| time: | 4:10 p.m. PT |
| tv: | 4SD |
| sp: | Justin Germano (6-7, 4.18) vs Tom Glavine (11-6, 4.12) |
| pre: | Padres.com, SI.com, B-R.com |
It’s amazing to think that these two pitchers have combined to win 308 games in the big leagues. What’s that? Tom Glavine accounts for 301 of those? Yes, I know. I’m sorry, did you have a point?
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Who would have thought that Glavine would have just barely a better ERA than Germano at this point?
I guess we should cool it with how hard we are on the poor kid.
Looks like Well’s is going to the Dodgers.
2: Good. I hope he does well when the Dodgers are playing the Dbacks and be horrible against the Padres.
atta boy OG
#2: Excellent news!
Get em over, Get em in. Please
Geez, 2 pitches 2 outs. I expected better out of Jenga.
Geoff, fairly new to the stats. What is ISO mean?
Let’s go, El Hombre!
So far, Gameday is showing Glavine being Glavine, nibbling without hitting the strike zone.
Come on, Khalil. Get on base, drive some runs in.
Beans, Khalil sends it to the warning track for nothing.
Sounds like Milton just barely missed going yard.
We should be able to hit Glavine.
8: ISO is Isolated Power, which measures the “true power†of a batter. The formula is SLG-BA. Something that Khalil has plenty of.
13: Thanks.
Grr, glad to see we learned not to walk Wright.
From Gameday, it looks like Germano got hosed by the ump pitching to Wright.
I want to get back to something that we were discussing on the daily post by Geoff, mainly that article by Tim Sullivan in the paper today (since that thread is probably dead now). I’m probably lumped in with the “negative” fans since I’ve been critical of the FO — mostly over the draft and now with that article today. There are three problems related to that article. The first was the statement that “I’ve never signed anyone to a 5 year contract that worked out” by Alderson. Now maybe that’s saying that he’ll only sign Peavy to a 4 year deal but it’s not a good sign of his competence. Is he saying that signing Hanley Ramirez in 2 years to a 5 year deal would be a bad move? If he is, then maybe he shouldn’t be involved at all in contracts. Secondly, the crying poor looks terrible to the fans. You can’t put down your product and expect it to be successful (for the best example of this, look at Bud Selig and his constant negativity toward the game overall). I understand that they aren’t the Yankees or Red Sox but they cannot continually cry about payroll restraints as the fans are going to get fed up. Finally, the Padres have been the best team in the division the past 3 or 4 years so why are they even talking about finances and things down the road? They should be talking about winning, about making the playoffs and actually winning a series. Why are they squandering goodwill with the fans over this nonsense?
Both pitchers are getting hit hard early.
Beltran is such a thorn in the side.
The track meet against our staff continues, but Germano escapes without further damage.
Good job by Germano. Now, if only the Padres would stop walking Wright and giving up hits to Beltran….that man just wore out the Padres’ pitching so far.
Let’s go, Padres. Get Glavine!
The stolen base by Wright was one that caused a run to score that wouldn’t have otherwise.
Why in the world was Beltran stealing third in that situation? Two out and two strikes on the batter? Do you think he owns himself in a fantasy team?
Good job going the other way, Kouz.
23: Probably.
Way to go Koooz.
So is NOG going to kill this rally by popping out, striking out, or grounding out to the pitcher?
NOG just cannot lay off that first pitch. RBI, come on.
#23: Because, against the Padres, he can.
17: Just want to let you know someone read your post and agrees with most of it. The part about contracts I agree with as far as “never say never” goes, but after the Klesko and Nevin deals I’d be gun shy, too.
Why do people keep attacking Alderson for things that happened before he got here?
Adrian makes the 3-6-3 look so easy.
Sandy Alomar Jr. is still playing? Surely a return by Rickey to the Mets cannot be far off.
Sandy Alomar Jr.? Seriously? Okay, then:
December 6, 1989
Traded Sandy Alomar, Chris James, and Carlos Baerga to the Cleveland Indians. Received Joe Carter.
Signed Craig Lefferts as a free agent.
Signed Fred Lynn as a free agent.
31: That’s me. Not sure what happened with the name.
34: How old was Lynn then? 56?
#36: LOL, something like that. I just know that in one of my first ever Roto drafts, I took James for my farm team over some kid named Bonds. Oops…
F word
Alomar promptly gives a clinic on how to block the plate. Honestly I didn’t think Reyes would even make a throw.
