So far this year, Brad Ziegler has been tremendous for the Oakland Athletics. The rookie middle reliever started off his career with 39 1/3 scoreless innings. That's over 4 GAMES worth of shutout pitching performance. It's an MLB record to start off a career, and it also became the AL rookie record for most consecutive scoreless innings, as well. He's been so good, blogging genius Joe Posnanski made up a stat called the "Ziegler Number".

But last night, Ziegler finally showed evidence of mortality, giving up an RBI double to BJ Upton. The run proved to be costly, as the Rays went on to win 7-6.

Jake Peavy and the Padres snapped the Brewers' 8-game winning streak. Peavy went 7 innings, striking out 8 and only giving up 1 run, and the Padres beat the Brewers 3-2. The Padres scored all 3 of their runs in the 7th inning off of Brewers starter Ben Sheets, who had pitched very well until that point.


----- Other MLB Scores -----
AL:
Red Sox 10, Rangers 0 - Daisuke Matsuzaka: 7 shutout innings ... David Ortiz: 3-run HR
Tigers 5, Blue Jays 1 - Armando Galarraga: 8 IP, 6 H, 1 R, 6 K, 2 BB ... Edgar Renteria: 2-4, 2 RBI
White Sox 9, Royals 2 - Jim Thome, Paul Konerko, Alexei Ramirez and Juan Uribe: Back-to-back-to-back-to-back HR's.
Orioles 11, Indians 6 - Kevin Millar: 3-5, 3 RBI ... Lou Montanez: 3-5, 2 RBI

NL:
Cubs 11, Braves 7 - Mark Kotsay hit for the cycle for the Braves, but the Cubs completed the sweep
Astros 7, Giants 4 - Lance Berkman: 2-4, HR, 3 RBI
Diamondbacks 6, Rockies 2 - Dan Haren: 8 IP, 7 H, 2 R, 9 K, 2 BB, also 2-4 at the plate
Mets 9, Nationals 3 - Carlos Delgado: 2-run HR ... Brian Schneider: 2-run HR
Cardinals 3, Marlins 0 - Todd Wellemeyer: 7.2 IP, 3 H, 3 K, 4 BB ... Ryan Ludwick: 2-4, HR, 3 RBI
Reds 3, Pirates 1 - Johnny Cueto: 5 IP, 4 H, 1 R, 7 K, 3 BB ... Chris Dickerson: 3-5, 2 2B, 3B, RBI
Dodgers 3, Phillies 1 - Hiroki Kuroda: 7 IP, 2 H, 1 R, 7 K, 0 BB


----- MLB News/Notes -----

Manny gets his hairs cut... barely. Joe Torre is happy... for now.

The Rays are having lousy luck with injuries.

Ziegler's streak is snapped.

Back to back to back to back.

Mark Kotsay hits for the cycle.



Streakers - In case any team tries to make history, I'm going to list the teams with the longest active winning and losing streaks. Today's streakers:
Astros: 8 wins
Nationals: 7 losses