IGD: Padres @ Astros (6 Jul 2005)
Wed, Jul 6, 2005
by Geoff Young
first pitch: 5:05 p.m., PT
television: Channel 4
matchup: Jake Peavy (7-2, 2.89 ERA) vs Andy Pettitte (5-7, 3.15 ERA)
previews: CBS | Padres.com
Fugly game Tuesday. Shut down by Brandon Backe? Lit up by a team with the worst slugging percentage in all of baseball? Like I said, fugly. I changed the channel after Brian Falkenborg served up a three-run homer to Jason Lane in the fifth. That pitch was fatter than the chocolate cakes I ended up watching Alton Brown make.
Thank you, I’ll be here all my life.
Peavy is scheduled to start tonight but may be a no-go due to “symptoms of strep throat.” If Peavy can’t make the start, the Padres will bring up Justin Germano to pitch tonight. (The linked article also notes that Dennys Reyes or Pedro Astacio will get the final start before the All-Star break. Germano? Reyes? Astacio? I don’t think this was the plan.)
Anyway, we’ll be optimistic and assume that Peavy will make his start:
AB BA OBP SLG
Peavy vs current Astros 85 .212 .327 .318
Pettitte vs current Padres 77 .273 .325 .390
For the Astros, it’s been Jose Vizcaino (.500/.500/1.000 in 12 AB) and Craig Biggio (.400/.471/.400 in 15 AB) doing the damage. Peavy has completely shut down Brad Ausmus (.100/.250/.100 in 10 AB) and Lance Berkman (.077/.294/.077 in 13 AB, with 7 SO).
On the other side, Robert Fick (.286/.375/.571 in 14 AB) is the only Padre who has had any success against Pettitte. Of course, Pettitte is a lefty so there’s a decent chance we’ll see Miguel Ojeda behind the dish. Pettitte also has been extremely tough at home this year, limiting the opposition to a paltry .224/.251/.341.
Amazingly, the Padres still lead the division by 4 1/2 games. I was really hoping the Friars would have pulled away and given folks in other parts of the country a new team to talk about. Instead, they’re all talking about how lousy the NL West is. And can you blame them?
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July 6, 2005 at 8:30 am
Fugly, fulgy, fugly, you are right, Duckman.
I too turned off the game after Fuglyburg gave up the three-run jack on the his first fugly pitch. Christ!
I, OTOH, turned to the Military Channel (to vent my frustrations) and watched Battle Plan, where US/British troops in Europe were down but not beaten. And we know how that game turned out.
But the food channel is a good choice too. We need the Padre hitters to Kick it up a notch….thats for sure.
BTW, is this going to continue into the second half? We play triple AAA ball while the rest of the NL West plays Single A? God, I hope not.
Since when has being in first place meant to little?
July 6, 2005 at 9:09 am
More Kevin Goldstein interview @ Scout.com:
http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/ne.....type=story
Nice to see Javier Martinez back on track. He’s been a fave of mine for a while. Also, Kyle Blanks sounds like one of the more interesting guys in our system in a long time.
July 6, 2005 at 10:25 am
Thanks to all for your help in my DFA/waivers quest yesterday.
July 6, 2005 at 11:11 am
God that sucked. I have nothing else to day. Cupcakes are good though.
July 6, 2005 at 11:12 am
I meant I have nothing else to say. Although I guess I also have nothing else to day.
July 6, 2005 at 4:54 pm
Another interesting lineup:
Young, 2b
Greene, ss
Klesko, lf
Giles, cf
Fick, c
Nady, 1b
Johnson, rf
Jackson, 3b
Peavy, p
I wonder how many times Pettitte has faced a lineup with three lefties in a row…
July 6, 2005 at 4:56 pm
After looking at this boxscore (from today’s Portland Beavers game), I figured Germano wouldn’t be pitching for the Padres tonight in Houston … http://www.minorleaguebaseball.....a_poraaa_1 … but it seems like it might happen sometime in the near future (ex. Sunday before the All-Star game?)
July 6, 2005 at 5:17 pm
deja vu–Peavy has great stuff but two cheap hits scores a run.
July 6, 2005 at 5:20 pm
hm…that wasn’t a cheap hit. Peavy’s rattled a bit.
July 6, 2005 at 5:25 pm
man, their hitting some good pitches. give’m credit
July 6, 2005 at 5:25 pm
“rattled”? how about “not healthy”? i’m just asking …
July 6, 2005 at 5:26 pm
yeah, could be. They mentioned he had strep throat symptoms or something, no?
July 6, 2005 at 5:29 pm
Yup, that was all the talk yesterday … his family back in SD all came down with strep …
How many of you feel that today’s game is over … way over? Padres down 3-0 after 1 …
July 6, 2005 at 5:41 pm
Peavy can’t even get Ausmus out … a sign of the apocalypse?
July 6, 2005 at 6:54 pm
Peavy’s final stats for the day …
Pitches-strikes - J Peavy 119-78;
Ground balls-fly balls - J Peavy 4-7;
Batters faced - J Peavy 29
5.2 IP, 11 H, 5 R, 5 ER, 2 BB, 5 K’s
Ug …
July 6, 2005 at 7:10 pm
Blum PH’ing in Top of 7th rep’s the tieing run … cool …
July 6, 2005 at 7:32 pm
Great AB by Nady. Down 0-2, fouled off a bunch of pitches, worked the walk. Let’s go Sweeney.
July 6, 2005 at 7:34 pm
Or not. Weak grounder to second ends the inning with bases loaded.
Listening to the Emeralds. Cesar Ramos is scheduled to make a start later this week; didn’t catch the day.
July 6, 2005 at 7:42 pm
DJ at 3B?
July 6, 2005 at 8:23 pm
I’m hoping they don’t use Peavy in the AllStar game. Maybe he could use the rest.
July 6, 2005 at 9:13 pm
Don’t know if Eric is a regular here, but he made a request for the infamous Ruben Rivera video recently, and it can be found here:
http://www.mccoveychronicles.c.....18838/0627
July 6, 2005 at 9:20 pm
Grant - thanks! Can somebody find/repost the link to the Jon Miller call of the play? Now that I’ve actually seen what happened, I’m interested to hear his description
July 7, 2005 at 3:36 pm
Grant, you own.
for lynch: http://tinyurl.com/e37fd