The San Diego Padres:
Optioned RHP Josh Banks to Triple-A Portland. Reinstated RHP Bryan Corey from the 15-day disabled list and outrighted him to Portland.
The San Diego Padres transactions for 8-12-2008:
Placed RHP Bryan Corey on the 15-day disabled list, retroactive to Aug. 10 with a strained left hamstring. Purchased the contract of INF Sean Kazmar from Double-A San Antonio.
On the Saturday night game in San Diego most of The San Diego Padres fans were preparing for the Chargers Pre-Season Game vs. Dallas, but for those who where flipping back n’ forth they saw a very good pitched game by “Greg Mad Dog Maddux” the 3rd straight that the rest of the Padres lineup back him scoring wise. He went six innings giving up 6 hits 2 runs both earned one BB 4 strikeouts and gave up one home run; very solid again, I hope he get his shot at winning at least 10 games this year making it 20 years with least 10 or more games won.
Bullpen Notes: Mike Adams, Clay Hensley, Heath Bell, Cla Meredith and Trevor Hoffman combined to throw up 3 scoreless innings one hit 3 BB and 2 strikeouts, and Hoffman getting his 25th save of the year. On a bad Bullpen note: Bryan Corey gave up 2 hits and one run scored it was earned and got no one out.
The bats came alive in the sixth after being tied 1-1 the Padres put together a series of hits that scored them 5 runs. Adrian Gonzalez went 2-5 with his 28th homer of the year also had another hit with an RBI and two runs scored; Luis Rodriguez went 3-5 with two runs scored and a strikeout. Kevin Kouzmanoff also went 3-5 two runs scored and an RBI with one strikeout.
Chase Headley went 2-5 with a run scored and two RBIs plus a strikeout.
Nick Hundley went 1-4 with a run scored and two RBIs and two strikeout, and good ole’ Mad Dog went 1-3 with a RBI bunt single in the sixth too keep the rally alive, as usual Maddux helping his own case for a win. Brian Giles went 0-5 with a strikeout, 3 ground-outs and a pop-up.
Tomorrow’s game will be Chris Young (4-4) vs. L.Hernandez (10-8) at 12:05pm pt/1:05pm ct/3:05 pm ET. TV: 4SD/704-HD | RADIO: XPRS 1090/105.7 FM, XEMO 860
For the second game in a row The San Diego Padres get out dueled by The St. Louis Cardinals, 7-11 the cardinals starting the series off strong as they hit two home runs adding too a total of six in the series so far. the padres used a total of six pitchers in the game as the cardinals used the same amount. Greg Madduxwent 4 innings giving up 8 hits 6 runs all earned one walk 4 strikeouts and gave up one home run.
Bryan Corey, Cla Meredith and Mike Adamscombined to throw 2 one third innings scoreless only allowing 3 hits while getting 3 strikeouts. Joe Thatcher allowed one HR and one hit on two and third innings pitched, in a rare outing Heath Bell gave up 4 run on 4 hits all earned walked 2 strikeout 2 and earned the loss on one inning pitched.
The bats where out tonight they just were out swung by the cardinal. Khalil Greene andJody Gerut both homered, Edger Gonzales was 2-4 with 2 hits and a run also one strikeout brother Adrian Gonzales had a hit and an RBI. Brain Giles was 3-4 with RBI and one run scored, Kevin Kouzmanoff and Chase Headleycombined to hit a 1 for 9 with one hit and one RBI and 4 strikeouts, G.Maddux went 1-1 with a run scored.
It was a good tight Baseball game like game are supposed to be, unfortunately the padres came out on the losing end of it, maybe with tomorrow’s game being on FOX (some prime-time) they will find away to pull one off in this series, the starter being Randy Wolf(6-9) vs T.Wellemeyer(7-4) game starts at 12:55 pt.
The San Diego Padres lost to the Florida Marlins by the score of 5-2 on Wednesday afternoon as the two teams finished up their three game series. The Padres lost two out of three games against the Marlins as they just didn’t play very good baseball the past three days.
Cha Seung Baek took the loss and is now 2-4 after throwing give innings and allowing six hits and three runs. Bryan Corey gave up two big runs in the ninth inning as well which really hurt the team because that pretty much put the game out of reach. Mike Adams, Heath Bell, and Joe Thatcher all threw out of the pen without allowing runs score.
Scott Hairston stayed hot as he had a solo home run in the sixth inning. The Padres then pushed across another run in the ninth inning on a Chase Headley rbi single but that was all they could get.
In the end, it was a dissappointing series for the Padres. They will now be off on Thursday and welcome the Atlanta Braves in for a three game series starting on Friday.
