 2.21) vs Livan Hernandez (9-8, 4.96) |
| pre: | Padres.com, B-R.com |
Jake Peavy‘s next strikeout will move him past Andy Benes and into first place all time among Padres pitchers. Peavy has recorded at least one strikeout in all but one — June 22, 2003, against Seattle — of his 164 career starts, so that’s almost guaranteed to happen. In fact, if Chris Young leads off (as he has 68 times this year), Peavy could set the mark real early in the game.
Records are nice, but wins are even better. Go Padres!
The D-backs lead-off hitter’s OBP = .288 … hmmm ….
Get ‘em here Jake! Greak the record!
Jake!!! All-time Padre strike out leader!
Beautiful K to set the record!
And there it is! Congratulations to Jake Peavy.
Did he keep the ball?
6: Yup. He immediately tossed it to the dugout.
7: Unlike when he got his 1,000 K and stood on the mound trying to make the next pitch while wondering why everyone in the stands was standing up and clapping.
Swing and miss on 83 MPH fastball=not cool
9: I really dislike Adrian’s swings on 2-strike pitches. He seems to chase some terrible pitches then, and when he’s ahead in the count (see the 3-1 pitch)
Nice work Jake. Too many pitches, but way to hump up.
Is it just me or is it a little quiet around here for such a big game? Maybe I’m just antsy cause Im at work and its pretty slow. Who would have thought workin at ESPN would allow so much downtime?
12 – it’s Monday. quiet night so far
Jake has the good stuff tonight. 4 Ks in a row.
Jake is on fire tonight!
Just sitting down to watch the game and see Peev is kicking arse……………….go padres.
Jake wants this one…lets see if the rest of the team can get with the program
Jake with a nice 5.5 single.
W…T…F…
That double play was no bueno. Jake is making up for it on the mound. Six Ks in a row…
Wow. Seven straight. This is getting interesting.
Just four more to go Jake!
Where did that miss?
Jake just needs to get out of this inning now. He needs to throw less pitches.
Peavy through 4: 70 pitches, 46 strikes, 24 balls, 8 Ks. If he can get through seven, I’ll take it.
I love the K’s, but Hernandez has a third fewer pitches. We need to make them burn their bullpen early in the series.
Helluva catch by Byrnes. What else can you say?
27: That he’s an ass.
#28: Your right, he’s an ass.
I detest Eric Byrnes. It’s bad enough that I have to listen to him on XX as Too Much Idiots suck up to him, it’s another to watch him single handedly win this game for the D-Backs.
30: Yup, he robs Khalil of a sure double and then promptly puts one in the seats. We have GOT to pick up Jake.
The good news is the D-Backs are overpaying for his career year.
C’mon boys!
Let’s go Milty!
Here we go Jenga….
Come on Livan. Adrian will make you pay if you walk Jenga….
Mr Welke appears to be rather generous on the outside corner…. Was Jake getting those?
I can’t remember seeing a catcher as active as Montero has been this inning.
Damn. This team can look so completely incompetent against below average pitching. I cannot believe Peavy’s performance is going to be wasted.
Why does it seem like every crappy pitcher comes into Petco and shuts them down? Of course if they can’t get any runs off Kyle Kendrick in Philly I guess it’s a bit much to expect them to score a run in Petco no matter who the pitcher is. If they lose this game with the D-backs starting a one decent and the rest scrubs lineups — not good.
37 Answering my own question: Yes….
Every batter should bunt. Every one. Until they can hit.
Not a good day when your pitcher has 40% of your hits two thirds of the way through the game…
#40
It’s Petco and Livan is a righthanded Boomer.
Ok, Blum. Seven is half of fourteen, so just imagine it’s a bit later then it really is…
Here we go! Blast it Blum.
Is anyone listening to Vasgersian try to explain the D-backs record despite their negative run differential? He is saying that you can’t use their run difference since their bullpen is so good and that they only use their “good” pitchers in close games and their terrible pitchers in blowouts, therefore they win a bunch of one run games and get blown out with they lose. But isn’t that true for every team? What team uses bad pitchers in close games? Well, maybe the Phillies but who else? I think I saw the same argument in BP.com (in fact probably so did Matt since he was just quoting it) but I don’t think that it makes any sense since every team is probably like this.
Told you so…..I CALLED IT.
Good call Sean and Oside Jon.
Thank you, Sean.