ATLANTA 5, A Whale's Vagina 3

Game Notes...

- Atlanta takes a four game set with three straight wins in which San Diego managed all of seven runs in the loses.

- Wins and loses for pitchers are completely worthless. Tim Hudson looks great over three starts and goes eight innings in each go-around to find out he was 0-1 in those starts. He gives up nine hits in six innings and generally did not look very good and he gets the win. Yeah, big w00t. Hudson probably could have gone longer, but his spot came up in the sixth and Willie Harris got the call. He walked to bring up Kelly Johnson and KJ made a "winner" of Hudson. Hudson also got nailed right around the wrist by a hot shot up the middle, but stayed in and x-rays were negative. He's 4-1 now.

- Mike Gonzalez got the day off, but Rafael Soriano was in his third straight save and picked up his fifth save. His stuff was obviously a little less than usual, but damn kid, he's got skills. He was still hitting the mid-90's. In other news, Jon Cooper of Atlantabraves.com is reporting Bob Wickman will be ready to return off the DL on Tuesday. I am still hoping Bobby Cox will not use Wickman has his only option in the ninth.

- Yatesy was filthy...straight up filthy in his one frame. Josh Bard became his little widdle bitch in the catcher's at-bat. By the way, I will miss Bard. The Braves swiped another base today and Willie had a few steals taken away because KJ had to swing to stay alive.

- For the second time this series, the Padres defense turned a flyball out into a double, this time helping Chris Woodward to his first. Going to miss that, too.

- Woody was starting for Edgar Renteria. Apparently, Renty has the full week flu, which makes me want to apologize for thinking his "flu" was just a bad hangover. I know a lot about the latter.

- Andruw Jones only had one hit, but he remains locked in.

- I really hate Chip Carey. Puns should only be used by those who can not look like a moron when they use them. That's not you, Carey.