IGD: Padres @ Braves (7 May 07)
Mon, May 7, 2007
by Geoff Young
first pitch: 4:05 p.m. PT
television: Channel 4SD
matchup: Chris Young (3-2, 3.34 ERA) vs Chuck James (3-2, 4.83 ERA)
preview: Padres.com | SI.com
If you dig deep enough, you can almost always find a statistical split that casts your favorite team/player into a more positive light. Here’s a fun one for the Padres so far this season:
| AB | BA | OBP | SLG | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stats courtesy of ESPN. | ||||
| Padres | 393 | .247 | .319 | .412 |
| Opponents | 383 | .198 | .274 | .279 |
Just another way of looking at something we’ve already seen. Still, it’s always nice to have the view confirmed from multiple angles, especially when it looks so freakin’ good…
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May 7, 2007 at 4:04 pm
For those of us out-of-towners, does anyone know if tonite’s game is on TBS? I realize that it would only be marginally better than MLB.TV, but my 50 inch plasma beats my 32 inch LCD any day of the week.
May 7, 2007 at 4:09 pm
Sorry, Phantom; per Braves web site, no TBS tonight.
May 7, 2007 at 4:10 pm
Oh well. Thankfully I have XM, so I can listen to the game while I work!
MLB.TV will just have to do.
Yeesh, 2Ks this inning. Quick inning for James.
May 7, 2007 at 4:16 pm
That K of Chipper is clutch.
May 7, 2007 at 4:17 pm
Great job by CY. Fell behind Chipper 3-0, then threw three straight strikes to get him looking and end the first.
May 7, 2007 at 4:19 pm
That split would probably look even better if the Padres didn’t have so many extra inning games already.
May 7, 2007 at 4:20 pm
AGON!
May 7, 2007 at 4:20 pm
Adrian homers against a lefty. What else is new. Ball hit the top of the left-field wall and bounced over. Nice.
May 7, 2007 at 4:23 pm
I went to the bathroom and I come back and I’m like “WTF!? We scored?”
May 7, 2007 at 4:30 pm
Only one run, but some good at-bats. Bard made James work very hard, Cameron drew a walk, and Kouz hit the ball deep to right — off the bat, I thought it might have a chance to leave the yard. If we see more of that approach from him, he’ll be fine.
May 7, 2007 at 4:35 pm
CY again falling behind 3-0 before striking out Francouer to end the second. I think CY got a call on the 3-0 pitch.
May 7, 2007 at 4:43 pm
James is all over the place. We really should be doing more damage against him.
May 7, 2007 at 4:45 pm
I’m here! I’m here! Finally a game with a decent East Coast start time.
By the way, this weekend I went down to New York to catch a Yankees game. I was at the almost perfect game by Wang. I was definitely a Yankee fan for one afternoon. That would have been awesome to witness.
May 7, 2007 at 4:47 pm
Filthy breaking ball down and in to get Thorman swinging.
May 7, 2007 at 4:47 pm
James is at 59 pitches already, so the Padres seem to be following your prescription for beating the Braves, Geoff.
May 7, 2007 at 4:50 pm
Having to watch the F’n game with earphones on because my wife is watching Oprah. This is so wrong.
May 7, 2007 at 4:56 pm
CY set up Johnson beautifully to strike him out with the breaking ball. Fastball and curve are working tonight — he’s already fanned six through three innings.
May 7, 2007 at 5:00 pm
I like the hit by Bard, but what is he doing swinging like that on 3-1?
May 7, 2007 at 5:04 pm
crap. we needed to score on that. i understand agon holding, but CRAP! good job of hitting by Mike Cameron…
May 7, 2007 at 5:08 pm
wake up, a little Kouzy, wake up…. your bats been sound asleep, the glove’s kept you in the big leagues, wake up a little kouzy… it’s time for a home run…..
May 7, 2007 at 5:08 pm
Another nice job by Kouz, working the count and driving it hard to right. I’m liking the approach. James is up to 86 pitches already.
May 7, 2007 at 5:08 pm
Great at bat by Kouz. That ball was drilled too, just right at someone again.
May 7, 2007 at 5:11 pm
Not to take anything away from CY, but how do you walk a 6-10 guy twice in the same game?
May 7, 2007 at 5:13 pm
Because his knees are higher than everyone else’s. Those low pitches, not strikes anymore.
May 7, 2007 at 5:17 pm
23: CY walked at least once last game too. Good eye from the gentle giant.
May 7, 2007 at 5:18 pm
Nice AB by CY to. Even though we only got one out of that, we got into their bullpen already.
May 7, 2007 at 5:18 pm
1-2-3 hitters are now 0-7 with 3 k’s. Everyone else is 3-8 with 4 BB’s and 0 k’s.
May 7, 2007 at 5:21 pm
throw the curve.
May 7, 2007 at 5:22 pm
These announcers are boring. As usual.
Does anyone know if I can get DirecTv and have them set it so my local channels are San Diego channels, so that way I’d get to watch Channel 4?
May 7, 2007 at 5:24 pm
29: Can’t be done. If you know someone in San Diego you can buy a Slingbox and have them leave it on Channel 4.
