The San Diego Padres:
9-1-2008
Purchased the contracts of INFMatt Antonelli and LHP Wade LeBlanc from Triple-A Portland. Released INF Tadahito Iguchi and RHP Brett Tomko. Activated RHP Chris Young and LHP Shawn Estes from the 15-day disabled list.
The San Diego Padres lose another as they open a series, being out-slugged by the Rockies 9-4. Nick Hundley hits his 4th homerun of the season, Adrian Gonzalez collected his 93rd RBI of the season and Chase Headley also got his 28th of the season.
The Pitching score card looked like: Drik Hayhurstwent 4 innings giving up 5 hits 4 ER 4 BBs 4 SO and one homer. Bullpen: Brett Tomko and Cla Meredith combined to throw up 3 scoreless innings giving up one hit and one BB and getting one strikeout.
Justin Hampson,Clay Hensley and Brian Falkenborgcombined to throw up 2 innings giving up only 4 hits 5 runs 4 earned 2 BBs 4 SO and one HR.
On Tuesday night The San Diego Padres made it two in-a-row from the 1st place D-Backs. Chad Reineke went 5 innings giving up 2 hits, a two run home run 4 BBs and 4 strikeouts. The Bullpen of the Padres fared pretty well as Clay Hensley, Mike Adams, Brian Falkenborg, Heath Bell and Brett Tomko combined to throw up 4 scoreless innings giving up only one hit 3 BBs and 4 strikeouts.
The hitting was there for the Padres today, Tadahito Iguchi went 1-4 with a run scored and two strikeouts, Nick Hundley went 2-4 with 2 hits and a run scored, Chase Headley went 2-4 with 2 hits and 2 RBIs. Kevin Kouzmanoff went 2-4 with 2 hits a run scored 3 RBIs and one strikeout, while Luis Rodriguez went 1-5 with a hit and a run scored.
Brian Giles went 3-5 with 3 hits,one being a two run shot in the 3rd inning his 10th of the season, one run scored and one more RBI making his total 3 for the day, Jody Gerut went 1-5 with an RBI. Adrian Gonzalez went 1-3 with 3 runs scored one hit and 2 BBs, while brother Edger Gonzalez had a pitch hit appearance going 0-1,Scott Hairston also had a pitch hit appearance going 1-1 with a BB.
Tomorrow’s game the Padres send out Cha Seung Beak(4-8) vs. the last of the three headed monster of Arizona R.Johnson(10-8). Game starts at 12:35pm pt/3:35pm et. NO T.V RADIO: XPRS 1090/105.7 FM , XEMO 860.
On a tough assignment for rookie Chad Reineke of The San Diego Padres, to take on B.Webb of Arizona, and for Reineke taking on probably thNL CY Young award winner this year, with a record of 18-4 and the season is far from over.
Reineke had a line of 6 innings 5 hits 3 runs all earned 3 BBs and 4 SO. The bullpen had a line like this, Brett Tomko and Justin Hampson combined to throw up 2 innings giving up 2 hits one earned run one BB and 4 SO, Hampson faced one batter who fly-ed out.
The only offence was Edger Gonzalez pitch-hit RBI, the Padres lost 4-1.
Tomorrow’s game will highlight Cha Seung Beak(4-8) vs. T.Lincecum(13-3). Game starts at 7:15pm pt/10:15pm pt.
After the day off on Monday, and finding out that one of their own has been shipped out to rival team; The San Diego Padres put up a fight against division leading Diamondbacks, but fall to them 6-7 in the long run.
Josh Banks got toss around in the first inning, with 4 runs 6 in total. Going 4 innings,4 hits 6 runs all earned 7 BBs 3 strikeouts giving up one HR to newly acquired D-Backs A.Dunn with his 33rd of the year. Justin Hampson and Brett Tomko throw-up 3 innings of shutout baseball giving up only one hit 2 BBs and 2 strikeout.
Brian Falkenborg gave up 2 hits one run it was earned, with 2 strikeout in one inning of work. The batting lineup goes like this; Brian Giles went 1-4 with a hit with a RBI and a run scored and one BB and one strikeout. Kevin Kouzmanoff went 2-5 with a run scored and a strikeout, Adrian Gonzalez went 4-5 with 2 RBI and 2 runs scored brother Edger Gonzalez 1-2 with a run scored and a strikeout. Chase Headley went 2-4 with a run scored, one RBI and two strikeouts.
Nick Hundley went 1-3 with a two BBs and a strikeout, Tadahito Iguchi went 1-3 with a RBI and a strikeout. Jody Gerut went 1-1 with a RBI in a pitch-hit appearance, also new comer Sean Kazmar went 2-1 with a sac-fly RBI his first of RBI of his career.
Tomorrow’s game will be Padres ace Jake Peavy(9-8) vs. D.Haren(13-6) game starts at 6:40pm pt/9:40pm et.
