Spectacular Starters At It Again in A's Win

C.C. Sabathia does it again, because that's just how we do it around here.

Complete Game Shutout: His first of the year, and his second 10+ strikeout game of the year. C.C. was the dominant Cy Young winning pitcher we know he can be.

The line.. 9 Innings, 5 Hits, 2 Walks, No Runs, 11 K's

Awesome.

The starters have pitched 43.1 straight innings of shutout baseball. I can't wait to see some of the statistics for this one. Has this been rivaled? I know obviously the Bulldogs big streak, but it will be interesting to see if there is any staff that has put together such a great streak.

Garko and Sizemore Go Deep: Two nights in a row for Shark there. This time he yanked one to left center. Looks like he has gotten himself right a little bit.

Grizzle led the game off with a jack, his second of the year and home-stand and that was it for the scoring. Only two other hits. Joe Blanton was pretty tough other than a few mistakes. Peralta had the other two hits which were doubles.

Yet that won't make up for the complete BONEHEADED swing he had earlier with the bases loaded and no body out and starting with a 3-0 count.

I'm sorry but I'm taking TWO pitches in that case. As bad as Peralta has been he should have been told that. There is no excuse for hitting into a home and first double play. None what so ever.

I would have even taken a regular double play that scored a run at that point. Still he shouldn't have been swinging, that was a poor decision on his part.

Tomorrow the series finishes up and the Indians look for a sweep, Aaron Laffey looks to continue the streak against surprising rookie Greg Smith.

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