Baseball Musings
Baseball Musings
September 03, 2006
Jake's Great

That's the Jake Peavy San Diego fans know and love:

Jake Peavy threw a two-hitter, matching his career-best, and struck out 14 for the San Diego Padres, who beat the Cincinnati Reds 7-1 on Saturday night to keep the lead in the NL wild-card race.

Rookie Josh Barfield hit a two-run homer, Mike Cameron had three hits and the Padres opened a one-game lead over Philadelphia. The Phillies split a doubleheader against Atlanta. Cincinnati fell 1½ games back in the wild-card race after losing for the seventh time in eight games.

Peavy (8-13) was brilliant in blowing through the Reds' lineup, surrendering only Adam Dunn's shot into the home-run porch down the right-field line with one out in the fourth and Rich Aurilia's single to left leading off the eighth. It was Dunn's 39th.

All the teams in the wild card race have a veteran who is underperforming expectations. For San Diego, it's Peavy. A return to form by Jake, with the otherwise improved Padres' staff might be enough to put San Diego in the playoffs again.

Also, I didn't know this:

Peavy has struggled this season due to shoulder tendinitis and lack of run support. His 13 losses are the most in his career, and he's had an uncharacteristically high ERA - it was 4.51 coming in. Peavy led the majors with a 2.27 ERA in 2004 and topped the NL with 216 strikeouts last year. His career ERA coming into this season was 3.33.

Was the tendinitis widely known in San Diego?


Posted by David Pinto at 10:02 AM | Games | TrackBack (0)
Comments

If you follow baseball-prospectus it was pretty well known. The tendinitis caused Jake to alter his delivery, which flattened out his breaking pitches. he seems to be doing better now.

Posted by: david at September 3, 2006 07:23 PM

Yeah, I believe he was on the dl for a while with this issue.

Posted by: Ben B. at September 3, 2006 07:58 PM
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