Kevin Correia hurled his first career shutout
to lead San Diego to a 4-0 win over the Diamondbacks in a battle for the
National League West Division basement.
Correia (12-10) scattered six hits and a walk, fanning seven in the stellar
outing. The right-hander needed just 109 pitches to complete the game.
"I've never had a complete game shutout so I would have to say it's one of my
better outings in the big leagues," Correia said. "I had all four pitches
working, Throwing strikes with pretty much all of them, the slider was pretty
good, I was throwing it for a lot of strikes."
Adrian Gonzalez and Will Venable each had two hits and an RBI in the win, the
Padres' sixth in seven games.
Max Scherzer (9-11) gave up three runs on five hits and three walks, fanning
six in a five-inning start for Arizona, which now sits 5 1/2 games behind
fourth-place San Diego after its fifth loss in six games.
The Padres broke a scoreless tie in the fourth. Venable hit an RBI single with
men on the corners, and Nick Hundley followed two batters later with a run-
scoring double.
David Eckstein manufactured a run in the fifth, earning a two-out walk and
stealing second before Gonzalez knocked him in with a base hit to right.
Eckstein drove in the final run in the seventh, while Correia allowed just two
D-Backs to reach scoring position, ending his stellar outing with a pair of
strikeouts against Miguel Montero and Mark Reynolds.
"[Correia] had a little bit better command of his breaking ball, he threw to
the corners a little bit better with that cutter," Arizona manager A.J. Hinch
said. "I think we knew what we were going to get, but I think we got a little
bit comfortable because we've seen him a lot."
Game Notes
Correia, who had never pitched a complete game before, is unbeaten in his last
six starts...Arizona leads the season series, 9-7...Justin Upton had two of
Arizona's six hits.
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