Touch 'Em All: Millwood contributes to Mariners' no-hitter

So let me get this straight. The Dodgers came into Citizens Bank Park last week and tuned up the Phillies' vaunted pitching for a four-game sweep. Then they play a real team and get no-hit?

Our old friend Kevin Millwood no-hit the NL front-runners through six innings on Friday night before leaving with a groin injury. A stream of Seattle relievers continued to hold the Dodgers in check until Tom Wilhelmsen closed out a 1-0 win over Los Angeles for his third save.

That was the fourth no-hitter thrown this season and we're far from the half-way point. Since 1900 the most no-nos in a season has been seven, in both 1990 and 1991.

With the fourth pick in last week's draft, the Orioles took LSU righthander Kevin Gausman, who has a sickening in-game routine.

Between innings, he likes to eat four powdered mini-doughnuts. In other words, if he goes out to pitch the ninth, he'll already have snarfed up thirty-two doughnuts. Even I might have trouble doing that.

"I've always been a little weird," said Gausman, who also likes sci-fi moves.

This guy's in the wrong job. He should have been a sportswriter. Or a cop.

Speaking of eating disorders, Pablo Sandoval insists he'll get back to his rigorous fitness routine now that he's back with San Francisco, and he doesn't give a hoot about what the general public thinks of his waist size.

"It's important what I think, what they think: my coach, my trainers," said Sandoval, who "trimmed" down from 280 to 240 a couple of years ago. "If they think I should lose weight, I'm going to lose it."

An extra pound or 40 may be the lesser of Sandoval's problems. He was partying in Santa Cruz the night before he was to begin a rehab assignment and wound up getting hit with a sexual- assault charge.

He declined to discuss the case.

Houston took Puerto Rican shortstop Carlos Correa with the top overall pick. Only 17, he looks special - a great athlete who also was

No. 1 in his high school class, scored 1,560 on his SAT exam, and taught himself English.

Texas slugger Josh Hamilton, the leading vote-getter in the all-star fan balloting, has declined to participate in the Home Run Derby, saying the contest wore him out in 2008 and damaged his swing.