Tonight's Game Makes Yesterday's Game Look Like The Past

I can't imagine a more important sporting event than tonight's Padres-Cardinals tilt in St. Louis. The Padres must win or face falling 1.5 games behind the San Francisco Giants in the NL West. That would be no good.

Mat Latos toes the slab (incidentally, one of sport's grossest phrases) tonight for the Drinos. He has faced the Cardinals only once before and the outcome was not pretty. That game was August 14, 2009, also in St. Louis, and Mat went 4 innings, allowed 8 hits, 7 runs (all earned), walked 3, and K'd only 1 guy (Brendan Ryan). He also allowed a solo shot to the Cardinals pitcher, Adam Wainwright. Not a great night.

But tonight will be different. Tonight is when dreams come true and stars shoot like miracles across the sky.

Go get 'em, Mat.