The San Diego Padres started the series off right against the Diamondbacks by out slugging them 8-5 in route to their 4th straight win in a row. Khalil Greene went 2-3 with a two run shot off of M.Owings in the 2nd innings to start the scoring, he also hit Greene.

In the third the rest of the scoring came with 6 runs on 5 hits. Nick Hundley had a three run shot in that inning and Jody Gerut went 2-3 with 2 runs scored and one RBI, Kevin Kouzmanoff 2-4 with a runs scored two RBIs and two strikeouts.

Greg Maddux finally got the win he deserved,351st win of his career going 5 innings giving up 9 hits and 4 runs all earned with 4 strikeouts and gave up one HR moving him to 4-8 on the season. Wilfredo Ledezma, Mike Adams, Clay Hensley, Heath Bell and Trevor Hoffman combined to throw up 3 and 2 thirds innings scoreless only giving up one hit collecting 4 strikeouts and Hoffman picking up his 22nd save of the year, three in the last 4 games. A bad note to reportBryan Corey is starting to becoming a liability in the bullpen giving up 2 hits one earned run in 1 third of an inning.

Today is the return of Big’ol Chris Young(4-4) to the mound against Slow’mo D.Davis(3-5) game starts at 7:05pm pt/10:05pm et  4SD/704-HD | RADIO: XPRS 1090/105.7 FM , XEMO 860.

Sunday is always a good day for baseball as it was a good day for The San Diego Padres as they won 3-1 over the Pirates,as they take 3 out of 4 from them.

Let’s start with the pitching since there was very little batting,but what little there was it was mostly the Padres. Jake Peavy was there starter going a solid 7 innings pitched giving up 4 hits one run it was earned with 3 BB 10 strikeouts showing us his CY Young Winning stuff. Heath Bell and Trevor Hoffmancombined to throw up 2 shutout innings behind Peavy with Hoffman getting his 21st save of the year.

Batting wise the Padres had enough to get it done, Josh Bard single in the first run of the game in the 4th, then in the 8th and 9th inningsScott Hairston(8th) and J.Bard(9th) both with solo shots just putting the flame out on what was once a hot swinging Pirates team that lead most of the first half in hitting among the NL.

The Padres have now came to terms with being out of it, still no one is running away with it in the NL west but it would take a long shot miracle to get to the playoffs, the only thing on its side it has been done before. My point is the Padres might as well play like they have noting to play for besides pride and somewhat of a respectable record, then maybe they will go out there and just have fun, picking up wins along the way.

Tomorrow game will be Greg “mad dag” Maddux(3-8) vs M.Owings(6-8) game start at 7:05pm pt/10:05pm et 4SD/704-HD | RADIO: XPRS 1090/105.7 FM , XEMO 860

On a Saturday evening in Pittsburgh the bats of The San Diego Padres came alive, as Adrian Gonzales had a multi-homerun game with a 3 run blast in the 1st and a solo in the 4th he also had 3runs scored and 3 hits 2 being homers. Kevin Kouzmanoff also had a 3 run dinger and scored one and one strikeout, Nick Hundley got his first homerun of the season and he also had 2 hits one being the homer then had one run scored and one more RBI.
Chase Headley had a hit and a run scored and two BB, Jody Gerut had two hits and strikeout, Edger Gonzales had a run scored and a BB AND Khalil Greene had a hit with a strikeout.

Also Brian Giles ended his 8 game hitting streak having two BB and two runs scored, Josh Banks also went 2-3 with two singles.
Pitching wise the padres were looking pretty good with the starter J.Banks going 5 and two thirds giving up 6 hits 5 runs all earned but banks behalf Cla Meredith gave up a run that should have been held, but banks also had 2 BB and 3 strikeouts and gave up two bombs.
C.Meredith, Justin Hampson and Mike Adams combined two throw up 2 and one third innings scoreless giving up only 2 hits 2BB one strikeout.
Mike Corey went two thirds of an inning giving up a solo shot to Bautista; Trevor Hoffman got his 20th save of the season on one third of an inning.

As the Padres try to take a series from the Pirates tomorrow starting at 10:35am pt/1:35pm pt they will put out their ace Jake Peavy(7-6) vs Maholm(7-6).4SD/704-HD | RADIO: XPRS 1090/105.7 FM , XEMO 860.

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.

4:32pm: More from The San Diego Padres GM Kevin Towers - he’s had inquiries on Jake Peavy, Trevor Hoffman, Heath Bell,Kevin Kouzmanoff, and Khalil Greene. Potential deals will be assessed after the season, though Towers wants Hoffman to stay until the end of his career.
2:43pm: MLB.com’s Corey Brock has the latest on the Padres and Greg Maddux.
Maddux apparently will only accept a trade to a West Coast team, preferably the Dodgers. Padres GM K.Towers doesn’t mind trading within the division. The only piece missing is interest from L.A. They’ve got good pitching depth, but if Maddux could be added at a reasonable price, why not? The Professor has a 4.18 ERA this year.
Don’t expect to see younger Padres like K.Kouzmanoff, K.Greene, or Josh Bard on the move. Towers said a trade of any of those three is “very doubtful.”

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.

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

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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The San Diego Padres beat the New York Mets in the ninth inning on a play that you rarely ever see end a game.  The Padres had the bases loaded and Paul McAnulty was hit by a Scott Schoeneweis to score Scott Hairtson for the winning run.  No problem with that if you’re a Padres fan, a win is a win!

Trevor Hoffman picked up the win as he pitched the top of the ninth inning.  Hoffman is now 1-4 on the season.  Josh Banks got the start on the mound for the Padres and tossed six innings, allowing five hits and only one run.  Very good outing for Mr. Banks.  Justin Hampson and Heath Bell both threw scoreless innings in relief of Banks.

Even though the Padres had 12 hits in the game, they were only able to push across two runs.  Tha is what happens when you don’t string two or three hits together and leave 19 runners on base.  Besides the bases loaded hit by pitch run in the ninth inning, the other Padres run came in the third inning when Tadahito Iguchi had a rbi double to score Banks.

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