June 28, 2008
Park and Eveland
Both Western division races tightened a bit Friday night. Chan Ho Park continued to show his great control at Dodger Stadium, walking none and striking out seven over six shutout innings of work. The pen was even better, retiring all nine batters faced, seven more on strikeouts. The Angels, the great contact team, went down on strikes fourteen times in the game as they fell 6-0. That's only the 8th time in 1376 games with the Angels that a Scioscia team struck out fourteen or more times in a game, and only the 2nd time since 2004.
Taking advantage of the Angels loss were the Oakland Athletics. Dana Eveland held the Giants to five his and one run, while the Oakland offense scored three times off Keiichi Yabu to take the game 4-1. Eveland has allowed just three home runs all year and none since May 21st.