| time: | 4:10 p.m. PT |
| tv: | 4SD |
| sp: | Jake Peavy (13-5, 2.19) vs Brian Lawrence (1-0, 5.06) |
| pre: | Padres.com, SI.com, B-R.com |
It’s great to see ex-Padre Brian Lawrence back in the big leagues. B-Law did some nice work here back toward the end of the pre-Petco dark ages. I wish him well, but on Wednesday night, I hope our guys beat the snot out of him.
Go Padres!
96 Comments
First! I think that is a Football Outsider phenomenon. OT, they rank Norv Turner & co 29th of 30 teams in coaching quality.
We actually had a nice night at the plate yesterday. Some bad luck and bad baserunning/unfortunate outcome to a hit and run, otherwise we win, even with Heath and Trevor being mortal. I hope they are professionals, get back to work and gets some good at bats.
Good pitch recognition + patience/willingness to hit with 2 strikes –> solid at-bats –> walks, good swings —> good chance for runs.
The baseball gods have decided a lot of our line drives find gloves; I hope they take last night’s loss and our collective pain and disappointment as some sort of sacrifice, so we get some breaks.
In Jenga we trust. Let’s hope the hitters are feeling good and will add to their performances last night. GO Padres!
After 1 IP, Pitches-strikes – J Peavy 25-12; B Lawrence 13-9.
Come on, Padres. Get to BLaw.
Get on base, Khalil. Good walk by Cameron.
Alright, Khalil. Let’s go Padres!
Man, can’t we just program Khalil to see other stadiums when he bats at home? Terrible AB by Kouz.
Gotta love Khalil’s polite take-out slide.
Bard was safe, by the way.
After 2 IP, Pitches-strikes – J Peavy 34-20; B Lawrence 30-18.
Could use a couple more quick, low pitch innings from Jake especially with the offense devoid of XBH as usual.
Argh. Silent L sucked again.
Blum sure seems to like to hit into DPs. That’s his 9th of the year allready vs only 54 hits.
Dang it. Reyes at first after striking out.
Reyes is going to punish Bard for not blocking that pitch
Come on, Jake. Get Castillo out.
Ugh, stupid Jose Reyes.
Crap. I hope no double steal here.
Come on, Jake. Back him off the plate.
Damn. NO place to put Beltran. Let’s go, Jake.
Rung him up looking!
Damn! Nice Peavy
Get him Jake!
True definition of a stopper right there.
Good job, Jake. Now, hitters, get some runs.
glad to see the Mets fans are as stupid as Giants fans when it comes to fly balls….anything hit in the air seems to be a home run I guess
Exactly, that’s a pitcher stepping up. If that doesn’t inspire the team to go out and get some more runs for him, I don’t know what will
Whew! I need my nitro pills…
Whew! That was a lot of pitches.
After 3 IP, Pitches-strikes – J Peavy 58-35; B Lawrence 42-23.
And, Texas-Baltimore is officially a football score, 24-3 in the 8th inning.
Alright. Let’s go, Khalil.
Koooooozzz!!!! Nice RBI!
KOUZ!
Alright, I’m out. Go Padres! Keep the scoring going.
Bad thing, they are walking Bard. Good thing, Peavy is one of the few hitting pitchers in the league.
Bullshit! High and inside.
Damn, I wish Peavy’s pitchcount wasn’t so high. If certain things continue to happen, think they’ll let him go 130 pitches?
Is it just me, or does the funny umpiring ALWAYS seem to happen when the Padres play in New York?
Of course I do have some question about home plate umpires when they are umping with their home town team playing….seems like that might be something for MLB to cut out.
30-3 Texas over Baltimore in the 9th. Do the Orioles think batting practice is still going on and the game hasn’t started yet?
I never pay attention to Jake’s pitch count. He’s got too much stamina.
Kinda miss B-Law’s craftiness. You have to admit, he would be nice to have in the back of the rotation these days.
Did anyone see Miltn’s Rickey Henderson ’slap your glove against thigh’ move last inning? Loved it. Too early to get a Milton camo jersey? Love the guy!
Alright Cammy, MB, and Adrian.
36 – that’s the most runs scored by a single team in baseball history, I think – we were just googling it here at work.
attaboys – keep scoring the runs now
Uhhh… did the Mets announcers just advocate the pitcher hit Bradley next time up?
41: DUnno, I’m watchin on ESPN2.
And shouldn’t Peaves hit Reyes for his stupid third base antics?
This ump has a low strike zone.
Milton certainly makes things a little more interesting…..much better when he is on your team instead of the other way around though.
42: They said something like, “If I were Brian Lawrence, I’d put Milton Bradley’s antics in the memory bank and remember that the next time he came up to the plate.”
