| time: | 7:05 p.m. PT |
| tv: | 4SD |
| sp: | Chris Young (6-3, 2.26) vs Tim Wakefield (7-7, 4.18) |
| pre: | Padres.com, SI.com |
Tough loss Friday night. If you’re looking for a bright spot, it’s that the Padres’ #3 starter was able to largely neutralize a very powerful offense. No, that doesn’t make me feel much better either, but it’s something.
Tim Wakefield is pitching for the Red Sox on Saturday, which means everybody’s favorite ex-Padre Doug Mirabelli is catching. Be sure to give him your regards.
Go Padres!
250 Comments
I posted some interesting links here …
http://ducksnorts.com/blog/2007/06/1969-three-days-three-shutouts.html#comments
… #1 of which is a reminder that Matt Latos makes his pro debut in about 5 mins (for Eugene @ Spokane) … you can listen to the radio online (link in comment at link above).
Nice story about Canham in MILB.com.
http://web.minorleaguebaseball.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20070623&content_id=263941&vkey=news_milb&fext=.jsp
2 … Go Beavs! (they are up 6-3 on UNC going into bottom of 8th)
http://www.ncaasports.com/baseball/mens/scoreboard/div1/div1/20070623
I wasn’t upset at all about last night’s loss. I thought the Padres held their own pretty well against the #1 team in the MLB. Too many guys left on base. It is what it is. Dice K has a rubber arm. I’m looking forward to the next two games. Tonight should be very interesting. If we can get one out of this series, I’ll be happy.
M. Barrett has done a great job to impress his new team and fans. He truley looks happy to get away from Lou P. and all the bad press. I’m stoked he is on our team.
GO PADRES!!!
Thanks for the links Lynch! Go Mat!
A-Gone playing hurt isn’t good.
1 … Eugene radio announcer says that Emeralds leadoff hitter Danny Payne, who just lead off the game with his 10th walk of the young season (game 4), just extended his consecutive games-reaching-base streak to *82* games … YOW!
4: I don’t know if I’ll be happy with just one Rick. I’m looking for us to take the series. I think that we’ve got the edge in the pitching matchups the next two nights and I’m hoping that we can get more than 1 run.
During last night’s first inning I’m sure that we all felt like this, but I turned to my neighbor and said, “We’re going to regret just getting one here.” I didn’t realize how much. That was a tough one to lose, but I was encouraged. We can hang with those guys.
I can be strong, but if Mirabelli has a good night against CY, it will be very, very hard to take. Watched some of the Giants/Yankees game today. Such an odd feeling; I hate both franchises, but actually found I hated the Giants more, unless a former Padre was involved. I found myself pulling for Klesko or Roberts to come through, but despising Vizquel or Feliz and especially Bonds immediately before and after. Kind of a schitzophrenic experience.
Bochy has been tossed 4 times this year, I learned. He got tossed on a bad call at first today. That cannot be an upgrade in work.
Re: #3- LM, was there any doubt that OC would repeat?
Looking forward to tonights game. Our hitters (oxymoron?) need to stop striking out so much. We have no patience at the plate, in my humble opinion.
Go Padres!
Also at milb.com is a pic and write-up of Ramos’ 3-hitter last night …
http://web.minorleaguebaseball.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20070623&content_id=263802&vkey=news_milb&fext=.jsp
#8: Paul, I don’t feel like we got ‘beat’ last night. We simply lost. That game could have gone either way. Fun game to watch. I was on the edge of my seat the whole time.
Happy was the wrong term. Satisfied best describes it. Hell yes, I would prefer a sweep from the git-go. But, I think we looked good.
For anyone who was at the game last night, did it feel like a home game? Were the Red Sox fans as loud as they seemed on TV. I had heard that a lot of season ticket holders sold their tickets for this game. What do you all think? Or do we care?
Dogs down 4-3 in Tampa in top of 8th …
http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/boxscore?gid=270623130
SD, sorry I didn’t get back to you. I got tied up with work.
Matt Latos is on the bump … first pitch was called Strike 1 … then Strike 2 … then a 93 mph fastball fouled back … fly out …
It’s begun …
re: 15, TD, no worries. Not a problem.
My experience with Ch 4 at Petco, I think their field mic’s are placed down the thrid base line which happens to be where the visitors block of seats are located(think section 116-118) giving it the appearance there are more visiting fans then there actually are.
