Padres Open Can of Whoop Ass on Phils

Greg Maddux pitched masterfully, earning his 10th win of the season while passing Cy Young for a MLB record 20th consecutive season with at least 10 wins, as the Friars rolled to a 14-3 victory Friday night. Maddux also surpassed his brother on the Padres all-time win list. Milton Bradley supplied the bulk of Maddux's run support with a pair of 3 run bombs, one from each side of the plate. Adrian Gonzalez made it 3 dingers in 2 nights, adding a pair of home runs himself. All told, the Padres gathered a whopping 22 hits.

The game seemed to turn on a dirty play by Phillie Carlos Ruiz's take out 'slide' of Marcus Giles in the fourth. Ruiz came in on Giles both late and high in a manner that looked more like a collision at home plate than it did a slide. The benches cleared and the umpire crew eventually ruled the slide interference, in effect completing a double play and pulling a run off the board in the process. Giles stayed in the game, but was later removed with a hip pointer and is listed as day-to-day.

Philadelphia's broadcast team had a rough night. They seemed to deem Ruiz's slide clean and later couldn't seem to come up with a reason why Giles was pulled from the game. This was just one of several miscues that made that game a bit difficult to take at times. FF understands that with the amount of airtime these guys get, they are bound to make mistakes, as did the Padres' Matt Vasgersian not long ago (us bloggers, on the other hand, are of course perfect). But the bar for announcing seems lower and lower every year.

UPDATE:
Ruiz admits he came in high, Maddux and Rollins chime in.