Padres left-hander Blake Snell lowers ERA to MLB-best 2.50 with six shutout innings in a win over the wild-card-hopeful Giants
Blake Snell passed 200 strikeouts for the second time in his career while in adding another entry to his NL Cy Young campaign, a star-studded lineup finally treated a rookie pitcher appropriately and the Padres dealt the Giants’ postseason hopes a second consecutive blow with a 6-1 win on Saturday night in front of a sellout crowd of 41,983 at Petco Park.The Padres’ odds, meantime, had shriveled to 0.5 percent by first pitch on Saturday, largely the result of a 10-18 August.Just like A.J.
That was more than enough for Snell, who’s trending toward becoming the first pitcher to ever lead the majors in ERA and walks after adding four over six otherwise dominant innings, pushing his season total to 89 — or 18 more than the next wildest pitchers.“Look, it’s either walks or hits, right?” Padres manager Bob Melvin said. “It’s WHIP in total and that’s good. So he doesn’t give up many hits. I don’t think it will affect him.
The only other time Snell has topped 200 strikeouts in his career was when he piled up 221 while winning the 2018 AL Cy Young with the Tampa Bay Rays.His credentials this year includes entering Saturday leading qualifying NL starters in opponent average , slugging and hits per nine innings and ranking second in whiff rate , opponent OPS and strikeouts.
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