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.