On Monday The San Diego Padrestried to start a series off on the right foot, it was a tight fight that the padres ended up winning. In the first they scored two with one being a Bro-BI by Adrian Gonzales scoring brother Edger Gonzales, then Kevin Kouzmanoff scored Brian Giles on a sacrifice fly.

The Reds responded with a solo homer by E.Encarnacion in the bottom of the 2ND inning, then again in the 3rd inning with a RBI single by J.Bruce. Also in the 6th inning Ken Griffey Jr. hit a two run bomb making it  4to2.

The next inning the padres responded with a solo homer by Scott Hairston making it 4-3 reds, and the reds never came back with a answer from the padres scoring after that. In the ninth inning the padres secured it with a B.Giles fielder’s choice scoring S.Hairston, then a two RBI double by K.Kouzmanoff scoring both Gonzales brothers.

Josh Banks went 5 and two thirds innings giving up 7 hits 4 runs all earned, Joe Thatcher finished out the inning for banks with a third of an inning with a strikeout. Also again another bright note, Clay Hensley went two scoreless innings with a BB and a strikeout, plus Trevor Hoffman got his 18th save of the year but not with out making us sweat it out giving up 4 hits, two strikeouts on a full inning.

For today’s Game the Padres have star aceJake Peavy(7-6) vs Cueto(can find first name7-9) at same time again today 4:10pm pt. Let hope for the same result but maybe better!

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.

On the first game back from the All-Star Break The San Diego Padres lose a close one as Jake Peavygets toss around as he gave up back-to-back jacks the 4th inning by R.Ankiel and T.Glaus had two the day,

one more too J.Mather in the 7th inning. All-n-All he still didn’t do to bad with a line of 7 IP on 8 hits 4 runs all earned by HR 7 strikeouts and 0 BB. Mike Adamspitched a scoreless 8th inning only giving up one hit and got one strikeout.

Offensively they didn’t could not get it done scoring 3 runs on 9 hits with 6 left on base. The Highlights of the offence were as followed. Edger Gonzales had 2 runs 2 hit 1 RBI and 2 strikeouts,

brother Adrian Gonzales had 2 hit 1 BB 1strikeout, while Kevin Kouzmanoff had 1 run 2 hits 1 RBI 1BB 1 strikeout, Chase Headley had 1 hit 1 RBI, And don’t forget about Jake Peavywith 2 hits. They really do need to found away to get more run support for pitchers or no one will want to take the mound for us.

On another note Tony Clark was traded too The Arizona Diamondbacks for Minor League RHP Evan ScribnerI kind of thought they went in wrong direction on this one, there were a lot better talent in their farm league like C Sean Coughlin with 10 HR 58 RBI 38/39 BB/SO ratio OBP .367/SLG.489/AVG.262/OPS.856 or there’s

RF Derrick Walkerhitting a line of 7 HR 40 RBI 37/83 BB/SO ratio with 6 SB and OBP.366/SLG.414/AVG.249/OPS.780 either one of those would have been worth it,both play with The South Bend Silver Hawks(A). By the way I can’t seem to find stats on E.Scribner, maybe it was a phantom trade just to get ride of Tony C. well if they were going to do that could they at least phantom trade him to the AL, not within our division!

Over 40 thousand plus were on hand to watch some Classic Baseball played by The Padres. Jake Peavy moved his record to a respectable 7-5,with a solid 7 innings pitched on only 4 hits, 0 earned and 7 strikeouts. A good bid too get into the All-Star Game on. Also Hoffman got his 17 save of the year on one strikeout. Heath Bell gave up two hits and but neither sored,also has a strikeout. Mike Adams appeared two thirds of an inning and gave up 2 hits then was removed for Bell. It was also The Padres 5 shutout of the year. 

