Adrian Gonzalez went 4-5 with a homerun, two RBI’s, and four runs scored to lead the San Diego Padres past the SanFrancisco Giants by the score of 8-4.  Gonzalez and the Padres jumped all over Giants starter Matt Cain and they never looked back.

Greg Maddux picked up his first win of the season and the 348th career victory.  Maddux pitched seven innings and only allowed three hits and one earned run.  Great performance by Maddux today!

Khalil Greene contributed with three RBI and Jim Edmonds wasn’t too far behind with two RBI.  Nice balanced offense today between Gonzalez, Greene, and Edmonds.

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The San Diego Padres had hardly any offense and the Padres pitchers pitched terrible in the late innings  in a 7-1 loss on Friday night.  The Padres didn’t didn’t how to hit Hiroki Kuroda who was making his first major league start and it showed as the only run they got off of him was a solo homerun by Brian Giles.

Joe Thatcher picked up the loss for the Padres as he allowed four earned runs in the seventh inning when Dodgers scored six runs in the inning.  Glendon Rusch didn’t help out either as he was accounted for two earned runs.

You can sum it all up in the seventh inning pretty much.  Had Thatcher got the Padres through the inning without giving up any runs, the Padres would have had a good shot at winning the game.  Now they will try to even the series up on Saturday.

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The San Diego Padres beat the Houston Astros on Thursday to improve their record to 3-1 on the young season.  It was a two run homerun by Kevin Kouzmanoff that was the big hit of the ballgame.   When Kouzmanoff hit his homerun, it gave the Padres a one run lead in the first inning.

The Astros did battle back to tie up the ballgame in the 7th inning, Tadahito Iguchi singled in Scott Hairston for the go ahead and winning run.

Randy Wolf pitched six strong innings for the Padres.  He only allowed four hits, one earned run, and had five strikeouts.

Trevor Hoffman was able to secure his second save of the season.  It was nice to see after he blew the save on Wednesday.