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.