The San Diego Padres Transactions:
10-2-2008:
Activated SS Khalil Greene and OF Scott Hariston from the 15-day disabled list.
10-6-2008:
Sent C Luke Carlin and SS Sean Kazmar outright to Triple-A Portland. C Josh Bard and LHP Shawn Estes cleared waivers and have elected to become free agents.
Other involving the Padres:
Toronto Blue Jays
Claimed RHP Dirk Hayhurst off waivers from the San Diego Padres

The San Diego Padres scoreboard for 9-7-08 - 9-16-08:

9/7/08: Padres 10, Brewers 1, Chris Young nearly a perfect game get the win.Moving him to 5-5 on the year.

9/8/08:Padres  4, Dodgers 0, Cha Seung Beak get the win, moving to 5-10 on the year.

9/9/08:Dodgers 2, Padres 6, with Heath Bell blowing the save and picking up the the loss.

9/10/08:Dodgers 7, Padres 2, with Shawn Estes gaining the win, making him 2-2 on the year.

9/11/08:Padres 11, Giants 3, with Josh Geer collecting his second win in 3 starts.Plus Adrian Gonzalez hit two homer and brother Edger Gonzalez hit a pitch-hit home run, and Drew Macias hit his first of his career. 

9/12/08:Giants 5, Padres 2, with Jake Peavy collecting his 11th loss of the season,making him 9-11.

9/13/08:Giants 7, Padres 0, shutout by Tim Lincecum making him 17-3 on the year, every well might be the CY Young winner in the NL,despite the Popularity vote that C.C Sabathia will get.

9/14/08:Giants 8, Padres 6, with a platoon of relief pitchers nine total, with Beak starting going only two innings, before being pulled with an injury. Mike Adams earned the blown save and Dirk Hayhurst getting the loss.

9/15/08:Padres 11, Rockies 5, Wade LeBlancearned is first win of his career, with a win at Coors Field that should give the rookie the confidence he’ll need going in too next year.

9/16/08:Rockies 10, Padres 3, Estes took his second straight loss in two starts.

Next Game: 12:05pm pt/2:05pm ct/3:05pm et. at Coors Field. No T.V  RADIO: XPRS 1090/105.7 FM , XEMO 860,

J.Geer (2-0) vs. Livan Hernandez (11-11).

After getting swept by the Dodgers, The San Diego Padrespull one off the Brew-Crew, as they were sleep deprived as they landed in Milwaukee around 530-6am their time(central).

Shawn Estes went 6 innings allowing 7 hits but only one ER one BB and one SO. The Bullpen followed up great Heath Bell and Trevor Hoffman combined to throw up 2 scoreless innings with Hoffman getting his 28th save of the season. One bad note from the pen’ Mike Adams continues to struggle, he gave up one HR and striked out three.

Luis Rodriguez went 1-4 with 2 RBI and one SO, Nick Hundley went 2-3 with two hit and two RBI and  one run scored. Will Venable 2-4 with two hits one being a HR two RBI and one run scored.  

The San Diego Padres:

9-1-2008

Purchased the contracts of INFMatt Antonelli and LHP Wade LeBlanc from Triple-A Portland. Released INF Tadahito Iguchi and RHP Brett Tomko. Activated RHP Chris Young and LHP Shawn Estes from the 15-day disabled list.

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.

Shawn Estes has been close to perfect since being inserted back into the starting rotation.  However a wild 4^th inning seemed to doom him and the Padres.  In the top of the 4^th inning Estes seemed to loose control of his curve ball, with men on 1^st and 2^nd Estes threw two consecutive wild pitches followed by a third that hit batter Lastings Milledge loading the bases for Jesus Flores.  Flores jumped on a 1-2 fastball and sent it out of left field for a grand slam (2) and also giving the Nationals a 4-0 lead.

Odalis Perez seemed to have great control over the Padre lineup.  The Padres were able to hit the ball well, however well placed National players had no problem running down deep shots the warning track.  The Padres missed timely hitting stranding one runner in the first and two runners in the 3^rd inning.

In the 5^th inning Tadahito Iguchi was able to score Jody Gerut on a broken bat blooper however that would be the end of the scoring as Brian Giles was retired with two men on board.

Mike Adams came in to relief Estes in the 6^th and promptly gave up a solo home run to Lastings Milledge (3) giving the Nats a 5-1 lead.

In the 7^th the Nationals Felipe Lopez hit a double to center, Cristian Guzman singled to right and Aaron Boone was able to score Lopez on a sacrifice fly to give the Nats a 6-1 lead.

In the bottom of the 7^th inning the swinging friars came to life with Luke Carlin and Tony Clark hit back to back doubles to bring the Padres within range.  Scott Harriston was hitting the ball hard all night and connected for a two run homerun (7) scoring Clark and making the score 6-4.  Iguchi then singled to right and Adrian Gonzalez was hit by a pitch to bring the go ahead run in Kevin Kouzmanoff up to the plate.  However Nats pitcher Luis Ayala was able to hand Kouzmanoff his third strike out of the evening and putting to rest the Padres rally.

Ayala and Jon Rauch were able to sit down the last six Padre batters in a row to give the Nationals the 6-4 win.

Note: Justin Huber started in left field, however he was pulled after the first inning suffering from back spasms.

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The San Diego Padres evened the series with the Chicago Cubs as they beat the Cubs 4-3 on a cold rainy night at Wrigley Field in Chicago.  No runs were scored after the fourth inning, and all four of the Padres runs came in the fourth inning.  Before that they were down 3-0.

Khalil Greene had a two run home run to lead the Padres at the plate.  He took Cubs starting pitcher Jason Marquis deep.  Jody Gerut then doubled to score two more runs.  Those two hits were all the Padres would end up needing to win the game.

Shawn Estes pitched 5 1/3 innings to pick up the win which was his first of the season.  Trevor Hoffman pitched a 1-2-3 ninth inning to get the save in the game.

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The San Diego Padres gave up four runs in the final four innings on Thursday as they lost to the Atlanta Braves 5-4.  With the four run rally, the Braves swept th Padres in their three game series.

Joe Thatcher took the loss for the Padres as he gave up three his and a run in the bottom of the ninth inning.  Thatcher is now 0-4 on the season and needs to start throwing the ball better before he sees his butt on the bench for every game.

The other four runs by the Braves were all un-earned as the Padres had three errors in the game.  Starting pitcher Wilfredo Ledezma allowed one run, Shawn Estes allowed two runs, and Cla Meredith allowed one run.

Kevin Kouzmanoff had two rbi for the Padres as he led them at the plate.  Scott Hairston and Khalil Greene both had one rbi in the game as well.  The Padres just weren’t productive with runners on base as they left 18 runners on base in the game.

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The San Diego Padres have send down six players to their minor league camp or to the teams minor league teams as they cut down their roster as opening day is almost here.

Shawn Estes, Adam Bass, and Chip Ambres were all sent to minor league camp.

Oscar Robles, Craig Stansberry, and Brian Myrow were optioned to Triple-A Portland.