| time: | 7:05 p.m. PT |
| tv: | 4SD |
| sp: | Greg Maddux (10-9, 3.90) vs Micah Owings (6-7, 4.69) |
| pre: | Padres.com, B-R.com |
Greg Maddux hasn’t issued a walk all month. He’s issued just three over 210 plate appearances since the All-Star break. Two of those came in the same game.
Maddux has walked zero or one batters in 22 of his 27 starts this year. In 1997, he did that in 28 of 32 starts. Maddux is averaging 1.17 walks per nine innings, best in baseball, and he’s already walked more batters than he did in 71 more innings in ‘97.
It’s sick, is what it is. So is the fact that Micah Owings has outhomered ex-Padre Josh Barfield this season…
122 Comments
Maddux was patient and got Young at 1st for the 1st out.
Nice work Maddux.
Nice 1st inning start. Let’s hope our bats showed up.
Good quick inning. Nice work.
Nice shot OG.
OUCH! That *sounded* like it hurt!
Woot, go Padres!
Phantom, you and I are the only two NOT at the game tonight it seems.
This looks like Bud’s regular line up now. He has used this order pretty regularly over the past 3 series. Since they seem to be scoring, I suppose there is no need to change it now.
8: Apparently. I wish the Padres had clutched up here. C’mon Kouz.
Way to load them up with no outs…
That was ugly.
I think I’m going to be sick.
Ugh. That hurts.
I can’t believe we stranded a bases loaded 0 out inning…wtf?
unbelievable…well, not really…
Like Lietner said, the DBacks got us right where they wanted us when they loaded ‘em up…
Are you serious…
Because that’s what you want out of your 3-4-5 hitters with the bases loaded at home against a sub-par pitcher.
Sorry. 4-5-6 hitters.
Owings giveth and taketh away…….
I wonder where LaRussa would bat Owings in his lineup….
21 – 8th
21, 22: nah, probably 6th or 7th
I’m just glad Maddux showed up tonight.
I’m with James. I’m betting 6th….
I guess Ankiel’s hitting 2nd, so who knows.
For those of us not watching … did the Bradley HBP appear intentional in any way? Were there any warnings issued?
On the bright side, Owings is throwing more pitches then Maddux….
#27: Not at all. Just a bad pitch.
#23: Mud just agreed with you.
That bottom of the 1st sucked. Fortunately, Maddux is looking good – Arizona hasn’t hit a ball hard yet and the run was due to bad luck as much as anything else. Let’s get some runs against Owings here.
OG in da house
OG!!!!! Long ball to right!!!
I think that’s his 1st HR at home this year!
Take that, Petco Park! You cannot stop OG, you can only hope to contain him!
Dong! Dong! Dong! Yeah OG!!
Cammy with a stand up dbl to Byrnes. Excellent!
About damn time for OG. That’s his first HR at home this season. That’s exactly what I was talking about last night — swing aggressively! There is no good reason why he hasn’t had a HR at home until tonight (unless of course he was injured which is a possibility).
Hit so hard it knocked Hudson on his ass.
Well the first three hitters in the lineup have Owings figured out at least. Too bad nobody else can hit him.
C’mon Adrian. You cannot keep stranding the RISP. The Pads should be moidering this guy…
damn I thought Kouz got a hold of that one
OT … Harang insists he’s still got to be considered for CYA …
http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/boxscore?gid=270829123
43 – wow. he does that once or twice more in the next couple of weeks, and he’ll pull some votes. I didn’t realize Harang was having such a great season.
OT … Mariano Rivera with a 4-out save …
http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/boxscore?gid=270829110
Harang is the best pitcher in the NL that no one knows.
I was just out driving and listening to Fox Sports Radio … Seth Everett from mlb.tv was on and said this … “if the Padres make the playoffs, and that’s not a lock, then they are my pick to win the World Series” … it got me to thinking that I haven’t been looking at this team as a possible WS winner for a couple of months now … and even the peak, I really didn’t think in those terms … hmmmm …
46 … over Chris Young?
everyone knows CY, don’t they?
Yefri (the Great) with HR #2 for Eugene tonight …
http://web.minorleaguebaseball.com/milb/stats/stats.jsp?sid=milb&t=g_box&gid=2007_08_29_eugasx_eveasx_1
CY was an all star… was Harang
For AAA Portland tonight …
http://web.minorleaguebaseball.com/milb/stats/stats.jsp?sid=milb&t=g_box&gid=2007_08_29_poraaa_tucaaa_1
Good News: McAnulty is 2-for-2 with a 2B so far …
Bad News: Estes only went 1 IP ???
51 … nope …
http://www.baseball-reference.com/h/haranaa01.shtml
47: with a healthy Peavy and CY, our boys can ride those two arms to a championship ala the DBacks with RJ and Schilling. Of course they have to get that far first…
52: I thought Estes was shut down after feeling something in his arm with his first start of the year. I wonder if he felt it again.
Geer now 16-6 for AA San Antonio …
http://web.minorleaguebaseball.com/milb/stats/stats.jsp?sid=milb&t=g_box&gid=2007_08_29_mroaax_sanaax_1
Kellen Kulbacki made BA’s PHS this week …
http://www.baseballamerica.com/today/prospects/hotsheet/264756.html
… his numbers for August = .362/.438/.638 with five home runs, two doubles, a triple and16 RBIs in 20 games!
All right, let’s get Maddux up this inning so we can pinch hit for him.
Rally Time … let’s get the prof some runs … and a W!
Or I guess they could do absolutely nothing in a nine pitch inning.
let’s see if Black gets in trouble by leaving Maddux in.
That should be a strikeout of Young since “ball” one was clearly a strike.