MB’s cleat was blocked by Alomar’s left foot! Wow, he would have been safe if not for that.
That was a hell of a play by Alomar. Bradley beat the throw.
Interesting that Alomar didn’t stick his foot out until Milton was already into his slide. He waited until he committed before he jammed his foot down for the block.
At least we got one run there.
Nice play by Alomar, nicer play by Khalil.
Khalil hit a pretty good pitch. I think someone told him they’re in Denver…
Even though Bradley got thrown out, I like taking the shot there. I like our agression, and I’m glad that Milty didn’t react negatively to the wonderful block by Alomar.
Ouch!
Nicely done by Khalil even if it didn’t record the out.
Damn. Blown call extends the inning.
Oh I’d be pissed too. Adrian was all over that.
F’ing crap.
Great play by Adrian, terrible call by 1B umpire. Damn.
Beltran up with two on instead of us being out of the inning because of a blown call. That’s just crap.
Mets announcers on XM saying it was a bad call
This is a joke. How can an umpire blow a call like that with everything right in front of him?
Ball one was close and after they screwed us to extend the inning, that would have been nice to have.
Great inning by Germano. Gets four outs, strikes out Beltran with two runners on, only real hit is an infield single, four grounders and the K in the inning. Very nice.
Beltran not happy with strike three call. Oh well…
Bad call by the ump, but if Kouz made a better throw the call wouldn’t be an issue. Nice K though.
Umpire was blocked by the bag. He should have at least asked one of the other umps if they had a better view. He’ll hear about it from somebody that he blew the call.
Nicely done by Germano. The umpire put him in a real bad spot.
58: He made a good enough throw to get the out. That was entirely on the umpire.
A hit by NOG!
Nice work tonite with the bats by the Pads.
Can Bard make it to third on a sacrifice?
#63: Yes.
Alright, MB with bases loaded. Let’s go Milty!!
Jenga!
Way to go Milty!!!
Can someone venture an opinion on why our lineup looks so much better with Jenga in the lineup?
#68: Ummm…’cause he can hit with runners on and not double up?
#68: The ‘L’ in Milton and in Bradley isn’t silent?
68: Because he’s been hitting like Babe Ruth since his arrival here?
#69: Easy way out. It just seems like everyone hits better and pitchers take a different approach with him in the lineup than when he’s not and I’m not sure why.
Matt and Mud keep talking about how “It’s a much different lineup with Milton Bradley.” If that’s the case, why?
#68: He has a *Monopoly* on *Jenga*?
72: He threatens to bean them with a water bottle if they don’t take their at-bats seriously?
Shakespeare! Looks like a line drive in the box score.
Unless GameDay is wrong, how does Bard take that pitch to RF? Totally sawed off and lucky?
Milton Bradley is by far the best hitter on this team. There’s a huge drop off from him to Giles and then there’s a pretty good sized drop from Giles to Gonzalez and Cameron.
I love “In play, runs” with a man on first.
#72: It’s a sub-conscience thing for the rest of the line-up. He raises the bar to his level. It’s like playing golf with Phil Mickelson. You’d take twice as long to line up a put.
Nice NOG!!!!
Botched squeeze…
NOG reclaiming his job.
#76: Pop up to second, infield was playing in and the ball dropped untouched.
Thanks for the insights, and the one-liners. And to think there’s no cover charge!
I’m not sure that was really interference.
Missed bunt? Germano can swing it a little, no need to get too tricky here.
GameDay has the two pitches to Germano halfway into the other batter’s box.
#85: Squeeze attempt on a pitchout. Germano missed and momentum carried him into Alomar.
So I’m guessing there never was a second pitch.
#87: Just checked the replay. Correct, only one pitch.
Wright with a Little League error. Thanks.
Khalil’s approach has been great tonight. He’s laid off some tough pitches and gone the other way when the situation dictated it. More, please!
Why is Geoff Blum coming in on a double switch to play third base? Don’t we have someone that can actually hit on the bench, like, say Morgan Ensberg? And it’s even a lefty on the mound currently, and it seems likely he’ll throw another inning.
That hurts with only one out.
Sigh. Poor defense, poor bullpen work…
Kouz has really stunk it up at third of more than late. Maybe the scouting reports were right.
Uh-oh, it’s Marlon Anderson time.
Good Lord.
Pretty sure Anderson is my least favorite player ever.
