Wow! What a game you saw last night if you had Los Angeles Dodgers tickets, when Chad Billingsley threw a no hitter for the WIN_TEAM!! Congratulations to Billingsley as well as the Dodgers for an incredible accomplishment. You never know what you will see at a baseball game and if you were at Petco Park yesterday you’ll have a story to tell for the rest of your life! Wow! What a nail biter! This was a pitchers duel that Chad Billingsley and Jon Garland will never forget! Fans with Padres tickets saw two fantastic pitchers do battle. You don’t see baseball games as low-scoring as this, and when you do you better appreciate it!
Dodgers pitcher Chad Billingsley (4.00 ERA) got the win, while Jon Garland (3.56 ERA) took the loss for the Padres. Chad Billingsley went 6 innings for the Dodgers, allowed 3 hits, no home runs and no earned runs with 2 walks and 4 strikeouts. Also pitching for the Dodgers was Hong-Chih Kuo (0.79). The Padres’s starter Jon Garland went 6.2 innings, allowed 5 hits, no home runs and 2 earned runs with 2 walks and 5 strikeouts. Joe Thatcher (1.77), Ryan Webb (3.32), and Edward Mujica (2.72) also pitched for the Padres. With the win, Billingsley’s record goes to 9-5, while Garland is at 9-7. Jonathan Broxton earned the save for the Dodgers, bringing his saves up to 20.
In addition to the 2 runs, the Dodgers scored 5 hits and committed one error. It wasn’t a huge day for anyone at the plate for the Dodgers, as nobody managed more than 2 hits. Rafael Furcal had a tough day at the plate, leaving 4 runners on base. The Padres didn’t have anyone with a big night with not one batter getting more than 2 hits. Will Venable could not get much going at the plate as he left 5 runners on base. The Padres got no runs, 5 hits and one error.
Umpiring duties were performed by Phil Cuzzi, Chris Guccione, Brian O’Nora and Jerry Crawford. There were 38,428 Padres ticket holders in attendance at Petco Park.