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Baseball Musings
August 03, 2008
Most Embarrassing Loss of the Season?

The Padres lost to the Giants Saturday night as Barry Zito pitched eight scoreless innings.

When manager Bruce Bochy jogged to the mound with two outs in the eighth inning, he didn't want to pull Barry Zito even though the Padres' scariest hitter, Adrian Gonzalez, was coming up with two runners aboard.

"That was his ballgame at that point," said Bochy, who left the mound without signaling to the bullpen.

Closer Brian Wilson called Bochy's decision "one of the greatest, most respectable things I've seen."

Zito thought it was pretty cool, too. He retired Gonzalez on one pitch to complete eight shutout innings for the first time since Aug. 21, 2004, against Tampa Bay, and Wilson threw a perfect ninth to earn his league-leading 30th save and close out a 2-0 victory.

This supplants Zito's game against the Dodgers on July 5th in which he walked one and struck out ten, as well as his game against the Indians on June 25th in which he allowed one run in 6 2/3 innings. Congratulations, Padres, you win the most embarrassing loss of the season!


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Do you sometimes go by the name of Schlom?

Posted by: Sean at August 3, 2008 03:35 PM
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