first pitch: 7:05 p.m. PT
television: Channel 4SD
matchup: Jake Peavy (5-1, 1.64 ERA) vs Rich Hill (4-3, 2.91 ERA)
previews: Padres.com | SI.com
So far in ’07, the Padres haven’t made opposing pitchers pay for falling behind in the count as much as in recent years:
| Year | PA/G | BA | OBP | SLG | ISO | XB/H | PA/HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stats are courtesy of Baseball-Reference and are through May 21, 2007. | |||||||
| 2007 | 6.00 | .253 | .455 | .342 | .089 | .271 | 264.0 |
| 2006 | 5.77 | .315 | .536 | .498 | .183 | .369 | 58.4 |
| 2005 | 6.22 | .310 | .534 | .482 | .172 | .338 | 53.0 |
| 2004 | 6.23 | .301 | .526 | .469 | .168 | .317 | 43.9 |
It would be good to see the boys get back to punishing those who cannot throw strikes early in the count. How? Sorry, I just ask the questions around here…
.143 BABIP tonight for the Padres. The Cubs pitching staff wasn’t just bad tonight, they were lucky, too.
Cla does his job inducing two grounders.
The strike zone tonight has been awful.
Diaz is having a terrible night behind the plate. His zone is all over the place.
The garden weasel rolls another grounder, but they can’t turn two.
Great play by Adrian. If Cla can find the bag, we’re out of the inning.
That’s a lot of ground balls.
The strike zone has been awfully tight for the Pads tonite, but they’re persevering well. Who pitches the ninth?
How many Cubs hits have come on grounders, Richard?
C’mon Brew Crew, you can do it! (down 3-2 bottom
Mike’s up and I’m dropping back in as requested…
GY, I may have a boat load more people joining us on the 9th. I’ve been on the phone and I work with a lot of Padre nuts like us at Solar. I’ll give you a total in E-Mail by Friday.
Mike is the man tonight. This game should definatly make the ESPN highlights.
Switching pitchers now? What? Did Guzman have a 21 pitch limit?
#161: Thanks, Rich. It didn’t work out this time, but the effort is appreciated…
#162: Awesome! The more, the merrier.
163: Wha wha what? LOL. Yeah, wtf up with this?
Damn, that curve almost took a u-turn.
162: We’ve got to be on SportsCenter tonight with Greenie’s play and Cameron’s 2 HR night.
Is Trevor warming up?
I’d prefer to see Trevor out of the stretch. He does’t pitch as well with runners on base. I’m not doubting him, just wish they had gone with him to begin with.
168 … I’ll assume he warmed up before coming in … sorry ’bout that, the Yahoo feed is down … and GameDay isn’t working for me …
This game’s felt close since Jake came out. I’ll be glad when Trev finishes it off.
My MLB.TV feed died too, so I’m dead in the water. What’s going on?
And… breathe…
Strike two was almost literally in Bard’s glove when Lee swung. Trevor is a blast to watch.
Trevor just forced a pop fly from Derrek Lee. Ballgame.
Mike Cameron MVP for the game. Right? Cox SD4 viewers should cast your vote.
Full count to D. Lee-runners on 1st and 2nd.
With runners at first and second, Trevor got Lee to hit a routine fly to Cameron on a 3-2 pitch. Game over.
Anyone else have considerable issues with their MLB.TV feed tonite? I’m thinking about bitching to MLB (I lost my feeed for about 10 minutes at two separate points tonite, with the last time being the top of the ninth), but they’ll probably just say that I shouldn’t be getting the Padres feed in the first place.
Nice. That studio does look pretty cool. I may stay up for the post-game tonight.
176 … why not KK … sounds like he added some good D …
173: LMMFAO! You had doubts?
181: He did. Actually a good outing by all tonight. Damn fun game to watch.
You need to get satalite or something, Lynch.
And Mike is MVP on 4SD.
The new 4SD studio is nice!