#42: Jake has more class than that.
re 46: Call a real cop!
Anyone else see the bullpen paying attention?
#47: Huh?
#49:
http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2007/01/27/sports/professional/22_11_361_26_07.txt
Peavy strikes out Mike DiFelice to tie Andy Benes for #1 all time in Padres history. Nice!
#47/50: Gotcha. Forgot about that one.
At least B(l)um couldn’t hit into a DP on that one.
Hensley warming in the ‘pen. Second straight day…
I was just looking at the GameCast recap – Jake had a shot at the rare achievement of striking out four batters in the bottom of the third inning. Delgado spoiled it by popping up. Striking out four in one inning has happened before, but infrequently.
Attaboy, Khalil. It’s just that easy.
KG comes through again. Nice.
52: Anyone else think Buddy should think about moving Bum out of the top of the lineup? It would appear he has turned back into a pumpkin. His season wOBA is back under .300 (league average is .334).
#56: If he had been swinging for the fence, it would have been the 3rd out. I liked the placement of that.
I’ll say it again, can we program Khalil to see other parks when he’s hitting at home?
Kooooooz!
Khalil and Kouz, having a great game at the plate tonite.
this is good. after yesterday’s loss (caused by Trevor’s having a bad inning, which is fairly rare) which was made more likely by a lack of timely hitting, to see the boys swinging the bats well for a second night in a row is quite reassuring. we’re gonna need the offense in Philly’s bandbox of a ballpark.
most excellent, Bill my friend.
I can’t believe how Mets fans will boo their own pitcher when he gives up a few runs. I haven’t been to many Padres home games recently, but I don’t think our fans do that, do they?
64: No, I think the only person this year to have been booed was Linebrink when he gave up the 3-run job to Wright to blow Maddux’s win.
#64: Steve, my Sister and Brother in-law live in New Jersey and are big Mets/Jets fans. I’m hoping to call them up tomorrow night with a hefty ‘neener, neener, neener!’
Wright’s a stud, but that’s a little too much respect.
There’s two outs. Walk Beltran and go after the next batter.
67: I know, lets keep putting men on for the hottest guy on their team.
Good call!
Thank God Brocail manned up.
Ah, so I guess he wanted Beltran. Sure, that’s it.
#67: I gotta agree.
#68: What the hell do I know?
OT: GY, did you get all your Cooperstown pics posted yet (haven’t had a chance to look)?
K-Cam is making me nervous already.
This umpire totally sucks at the plate.
Webb finally gave up a run in the first to the Brewers.
75: I’d like to see himn give up six more.
KG has had a brilliant series. Well done sir.
Do we see Trevor here after last nights debacle?
78: No way. It’s K-Cam or Hammy.
Finally Cameron returns to his early season role: it’s the return of the Human Victory Cigar. It’s been a while.
Somehow, I saw that coming.
Let’s hope Hoffman can pull this off.
I spoke too soon. I’m going away now. BTW, I really detest Marlon Anderson.
Silent L drops a can of corn!!!!!!! ACK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Could we screw up any more in one inning?
Well, in Blum’s defense… that ball *was* hit pretty high. ::rolls eyes::
Now I know why I have an ulcer.
phew. that almost got talk-me-off-the-ledge bad there.
This should have been a 7-2 win. I know a win is a win. But, give us a break. Our late innings playing has really sucked recently. Grrrr.
Never in doubt. Yawn. Is that all you got? Tying run didn’t even reach base, let alone scoring position?
Someone needs to hold a team meeting and call out this suck-ass play late in the game. Our bullpen has suddenly decided that they can’t go through a game without giving up 2 runs or more. Seriously, terrible terrible win.
And I also don’t care if Marcus strikes out every at-bat for the rest of the season. Geoff Blum is not allowed to play on the field anymore.
Okay, nobody’s mentioned the Rangers game yet. Holy S$#&T!!!! Seriously, 30 runs?!? And, the wierd thing is that the ESPN box score suggest that the Ranger’s pitcher that pitched the final 3 innings got a save????!?
Texas Rangers
Pitchers IP H R ER BB SO HR PC-ST ERA
K Gabbard (W, 6-1) 6.0 7 3 3 1 3 0 89-56 3.64
W Littleton (S, 1) 3.0 2 0 0 1 1 0 43-29 3.86
Totals 9.0 9 3 3 2 4 0 132-85
shoot, didn’t see post 36…. sorry!
That was a lot of walks for Peavy tonight. He pitched pretty well versus a really strony Mets squad. 5 IP of no hit ball is pretty impressive. CY YOUNG!
–Beegcellent Baseball
How many Pythagorean wins did the Rangers pick up tonight?