Of course, TONS of chowda heads around downtown these past couple of days.
16 … Latos with a rough 1st inning … 1 run on 2 hits …
http://web.minorleaguebaseball.com/milb/stats/stats.jsp?sid=milb&t=g_box&gid=2007_06_23_eugasx_spoasx_1
… time to temper expectations
A true die hard Padre/Charger fan is used to the fair weather fan and the transplants. We all know who we are as San Diegans.
Coco Crisp is gonna make me want to take drugs watching his setup at the plate.
Toasted Crisp!
C. Crisp struck out swinging
… and we’re underway @ Petco … nice start … ‘cept the count ran to 3-2 …
#13: I was there last night and thought the San Diego fans held their own. Everytime a “Let’s Go Red Sox” chant broke out, it was “Padre’d” out.
There were plenty of Red Sox jerseys in the crowd, though. At the end of the game, when we were down to our last strike, the Red Sox fans stood up and I would have guessed 50% were standing.
I heard tickets were going for 4 times face value for seats around mine. That’s a nice little cushion for buying your playoff seats, but I couldn’t do that to my team. I have 1/2 season ticket and was there Friday and I’ll be there tomorrow.
Mud’s right: Michael Barrett does look like Adam Eaton.
Fanned Ortiz!! Yeah, in his face!
19 … Latos strikes out the side in bottom of 2nd (#7/#8/#9) …
Sit ‘em down and give ‘em punch. CY is on his game. Let’s get these makers of farts!
After top of 1st …
Pitches-strikes – C Young 17-9.
Ground balls-fly balls – C Young 0-1.
Batters faced – C Young 4.
… not as bad as I’d fear’d after 1st 2 hitters …
67% humidity, everything is gonna drop tonight. The air is too dense.
7 … check that … Payne didn’t get his 10th walk … he got a hit … and just got 2nd hit of the game … OK, this is probably too much detail for a Short-Season-A-ball game …
I thought Manny Ramirez couldn’t play defense. That was a nice sliding catch.
#31: Define “too much detail.”
GY, I figured you would be at all three of these games. Always nice to have you around. LOL.
Dogs lose …
4x….I have left field lower box seats, the guy(from Boston via charter plane for Sox fans) paid $200 each for $27 face value tickets so he could be as close to Manny as possible
CY is pitching like he wants some revenge. Grrrr. Smokin’ fast balls with movement.
AWESOME – Mirabelli getting booed, roundly!
Ump made the right call on that one!
Mirabelli booed roundly. Calls time but it isn’t granted. Strike one from CY. You can’t write this stuff.
BEST STRIKEOUT EVER IN THE HISTORY OF THE PADRES!!!!
Three-pitch strikeout. Heh.
#40: Geoff, you can write this stuff right into the next book.
Mirabelli’s K takes a bit of the sting out of last night. Like Matty said, put it on the highlight reel.
After top of 2nd …
Pitches-strikes – T Wakefield 10-7; C Young 29-19.
Ground balls-fly balls – T Wakefield 1-1; C Young 0-2.
Batters faced – T Wakefield 3; C Young 7.
… s’pose they’ll have that “highlight” on padres.mlb.com?
Where did that come from?
BEST BUNT FOR A BASE HIT IN THE HISTORY OF THE PADRES!!!!
Gotta love that K, guys…I’m just grinning ear to ear here. Then Cammy follows up with a bunt. Sweet.
Bard batting right handed against Wakefield.
47 … I vote for Steve for “most psych’d up Padre fan of the game” award … keep it up, Steve!!!
Cameron swipes second on a pitchout. Heh.
OT … I always like it when a clean-up hitter cleans up …
http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/boxscore?gid=270623112
…and Cammy must be fired up. Stolen base on the pitch out.
Bard doubles home Cammy! Nice.
There we go!!!
SHAKESPEARE!!!!!
#50: I’d be right there except my has me putting away laundry.
OK, I’ll buy that for a dollar!
Who needs to catch a knuckle ball when you can pound it for a double?
Beavers win … 11-4 …
Go Beavs!
