Fastball Fans

Arizona’s Mark Reynolds was hit by a pitch in the bottom of the sixth inning, ending his major league record-tying streak of strikeouts in nine straight plate appearances.

I guess his record gives the “Golden Sombrero” a new meaning eh?

Garrett Anderson has perhaps seen his better days, but last night, he was on — and so in a big way.

In an 18-9 whacking of the Yankees, Anderson knocked in a team-record 10 runs which included a grand slam.

Bobby Jenks fell short of a major league record before finishing off the Royals.

According to the AP, Jenks settled for a share of the record when Joey Gathright broke the Chicago closer’s string of 41 straight outs, and then stopped the White Sox’s worst skid in 16 years by saving a 4-3 victory over Kansas City on Monday night.

Jenks, who tied Jim Barr’s mark of 41 for San Francisco in 1972 last Sunday, gave up a single to Gathright to lead off the ninth.

John Smoltz dominated through eight innings, setting the Braves franchise strikeout record and snapping the surging Arizona Diamondbacks’ four-game winning streak.

Congrats to John!

Santana set a franchise record with 17 Ks in eight innings to lead the Minnesota Twins past the Texas Rangers 1-0 Sunday.

However, he let Joe Nathan finish the game despite the boos from the crowd at the Metrodome. He allowed two hits, all to Sammy Sosa, and stymied the Texas offense.

Congrats to Johan and the Minnesota faithful.

The Brewers are a young team; however based on their fast start and the talent, most assumed they would be good this season and it would just be a matter of hanging onto their lead in the NL Central.

At the moment, things are not going well for the Brew Crew.

The Cubs are now in first place in the NL Central after getting off to a horrible start.

Can the Brewers come back? It remains to be seen…

We all know that Brandon Webb is good, but is he this good?

Brandon Webb is inching closer to Orel Hershiser’s record of 59 straight scoreless innings.

He threw a two-hitter last night against the Braves, and extended his scoreless innings streak to 42 innings.

After being the subject of trade rumors earlier in the summer, the White Sox decided they love Jermaine Dye so much they wanted to keep him.

He agreed to a two-year, $22 million contract extension Saturday to stay with the Chicago White Sox through the 2009 season.

New York Yankees slugger Alex Rodriguez was presented on Thursday with a key to the city in honor of his 500th home run.

All he has to do now is win a ring to become a “True Yankee”.

For the happy people of Wrigley, your days have just gotten a little brighter. It looks like for the next several years, the burly ace of yours, Carlos “Big Z” Zambrano isn’t going anywhere.

The highly intense, loyal and perhaps sometimes crazy ace right-hander agreed Friday to a five-year deal to stay with the only team he’s been with his entire career. The figure is said to be $92 million over the life of the contract.

This week, Barry Bonds his lawyers to look into suing people who might have untrue, inflamatory or defamed him.

It looked like Curt Schilling would have been at head of the line.

Look, nothing is going to happen.

If Barry wanted to sue those who questioned the legtimacy of his career, much less records, then he’d have to go after the authors of the “Book of Shadows”, every sports talk show host, and half the print media and bloggers.

Do I see that happening? Um, no.

That might open up a whole can of worms for Bonds in terms of the legal sense, and I’m sure here does not want it.

Now, let’s go back to business as usual…

Ok, I am a little late in finding this video and posting it online; however, thanks to file-sharing and video here’s the Kevin Millar post-game interview where he’s dosed with Gatorade along with Amber Theoharis.

This took place after his game-winning homer on Sunday where the O’s defeated the Boston Red Sox.

Paul Bako and Tike Redman were behind the ambush.

It’s quite funny to see, as while Kevin Millar has a sense of humor about it, Amber Theoharis handles the whole thing professionally, but does not look at all pleased.

Kevin got to at least change, I am not so sure about Amber.

I usually try my best to get photos of when stuff like this happens, but I was on the other side of the stadium when this took place.

A special thanks to *gatecitycanes* for the video…

Philadelphia Phillies vs. Washington Nationals, August 14, 2007

I covered the game for the DC Sports Box as both a photographer and writer. Hope you enjoy the pictures and feel free to send me feedback!

Barry hits his 759th homer…

And Bobby Cox gets ejected one more time for good measure…