It comes from baseball where San Diego ace Jake Peavy came within one strikeout of matching legendary Tom Seaver’s record. He fanned nine straight Diamondbacks at one point during a 16 K seven inning masterful performance on 117 pitches before giving way to the bullpen. At last check, his team still led the game 2-1 with Arizona batting in the home ninth. It would be ashame if he didn’t get the victory.
Thirty seven years ago almost to the day back on April 22, 1970, Seaver fanned a major league record 10 consecutive batters for the Mets en route to 19 K’s- fanning the final 10 he faced ironically enough against the Padres.

Pretty amazing stuff.

Also, just to pass along, Barry Bonds hit his seventh home run of the first month in LA off Dodgers pitcher Randy Wolf in the first inning. It was No.741 for the slugger as the controversial left fielder continues his pursuit of sports biggest record- Hank Aaron’s 755. With Bonds looking as healthy as ever compared to the past couple of years, there’s almost no doubt that he’ll shatter the mark before the first half concludes. He’s swinging a hot bat and looks to be in much better condition.

So what will baseball’s reaction be when the 42 year-old seven-time NL MVP breaks it? Remains to be seen. It’s such ashame that it won’t be celebrated. But that’s the way it goes. I used to be a huge fan of Bonds before the whole juiced era. I liked him better though when he was a bonafide 40/40 threat who could field his left field position with the best of them. Many choose to forget that.

So will they put an asterisk next to it when it happens? Who knows? But it’s going to happen.

I guess the only question is when and where. Oh well.