50… BEST PADRES BLOG COMPLIMENTARY POST REGARDING A FAN WHO HAS CLEARLY LOST IT UNDER ALL THE PRESSURE FROM BEING A PADRES FAN IN BOSTON THIS WEEKEND *EVER*
Okay I’ll stop.
#57: I’m too excited to type!
I love that Mirabelli got beat on a pitch out and then had the best seat in the house for that double by the guy he got traded for… if he K’s against Meredith later the circle will be complete.
I’m already sick of watching runners stranded at third base with less then 2 outs….too many this series
Some good swings against Wakefield that inning. Kouz laid off some tough knucklers before putting one to the warning track in center.
Latos only goes 2.1 IP … he didn’t get very far into the game … I’m pretty sure the “pitch limit” was by design … he’s already got a bunch of innings on his (valuable) arm this year …
We really need to shut the fart makers down.
Serious question: Do the Padres batters have anyone that can give them practice knuckle ball pitches before facing Wakefield?
CY is looking outstanding tonight.
That was a sweet pitch.
CY has a nice breaking ball working tonight.
#67: Good question. Anybody know?
CY seems like he is just getting better and better since he got to San Diego…going to be fun to watch he and Peavy for the next 3-4 years at a min
CY is pumped up. The third strike to Mirabelli was 93 mph out of the hand, I think that’s the fastest I’ve seen from him all year.
#67: I’d rather doubt it. A knuckleballer is a bastard breed who was raised by hamsters in a bear’s den.
RE: 67. I can’t speak for everyone, but I’ve caught a knuckleballer and batted against one. Seeing more of them never helped me as a hitter. I just went up and tried to swing hard on the hopes that if one stayed straight I would whack it.
Teams typically don’t take knuckleball BP(or at least I know the Rangers don’t) but there is usually a high school coach or retired pitcher somewhere in the area that throws one if they want
O’s up 3-0 on D-backs in top of 4th …
http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/boxscore?gid=270623129
74: Maybe they get thrown wiffle balls before the game?
Sorry, that didn’t really answer the question. I don’t believe we have anyone on the team or coaching staff that throws a good knuckler.
67 – I don’t know, but it would not surprise me if someone on the team can throw a knuckler. I have to think that the bullpen guys or somebody learned to throw one while growing up…but I doubt they would throw it in actual BP.
#79: When I was in HS, the knuckler was a goof pitch. I came up with a three fingered curve that would spin backwards and if the hitter made contact, it would pop straight up or foul. Never tried the knuckler.
Good trivia Q – name the only two Red Sox to have hit 50+ home runs.
Thru 3 full …
Pitches-strikes – T Wakefield 33-24; C Young 41-28.
Ground balls-fly balls – T Wakefield 2-5; C Young 0-3.
Batters faced – T Wakefield 11; C Young 10.
82 … Babe Ruth? … oh, you mean while playing for the Red Sox?
Who’s your Popi now?!
82 … that is a nice trivia question … don’t look here if you don’t want to know the answer … http://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/BOS/leaders_bat.shtml …
Nice sequence to Ortiz, but it looks like CY might have gotten a little help on the 1-1 pitch.
#84: Nice one…
Fan costs Adrian an out there. Way to go.
86 – I liked that question a lot. One is fairly obvious, and I had no clue on the other guy.
82 … that reminds me of my favorite trivia question … before Barry won back-to-back MVP’s there were 9 players in MLB history with back-to-back MVP’s … one at each position (ie. 3 OF’ers) … name ‘em? (hint: one of them is part of answer to 82)
91 – that is a great one. Off to baseball-reference to figure it out…
Spring Training favority Tim Brown with HR #11 for San Antonio tonight …
http://web.minorleaguebaseball.com/milb/stats/stats.jsp?sid=milb&t=g_box&gid=2007_06_23_mroaax_sanaax_1
… plus decent start for Geer.
82: Ortiz and Foxx?
90. Tells how much I pay attention to the AL… I knew the old timer, not the other.
94 – yup.
Wakefield just bounced a knuckler. Reminds me of one of Bob Uecker’s better quips:
“How do you catch a knuckleball? Wait until it stops rolling, then go pick it up.”
The game @ Spokane is moving very slowly … the book just closed on Matt Latos as a runner he let on just scored … 2 ERs in 2.1 IP …
96: My favorite (and maybe EVERYONE’s already heard it) is:
“For a knuckleballer, a pitch count of 150 is not a problem. Unless it’s the first inning.”
