-It’s not often that you see two complete games pitched in the same matchup. It’s really uncommon for that to happen when the final score is 8-0. But it happened last night in Kansas City when the Royals beat the Tampa Bay Rays. Tampa was coming off of a doubleheader on Sunday and rather than overwork their bullpen, manager Joe Maddon decided to put Alex Cobb out there as a sacrificial lamb. Cobb surrendered 8 runs on 13 hits in his complete game. Afterward, he was called “heroic” by Maddon. Memo to Joe Maddon: might want to tone down the hyperbole.

-Barry Zito got himself back on track last night and the Giants offense exploded for 8 runs, as they pulled to within 2 games of the Dodgers in the NL West. Pablo Sandoval led the way for the Giants with 3 hits and 2 runs scored.

-Day 1 of life without Youk ended poorly for the Boston Red Sox last night as they fell to the Toronto Blue Jays 9-6. The Blue Jays, though, suffered a loss that they could ill afford when starter Henderson Alvarez left the game with a back injury. He joins Brandon Morrow and Kyle Drabek on the list of Blue Jays starters with injuries. But that’s okay because they signed Jamie Moyer yesterday.

-The New York Yankees remained the hottest team in baseball, beating the Indians 7-1 thanks to 7 strong innings from Hiroki Kuroda and a Robinson Cano homer.

-Baseball’s most inconsistent pitcher, Mat Latos, found himself on the upswing last night. And then some. Latos pitched a complete game with 13 Ks against the Brewers. Expect a line like this next time he goes out: 2.1 IP, 7 H, 5 ER, 3 BB. Ah the majesty of Mat Latos!

Last night’s game may have been the most frustrating of the season. At least, the new “most frustrating game of the season.” Stephen Strasburg was as good as he’s been until he surrendered a triple to Dexter Fowler to lead off the 6^th and followed that by throwing an errant 95 MPH fastball at Marco Scutaro’s head. Scutaro left the game and Strasburg appeared to be very shaken by the errant pitch. And it showed. Carlos Gonzalez scored Fowler and then Todd Helton hit a sac fly to give the Rockies a lead they wouldn’t surrender. Colorado won 4-2.

The Nats will have the chance tonight to make right what they made wrong last night. Gio Gonzalez will oppose Christian Friedrich. Game time is 8:40 on one of the MASN networks.

Los Angeles Dodgers @ San Francisco Giants (10:15). Clayton Kershaw will face Ryan Vogelsong in a game the Dodgers really need to have to try to slow down the momentum that the Giants have right now.