The Official Site of The Washington Nationals: News: Lopez's attitude earns him two starts
washington.nationals.mlb.com 4/19/2008 — MIAMI -- The Nationals are struggling, Felipe Lopez has kept a good attitude despite losing his starting job and manager Manny Acta is aware of Lopez's pedigree as a National League All-Star. Those three factors meshed in Acta's mind Friday in ...

Smoltz Records 3,000th Strikeout
baseballthinkfactory.org 4/22/2008 — 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 ...

Lannan, the plan -- and the future of the rotation
blog.washingtonpost.com 4/23/2008 — First, remember I have a 2 p.m. chat on Wednesday, live from Nationals Park. Among the possible topics: Chad Cordero's shoulder, John Lannan's guts, Nationals Park's crowds, Manny Acta's attitude, Lenny Harris's tactics, Felipe Lopez's role, Ryan ...

John Smoltz Reaches Milestone by Third Inning
sports.aol.com 4/23/2008 — 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 ...

Game Recap: Nationals 10 -- Mets 5
theropolitans.com 4/25/2008 — Every time Oliver Perez pitches, the Mets fear they will get this sort of start out of him. When Perez was removed, the Mets bullpen fared even worse. The Mets dropped game two to the Nationals by a score of 10-5.

Smoltz enters exclusive 3,000 K-Zone — Major League Baseball News 4/22/2008
With his third-inning strikeout of Felipe Lopez, John Smoltz became the 16th pitcher in Major League history to record 3,000 career strikeouts.

Smoltz 16th pitcher to 3,000 strikeouts (AP) — Yahoo! Sports - MLB News 4/23/2008
John Smoltz became the 16th pitcher in major league history to reach 3,000 strikeouts when the Atlanta Braves' right-hander struck out Washington's Felipe Lopez in the third inning. Smoltz, 40, received a standing ovation after Lopez swung and missed ...

Smoltz 16th pitcher to reach 3,000 K's — FOXSports.com News for MLB 4/23/2008
John Smoltz became the 16th pitcher in major league history to reach 3,000 strikeouts when the Atlanta Braves' right-hander struck out Washington's Felipe Lopez in the third inning. Smoltz, 40, received a standing ovation after Lopez swung and missed ...

John Smoltz becomes 16th pitcher to reach 3,000 strikeouts — Boston.com -- Baseball News 4/23/2008
John Smoltz became the 16th pitcher in major league history to reach 3,000 strikeouts when the Atlanta Braves' right-hander struck out Washington's Felipe Lopez in the third inning.

Smoltz reaches 3,000 Ks, Nats top Braves (AP) — Yahoo! Sports - MLB News 4/23/2008
John Smoltz became the 16th pitcher in major league history to reach 3,000 career strikeouts, but was outpitched by John Lannan in the Washington Nationals' 6-0 win over the Atlanta Braves on Tuesday night. Smoltz fanned Felipe Lopez in the ...