The San Diego Padres lost to the Atlanta Braves by the score of 5-2 on Wednesday night.  The Padres were only able to come up with six hits in the game as they were only able to score two runs off the Braves pitching staff.

Randy Wolf took the loss for the Padres and is now 2-2 on the season.  Wolf pitched six innings and gave up eight hits and five runs.  Wolf had a little bit of control problems as well as he walked four batters.

Joe Thatcher and Cla Meredith pitched the last two innings of the game without giving up a run.

The Padres scored two runs but did not have a RBI in the game as they scored on a balk and on a double play in the game.  Just no production by the offense against Tim Hudson and the Braves pullpen.

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The San Diego Padres outhit the Atlanta Braves 11-9 but lost on the to the Braves 5-3.  The Padrs just couldn’t get that big hit to knock in some runs that they needed very badly.  Padres hitters struck out 12 times while only walking once.

Adrian Gonzalez had two RBI while Tadahito Iguchi had one RBI.

Chris Young only lasted five innings as he gave up nine hits and five runs.  Young was taken deep twice in the game as he got hit hard and often.  Glendon Rusch pitched three innings in relief and pitched good as he did not allow a run to score.

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The San Diego Padres gave up a run in the bottom of the eighth inning and went onto lose 3-2 to the Philadelphia Phillies.  Joe Thatcher gave up a solo home run to Ryan Howard in the the eighth inning that proved to be the game winning hit and run for the Phillies.  Thatcher took the loss which was already his third of the season.

Randy Wolf pitched six innings to start the game and allowed six hits and two runs. Wolf pitched pretty well, it was too bad he couldn’t have pitched farther into the game.  Cla Meredith did get two outs in relief of Wolf before Thatcher came in and gave up the game winning run.

The Padres only two runs came in the first inning when Adrian Gonzalez hit a two-run home run off of Adam Eaton.  After the home run the Padres offense struggled the rest of the night as they only had four other hits in the game.

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