The San Diego Padres put a big whooping on the Florida Marlins Tuesday night as they tied the series up at 1-1 with a 10-1 victory.  It was a good game all the way around for the Padres as they hammered the Marlins pitching staff and got some good pitching from their own pitchers.

The Padres got all over the Marlins starting pitcher Andrew Miller for four runs and then hammered the bullpen for six more runs.  Chase Headley lead the team with four rbi while Scott Hairston had a three run home run to finish with three rbi.  Luis Rodriguez, Nick Hundley, and Brian Myrow all chipped in with one rbi each as well.

Randy Wolf pitched seven innings while giving up five hits and one run to pick up the win.  Wolf’s only mistake in the game came in the first inning when he gave up a solo home run to Jeremy Hermida.  Wolf is now 6-8 on the season with a 4.38 era.

Joe Thatcher pitched the eighth inning and then Cla Meredith pitched a scoreless ninth inning to finish off the Marlins.

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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.

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The San Diego Padres were shutout by the New York Yankees on Tuesday night by the score of 8-0.  The Padres simply couldn’t get the bats going even though they had seven hits in the game.  Combine that with three errors and two home runs for the Yankees and you can see why the Padres lost the game.

Randy Wolf gave up all seven runs in the first four innings of the game.  He gave up two home runs to Jason Giambi and one home run to Alex Rodriguez.  Wolf is now 5-5 on the season after taking the loss.

Mike Adams tossed two innings of relief after Wolf left the game and then Carlos Guevara came in to pitch the final two innings of the game and allowed one run.

Chase Headley did have two hits for the Padres at the plate but everyone else either had one hit or went hitless in the game.

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Randy Wolf and two relief pitchers limited the Los Angeles Dodgers to only five hits on Wednesday night as the San Diego Padres defeated the Dodgers 4-1.  Wolf pitched the first seven innings of the game and only gave up four hits and one run.  The one run came on a home run by Andy LaRoche in the fourth inning.

Wolf did a great job keeping the Dodgers off balanced as he struckout nine batters and only walked one in his seven innings of action.  Heath Bell pitched scoreless eight inning before he turned things over to Trevor Hoffman in the ninth inning who gave up on hit but recorded his 15th save of the season.

Edgar Gonzalez hit his first home run of the season in the first inning to get the Padres on the scoreboard.  Khalil Greene then hit a solo home run in the second inning to give the Padres a 2-0 lead.  In the third inning it was a Adrian Gonzalez rbi single that put the Padres up 3-0 and then in the seventh inning Jody Gerut had a rbi single for the fourth run of the game.  It was a balanced scoring effort by the Padres at the plate, and that is always great to see.

The Padres will play the Dodgers once more and it will be the rubber game of the series. The game will be Thursday afternoon, so get out to the ball park if you can and enjoy a great afternoon of Padres baseball!

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In the first of a three game series against the visiting Washington Nationals, Randy Wolf put together yet another solid outing.  Wolf was hit hard in the first inning, giving up a two run home run to Aaron Boone.  Wolf was able to settle down after that and throw 5 scoreless innings, striking out five and not allowing a walk.

At the plate, the Padres hitters were patient.  Nationals starter Shawn Hill walked three consecutive Padres in the 3rd inning, loading the bases for Michael Barrett.  Barrett singled, driving in two runs to tie the game at two.

The game would stay tied until the 7th inning when Adrian Gonzalez came up to bat.  Gonzalez hit an opposite field home run (15) off Lefty Charlie Manning.  Kevin Kouzmanoff would follow that hitting a first pitch fast ball out of left field giving the Friars a 4-2 lead.

Heath Bell threw a scoreless 1 1/3 innings and held the lead for future Hall of Famer Trevor Hoffman.  Trevor had no problem with the National hitters, sitting them down one, two, three for his 10th save of the season and 534th career save. 

*As a note after the game, Channel 4 reported that Padres pitcher Jared Wells was traded to Seattle for pitcher Cha Seung Baek.

The San Diego Padres got off to a good start in a four game series against the Cincinnati Reds as they beat them 8-2 on Monday night.  The Padres got a great starting pitching performance out of Randy Wolf and then two home runs from Khalil Greene in the game.

Wolf tossed seven good innings to pick up the win and improve to 3-4 on the season.  Wolf only allowed four hits and two runs in the game.  Both runs came in the first inning when he made a mistake pitch to Ken Griffey Jr. who hit a two run home run.  Other then that, Wolf was pretty damn good on Thursday night!

Mike Adams came in and pitched the final two innings of the game and only allowed one hit.  Good job by Adams for getting the job done in the late innings.

Greene led the Padres at the plate with two home runs and two rbi.  Adrian Gonzalez and Kevin Kouzmanoff also had two rbi each in the game.  Gonzalez’s rbi’s came on a two run home run.  Brian Giles and Wolf both had one rbi as there was a lot if production up and down the Padres lineup against the Reds.

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The San Diego Padres lost anything they had in the game tonight against the Chicago Cubs when they allowed six runs in the sixth inning and and then five more in the seventh inning.

The blowout happend in the sixth inning when the Cubs scored the six runs.  Kevin Kouzmanoff had a huge error in the game that allowed three runs in the game.  After that the floodgates just opened for the Cubs.

Randy Wolf dropped to 2-3 on the season as he only pitched four inning after allowing eight hits and seven runs.  Wolf walked five runs while giving up one home run in the game.

Sean Henn threw 1 2/3 innings and gave up three hits and five runs.  Only two of those five runs were earned, but still they were runs that crossed the plate.  Justin Germano tossed 2 1/3 innings of scoreless baseball to finish out the game.

Jody Gerut had a solo home run in the game for the one big hit for the Padres.  Tadahito Iguchi and Adrian Gonzalez’s little brother both had a rbi in the game.  It was the little brothers first major league hit as he was just called up.

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The San Diego Padres lost to the Atlanta Braves by the score of 5-2 on Wednesday night.  The Padres were only able to come up with six hits in the game as they were only able to score two runs off the Braves pitching staff.

Randy Wolf took the loss for the Padres and is now 2-2 on the season.  Wolf pitched six innings and gave up eight hits and five runs.  Wolf had a little bit of control problems as well as he walked four batters.

Joe Thatcher and Cla Meredith pitched the last two innings of the game without giving up a run.

The Padres scored two runs but did not have a RBI in the game as they scored on a balk and on a double play in the game.  Just no production by the offense against Tim Hudson and the Braves pullpen.

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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 beat the Arizona Diamondbacks 9-4 on Sunday putting the Padres at 9-10 for the season.  The Padres aren’t doing as good as they could be doing but this was a big win and gets them back on the right track after a four game losing streak headed into Sunday’s game.

Randy Wolf opened up the night pitching for the Padres pitching for six and a third innings giving up six hits and four runs to the Diamondbacks.  Wolf picked up the win which was his second of the season.  Cla Meredith, Heath Bell, and Glendon Rusch were all brought in to pitch in relief.

Justin Huber hit his first home run of the year and picked up three RBI.  Scott Hairston had two RBI, while Adrian Gonzalez, Callix Crabbe, and Khalil Greene all drove in one RBI.

The Padres will now travel to Houston to take on the Astros Monday night to start a two game series.

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