The San Diego Padres lost to the Colorado Rockies by the score of 6-1 on Wednesday night as they finished up a three game series in Denver. The Padres dropped two of there games to the Rockies and are now 33-52 in a dissapointing season.
Randy Wolf gave up six hits and seven runs in only four innings of action to take the loss for the Padres. Wolf is now 5-8 on the season and tonight’s game definately won’t help out his stock in a trade. Bryan Corey pitched two scoreless innings while Mike Adams and Carlos Guevara both tossed a inning each without giving up a run.
Chase Headley had the only run for the Padres as he hit a solo home run off Ubaldo Jimenez in the the second inning. The Padres struck out five times and left 16 runners on base as they struggled at the plate in the thin air of Denver.
The Padres will now be off on Thursday before starting a weekend series with the Arizona Diamondbacks on Friday.
The San Diego Padres ran into a hot playing Minnesota Twins team and lost 4-3 on Thursday afternoon. With the 4-3 loss the Padres were swept away in the series and are now 32-48 on the season. The Padres just can’t come up with the big hit and get the runs that they need to to win some of these close games.
Josh Banks piched 5 1/3 innings and gave up seven hits and four runs to take the loss. Banks is now 2-2 on the season. Bryan Corey, Justin Hampson, and Cla Meredith all did a great job pitching in relief of Banks. The three relief pitchers did not allow one run to cross the plate and atleast kept the Padres in the game.
The Padres just couldn’t get the big hit that they needed to late in the game. We sure have been seeing that a lot from the Padres hitters. Khalil Greene hit his eighth home run of the season in the second inning to put the Padres up 1-0. In the third inning, Brian Giles had a rbi sac fly and then Jody Gerut later scored on an error to put the Padres up 3-0. Too bad that they couldn’t hold onto that lead as the Twins came back with four unanswered runs in the game to pull out the win.
The Padres will now play the Seattle Mariners this weekend in a three game series.
Wow, that wasn’t what you usually see out of Trevor Hoffman in the ninth inning. Hoffman gave up back to back home runs to Brendan Harris and Brian Buscher and the Minnesota Twins defeated the Padres 3-1. Tough loss for the Padres and you can only hope that they will bounce back from this and pick up a victory over the Twins on Wednesday.
Hoffman is now 1-5 after taking the loss in the game. Padres starting pitcher Jake Peavy pitched six inning and allowed five hits and one run. Peavy struck out six Twins batters and only walked one. Bryan Corey pitched the seventh inning and Heath Bell pitched the eighth inning without getting into to much trouble.
Chase Headley had the only rbi for the Padres. Headley grounded out in the seventh inning and Adrian Gonzalez scored. The Padres struck out nine times and left 11 runners on base. No wonder why they didn’t win this close ballgame. They could never get a rally going and knock in that one or two runs like they should have.
The Padres will now try to even the series up on Wednesday. I like their chances as Greg Maddux will take the mound. Padres Blog
The San Diego Padres suffered a 2-1 loss to the New York Yankees on Thursday afternoon. With the 2-1 loss, the Padres were swept in the three game series. It was definately now how the Padres wanted things to go but they ran into a red hot Yankees team and couldn’t pull out any wins.
Josh Banks took the loss for the Padrs even though he didn’t pitch that badly. Banks threw 5 1/3 innings and gave up four hits and two runs. The Padres bullpen did a pretty good job holding the Yankees scoreless for the rest of the game however. Justin Hampson, Bryan Corey, and Heath Bell all did a good job.
Tony Clark had the only rbi for the Padres which came in the fourth inning. Clark hit a ground rule double that score Brian Giles. Other then that, the Padres only had four other hits in the game against Joba Chamberlain and the rest of the Yankees pitchers.
The Padres will try to turn things around against the Detroit Tigers this weekend. Padres Blog
Jake Peavy was making his return to the starting rotation and things didn’t go as planned as the San Diego Padres lost to the New York Yankees 8-5. Peavy only pitched four innings before being pulled. He allowed six hits and four runs (three earned), while striking out four batters and giving up one home run.
All three Padre relief pitchers also gave up runs however so all the blame can’t be put on Peavy for this loss. Bryan Corey and Cla Meredith both gave up one run while Justin Hampson gave up two runs. Not going to win most games especially against the Yankees when your bullpen gives up four runs.
Brian Giles, Adrian Gonzalez, and Chase Headley all hit solo home runs in the game for the Padres. The other two runs which came in the third inning came off the bat of Edgar Gonzalez who had a two run double to deep left center field.
The Padres will now try to avoid the sweep on Thursday. It will be hard to do because the Yankees are playing some pretty good baseball right now.
