The Day in Review

So fortunately tonight doesn't feature any 22-inning marathon games! Look for Colorado to show fatigue tomorrow as jet lag and reality catch up with them. San Diego already looked fatigued today. 

Injury Watch:

• Howie Kendrick has shown up on the 15-day DL. Rotoworld's analysis looks strangely like what I wrote about him yesterday. Tom Glavine also made his first DL stint in 22 seasons, making him the complete opposite of Kendrick. 
• Ben Sheets had another solid outing, but left because of a triceps strain. No word yet on whether or not this injury will send him to the DL.
• Paul Lo Duca, he of a .200 batting average this year, was put on the 15-day DL by Washington. If you owned him, what are you thinking? Cut him and move on.

Notable Performances:

• For the second straight game, Chipper Jones had two HR. I hate to keep mentioning him but he's hitting the cover off the ball.
• Richie Sexson hit two HR and had a potential third taken away from him by Torii Hunter. If he is getting his stroke back, he will have plenty of opportunities to drive in runs with Ichiro ahead of him. Stay tuned.
• Hopefully you didn't start Greg Maddux after he got moved up a day, because he was lit up early by Arizona. He always pitches poorly in the BOB, though, and he did eat up seven innings because the Padres bullpen had nobody to relieve him.
• In the first of what will hopefully be many duels, Johan Santana outpitched Cole Hamels. Both looked good, though, and this should be a great rivalry for years to come.

Congratulations - I think - to Evan Longoria, who either locked himself into some nice guaranteed money or missed out on a big payday in the future. Time will tell if the budding star was right to sign long-term at such a young age. Also, congrats to Big Papi for the grand slam. Hopefully sending a ball over the Monster will jump-start his season.

That's what you need to know about the day.