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.