Offensively The Padres looked good,better than they have been scoring 4 runs on 9 hit. Scott Hairston had 2 runs and 2 hits(2B and 3B). While the Gonzales boys gave us something to cheer about Edgar 2 hit and RBI, as Adrian had 2 hits one run and RBI. Chase Headley had 2 hits an strikeout, Jody Gerut had The Brave killing RBI in the bottom of the sixth. All-in-All it was a good classic game ,I was impressed by the towels and am glad too see The Padres win the first game in the series that is important when you play a team like the Braves. Lets continue doing so tomorrow!

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

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.

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Jake Peavy was back on the mound for the San Diego Padres and everything went great as the Padres crused the Los Angeles Dodgers 9-0 on Thursday afternoon.  Peavy was on a pitch count so he only pitched the first seven innings of the game but he was pretty dominated as he only gave up three hits and struckout four batters.

Justin Hampson, Bryan Corey, and Mike Adams pitched the final three innings of the game and only gave up two combined hits.  Great job by the pullpen in finishing up the game.

At the plate, the Padres jumped all over the Dodgers with five runs in the first inning.  Brian Giles had a three run home run, Adrian Gonzalez a rbi single, and then Luke Carlin had a rbi ground out.  That all happened in the first inning!

The Padres just kept adding on runs as Carlin had a bases loaded walk in the third inning.  A. Gonzalez then had a rbi single in the seventh inning before Craig Stansberry singled in a run in the eight inning.  The Padres weren’t done yet though, Jody Gerut also had a rbi single in the ninth inning!

Talk about great pitching and great hitting up and down the lineup.  That is a butt kicking no matter which way you look at it!

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The San Diego Padres and Chicago Cubs played in a high scoring game on Wednesday night but it was the Cubs that came out on top with a 8-5 victory.  The Cubbies scored early and often against Jake Peavy as he was knocked out of the game after only four innings of action.

Peavy took the loss as he pitched four innings and gave up seven hits and four runs.  Peavy got his pitch count up high early in the game as he was at around 50 pitches after the second inning.  The Cubs just hit him hard and often tonight.

Peavy wasn’t the only Padres pitcher that was hit hard however.  Wilfredo Ledezma gave up five this and three runs while Bryan Corey gave up two hits and one run.

Tadahito Iguchi led the Padres with two rbi and Khalil Greene had one rbi in the game.  The Padres did load the bases in the ninth inning off of Kerry Wood, but were on able to score one run as Brian Giles flied out to left field to end the game.

It just seemed like anytime the Padres scored a run to get closer, the Cubs would come back and score two more runs in the bottom of the inning.  The Padres will try to get a sweep in the series as the two teams play on Thursday.

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The San Diego Padres battled back with four runs in the eigth inning but quickly gave those four runs right back as the Houston Astros went onto beat the Padres 11-7.

Starting pitcher Jake Peavy gave up four earned runs which was how many he had given up in his previous four starts.  Peavy pitched six innings and allowed seven hits and four earned runs.  Not the typical Peavy performance that Padres fans are used to seeing.

Joe Thatcher and Glendon Rusch pitched the seventh inning as Thatcher gave up three earned runs.  Heath Bell threw the ninth inning and allowed four more runs to cross the plate.  Bell took the loss for the Astros and is now 0-2 on the season.

The Padres were led by Adrian Gonzalez and Paul McAnulty at the plate who both hit home runs.  Gonzalez hit a three run home run in the sixth inning and McAnulty had a two run home run in the eigth inning.  Gonzalez had three RBI, McAnulty had two RBI, while Brian Giles and Khalil Greene both had one RBI.

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The San Diego Padres felt like crap after playing 22 innings and losing to the Colorado Rockies by the score of 2-1.  The Padres used seven different pitchers and it was Glendon Rusch who took the loss for the Padres when the Rockies scored a run in the 22nd inning.

Josh Bard was the only Padres player to record an RBI in the game which came in the 14th inning.

Jake Peavy had pitched eight innings and only gave up four hits, he just didnt’ have any run support.

It sucks to have played 22 innings and come away with the loss, it will be interesting to see how the Padres bounce back or if this game will slow them down for a couple of games.

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