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AUGUST 16, 2017

Lincecum gets 2,000
Strummers' star notches 2,000th career strikeout

SACRAMENTO -- They said he wouldn't last.

At 5'10", 148 pounds and with an unorthodox delivery, critics of Tim Lincecum said the star righthander would break down at some point. Too much torque on that frame.

And here he sits, in his ninth season since being taken in the inaugural draft. He has never been on the disabled list, making more than 32 starts each season, and topping 200 innings each season as well. And tonight, he reached a mark only Wichita's Rube Waddell reached before him.

With one out in the fifth inning of a game Memphis would ultimately lose 3-2, Lincecum struck out Don Buford on a knee-buckling curveball to pick up the 2,000th strikeout of his career.

"It seems a lot of these marks me and others have reached this season have come in losses," Lincecum noted wryly after the game. "I'm proud of what I've done, but we're not where we want to be be as a team, and that's what matters."

Lincecum fell to 10-10 with a 3.19 ERA for Memphis, which is in last place in the Southern League East, 14 games out.

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