The San Diego Padres:
Acquired two players to be named later or cash considerations from the Los Angeles Dodgers in exchange for RHP Greg”Mad Dog”Maddux. Reinstated RHP Brett Tomko from the 15-day disabled list.
Mad Dog Maddux’s line with the Padres:
20-20 4.02 ERA in 60 games started one complete with 351.1 innings pitched 382 hits 172 runs 159 runs earned 30 HR 11 HBP 51 BB 184 SO. Now some may say that is average but in all my years as a Padres fan, I’ve seen pitchers come and go and some having stints as long as 3 years plus and still never pull numbers like that; So as a sad day for Padre fans.
I SAY FAIR WELL GREG”MAD DOG”MADDUX, as this is the last time I get to write about my favorite pitcher, and just FYI to all the Padres fan in Mad Dog’s last 10 starts he was 3-4 with the exception of the St.Louis and Florida where he had to eat a combined total of 15 runs in 13.5 innings because of the bullpen being worked to death.
In 5 out of 10 game(being loses or no decisions) he was given one or less runs for run support.
At this point in time if The San Diego Padres become sellers here are a few key suggestions for good trades too upgrade the team for 09′ and the years to come!
Take the 08′ season to be over as of right now this is what I would do, Trade:
Brian Giles-RF, RHP-Justin Germano and Randy Wolf-LHP trade them to St.Louis for Colby Rasums-CF, Micthell Boggs-RHP AND (AA) C-Matt Pangnozzi.
Greg Maddux, Cla Meredith and Sean Henn LHP (AAA) to the Phillies for Kris Benson and T.J Bohn OF (AAA).
Scott Hairston and Edwin Moreno CL (AAA) to the Dodgers for SS-Parker Dalton and RHP-Robert Blevins (both A).
Then trade Josh Bard, Shawn Estes, Clay Hensley and Cha Seung Beak to Boston for SS-Iggy Suarez (AA) and RHP Kyle Weiland (A).
Trade Tampa Bay RF-Erik Hinske, Jeff Niemann RHP(AAA) and Reid Fronk LF(A) for Jody Gerut and Trevor Hoffman.
The big one being Kevin Kouzmanoff ,Tadahito Iguchi ,Joe Thatcher ,Michael Barrett, Paul McAnulty , Justin Huber ,CL(AA)Greg Burke ,RHP(AA)Gabriel DeHoyos and Jon Schemmel 2B(AA) for Brian Fuentes and Garrett Atkins.
Making the rest of the 08′ and the Padres for 09′ look like this;
Starting Pitching: 1.Jake Peavy 2.C.Y or Joshua Geer until C.Y gets back. 3. K.Benson 4.Josh Banks
5. M.Boggs or J.Geer whom ever steps up for the 5th spot in the rotation.
Bullpen: (CL) B.Fuentes, Heath Bell, Byan Corey, Mike Adams, Justin Hampson, Kevin Cameron and Will Ledezma until Brett Tomko returns from the 15 day-DL
Fielding squad: Luke Carlin or Nick Hudley at catcher, Adrian Gonzales-1B, Edger Gonzales-2B, Khalil Greene-SS, G.Atkins-3B, LF-Chase Headley, CF-Chip Ambres
RF-E.Hinske. Backup’s: OF-C.Rasums and T.J Bohn.INF-Brian Myrow and Louis Rodriguez.
The Batting lineup: 1.C.Ambres 2.Ed.Gonzales 3.G.Atkins 4.A.Gonzales
5. C.Headley 6.E.Hinske 7. K.Greene 8. L.Carlin or N.Hudley.
9. Starting Pitcher.
The San Diego Padres had two big innings on Monday night where they scored five and seven runs to beat the Colorado Rockies 15-8. A five run sixth inning inning and then a huge seven run ninth inning fueld the Padres to the win in Denver as they kicked off a three game series with the Rockies.
Edgar Gonzalez went 4-5 with two home runs and three rbi in the game as he had a great night at the plate. Jody Gerut had a three run home run in the ninth inning and also had a rbi in the sixth inning to finish the game with a team high four rbi. Kevin Kouzmanoff added a solo home run and a rbi single as he had two rbi. Brian Giles, Adrian Gonzalez, Khalil Greene, Michael Barrett, Tony Clark, and Craig Stansberry all chipped in with one rbi each as well.
Heath Bell improved his record to 6-3 as he recorded the win for the Padres after throwing the eighth inning. Brett Tomko pitched a scoreless ninth inning to finish off the Rockies. Greg Maddux had a bad game as he only lasted 4 2/3 innings after giving up eight hits and eight runs. The Rockies hit Maddux hard, and Maddux was lucky that the Padres came back in the game so he didn’t get the loss.
