Connor Jackson comes up in the bottom of the sixth needing a double for the cycle. He hits one deep to center. Jim Edmonds runs back looks like he’s going to reach it, but it just ticks off the top of his glove. Jackson doesn’t stop running and ends up a third with his second triple of the game! He could have stopped, but with one out he gains the extra base and scores on a sacrifice fly. That’s a serious ballplayer!
With the score 9-0 in favor of the Diamondbacks, Greg Maddux is taking one for the team. With the rest of the pitching staff gassed, Maddux is just taking a pounding. He’s about at 100 pitches at the end of six, so we’ll see how much longer he stays in.
It’s truly amazing how much the D-backs have owned Maddux over the years. He’s now 2-11 lifetime against them. Even Hall of Fame guys like Maddux have their share of nemeses out there….
He actually pitched reasonably well after the first.
The interesting thing is that Friday should have been Chris Young’s spot in the rotation. If you’re going to throw someone in there with little hope of early relief, I have to question the choice of Maddux–who rarely goes more than seven even with his best stuff these days–over Young. Black must have figured that Maddux couldn’t beat the D-Backs even with a rested Padre squad behind him, so he might as well lose with the team dragging.