The San Diego Padres gave up a run in the bottom of the eighth inning and went onto lose 3-2 to the Philadelphia Phillies.  Joe Thatcher gave up a solo home run to Ryan Howard in the the eighth inning that proved to be the game winning hit and run for the Phillies.  Thatcher took the loss which was already his third of the season.

Randy Wolf pitched six innings to start the game and allowed six hits and two runs. Wolf pitched pretty well, it was too bad he couldn’t have pitched farther into the game.  Cla Meredith did get two outs in relief of Wolf before Thatcher came in and gave up the game winning run.

The Padres only two runs came in the first inning when Adrian Gonzalez hit a two-run home run off of Adam Eaton.  After the home run the Padres offense struggled the rest of the night as they only had four other hits in the game.

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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 lost Tuesday night to the San Francisco Giants in 11 innings.  Bengie Molina hit a game winning homerun off of Cla Meredith in the 11th inning as the Giants beat the Padres 3-2.  It was Molina’s second homerun of the game.

Padres starting pitcher Randy Wolf didn’t pitch too badly.  Wolf pitched six innings and gave up five hits and two earned runs.  Joe Thatcher and Heath Bell both pitched two innings without allowing a run.  Merideth was the one out of the bullpen to give up the one run, that cost them the ballgame.

The Padres didn’t have much offense on Tuesday night as well.  Khalil Green hit a into a fielder choice in the 6th inning that scored Adrian Gonzalez and Brian Giles hit a sac fly in the ninth inning that scored Colt Morton that tied the game to send it into extra innings.

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.

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