IGD: Padres @ Diamondbacks (4 Sep 07)
Tue, Sep 4, 2007
by Geoff Young
| time: | 6:40 p.m. PT |
| tv: | 4SD |
| sp: | Chris Young (9-5, 2.38) vs Doug Davis (12-11, 4.09) |
| pre: | Padres.com, B-R.com |
As noted in Tuesday morning’s comments, the Padres have signed journeyman right-hander Brett Tomko for the stretch run. Tomko, a mainstay in the Padres rotation back in 2002, was a second-round pick of the Cincinnati Reds in 1995. He and Jarrod Washburn were the best pitchers taken that round, which is damning with faint praise. Tomko also rejoins Mike Cameron, with whom he once was traded for Ken Griffey Jr.
Eh, there’s more, but even I’ve lost interest…
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September 4, 2007 at 6:10 pm
frist!!! He he he. Love when they are playing well and ht, thank your baby jesus for the hot bats. Now, if we can just keep Barrett out of the lineup. Tomco a Padre, wow. He should like Petco.
September 4, 2007 at 6:13 pm
Looks like Bard is starting. Thank goodness.
September 4, 2007 at 6:18 pm
Blum has a .580 OPS against lefties, and yet he still gets the start against Davis while we have a right-handed hitting replacement with better defense on the bench.
September 4, 2007 at 6:19 pm
Why has everyone turned against Barrett? Did I miss something?
September 4, 2007 at 6:20 pm
4: Jinx or not, the team plays better when he doesnt play.
September 4, 2007 at 6:21 pm
4 - a certain Cub fan has been stirring the pot against Barrett, so it’s become a joke to blame all of our problems on him (real or imagined).
You know, sort of how we still expect Silent L to hit like early in the season….
September 4, 2007 at 6:23 pm
I heard that Peavy was on the XX and said he is going to pitch tomorrow. I haven’t seen it in print yet though.
September 4, 2007 at 6:25 pm
7: Its in print here http://sandiego.padres.mlb.com.....sp?c_id=sd
September 4, 2007 at 6:25 pm
I haven’t turned against Barrett. I think he should be starting tonight. But Bard has been pretty good this year, so it’s not a huge difference, and he’s crushed lefties. I’ll focus my energy on the guy I actually want out of the lineup.
September 4, 2007 at 6:31 pm
This is the Lineup that has been averaging near 6 runs a game. They are winning with this line up, thats my guess as to why Bud is sticking with it. I’d honestly prefer Barrett stay out of the line up. Bard has been playing fine and rakes w/RISP and who knows what it is with Barrett, but we do play better when he is not in the line up.
September 4, 2007 at 6:36 pm
I guess if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.
September 4, 2007 at 6:39 pm
Was happy when Barrett showed up because Cub fan said so so catcher, but can definitely hit. Have not seen the bat, but h makes a great scapegoat. Think I’ll blame for my current deadend career too.
September 4, 2007 at 6:42 pm
Dear god I hate the D-Backs announcers. I preferred the way they synced up the ballpark feed with the radio yesterday.
September 4, 2007 at 6:43 pm
In a tiny sample this year, Blum is 4 for 6 against Davis. That’s almost 1/3 of his total hits as a RHB.
September 4, 2007 at 6:43 pm
Wow. All three pitches have been right down the middle, belt-high. Those all should have been crushed.
September 4, 2007 at 6:47 pm
The 3 guys who swung early, outs. Remember Aaron Cook?
September 4, 2007 at 6:48 pm
CY’s velocity appears to be way down again.
September 4, 2007 at 6:49 pm
Well that was not an encouraging AB by Young against Drew. Velocity down in the mid 80s and missing badly with location.
September 4, 2007 at 6:49 pm
Not a great start for CY. Drew did him a favor swinging at the second pitch.
September 4, 2007 at 6:50 pm
CY is not healthy yet. They need to just shut him down because we need him down the stretch and in the post season
September 4, 2007 at 6:52 pm
Where’s the law of averages when you need it? Eventually one of those pitches has to hit the strike zone.
