Smoltz v. Santana Back On

April 5, 2008 – 8:33 pm

After the rainout of the game against the Mets Friday night, Bobby Cox pushed back the starting pitchers by a day to keep the rotation starting as planned.  This eliminated the much-anticipated Smoltz vs. Santana pitching matchup that was slated for Sunday’s game, instead pitting Tom Glavine against Johan.

Shortly after that change was announced, Smoltz asked Glavine if he’d be okay with switching rotation spots with him to avoid having to make his first start of the season at Coors Field next week.  The combination of the thin Colorado air and projected cold temperatures aren’t good things to subject Smoltz’s recently injured shoulder to, thus the main motivation for the switch.

Glavine, in the interest of helping out the team in the long-run by trying to preserve Smoltz’s arm, and probably to relieve a little of the stress from pitching against his former team, happily obliged.  So to everyone that had tickets for tomorrow’s game just because of the pitching matchup, fear no more, the matchup between Smoltz and Santana is back on as originally projected.

Tags: Johan Santana, John Smoltz
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