Baseball Musings
Baseball Musings
September 07, 2008
Young in the Eighth

Chris Young comes out for the eighth inning, needing six outs for a perfect game. The Padres are one of the only teams never to toss a no-hitter (nor have the Mets). He'll face Fielder, Hart and Kapler. Fielder pops out on the first pitch. The Brewers made it easy on Young today, his pitch count is very low.

Update: With two out, Kapler gets a high fastball and hits it just inside the leftfield foul pole in the second deck for a home run. No no-no for the Padres today.

Update: Young finishes the game for 10-1 Padres win. It's Young's first complete games. By pitching well while only striking out four batters, Young was able to limit his pitches thrown to 96. A great game by Young.

The Brewers lose no ground to the Cubs as Kerry Wood gives up three runs, two earned to blow the save in the bottom of the ninth and give the Reds a 4-3 win. It hasn't exactly been a great week for leading teams as the Rays, Cubs, Brewers and Diamondbacks are all going through bad stretches.


Posted by David Pinto at 04:11 PM | Pitchers | TrackBack (0)
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This was San Diego's longest perfect game bid. The previous long was 7.1 innings by Bob Owchinko against the Dodgers on June 16, 1977. Owchinko lost the game, 1-0.

Posted by: Tor at September 7, 2008 09:24 PM
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