Looking at the late games from last night, there were a number of good performances by the younger members to team staffs. Jered Weaver pitched seven strong innings to help the Angels to a 4-1 win over Kansas City. His ERA dropped to 1.37 as the only run he allowed was unearned. The Angels need to find a way to keep him in the rotation. With 22 K and 4 BB in 26 1/3 inning, I bet he has nothing left to prove in the minor leagues.

Joe Blanton out dueled the veteran lefty Jamie Moyer 2-0. Joe threw eight innings of five hit ball. He only used 92 pitches, but got into trouble when he gave up two hits to start the ninth (extending Ichiro's hit streak to 13 games) to put runners at 2nd and 3rd. Street came in and loaded the bases with a hit batter, but then struck out Ibanez and Sexson before getting a fly ball to end the game. Blanton's allowed 2 earned runs in 23 innings against the Mariners this season, including two 8 inning shutout performances. Against the rest of the league he's given up 43 earned runs in 57 1/3 innings, a 6.75 ERA.

Enrique Gonzalez in his four games (three starts) is nearly as impressive as Jered Weaver. Gonzalez one hit the Giants (who had Barry Bonds back) through seven innings, lowering his ERA to 1.64 as he allowed no runs. The DBacks needed that performance to break their losing streak, as the offense only generated 2 runs to the Giants 1. Gonzalez, in 22 major league innings fanned 20 batters while walking only four.

Update: A couple of people in the comments noted that I left out some pitchers. That's basically because they were discussed in last night's posts. Scroll down for more. This post was meant to catchup on the late games. Sorry for the confusion.