Atlanta Braves WiretapGlavine Pitches Five Scoreless Triple-A InningsTom Glavine, trying to come back from arm surgery at age 43, pitched five scoreless innings for Triple-A Gwinnett on Thursday in an 10-6 International League victory over Indianapolis. "It's been a long time since I won a game in the minors and I hope it's the last one," said Glavine, who was promoted to the Braves during the 1987 season. Atlanta Braves Read the Full Story Discuss Send Feedback Buy Tickets Randy Johnson Wins No. 299Randy Johnson earned his 299th victory with six very impressive innings, giving up three hits and one run in the Giants? 6-3 home win over the Braves on Wednesday night, as reported by the Associated Press. The five-time Cy Young Award winner struck out five to run his career total to 4,843, second-most in MLB history. Johnson likely will get his first chance to become the 24th major leaguer with 300 victories next Wednesday at Washington. San Francisco Giants, Atlanta Braves Read the Full Story Discuss Send Feedback Buy Tickets Glavine Could Return By End Of Month
He threw 33-35 pitches with bullpen coach Eddie Perez standing in as a batter. "The key is going to be first and foremost: Am I having pain when I make pitches that doesn't allow me to make my pitches? So far, I haven't had that," Glavine said. "The second part of that is going to be, you know, do I get sore, so sore in between starts that, you know, I can't do anything or I'm not sure whether or not I'm going to make my next start?" He paused, and then answered his own question. "So far, both of those have been good." Atlanta Braves Read the Full Story Discuss Send Feedback Buy Tickets Braves May 2009 Archive
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