May 30, 2007
West Shuts Out East
The Dodgers continued to lay goose eggs on the Nationals as they shut out Washington for the second day in a row, this time 5-0. The Dodgers staff, with seven innings by Lowe, allow just four hits and two walks. Thats eight hits and three walks in two days for the Nationals. Good pitching may stop good hitting, but it totally shuts down bad pitching.
Meanwhile, up the coast in New York, Barry Zito bests Tom Glavine as the Giants defeat the Mets 3-0. Zito goes seven innings, giving up six hits and a walk. The Giants get two perfect innings from the bullpen to seal the game. Bonds returns after a couple of games off to pick up a hit and a walk. Aurilia and Feliz were the big hitters combining for six hits.
San Diego completed the west coast shutout sweep with a 9-0 victory over the Pirates. Once again the starter (Chris Young) goes seven with low walks and high strikeouts (1 BB, 7 K). The Padres pen finished the job while the San Diego hitters go to town, scoring seven runs in the last two innings. Young lowers his ERA to 2.42. It's been a very good night so far for the NL West.
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And of course, the D-Backs had a shutout of the Phils going into the ninth.
There was an odd play in the third inning of the Dodgers-Nats game in which Felipe Lopez was caught stealing, but since the ball became dislodged from Furcal's glove on the slide, he was safe and Furcal was charged with an error. I don't know if I'd ever seen a play scored as "caught stealing, safe on error."