Today The San Diego Padres pulled one off against the Pirates 6-5. Offensively the padres hit, Brian Giles got two runs two hits, Khalil Greene went 1-1 on a double.Kevin Kouzmanoff went 2-4 2 hits an RBI and a run scored also a strikeout, Adrian Gonzaleshad a two run home run and two runs scored with a IBB. AlsoChase Headley had two hits an RBI and one runs scored but with two strikeouts, and in the return of Josh Bard he went 2-4 with two RBIs, and Cha Seung Beakhad a hit and a strikeout.

Pitching wise C.S.Beak went five and one third innings giving up 7 hits 4 runs all earned one walked batter three strikeouts and gave up two HR. Mike Adams went one and two thirds innings scoreless gave up only two hits, Heath Bell went one inning giving up two hits one run it was earned one walk one strikeout. Trevor Hoffman had a scoreless bottom of the ninth looking like his old self collecting his 19th save of the year.

Today game wasn’t on T.V but tomorrow’s game should be with Josh Banks(2-4) vs Van Benschoten(1-2) 4:05pm pt/ 7:05pm et. 4SD/704-HD | RADIO: XPRS 1090/105.7  FM , XEMO 860.

7/24/2008:

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Reinstated C Josh Bard from the 15-day disabled list; Recalled LHP Justin Hampson from Triple-A Portland; Optioned C Luke Carlin and LHP Joe Thatcher to Portland.

7/23/2008:

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Purchased the contract of LHP Wilfredo Ledezma from Triple-A Portland

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 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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The San Diego Padres have signed catcher Josh Bard to a one year contract worth $2.2 million dollars.  Bard will more then likely be the everyday catcher for the Padres and deserved the pay raise.  He was hoping to get $2.5 million through salary arbitration, but had to settle with $2.2 million as the Padres met him halfway between his asking price, and what they wanted to pay him.

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