#98: I just fell out of my chair!
Ayala doing well for the STORM thru 4 …
http://web.minorleaguebaseball.com/milb/stats/stats.jsp?sid=milb&t=g_box&gid=2007_06_23_inlafa_lesafa_1
Thru 4 …
Pitches-strikes – T Wakefield 43-31; C Young 57-40.
Ground balls-fly balls – T Wakefield 4-5; C Young 0-5.
Batters faced – T Wakefield 14; C Young 13.
I hope CY can get out of this one. Glad we dumped Doug M. when we did.
Mirabelli has struck out twice on six pitches.
Hell yah he went!
It’s amazing how much worse the bottom of their lineup looks with Varitek sitting and no DH
Oh CY!!! Please marry my daughter!
Ten strikeouts for CY through five.
Good call by Matty… with the Williams connection and Lucchino & Epstein, then some of the trades… there’s a lot of feel between these two teams that are only playing each other for the eighth game.
…and that dias for CY.
CY waxed poetic in that inning. I need a tissue…
105 – great point. Another reason why the National League is superior.
KG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
atta baby Greene
GREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEENNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNEE!!!!
thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Wow, Khalil was all over that one.
Very nice..though can someone explain to me why I’m watching my second Padres game in a row?
re 110-interleague play is fun to watch in NL parks with all the AL managers acting like the double switch, pinch hitting etc are all part rocket science….and their announcers making things sound so terribly difficult
Adventures In Outfielding, starring Manny Ramirez.
That was a trap.
Manny trapped that!
That was sooooo a trap…
Where’s the honor system in baseball? Manny knows he didn’t catch that.
That ball has grass stains on it!!!!
115 – because these are two excellent teams, playing in a great atmosphere in America’s Finest City
They got it right. Kouz is on first.
The umps made it right.
Nice to see them get it right.
Good call by the umps.
Seriously why don’t they just check the ball?
Props to the umpires there.
91 – looking this up was a hoot. Some amazing names on the list of MVPs…
Pos MVP Team Year 1 Year 2
P Hal Newhouser DET 1944 1945
C Yogi Berra NYY 1954 1955
1B Jimmie Foxx PHA 1932 1933
2B Joe Morgan CIN 1975 1976
SS Ernie Banks CHC 1958 1959
3B Mike Schmidt PHI 1980 1981
LF Dale Murphy ATL 1982 1983
CF Mickey Mantle NYY 1956 1957
RF Roger Maris NYY 1960 1961
Props to Francone for being the gentleman that he is and not stirring things up and getting thrown out like Pinella would.
122 – That might be part of it
. Though I should be watching the Mariners. Much for fun watching the BoSox loose after they bowled through my Braves. Who are still sucking…ugh…
129 … nice work, Stu! Newhouser is obviously the tough get on the list … war-time MVPs …
NOG
NOG!!!!!!!!!! RBI #25!
Must say, I never tried to bunt a knuckleball… and Giles drives him in! Thank you, boys in blue!
Very nice double for NOG. I’m glad to see he’s doing well in SD.
Nice to see the same strike zone for both pitchers tonight
lol at the Red Sox fans on other boards complaining that the umpires changed their call, even though it was the correct call
131 – well, y’all ran into the buzzsaw named Verlander tonight…
(ducks to avoid objects thrown by Padre fans still irate over the Matt Bush pick)
C’mon defense!!!!!!!
No worries about Bush anymore….he’s the closer of the future
139- I’m almost glad it was a FOX game so I didn’t have to watch the horror with my own eyes in front of my computer. Between that and the Chipper/Smoltz drama, it’s amazing I have what little hair I have left on the top of the ‘ole bean.
I’ll be glad when interleague is over to be honest.
#142: They have a club for you. I can get the number if you’d like.
141 – No joke, I was thinking about that today. What a great story that would be, if he turns into a major league reliever. Hometown kid…redemption…shades of Hoffman…so many facets to that story.
143 – Nice. I’ll just keep bleaching it until the rest falls out.
Thru 5 …
Pitches-strikes – T Wakefield 64-47; C Young 76-55.
Ground balls-fly balls – T Wakefield 5-6; C Young 0-5.
