Brayan Pena with Richmond is now leading the International League in hitting with a .414 average in 99 ABs. B. Pena (not to be confused with Tony Pena Jr. a shortshop at Richmond whose dad is none other than Tony Pena, former stud on Big Red Machine and former Royals manager) is a 23-year old [...]
May 16, 2005
Going to San Diego
Unfortunately, most of those bombs we hit in LA will be easy fly-outs at Petco. And, really, to let that fossil Erickson shut us down for five innings was really worrisome. I mean, c’mon. We lit Gagne up the night before but looked like a cast of fools against an octogenerian with an ERA in [...]
May 16, 2005
Braves 5 Dodgers 2
This was a game straight out of 2003. Three HRs (Jones, Jones, LaRoche) accounted for 4 of the 5 runs, and Hudson did his best Russ Ortiz impression — baserunners everywhere, 109 grueling pitches through six innings, but he kept wriggling out of trouble. Don Sutton had it right, I think — [...]
