Article:Looking at the Stats May 2nd

Hitting
Chipper Jones  is still leading the NL in hitting with a .410 average with a former Brave Rafael Furcal  second with a .371 average. With 43 hits already this may be the first time Furcal gets 200 hits in a season.His 43 hits leads the majors. He has had 194 and 196 in the past. Furcal is 4th in the majors in extra base hits with 17 while his former teammate Andruw Jones  has 5. Furcal also leads the Dodgers in slugging with a .586 percentage. Furcal is tied for major league lead in doubles with 12.

Chase Utley  leads in home runs with 11 with five other National Leaguers tied with 8 each. Joe Crede  and Carlos Quentin  of the White Sox are next with 7.... Josh Hamilton  leads in RBI's with 32 with Emil Brown, Xavier Nady  and Pat Burrell  next with 26. Utley also leads the majors in total bases with 86 with Derrek Lee  next with 76.

Albert Pujols  leads in walks with 30.... Ryan Howard  leads in strikeouts with 39 with Mark Reynolds  next with 38. Michael Bourn  leads in stolen bases with 13 with Carlos Gomez  and Willy Taveras  next with 11. Pujols also leads in on base percentage with a .523 mark with Furcal second with a .459 percentage.... Chase Utley  leads in slugging with a .748 percentage. Curtis Granderson  has a .793 percentage but only has 29 at bats. Chipper Jones  is second with a .690 slugging percentage.

Pitching
Brandon Webb  leads in wins with 6 with four pitchers tied with 5 each.... Barry Zito  leads in losses with 6 with Matt Chico  and Jason Jennings  trying to catch up with 5 each.... Cliff Lee  is leading in ERA among pitchers with at least 30 innings with 0.96 mark and Zack Greinke  is next with a 1.47 mark.... Roy Halladay  leads in complete games with 4 with 16 pitchers tied with one each....Only Cliff Lee, Vicente Padilla, James Shields, Andy Sonnanstine  and Ben Sheets  have pitched shutouts this season.

Francisco Rodriguez  leads in saves with 11 with George Sherrill  next with 10.... Joe Blanton  leads in hits allowed with 58 and Kevin Millwood  is next with 53.... C.C. Sabathia  leads in earned runs allowed with 28 in 32 innings while second place Gil Meche  has allowed 27 earned runs in 33 innings.... Brett Myers  leads in home runs allowed with 10 with Jason Jennings  next with 8 home runs allowed.

Tom Gorzelanny  leads in walks with 27 in 27 innings. It was a very important game to win for the Diamondbacks with the Dodgers winning their last five games and if Diamondbacks would have lost yesterday the Dodgers would be 4 1/2 games out of first in NL West. Fausto Carmona  is second with 26 walks in 34 innings.... Aaron Harang  and Felix Hernandez  lead in strikeouts with 41 each. Tim Lincecum, Jonathan Sanchez  and Chad Billingsley  are second with 40 each.... Ben Sheets  and Cliff Lee  have allowed the lowest batting average by an opponent with .150 and .151 averages respectively.

Max Scherzer  recently called up the Diamondbacks has struck out an average of 14.54 batters per nine innings but doesn't qualify. Chad Billingsley  leads all pitchers with batters facing them at least 100 times with 13.01 strikeouts per nine innings. John Smoltz  is next with 12 strikeouts per nine innings.

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