Batters faced – T Wakefield 20; C Young 18.
I’m telling ya, we got this kid for candy cane and a Hershey bar.
Are you feeling the love?
Thru top of 6th …
Pitches-strikes – T Wakefield 64-47; C Young 102-69.
Ground balls-fly balls – T Wakefield 5-6; C Young 0-7.
Batters faced – T Wakefield 20; C Young 22.
Agon out in front
Mike with a stand up pinball double. Nice.
Nice double by Cammy.
It was FAIR!
No! No!!! No!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! That totally looked fair!!!
That’s a fucking HOME RUN! WTF?????
Boston announcers are admitting they should turn it over.
Dude, Bard gets a raw deal…HOME RUNNNNNNNn!!!!
They got it right again!!!!!
WTF is the 3rd base umpires problem? Yeah its nice he asks for help, but is it asking too much for him to actually get a call right the first time?
Another good call by the Umpire Crew.
YEAHHHHHHHHHH!!!
THIS IS THE GREATEST GAME I’VE EVER WATCHED!!!!
oops,sorry, I said I was done with that crap
Bard should wave to Doug on the way by…
I love this Umping staff. They alway do the right thing. Joe West could take a lesson.
That would have been the second home run stolen from Bard this year.
Any lip readers out there tonight?
I knew Tito was going to get ran!
Give the umpire credit. Everyone blows calls, not everyone consults and gets them right.
and Terry is gone for being too stupid to watch the available TV replay before going out there…
Great explanation by Matty to point out that the ump is a minor league ump getting “called up” to give another ump a night off…and Tito gets an early shower. Sweet.
167- Hit the nail on the ole head.
KHALIL!!!
KG Goes long ball!!!!!!!!!!!
CAN’T
CONTAIN
JOY!!!!
…oh, tomorrow is gonna be fun!
Who are you and what you have done with Khalil?
When it rains it pours…wow nice dinger.
102 pitches. Do we see CY for one more?
This will be like rubbing sand in a Raider’s fan’s face. Almost.
You guys seriously have no idea how many trash talking text messages and phone calls I got today because of that game last night. I even got one from my grandma!
I will *SO* be looking forward to giving back just as hard as I got.
Whose team loses more than William Jennings Bryan NOW Grandma?!?!?
Strike out Mirabelli again…
…but I’ll settle for the infield fly. Nice quick inning by CY there.
Another K would have been nice. But since when has Doug Mirabelli ever cared about Padre fans?
This has been a great game to watch. It’s had a little bit of everything. Great pitching by CY. Some timely hitting and overall offense from the Pads. Umpire errors and corrections.
A fun night.
I feel like I’m watching the 2007 World Series play out here. Sheesh! This is some incredible baseball that I can tell my grand children about.
179 … I revoke #50 … no trash-talkin’ to Gradma allowed!!!
It’s B(l)um time
#185: There is a ‘Man Law’ that states that there shall be no trash talking about one’s elders.
185: What if I were to tell you that she’s a dodger fan?
188- Then I’d say keep trash talkin!
Think the special guest is Lucchino?
188. Then be nice, she won’t be around much longer…
Dodger fans never stay to the end of the game.
190 – I had the exact same thought; now that would be an interesting interview.
KHALIL … gets Lugo … or not?
KG never ceases to amaze me.
Luke Walton, lol
Boston Announcer #1: One thing the national league style of play does do is keep these bench players a little more in the game and get them a chance to pitch hit.
Boston Announcer #2: Whoopdie do
196 – that’s hysterical!
I’ll go on record right here and now and say that I HATE basketball. Their season never ends and is full of thugs and gangstas.
I always laugh at the Boston announcers on Extra Innings, I sometimes can’t understand the accent
199 – you haven’t laughed until you’ve listened to the Celtics announcers. Holy chowdaheads, Batman.
199: Hmm… I will be proud of the special skill I’ve acquired during my stay here.
Nice catch.
#198: I’m not sure you can make that generalization, although I’ll admit I’ve lost my interest in basketball. I was a huge John Stockton fan. When he retired, I had a hard time following it any longer.
I don’t think they’re actively marketing my age group, anyway.
Peavy vs. Beckett tomorrow… who else is going?
I like the program they loaded into the Khalilbot tonight
I’ll be there. Sec. 213 Row 4.
