first pitch: 1:05 p.m., PT
television: Channel 4SD
matchup: David Wells (2-3, 4.98 ERA) vs Eric Milton (8-7, 5.16 ERA)
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On the heels of an absolutely brilliant outing by Jake Peavy Saturday night, the Padres look to win the series against Cincinnati. They do so behind left-hander David Wells, who makes his first start for the Padres since returning to San Diego. Eric Milton goes for the Reds. Peter Friberg notes Milton’s extreme lefty/righty splits and suggests a lineup to counteract those. I expect we’ll see Mark Bellhorn at third base and Ben Johnson somewhere.
I will be out at Petco Park this afternoon, so you’re on your own today. Be excellent to each other, and go Padres!
Dogs down to 6 outs … down 9-2 …
Philly still 1-1 after 6.5 …
Vinny adds some insurance with a 2-run HR as Rox beat Dogs 12-5 … double yea
Phils burning some bullpen … extra innings in game 2 of DH vs Braves … 1-1 into the 11th …
Here’s the rotation for the incoming Rox …
Mon, Sep 4 9:05 pm EDT W. Williams vs. J. Fogg
Tue, Sep 5 10:05 pm EDT C. Young vs. J. Francis
Wed, Sep 6 10:05 pm EDT C. Hensley vs. J. Jennings
… we’re over-due to play well vs these guys, aren’t we?
I’ve got Josh Fogg on my roto team (don’t ask
) and he’s been BRUTAL his last 2 times out … and not much better the 6 before that!
Phils lose … 3-1 in 11 … rah!
While looking at the box score for that game, I noticed Randall Simon got an AB … reminded me of “Sausagagate” … Wikipedia’s got a good page on the Sausage Races and a link to this clip from a Milwaukee news report on the incident … http://tinyurl.com/pb2nu … still just as funny as the day it happened!
The Cardiac Kids are at it again. If we are to play in October I think Hoffy has to get the record this year.
Re: Foley…this stinks to high heaven…reading CNN and the police report, or listening to soundbites, it might sound like Foley is a villian. I read the reports differently and would love to have opinions… http://chargers.mostvaluablenetwork.com
Here’s a trivia question … was reading the BP Transaction Analysis and it refer’d to Rudy Seanez as “Action Traction” … and sure enough, this web page confirms it … http://www.baseball-reference.com/s/seaneru01.shtml … so what’s it mean / how did it come about?
RE: Post 57,
I think It has to do with Seanez’s absurd propensity for going on the DL, i.e. in “traction.” He’s been on the DL something like 11 times in his ML career. I think the “Action” part was a play on the movie title “Action Jackson”
39, 40: Just finished watching the game on TiVo and what it doesn’t show is that Giles took an extremely aggressive turn at third on the base hit by Bard. He was well around the bag when he slammed on the brakes and retreated. Not really Cameron’s fault. Of course, none of this shows up on the telecast, but in person, it was pretty clear.
Oh yeah. Great win!
KT 1 – Fire KT! Crowd 0
In Olney’s blog yesterday, talking about the Pads and Mets in the opening series, he said he’d likely pick the Padres in the first round, because of the health of Martinez and Glavine. He also suggested that the Mets fans wouldn’t be quite so willing to give Piazza a standing ovation if it was a playoff setting.