May 7, 2007 at 5:25 pm
these announcers are horrible. its as if they’ve never seen CY pitch before or at least read about him.
May 7, 2007 at 5:26 pm
lololol… that was one of the best almost hit a batter shots I’ve seen.
30: Thanks Anthony, I’ll check up on what a Slingbox is
May 7, 2007 at 5:32 pm
WHO IS BILLY KILLIAN?
May 7, 2007 at 5:33 pm
Thank goodness Bard is so slow. Otherwise Woodward never makes a return throw to first.
May 7, 2007 at 5:33 pm
#33: Killian was the other guy in the deal that brought CY and Adrian to SD. Minor-league catcher.
May 7, 2007 at 5:35 pm
35: gracias.
May 7, 2007 at 5:36 pm
34: At least Bard made a good attempt to hustle.
Greeney’s not looking so comfy at the plate today.
May 7, 2007 at 5:41 pm
cool fact, Francoeur and McCann were high school teammates at Parkview Highschool…
May 7, 2007 at 5:41 pm
Crap.
May 7, 2007 at 5:42 pm
WTF? How do you fake a throw to third when there’s nobody on that base? Unreal.
May 7, 2007 at 5:42 pm
Great. After not getting the pickoff call, CY decides to fall apart.
May 7, 2007 at 5:43 pm
yikes.
May 7, 2007 at 5:43 pm
McCan was clearly out.
May 7, 2007 at 5:43 pm
McCan was clearly out.
May 7, 2007 at 5:45 pm
McCann was out? Funny, the Channel 4 guys never even mentioned that possibility.
Now we’re getting a great demonstration of why you put a pitcher away when you have the chance.
May 7, 2007 at 5:45 pm
Bad play by Cruz. We cannot let this game fall apart.
May 7, 2007 at 5:45 pm
What is up with the complete brain-farts by Padre pitchers? Jake in the windup the other day vs the Nats, CY with the silly balk?
May 7, 2007 at 5:46 pm
45: Atlanta guys were all over it. They called it immediately.
May 7, 2007 at 5:47 pm
On the bright side, we’re about to see the Braves’ third pitcher of the night. Hopefully it’s with the lead intact.
May 7, 2007 at 5:47 pm
McCann was definitely out, at first I thought the ump just had an angle where he couldn’t see the foot not reach the base, then I saw on a different replay that the ump was circling and definitely should have been able to see the foot wasn’t on the bag. Bad call.
May 7, 2007 at 5:48 pm
45: yeah, that’s funny. the Atlanta guys had a great angle for it, but they definiltey called a spade a spade.
May 7, 2007 at 5:49 pm
51: Kind of refreshing to see an announce team aknowledge their own luck.
May 7, 2007 at 5:50 pm
#48, 50: Thanks, guys; I’ll have to go back and look for that when I review the game. Didn’t even seem all that close from what I saw.
May 7, 2007 at 5:51 pm
53: McCann just never touched the bag.
At least we got out of that. A bad call and two bad plays doomed us that inning.
May 7, 2007 at 5:57 pm
Whoa, that was clearly retailiation
May 7, 2007 at 5:58 pm
You could see that HBP coming from a mile away.
May 7, 2007 at 5:58 pm
okay, that’s fucked up. guaranteed we hit a brave next inning.
May 7, 2007 at 5:58 pm
OK, Paronto gets one in the ear next. Even if he’s just sitting in the dugout.
May 7, 2007 at 5:58 pm
That was B.S.
May 7, 2007 at 5:58 pm
Good response; let’s score some runs here.
May 7, 2007 at 5:58 pm
Completely unnecessary to hit CY. I’m pretty sure he didn’t mean to throw at either of those guys (especially since he was ahead on both of those guys(
May 7, 2007 at 5:58 pm
We’ve got Maddux and Wells going the next two days…neither one of them will be afraid to retaliate…
May 7, 2007 at 5:59 pm
That’s really messed up. CY didn’t mean to hit the guy before.
YEAH YOUNG!!! YOU TAKE THAT BASE!!!!
May 7, 2007 at 5:59 pm
I sense a brawl coming. Not happy about it - we’re leading and can’t afford to lose anyone.
May 7, 2007 at 5:59 pm
They just gave us a baserunner when Young likely would have ended the inning.
May 7, 2007 at 5:59 pm
OMG, you can read Buddy’s lips-too funny.
May 7, 2007 at 5:59 pm
Right at his knee too, that could have been a serious injury. First guy up next inning has to go down.
May 7, 2007 at 5:59 pm
Seriously, that’s a cheap shit move. I hope this comes back to bite them in the ass.
May 7, 2007 at 6:01 pm
Make ‘em pay, Jose!
May 7, 2007 at 6:01 pm
You just know that Maddux or Wells will drill someone if we haven’t gotten them back by then..
May 7, 2007 at 6:02 pm
70: I sincerely hope so. I’d really like to get about 2 right here though, just to show them to how dumb hitting CY was.
May 7, 2007 at 6:05 pm
Heh. Paronto feels pretty smart now, eh?
