Life’s Sweetest Reward

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FriarBall found this 4/18/2008 on ducksnorts.com [flag]
The season is extremely young, and we shouldn’t place too much faith into three weeks of stats, but have you noticed that the Padres are beating their Pythagorean? Yeah, they’ve scored 49 runs and allowed 57, which is more indicative of a 6-9 record than the Pads’ actual 8-7 mark. Again, it’s early and we don’t want to read much (if anything) into this just ... [link]

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Game 16: Rockies (6-8) at Padres (8-7)
Published 4/18/2008 at FriarBall
... After last night's ninth inning fiasco, it's nice to have the reigning Cy Young winner take the hill - especially when Francis is having the year he is. Scoring runs hasn't been our strong point this year, but when you can limit offenses on most nights I guess it doesn't have to be.  ...

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Friar Forecast found this 4/18/2008 on www.gaslampball.com

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AL & NL West News - 4/18

beisbolct posted 4/18/2008 from soxanddawgs.com

Normally I do this post before I go to bed and this time was no exception. Problem was that I got a text message from my brother at 4:14 AM just to let me know that that the Rockies and Padres game is in the 22nd inning. And since I was woken up (thanks bro), I decided to listen to the end. The Rockies won the game 2-1.
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Rockies outlast Padres 2-1 in 22 innings (AP)

Ghostrunner on First found this 4/18/2008 on sports.yahoo.com

Troy Tulowitzki's RBI double with two outs in the 22nd inning scored Willy Taveras and the Colorado Rockies beat the San Diego Padres 2-1 in the longest game in the majors in nearly 15 years, a 6-hour, 16-minute marathon that ended at 1:21 a.m. ...
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