How much meat has Cla served this year ?
Meriadith just gave this game away in one inning.
I seriously was typing up a joke about how we should intentionally walk Marlon Anderson, because if we didn’t he would homer here.
I blame the walk to Alou for all of this. The bases were loaded, and Alou is right handed, which are the guys Meredith is supposed to destroy, and he walks him to force in a run.
The walk was the worst. Even the one strike wasn’t in the zone. You don’t want to go inside to Alou, but that was ridiculous.
Unless Headley gets hurt, Kouz will not be our third baseman next year. LF, maybe in a platoon, and spot-starts at first base.
NOG steps up and has a decent game, and it’s OG that’s killing us by not being able to get runners in.
There has never been a moment this year when I wasn’t absolutely sure the Padres would win the Division…
But tonight, for the first time, I’m getting the feeling that maybe it’s just not gonna happen this year.
DP just rips your heart out after the Mets give you a gift. We’re last in the NL in GIDP, second only to the Indians in MLB. Why does it seem like we pull two a night?
Do we really need to see the Buckner ground ball again? Come on, channel 4.
back up the truck turn this place into a parking lot
104: You may have a point as David Wright snares a sure double from Cameron.
I don’t think George Brett could have caught that!
Since I can’t decide between “Crushin’ Russian” (which sounds better) and “Mashin’ Macedonian” (which is accurate) I’ve come up with my own nickname for Kouzmanoff… “Klank”
The luck is eluding us I see. I go to my future in-laws for dinner and you guys can’t protect a 5-run lead?
Seriously, demoralizing as hell.
#111: Put the fork down and step away from the in-laws!!! We always get behind when you do that!
111: It’s every Thursday nite, I have little control over it.
Do you like our two best starting pitchers against the Mets two (Hernandez & Glavine/Ollie Perez ) v (Young & Peavy) best starters ? Do you see guys like Schoenweis or Feliciano as unbeatable ? TI wouldn’t necessarily be shaking in my boots if the Pads faced the Mets in the Postseason in a short series.
This series could have gone either way – it was an electrifying series – I think that the Pads match up pretty good against the Mets and showed well.
Khalil clutches up again. My God he’s been ON FIRE!
Hopefully KG can score to tie this up.
Sledge, please do something right for a change.
RTF on!!
I thought Sledge wasn’t supposed to be able to hit lefties…
119: I think Terrmel just put his bat out and hoped for the best.
“For Those About To Rock…We Salute You!”
The f’ing Padres are trying to give me a heart attack. Unreal. At least we didn’t give up tonite. Trevor, please, GOD, close it out quickly.
I’d feel much better if we scored about 6 right now….
Don’t forget how bad Trevor’s been…. ERA over 10 in the last two weeks.
Phantom, see what happens when you stay away from in-laws! Don’t do that to us for the rest of the season, please.
NOG has a strong AB. C’mon Blum! Don’t suck! Try really hard not to suck!
125: I’m not sure if they’ll accept that as a valid argument, but it works for me…
Need ATL to lose tonight to keep them always at a distance. Think wild card race too folks. who the heck cares how they get a precious mlb playoff berth ?
Ugh, c’mon guys!
Is Wagner only hitting 89 and 90 with his fastballs? No wonder he’s getting knocked around.
As Geoff would say, I sure that doesn’t come back to bite us (two on, no out)….
I believe in Hoffman.
As Geoff would say, I sure hope that doesn’t come back to bite us (two on, no out)….
133: Don’t speak ill thoughts! Trevor can do this! If he’s our true leader, he needs to man up and make it happen tonite.
I have Hell’s Bells playing on my computer as we speak.
Who else thought that was in the gap?
1 down. C’mon Trevor!
I hope I don’t piss the neighbors off. Ack. Who cares, get ‘em Trevor!
Blown save number 5 on the year…. number 3 in the past two weeks.
Good idea not to pitch to Beltran.
If we can somehow push this to extra innings we got a good chance. We still have Bell.
At what point do we start to wonder about the closer role on this team.. seriously… you can’t keep running an ineffective guy out there with the game on the line.
And Alou is up with bases loaded. Grrrrr.
You could tell it was going to be bad when Trevor was only throwing 82-83. Seems like he’s going through a little dead arm period right now. He’s had awful stretches before and rebounded, hopefully he will do the same coming up.