Khalil looked a little pissed after that single. I think he realized he’s going to have to give another post game interview.
207 … has Ch 4 no mercy? … for both KG … and its viewers!!!
How does a team with a 140M payroll end up giving AB’s to guys like Mirabelli and Cora? Makes me think we complain too much about silent L
#203: Think about it. The season is never ending and they are always in the Final Something or another. Every game I’ve ever watched has ended in less than a 6 point spread. Why don’t they just play for 2 minutes and that’s it? Because, that’s what it always comes down to. The game is a non-egregrious sport.
Sorry, I’ll stop with the BB thing now.
209 … we do complain too much about B(l)um … but what else ya gonna do when the team is 42-31
ONE MORE STRIKE!
Damn it, I really wanted that shut out.
210 … egregrious? I was about to be impressed … until I went to look it up and it’s not there … http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/egregrious … ???
DANG!!! Wanted that shutout!
Would have been nice to get the shutout, but oh well. That was an almost-great play by Cameron.
LaMar, I’m in 328 row 2
213 … Hampson is just HVC … not HSOC (Human ShutOut Cigar) …
I want Mirabelli as the final out!
216: That was a great play just to get leather on it.
Someone threw a ball on the field last night too. Classy Boston fans.
Woooohoooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Quick, what’s more fun? The 6-1 final or the Mirabelli oh-fer?
LET THE TRASH TALKING TEXT MESSAGES BEGIN!!!
Entertaining game – like LaMar said, a little bit of everything. Sets up a *great* rubber match tomorrow between Peavy and Beckett. For those of y’all who are going, have a blast.
222 – the 6-1 result, of course – a Mirabelli oh-fer is expected
Questions …
– are the Padres better served by having Headley on the bench or in the minors?
– is Headley better served by being on the bench or in the minors?
225. You’re right, of course. And I love that Bard had a great night on the other side. Boston talk radio will be all over it.
226. In the minors to both.
track records for hitters jumping from AA and skipping AAA are not nearly as favorable as those for pitchers.
226 – agreed w/ Rich, minors to both. Get Headley more at-bats – he’s better off playing every day and developing.
This is a marathon, not a sprint. I just wanted to give the business to the Sox because they think they are all that and to stick it to the Boston fans that are spending all their money here. A lot of baseball left to to go yet this season.
Great Game. fun to watch and talk to you at the same time LM.
Oregon State!
231 … back atcha, babe!
228/229 … AA or AAA for Headley? Does it matter that the AAA team is so bad?
(It’s not really important in the long-run, I s’pose, but if he’s going to be sent back to the minors, I’d like to see him get into the AA All-Star game next week)
OT … 2 interesting things from this AAA box score …
http://web.minorleaguebaseball.com/milb/stats/stats.jsp?sid=milb&t=g_box&gid=2007_06_23_nasaaa_rreaaa_1
… TG Jr is back in AAA … whassup? hurt?
… Chris Oxspring is back in AAA … didn’t he go to Japan?
Did anyone figure out why Bard was hitting righty against Wakefield? I even looked up Wakefield’s platoon splits before the game and he limited righties to 90 points less of OPS, so I reasoned that was the reason Bard was catching instead of Barrett. Sure worked for Bard, though.
235 – Interesting point, I just checked Bard’s splits and what not. At first I thought maybe he had some success against Wakefield. No hits in 2 AB’s, 1BB in his career.
Maybe they decided it was best to give him a night off with a Day game tomorrow and Josh Beckett on the hill?
Yo, here’s a note I hadn’t heard anyone mention … from an article at mlb.com … in reference to Friday’s game, I believe …
Gonzalez fouled a ball off the top of his right foot in the first inning and played on it for the remaining eight frames. Gonzalez’s foot swelled up considerably after the game, Padres manager Bud Black said. The foot was wrapped heavily in ice after the game, and Gonzalez was walking with a slight limp.
And perhaps the plan is to hold on to Headley until OG is ready to return? From the same mlb.com article …
Black indicated that outfielder Brian Giles (bone bruise and right knee) is close to leaving for a Minor League rehabilitation assignment, likely with Class A Lake Elsinore. Lake Elsinore is home through Wednesday, which at that time Giles will likely rejoin the team in Los Angeles for the start of a three-game series against the Dodgers on June 29.