May 7, 2007 at 6:05 pm
That serves ‘em right.
May 7, 2007 at 6:06 pm
Man, Buddy still looks like he’s ready to fight someone
May 7, 2007 at 6:06 pm
Now that is a fun run to score.
May 7, 2007 at 6:06 pm
HA! That’s right, jackass!
May 7, 2007 at 6:06 pm
NOW we’re even. Take that dickheads.
May 7, 2007 at 6:06 pm
Hitting the pitcher with two outs was a brilliant idea wasn’t it, tough guy.
May 7, 2007 at 6:07 pm
We should still plunk one of their guys though.
May 7, 2007 at 6:07 pm
I still think at some point..maybe not tonight…but sometime soon…someone from the Braves is gonna get drilled…
May 7, 2007 at 6:07 pm
I love it. When they first hit CY the Braves announcers were all, “Yeah, now we’re even.”
And then it got to, “Maybe that was a mistake…”
May 7, 2007 at 6:08 pm
Damn, more runs would have been nice. We’ve been letting them off the hook all night.
May 7, 2007 at 6:09 pm
If that had been Wells, with his temper I think we would have seen a fight.
May 7, 2007 at 6:09 pm
82: That’s true. We’re not getting much production out of the first 5 guys tonite (save Adrian’s HR).
May 7, 2007 at 6:10 pm
#80: Agreed. Game is too close right now, though. I like that we’re getting deep into their bullpen in the first of a four-game series.
May 7, 2007 at 6:11 pm
85: Take second base, Mr. Harris. Go ahead, we won’t even try to stop you.
May 7, 2007 at 6:11 pm
okay, so funny story: My junior year we were playing at the Citadel and their #4 hitter was a big, lanky jackass that was going for some sort of single season doubles record and pulled up at 2nd on a clear triple. So, next time he was up, our catch gave the ‘plunk him’ sign (the down thumb) and of course, we all knew it was going to happen so we were ready for some shit to hit the fan. So, our pitcher - a crafty lefty - reared back, hurled it in there - only it was right down the middle and the guy crushed it over the left field fence….
May 7, 2007 at 6:14 pm
Nice to see the Braves unable to move the runner.
May 7, 2007 at 6:16 pm
Yikes, CY got away with one there. Let’s turn this thing over to the bullpen..
May 7, 2007 at 6:18 pm
Living well is the best revenge.
How great would it have been if CY had charged the mound when he was hit? He seems so mild mannered, he’s probably never punched anyone.
May 7, 2007 at 6:19 pm
90: seems like that, but I have to imagine that he dealt with a fair share of cheap shots playing basketball all his life… I’m betting he can hold his own…
May 7, 2007 at 6:21 pm
Bard has had some great ABs recently. He;s working the count well.
May 7, 2007 at 6:24 pm
Ugh. Khalil still struggling at the dish.
May 7, 2007 at 6:25 pm
I like how Khalil Greene sort of jogged to first on the double play ball he hit.
May 7, 2007 at 6:26 pm
COME ON KOUZY!
May 7, 2007 at 6:27 pm
94: He was really stunned when the bat exploded in his hand. By his reaction, I was worried he might have hurt himself.
The look on this face when the bat shattered was like, “Oh, my. What have we here.” And then he realized the ball was in play.
May 7, 2007 at 6:28 pm
COME ON KOUZY! !!
May 7, 2007 at 6:33 pm
That’s two in a row for KG
May 7, 2007 at 6:33 pm
Two in a row that he made look fairly easy.
May 7, 2007 at 6:34 pm
Too bad we didn’t double switch Branyan in so Bell could go two. The guy threw 8 pitches this inning, but now he’s done.
May 7, 2007 at 6:35 pm
The Dodgers are making quick work of Florida, they’re up 6-1 in the bottom of the ninth.
May 7, 2007 at 6:36 pm
For most teams, a player needs to stay above the “Mendoza Line” to keep his spot in the lineup. The Padres have another set of rules:
The “Kouzmanoff Line”= .100
How long can Blum and the aforementioned Kouz keep there heads above water?
May 7, 2007 at 6:37 pm
Bell is simply lights out right now. Another Kevin Towers gem. This trade is looking really great. Ring will contribute this year as well, while Ben Johnson and John Adkins may not get a whiff of the Mets roster.
May 7, 2007 at 6:37 pm
Kouzmanoff is simpy not a major league hitter right now.
May 7, 2007 at 6:38 pm
102: From my observations of Kouzmanoff, it looks like he’s starting to heat up. He hit two balls hard tonight, and it hasn’t seemed like he’s struck out as much. Blum, well, Blum’s never been any good, so it’s not really that surprising.
May 7, 2007 at 6:39 pm
What’s up with Padre hitters swinging weakly at balls while ahead in the count?
May 7, 2007 at 6:40 pm
Free Craig Stansberry!
May 7, 2007 at 6:44 pm
Another single! Big deal.
What’s up with OG’s so-called slugging percentage?
It appears Kouz, Cammy, and Blum have deflected any criticism of Brian Giles weak swings.
I suppose there has to be a chain of criticism.