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Baseball Musings
April 26, 2006
Vargas Beats Peavy

Claudio Vargas pitched seven shutout innings last night as the Diamondbacks easily beat the Padres 7-0. It was even more impressive since the win came against Padres ace Jake Peavy. Jake's ERA now sits at 5.17, 5.92 in his four starts at PETCO.
Tom Krasovic thought Jake was trying to hard to make up for the Padres feeble offense:

Peavy (1-3) denied that he felt he had to pitch a shutout last night to win, but he strained and grunted even louder than he usually does. Vargas threw both harder and more smoothly.

Laboring early, Peavy threw 60 pitches in three innings while falling behind 2-0 on two-out hits by Luis Gonzalez in the first and Conor Jackson in the third. Peavy's whiplike arm flashed through and around, then recoiled in front of his chest like a bungee cord. It was enough to make a spectator's arm hurt.

“I was just a tad bit off,” said Peavy, who said he will work with pitching coach Darren Balsley to achieve a smoother delivery before the next start.

The Padres are in last place, but it remains a weak division and San Diego is just three games out of first.


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