April 17, 2008
Short and Sweet
John Smoltz is showing no residual signs of his spring injury, winning his third start in as many tries tonight. He pitched five shutout innings against the Marlins, and received five home runs from his offense in support.
I'm not sure if it's his age, or the Braves are taking it easy because of the injury, but Smoltz is not going deep into the game. His three starts lasted five, six and five innings. and the most pitches he's thrown is 90. Without a chance to get in trouble, John is now sporting an 0.56 ERA, and has 21 strikeouts in his sixteen innings pitched.
Posted by David Pinto at
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With his 10Ks tonight, Smoltz is now 4 away from 3000. His next start is scheduled for Tuesday, and I hope some network has the good sense to broadcast the potentially historic game.
The truly impressive thing about his performance tonight was all of the swings-and-misses. I stopped counting after the 2nd inning, but his first 5 Ks were all swinging. That's one vicious slider.
Smoltz is a HoF player, and his 3000th K should ice it.