What a series this has been…
So, has he vested his option? Wow. This BP has got to run out of gasoline sometime, doesn’t it?
I’m looking for someone in the next three Padres hitters to go yard.
Trevor since Aug. 5:
6 IP, 7 R, 6 ER, 13 H, 9.00 ERA
and… here’s the kicker…. opponents are hitting .419
Are you kidding me? Just a shade under 5 bills?
I dunno guys…
148: That’s pretty gruesome. Damn, I was hoping Bradley was gonna leg that out.
Why is our best hitter bunting?
I think I will be bookmarking this game at baseballref. as one to remember.
Great job by Hoffman to come back and get Alou (he threw some sort of “slurve” that made Alou buckle and make count 0-2) .
buckle your seat belts for the 10th …
Dude, WTF is going on you guys? Gameday sucks, this is killing me!
Hoff will rebound, he always seems to blow his saves in bunches and then does about 20 in a row
152: Adrian is taking some damn close pitches after swinging at some bad ones early on.
#147: You got it!!!!!!
HR GONZO!
A-GONE!!!!
OMG I LOVE ADRIAN!!!
147: I FUC*ING CALLED IT!!!! ADRIAN!!!
147. Go on with your bad self! Should we call you Carnac?
Heath Bell will get the chance for a save…
When’s the last time we got into the high 100’s in posts on this board on gameday… shows you what kind of game this has been.
155, 160: I’m just glad we’re back on top.
And how about Khalil’s ABs this series? He’s just looked magnificent at the plate. How large would that be if he can hit like this for the rest of the year?
People at the league office are watching this series and stopping at church on the way home to pray for a SD-NY NLCS….
164: Seriously. What a match-up that would be.
PLEASE…1-2-3 9th! Can’t handle this anymore!!! No more losing guys on 0-2 counts!!!
This is an awesome game. Incredible. I hope we can come out on top here.
I’m watching it live on SNY (Mets network)
Nice . . K to start the inning!!
Bell looks determined to win this. He didn’t waste any time there.
Ya Bell looks good, a quik K to start the inning
We need a DP here!
Milledge was completely over-matched in that AB.
Where the hell did that miss!?
3-0 . . . that pitch looked like a strike
C’mon Heat, you’re killing me here.
2 down . . let’s go!!
I HATE Reyes. Just for his cocky attitude.
2 down. Cut Reyes down Heat!
THIS IS THE WAY TO END IT. FITTING AS ALL HELL. IN THE WORDS OF MAJOR LEAGUE, “STRIKE THIS MOTHER ****** OUT!!!!!!!!!”
We NEED to get Reyes here
dammit
crap . . good pitch there. this game will not end!!
#179: Rick Vaughn=Heath Bell?
Reyes is officially the luckiest player in baseball. Unbelievable.
Bell will get Castillo and end this thing.
YESSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!
YESSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!
yes
187: jinx
HUGE win. HUGE!!!
Save this date… Heath Bell’s first save as a Padre… could be the first of many.
Absolutely an incredible game to cap a fantastic series… and yes, Hoffy struggled… but so did Wagner.
Wow.
Holy crap. That was intense. ****ing Padres, man… just wow.
OT … http://www.theonion.com/content/news/craig_biggio_blames_media_pressure
Pads need to go 22-14 to finish season (.611 (98-64) ball rest of the way) and finish up at 90-72 . which I think puts them in the postseason. The 90 win mark has only been hit 3 times in Padres history !
This series took 5 years off my life. Could have won all 3, could have lost all 3.
I wish we had more pitching reinforcements on the 40 man for September. The relievers are dragging.
If anyone cares, Rob Neyer’s post regarding the misperception about the Pads’ offense has attracted more than 2 dozen comments, some of them educated.
Brandon Webb is sneaking in at the end of the season and making a huge run for the Cy Young again. He is averaging 7 innings per start, already throwing nearly 192 innings with 166 K’s. The first half seemed like he was going to have a decent year, but his second half has been unhuman
My sole gripe with this game, crazy as it was, was why was KK starting? Germano is not a high strike out guy, relying on his defense. So why have KK? He killed us with his defense. I don’t know if a good glove gets a DP on his error in the 6th, but if so, inning over, we cruise.
Hoffman is scaring me. It does seem like they are hitting good pitches in both blown saves, but man. Either a very unlucky streak or something has shifted.
Could vanish, but sweet to see NOG have a good game, the first one since April, it seems.