Dear ESPN

[yendi]

From ESPN's summary of the Braves/Phillies game:

Marlon Byrd looped a single to right field to end Hampton's no-hit bid after 7 1-3 innings. Placido Polanco's two-run single off Smoltz tied it.
Then in the ninth, Smoltz (0-1) blew just his second save in 28 opportunities.

I'm sorry, but putting an article with these two sentences on a sports site is about as bad as posting the most recent Laurell K. Hamilton book on a site devoted to good grammar.

If Smoltz allowed the tying run to score in the eighth, as is stated in the first sentence, he already blew the save. What happened in the ninth is that he got a loss.

Not knowing the difference between a loss and a save is, for a baseball writer, functional illiteracy.

The article is here. I'd like to think someone will correct it soon.