4/17 Colorado 4, Atlanta 0

Last night I was in attendance at Turner Field for Ubaldo Jimenez's no hitter. At the time I was pretty annoyed, but looking back I'm thrilled to have seen it. The guy was absolutely untouchable, and I really can't blame the Braves for it. Jimenez was "effectively wild," walking several batters and throwing about 125 pitches in the no-no.

So give Jimenez all of the credit for pitching an absolute beauty, but the Braves still made some key mistakes.

In my opinion, the game started going down hill when Kawakami bunted into a fielder's choice when the sacrifice would have been huge. Later in the inning, he got picked off second with Chipper up when the extra step just wouldn't have done him any good. This ended the inning and should have been a key opportunity for the Braves. Kawakami didn't pitch all that well either, leaving several pitches up in the zone. He told reporters after the game that he just didn't have his stuff early on.

Troy Glaus struck out in a key RBI opportunity, too. It's time for him to either prove that he belongs in the four spot or be moved down. He seems to kill a whole lot of rallies. Maybe Glaus was a good pick up, but I don't think that he's the answer to the offensive issues. After he had a 27 at bat campaign in 2009, we expect him to be a viable clean up hitter?

It was fun to see a no hitter, though, and it was great to be able to go to a game with my girlfriend Tiffany. We had a lot of fun together and she keeps me from getting too upset about everything that goes wrong. I'm afraid that maybe we caused the no hitter by showing up late.