Memorial Madness

We saw some crazy things happen over the weekend in the world of baseball, a few of which are worth mentioning here:

1. Roy Halladay's perfect game. Two perfect games in a month? Unheard of. And he only needed 105 pitches to do it. Florida then won 1-0 the next day.

2. Stellar pitching performances from Matt Cain, Ricky Romero, Carlos Silva, and Ubaldo Jimenez. Cain flirted with a perfect game on the same day Halladay threw his, and almost went the distance. Romero did go the distance, and was fabulous against the Orioles. Silva struck out 11 in seven innings, and Jimenez, who has already been the subject of this blog, now boasts an ERA of 0.78 after tonight. He threw a complete game shutout to beat Tim Lincecum, striking out nine and extending his scoreless inning streak to 26. At 10-1, he's Cy Young material, easy.

3. The Padres scored 18 runs in PETCO Park tonight. That's a record. And they're still in first place by two games, with the NL's best record.

4. Speaking of first place teams, we can now include the Atlanta Braves in that discussion. Besides the Dodgers, who won 20 games this month, the Braves have been baseball's hottest team. Now they are shocking the surprisingly competitive NL East going into June. That division is going to make headlines the rest of the way, guaranteed.

5. To include my Dodgers in the madness - they won on a balk tonight, following a major baserunning blunder by James Loney that almost cost them the game. How many games do you see end in balks? It was the fifth win the Dodgers have pulled out in their last at-bat. That magic from 2009 is still in the air.

Two months down, four to go!