The Full Count: Glavine and Rogers win number 10

1. Pair of aces draw 10s: Tom Glavine and Kenny Rogers became the first pitchers in each league to win 10 games on Sunday. Glavine paced the Amazins with six innings while the Mets avoided a sweep by the Orioles, 9-4. He is now just 15 wins away from the magic 300. Rogers had an easier time getting career win no. 200, letting the big bats of the Tigers pound the Cubs 12-3. Rogers pitched eight innings and walked only one batter . This is the second straight year the Gambler has had a terrific first three months. Combining just the first halves of the last two seasons, Rogers would be a Cy Young candidate with a 21-7 record and a 2.90 ERA. Let’s just hope he doesn’t meet any cameras between now and late September.

2. Bombs over Wrigley: Speaking of those Tiger bats, perhaps Mark Prior of the Cubs should have waited one more day before returning to the rotation. Instead, the Tigers rocked the oft-injured pitcher in his season debut for four home runs in 3.2 innings. The Tigers tied their own club record – set earlier in the year – with a total of eight. The game also set a major league record with a total of 11 home runs between two teams in a nine-inning game. Curtis Granderson got the party started with a leadoff shot in the first, and Chris Shelton and Brandon Inge added two more each in the 12-3 victory. They now have 97 as a team for the season. In fact, every run scored in the game was on a homer, which also shattered a major league record.

3. We waited all night for this?: The Dodgers and A’s kept playing Saturday night. And playing. The game went on until the 17th inning, when Bobby Crosby’s bases loaded walk in the 137th plate appearance of the evening settled the anti-climax and sent the A’s to their ninth straight win (they would end up sweeping the Dodgers), 5-4. The teams combined to use 12 pitchers for the game that lasted just over five hours. They also walked 19 batters, left 28 men on base, and Jay Payton went 0 for 7. It was the second longest game in the majors this year by innings and the third longest by time.

4. Another user surfaces: I know we here at Sportscolumn are getting sick of the ongoing drug scandal in baseball, but former journeyman David Segui recently stated that he is one of the players mentioned in Jason Grimsley’s affidavit. Segui told ESPN’s “Outside the Lines” that he used Human Growth Hormone (HGH) legally. He claims that it was prescribed to him legally through a doctor because of a deficiency of the hormone in his body. Segui played 15 seasons for 8 teams (including the Orioles twice) and hit 139 career home runs in 4,847 at-bats. His season-high in home runs was 21 in 1997.

5. Interleague play continues: Once again, there aren’t many marquee match ups this week, with the possible exception of Pirates-Royals. The Worst Series — the battle for next year’s top draft pick, gets underway Tuesday in Kansas City, with the loser to be assured the bottom of the sportscolumn.com power rankings for the balance of the season. Seriously, there’s just not a lot of exciting games this week, unless you‘re all fired up for the Phillies to get revenge on the Yankees for that 1950 World Series sweep of the Whiz Kids or maybe seeing the Giants get some payback against the Angels by whizzing on the since-fired Rally Monkey for helping the Halos take the 2002 Series. (We put that in there to see if you were paying attention, by the way). In fact, the best of the week might be that odd-man-out, non-interleague series, as the Mets greet the Reds at Shea.