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 ...