OT … Rick Ankiel might be one of the better athletes of all-time …
http://www.pantagraph.com/articles/2007/06/23/sportsextra/doc467da83068f17501182096.txt
… a guy that’s *very* easy for me to root for!
I agree Lynch…he is very easy to root for.
Great win. CY is a stud.
#233: U-T suggests AAA for Headley:
http://www.signonsandiego.com/sports/padres/20070623-9999-1s23padnotes.html
#234: Yes, Oxspring did go to Japan. Came back this year. We saw him in the Brewers’ camp this ST:
http://www.geoffreynyoung.com/gfx/oxspring.jpg
Re 239, 240: when these guys can accel at multiple positions or sports, it just reminds you how good they are. Antonio Gates: gee, never played football, maybe I will be one of the best TE’s in the game; or Rick, great pitcher, meltdown, turns out he can hit
That was such a nice game. Granted that was probably our best pitching mismatch, but, Josh Beckett or no, I am fired up to see Jake fired up tomorrow.
I just wish the DBacks would notice that based on their run differential they ought to be a .500 team or so. Please stop winning.
Also, I would like to kind of rub this in the face of some espn writer who dismissed SD’s pitching as all Petco. If we were playing against Wakefield elsewhere, maybe some of those warning track shots go out. Lowell’s shot would have made it, but none of CY’s outs were close to out.
One more thing, great to see Josh get some rips, but I had not been aware of his splits:
vs. LHP: 1059 OPS
vs. RHP: 550 OPS
Barrett may be able to mash lefties, but man I want Bard in against LHP.
243: I’m guessing the 11 strikeouts would have been strikeouts in any other park as well.
CY is a stud.
I’m so happy I decided to watch this game from start to finish when I woke up this morning without looking at the box score. What a game! So much drama and a spectacular result for the Padres.
I also really, really, really wanted that shutout though. (Very happy that that is my one complaint though – you know you’re on top when you’re complaining about the difference between a shutout huge win and just a huge win.)
Can’t wait for today’s matchup.
Yet another reason to hate the Dodgers … their fans are voting for Nomar to start at 1B in the All-Star game … thus preventing the best player in MLB, Albert Pujols, from his rightful position. Hey, I like Prince Fielder as much as the next guy, but Pujols is *the* All-Star. It actually makes me proud that Adrian is not in the top 5. I think he should and will make the team … and may, in the future, have seasons that warrent him a starting nod ahead of Pujols, but that time is not now, and I think Padre fans know that are voting well. Eh, I know the truth is that they are not voting much … I’m doing my 25 at mlb.com just now … a few of those ballots will have Khalil punch’d on them … Rollins is the only guy on the list that’s clearly better, imo.
I know our strength is pitching, but it is noteworthy that none of our position players are even close to leading OPS in their position. Yet we win.
#244: We touched on this earlier:
http://ducksnorts.com/blog/2007/06/grin-and-barrett.html
Barrett’s dominance against lefties has been very consistent over the past three years, while historically, Bard’s splits haven’t been anywhere near as extreme as they have so far this season.
#246: J.J. Hardy at shortstop. Also, I won’t be voting for Pujols anytime soon, but that’s just me.
247 … we have one other strength that’s easy to overlook and that’s depth … as much as we rail on B(l)um, I wonder where he ranks amongst the “25th men”?
I know the Padres don’t have any non-pitching All-Star’s (Adrian is far-and-away the closest), but it made me feel good about the Padres to fill in an All-Star ballot … there are not many names on that ballot worthy of a vote!
My latest idea on “All-Star Voting” … I’m actually not opposed to fan balloting … and I have an idea to keep it and make it better … rather than the current ballot with a player from each team at each position, during the off-season, have fan voting on “All-Star nominees” … the fans will select the 3-5 players at each position who will be on the All-Star ballot the next season. That way, we end up of starters who earned the starting spot based on (at least) a full season of performance … and who ever is hottest at the time of the balloting gets some edge in the process … but a guy who has come out of nowhere to have a hot month or 2 will not impact the voting process … but instead will, rightfully, only be eligible to be selected for the All-Star team, thus building a resume worthy of nomination the following off-season.
What’s Bud’s address? I’m gonna write him a letter!