Adam Dunn leads off the inning with a double. Two batters later, Mike Morse squeaks out a hit down the first-base line that gets Dunn home. It was a bit of an awkward play, though, because Carlos Santana, making his third career start, was blocking the plate despite not having a play on the ball. Getting run over by a 6-foot-6, 285-pound slugger will probably teach him not to do that again.
Newest Strasburg comparison: Mark Fidrych! Hopefully this doesn't lead to photo-ops with Big Bird.
Strasburg opens up the inning by giving up a home run to Travis Hafner on a low change up. Austin Kearns then proceeds to make good contact with Strasburg's next pitch, but Mike Morse snags it for the easy out.
Strasburg settles down against Russel Branyan and collects his third strikeout on a beautiful breaking ball in the dirt.
Jhonny Peralta gets caught looking at a beautiful curve ball for the final out of the inning.
Tallies through two innings: 30 pitches, 20 strikes, 10 balls, one hit, one earned run, four strikeouts.
In his first nine innings of Major League Baseball, Stephen Strasburg struck out 18 batters. That's just silly.
