John Smoltz Reaches Milestone by Third Inning

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 John Smoltz Reaches Milestone by Third Inning
The pitch that John Smoltz threw for his 3,000 career strikeout was, fittingly, a splitter and it more or less embarrassed Felipe Lopez . As noted earlier, it felt like a pretty sure thing that Smoltz was going to become the 16th member in the history of baseball to record the milestone over the course of a career and he did it by the third inning. A "rocky start" to the game involved John ... [link]

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Published 4/23/2008 at The Sporting Blog
... | Shutdown Corner One of my personal favorites, Chris Cooley, now blogging weekly over at Yahoo! John Smoltz Reaches Milestone by Third Inning | FanHouse Smoltz is still filthy, although he wasn't good enough to beat the buzzsaw that is the Washington Nationals. ...

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