The Braves' John Smoltz became the 16th pitcher to reach 3,000 career strikeouts but was outpitched by John Lannan in the Nationals? 6-0 win over the Braves on Tuesday night, as reported by the Associated Press. Smoltz fanned Felipe Lopez in the third inning to reach the mark. He struck out 10 for the second straight start and for the 45th time in his 20-year career.

The Yankees snapped a three-game skid on Sunday afternoon against the Orioles, but lost Alex Rodriguez to a quadriceps injury, according to ESPN.com. New York won 7-1, but Rodriguez hurt himself running out a force-play grounder in the sixth inning. Derek Jeter missed six games for the Yankees with the same injury. He is currently listed as day-to-day.

The Colorado Rockies outlasted the San Diego Padres 2-1 in 22 innings on Thursday night, according to the Denver Post. The game lasted 6 hours and 16 minutes and 658 pitches. "Baseball doesn't have a clock; that's what makes it beautiful," Manager Clint Hurdle said. "But I think this game is really going to help us. We have some guys who are really grinding and been taking this too seriously, and we ended up having some fun with this." It was the longest Major League game in nearly fifteen years.

Atlanta Braves? right-handed pitcher Tim Hudson struggled in his start Wednesday at the Florida Marlins. Hudson went only three innings and gave up six hits and four runs in the Braves? 6-5 loss to Florida, their third straight loss. Hudson was off tonight as he was topping out at 88 mph on his fastball when he is usually at 92 or so. His secondary stuff was almost non-existent and while he had good horizontal movement, his downward movement was sub par at best. With the early hook from manager Bobby Cox and drop in velocity, there could be injury concern with Hudson, so keep an eye on him for his next start. Braves? right-handed reliever Jorge Campillo kept the Braves in the game with three innings of no-hit ball. Since his call-up, he has pitched five innings of no-hit ball in long relief. He has a low 90s fastball with an above average change-up in the low 80s and an average curveball in the low to mid 70s. All of his pitches have good late movement. The numbers will level out once hitters get a look at him because his stuff isn?t dominate, but with a little work on his breaking stuff, he could fill a nice middle relief slot for the Braves.

Luke Hochevar, the first overall pick in the 2006 MLB draft by the Kansas City Royals, gave up four hits and no runs in six innings of work on Tuesday in a Triple-A start at Nashville. Hochevar struck out five and walked two, picking up the win as he inches closer to the big leagues. For 2008, Hochevar has a 2.60 ERA in 17.1 innings and a K/9 of 6.24.

Lars Anderson, a 20-year-old first baseman in the Red Sox organization, went 3-for-5 with a homer on Monday in high Single-A. He is slugging .551 with three homers in 49 at bats so far in 2008, but he continues to strikeout too frequently (21.8% of his plate appearances). He has now struck out at least once in each of his past nine games. Last season he struck out in 21.0% of his plate appearances.

Randy Johnson did not allow an earned run in five innings, settling down to finish with seven strikeouts and four walks before the Giants rallied against the D-Backs' bullpen for a 5-4 victory on Monday night, as reported by the Associated Press.

Blue Jays closer B.J. Ryan earned his first save in over a year on Sunday as he recorded the final three outs of Toronto's 5-4 win over the Rangers. He threw just eleven pitches, allowing one hit. The Jays activated Ryan before the game eleven months after he underwent ligament replacement surgery in his elbow. He recorded his last save on April 11, 2007.

Tom Glavine has made 672 starts in the majors. Twice, 19 years apart, he failed to record an out, according to an Associated Press report. The second time came Sunday against the reeling Nationals, when the Braves? 42-year-old lefty departed with a strained right hamstring and was charged with two runs. The reliever who replaced him, Jeff Bennett, walked in two other runs, then hit a batter who scored, too. Essentially handed a 5-0 lead, the Nationals gave nearly all of that back, then escaped a bases-loaded jam in the top of the ninth to beat the Braves 5-4 and end a nine-game losing streak.

Francisco Liriano started for the Twins for the first time since 2006, but lost to the Royals 5-1 on Sunday afternoon. Liriano pitched 4.2 innings for Minnesota, allowing six hits, walking five batters and four earned runs. He struck out four batters, losing the decision to Kansas City's Brian Bannister. He threw 90 pitches, most of them off-speed for the Twins, who managed just three hits of their own.