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Smoltz Records 3,000th Strikeout

Babes Love Baseball found this 4/22/2008 on baseballthinkfactory.org

Atlanta Braves pitcher John Smoltz became the 16th pitcher in major league history with 3,000 career strikeouts in Tuesday’s game against Washington. ... In the third, he got the opposing pitcher John Lannan swinging for the first out. Then Felipe Lopez missed on a low splitter in the next at-bat, as Smoltz reached the milestone.