first pitch: 7:05 p.m. PT
television: Channel 4SD
matchup: Greg Maddux (0-1, 6.75 ERA) vs Noah Lowry (0-1, 1.29 ERA)
previews: Padres.com | SI.com
The Padres go for their third straight series win to start the season Wednesday night. Greg Maddux gets the start. Maddux has allowed eight homers to Barry Bonds over the years — that’s more than to any player except Luis Gonzalez (10). Most of those came early in their respective careers, with the last being a two-run blast in the sixth inning of a May 1, 1998, contest at Turner Field. Since 1999, Bonds is just 5-for-28 against Maddux. All five hits are singles.
On the other side, only one current member of the Padres has homered against Noah Lowry. That would be Geoff Blum. The good news about Lowry is that he was terrible away from PhoneCo last year. This doesn’t appear to a fluke either:
| PA | BA | OBP | SLG | IP | ERA | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2004 | ||||||
| Home | 208 | .255 | .295 | .393 | 52.1 | 3.10 |
| Road | 175 | .263 | .333 | .449 | 39.2 | 4.76 |
| 2005 | ||||||
| Home | 486 | .242 | .300 | .348 | 117.1 | 3.30 |
| Road | 389 | .257 | .346 | .425 | 87.1 | 4.43 |
| 2006 | ||||||
| Home | 420 | .245 | .314 | .384 | 102.1 | 3.61 |
| Road | 269 | .316 | .371 | .557 | 57 | 6.79 |
| Stats courtesy of Baseball-Reference. | ||||||
Is it coincidence that Lowry has started eight more games at home over the past three seasons than on the road? I’m thinking not. He’s always enjoyed success at PhoneCo, but last year, someone turned his suckitude up to eleven away from there. Lowry also had all kinds of problems in the third inning in 2006 (.387/.444/.632), but he’d never exhibited any similar tendencies in the past, so we probably can file that under “J” for “just one of those things.”
I will be out at the ballpark this evening, so talk amongst yourselves and be excellent. Go Padres!
In that somewhat touted Matsuzaka-Ichiro matchup, Ichiro has an 0-4 thus far. But the bigger news, Felix Hernandez has a no-no thru 6.
Oh yeah, Seattle up 3-0.
Thru 7 IP:
Matsuzaka – 8H – 3R – 1BB – 4K – 103 pitches
F Hernandez – 0H – 0R – 2BB – 5K – 85 pitches
yes, amazing game here in beantown. my wife is currently very frustrated that I’m forcing us to watch it (not a redsox fan, per se, but, how can you pass up all this press coverage? and, the possibility of a no-no????)
Geoff, great writeup.
You watch games because of press coverage and hype?
5: In Boston, when a game get’s this much hype, you can’t help but watch – it’s what everyone’s going to be talking about tomorrow.
did anyone catch chat transcript with Kooz on padres.com? Um, he was a subatomic physics major?? Was he pulling our leg or was he serious?
They just showed Klesko doing a commercial for Bootworld. (?)
Yeah…there’s another commercial with Tim Flannery on it I’ve noticed
nice start for Maddux…
this is such an unbearably rough start for cameron… no way having r-l-r at the end of the game in the heart of the order is worth having cameron in the 3 spot ….
Still better than last night, so far…
Maddux looks very very good so far..
p-riv in the booth!
WHERE IS EVERYONE TONIGHT??
who’s p-riv?
Philip Rivers – he’s in the padres booth right now…
nice!
sweet dp
timely dp
Yep…very nice…
15 … i’m not listening … but my guess is that “p-riv” is charger’s QB phillip rivers …
Or as Mark Grant would say….that’s some kind of nice…..
21 – yup. P-riv… what a good dude.
crudge, sporting the mantastic socks! drawing the walk – nicely done….
Maddux, consummate pro.
Marsh, thought we spoke about how lame “P-Riv” is for a nickname
25- not sure. I’m nicknaming my man-crush however I see fit. I like P-riv.
Eaton with a W today … http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/boxscore?gid=270411121 … gets his ERA under 7 …
nice NOG!
NOG plays small ball …
OG plays bad ball…c’mon, where’s the weak grounder to 2B when we need it? He chooses now to ground weakly to the left side!?!
I’m not a Chargers fan…but P-Riv is really lame..
Thank you Todd Walker – I mean Rich Aurillia
But nice to see us benefit from Aurillias horrific defense
31 – yeah, I can totally see that. I think i’ve broken to “the nickname I would give to a buddy I see everyday” mode on this one…. not proud of myself, but I can’t seem to shake it….
That was nice to see.
sort of like…”yo, p-riv, my man, what’s up?”… that kind of thing….
36: that’s gay…
36 – no wonder you have no friends
Nate Colbert for the aflac trivia question
Just turning on the game after watching Lost but I think there’s something wrong with my MLB.tv. It says on my thing that it’s the 4th inning and the Padres have scored two runs. Either they have the inning wrong or the score or something. I don’t know, I’m just very confused right now.
(for those of you thinking that’s harsh, Marsh is my brother)
yeah, I can see that. again, not really proud of myself on this one.
40 – good ending to Lost though, huh?
40: no lost talk! I watching it on dvr right now!!!
43: shhhhh…hasn’t been on here yet
Maddux showed up for the game.
40: I didn’t say anything!!!! Gosh… I would never do anything to spoil the episode for you.
43: YEAH DUDE!!! BEST ENDING OF A LOST EPISODE EVER!!!
I couldn’t believe Sawyer turned out to be a cylon
by the way, Juliette – the blonde on lost – is way hot… I mean, waaaaay hot.
wait – is this my ‘lost’ blog?
didn’t see that coming