Last night Greg Maddux became the ninth pitcher in MLB history to record his 350th career win. The Padres beat the Rockies 3-2 last night. Maddux went six innings...giving up one unearned run (ironically on his throwing error). Adrian Gonzalez hit a three run bomb to provide the offense. There was some relief drama with Heath Bell in the eighth and also with Trevor Hoffman in the ninth but they got through it.
All in all it's a remarkable achievement. But also in typical crazy baseball fashion, catcher Luke Carlin for the Padres was making his major league debut. That's gotta be pretty awesome for that kid to catch a game of that magnitude for your major league debut. Maybe he'll join the "elite" list of Maddux's personal catchers (Charlie O'Brien, Eddie Perez, Henry Blanco & Paul Bako).
Hats off to Maddux and the Padres. Maybe this will turn the season around.
2 comments:
Thanks for the Paul Bake nod. He's dreamy!
Too bad Javy Lopez isn't on the list...
Valerie
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