Padres 2 Pirates 1

We got two hits early last night to jump out to a 1-0, but we only got four hits after that and didn't score any more runs, meaning that we still lost to Peavy and the Padres. Peavy was just as good as Chris Young was two nights ago, striking out 11 against 1 walk and only allowing 6 hits and 1 run over his 8 innings. Duke's surface line seems good, 6 and 1/3 with 2 runs on 1 hit, but his 5 walks last night were kind of alarming. As I've noted on several occasions, Duke does his best work when he keeps his walks to a minimum. Doing a Chacon/Youman impression is not a good outing for Duke.

We also allowed Trevor Hoffman to come in for his record tying 477th save. This seems appropriate, as I mentioned yesterday we tortured Lee Smith's soul during the early '90s. It seems like every time Smith came in for a save, Bonds was waiting for him to ruin his night. This is probably an apocryphal memory for me, Retrosheet tells me Bonds was 4-for-11 against Smith with 2 homers and Van Slyke was only 2-for-30 against the big guy. Still, career-wise Smith was 1-4 against the Pirates with a with a 5.90 ERA and only 10 saves in 31 appearences (and 21 games finished) against the Bucs. Retrosheet doesn't have blown saves as a stat on their "splits" pages, but we can assume that without the early 90s Buccos, Hoffman would not be tied with Lee Smith yet, and without the early 00s Buccos, Hoffman wouldn't have 477 yet. The universe works in mysterious ways.