60 … whew …
nice work by Maddux. Chris Young, that’s how a Hall of Famer gets it done.
nice!
They score 6 off Webb and can only get 1 off Micah Owings — that seems about right….
Man….I’m in Rivertucky tonight and can’t get the game on TV. Gameday is better than nothing but it still sucks. I see OG homered…..let’s get a couple more. Go Padres.
give Owings some credit; he has pitched well. leaving the sacks full in the 1st stings even more now, though.
Kevin Cameron with a nice 1-2-3 inning.
That might have been Cameron’s most impressive inning of the season. Given the keys for a high leverage trip through the heart of the D-Back’s lineup during a tie game in the 8th inning, the kid strikes out Hudson and Byrnes and gets Jackson to ground out. His cutter was moving like crazy tonight.
K-Cam should get some looks as a potential starter next year. I’m not sure if he’s got the stuff for it, but I’d be comfortable with giving him a shot.
OG continues to be an offensive force. surprised that ball got past the “O-Dog”.
Good job OG. Let’s see if we can get something going here!
70: Cameron seems more like a reliever to me given that he relies heavily on one pitch, his cutter. He was very impressive that inning, though.
HELL YEAH
second double for Cameron to *that exact same spot* in the park
YYYYEEEEEEESSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!
Way to go Cammy!
there it is. get Hoffy up
Lets get some more runs here. Give Hoffy a nite off!
Brandon Lyon’s success this year completely confounds me. He doesn’t strike anybody out, and he doesn’t get ground balls. His xFIP this year is 4.75.
Viva El Hombre…right up until he got thrown out at 2nd
A little more cushing. Thanks Adrian.
well, at least we got the run…I will never complain about aggresive base running either
wow. lotta action at 2nd base there. Khalil, it’s OK to slide, ya know
Re 70: He’s never had a start as a professional so it’s probably unlikely. He also went to the same HS (Joliet Catholic) as Mark Grant, as well as Sean Bergman, Mike Grace, Chris Michalak and Bill Gullickson. Not a bad haul for one school.
http://thebaseballcube.com/players/C/Kevin-Cameron.shtml
83: No kidding eh, I just hope he didn’t tweak something.
huh. didn’t realize they were giving Trevor a night off. Matty just said he pitched in 6 of the last 8 games. Bell warming up in the pen.
Bell up in the pen looking like one of M. Vick’s pit bulls…
there’s goes Kouz’ hitting streak…oh well, start another tomorrow
re 84: it’s not RB, but it’s ok I guess
Of course, Bell has also pitched in a ton of games recently. But he’s young and better able to handle it, I guess.
Alright Bell, time for save number 2!
84 – from the “who knew” file: both Tony Gwynn and Milton Bradley (as well as Chase Utley) went to Long Beach Poly.
http://www.thebaseballcube.com/high-schools/poly-637.shtml
90: I hope Heat can continue to keep this up all year.
92: “from the “who knew†file: both Tony Gwynn and Milton Bradley”
I knew that, but I didn’t know Utley when there too.
This umpire’s strike zone starts mid thigh, it’s unbelievable. Anything lower is a ball.
Khalil makes that look way too easy. Goes deep towards second, scoops it up, pirouettes and makes the throw with a step to spare. Smooth.
95: Ok, so that wasn’t just Gameday messing up on the called ball that was almost centered in the strike zone.
95 – Bell got a low strike called there
Khalil Greene really deserves a Gold Glove at some point.
96: And he made that throw from shallow center.
99: With Everett and Tulowitzki in the NL, that’ll be tough.
99 – agreed. NL is fairly deep at shortstop, however, and Reyes in NYC will get all the hype.
Wild Card? We don’t need no steenking Wild Card!
98: He did, no consistency either.
101: Everett is hur this year, and Tulo doesn’t have quite the range Khalil does (as far as I know).
Awesome win. Tomorrow night will be nuts, with CY coming back and the boys going for the sweep. Sweet!
First place (by percentage points)!
A big broom needed for tomorrow night!!
1st place…………
Virtual tie for 1st!!! If my math is correct, we are actually precentage points ahead of the DBacks now, tied with the Mets for the best record in the league!
re 89: It’s actually a lot better. Rancho Bernardo has had a lot of minor league players but just two majors leaguers, Hank Blalock and Cole Hamels. My high school, USDHS, has more (Prior, Quentin and Zito).
109: Oh how sweet this is. What a fantastic series of clutch baseball so far. Shut ‘em down under CY tomorrow!
Schlom, Uni grad here too, class of ‘93.
Bruce, I’m 1990 myself.
If you guys start singing Kumbaya I’ll throw up.
Put a light bulb in Grant’s mouth and he reminds me of Uncle Fester.
Hey, it’s not like we went to Torrey Pines or anything like that…..
117: Exactly.
#117/118: OK, OK. But just don’t start singing school fight songs, please.
Just kidding around. I’m out. See ya tomorrow for the sweep.
Not to steal Lynch’s thunder, or Peter’s for that matter, but a nice night for Matt Latos! 10Ks in 5 innings.
http://tinyurl.com/ype79m
This little run is sure sweet. I wish the other teams we cared about were having a bit tougher time
Dogs, sweep lowly Nats
Phils 3 in a row from NY
Atlanta 2 of 3 from Florida
Only SF helping by slowing down the Rockies
Let’s keep it going. Davis, normally I would be happy, but he has been shutting people down in the second half. Our current line up favors hitting lefties, KK, Greene, Cam, Bard all with much stronger splits against lefties: 923, 855, 993, 1007 (OPS vs. LH). Give up a little with AGon and Giles, but not too much. Then Blum cannot hit lefties, but perhaps a start for Stansberry, if he can play 2B.