September 4, 2007 at 6:53 pm
This is tough to watch…CY had such great momentum before that injury…. ugh…. come on CY! you can do it!!!!
September 4, 2007 at 6:53 pm
Velocity seems to be creeping up.
September 4, 2007 at 6:54 pm
Nice double play there.
September 4, 2007 at 6:54 pm
Excellent. And the way Clark hits Young, I’d consider walking him.
September 4, 2007 at 6:54 pm
Nice DP there. Was he really out though?
September 4, 2007 at 6:55 pm
Boy, looked safe to me…..
23: agreed, that’s a good sign, I think.
September 4, 2007 at 6:56 pm
25: Great call.
September 4, 2007 at 6:56 pm
Damn Clark just rocks CY. 4 hits, 4 Home Runs
September 4, 2007 at 6:57 pm
unbelievable… he just owns CY.
September 4, 2007 at 6:59 pm
Wasn’t even a strike. Throw him eephus pitches from now on, CY.
September 4, 2007 at 6:59 pm
Yep, no bigger definition of ownage out there. Oh well, at least its the first. As long as the Padres can figure out how to bat, we stand a shot tonite.
September 4, 2007 at 7:00 pm
btw, gameday says that “Mark Reynolds flies out to left field”… ummm… yeah, if by “hitting a frozen rope to left” is the same thing as “flying out”…
September 4, 2007 at 7:02 pm
Dang. Your pitcher struggles through a long inning, and the first two hitters make outs on 4 total pitches.
September 4, 2007 at 7:04 pm
34: Yeah, at least Bard got the memo.
Christ Padres. 2 fly outs to first? Really?
September 4, 2007 at 7:05 pm
hmmm, I feel a little better about getting shut down five days ago by Doug Davis now that I know he is tied with Jake for tops in the leagues with 7 wins since the break….. still, I want to believe this guy is a bum…
September 4, 2007 at 7:05 pm
Good work Blum. He throws five consecutive balls, so Blum decides to swing at a pitch out of the strike zone and pops out. At least when Greene popped out it was a pitch right down the middle.
September 4, 2007 at 7:05 pm
You’re not leaving Phoenix tonight, fellas. And Happy Hour will be over long before this game ends, no matter how few pitches you take.
September 4, 2007 at 7:06 pm
36: His peripherals point to a 4.75 ERA (that’s his xFIP). That’s bum level.
September 4, 2007 at 7:11 pm
we’re getting breaks on the calls… the D’backs have gotten hosed twice now.
September 4, 2007 at 7:15 pm
have to imagine that hitting and running the bases isn’t good for Young’s oblique or his back…. still, doubles are nice…
September 4, 2007 at 7:16 pm
Cy and Jake are such gamers.
September 4, 2007 at 7:21 pm
Ugh, first pitch swinging kills us again.
September 4, 2007 at 7:22 pm
Why is CY the only one that can hit Doug Davis?
September 4, 2007 at 7:24 pm
PHOENIX (AP) — Seeking a possible fifth starter, the San Diego Padres signed veteran right-hander Brett Tomko on Tuesday.
http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/ne.....;type=lgns
September 4, 2007 at 7:25 pm
The way Doug Davis just grounded out to first was “poetry” according to Mark Grace (I think it was Grace).
September 4, 2007 at 7:26 pm
NEW YORK (TICKER) — San Diego Padres righthander Jake Peavy on Tuesday was named National League Pitcher of the Month for August.
http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/ne.....;type=lgns
September 4, 2007 at 7:27 pm
#45: Huh, I hadn’t heard that.
September 4, 2007 at 7:29 pm
PHOENIX (AP) – With San Diego wrapping up its season series with Arizona this week, Jake Peavy went to manager Bud Black and offered to face the Diamondbacks on three days’ rest.
Black took him up on it, and the right-hander will pitch Wednesday night on three days’ rest for the second time in his five-year career. The first time came on Sept. 26, 2004, when he allowed one run in six innings to beat the Diamondbacks.
“I just threw it out there,” Peavy said before the Padres met Arizona on Tuesday night. “I said, ‘Listen, I feel good, and I don’t think it’s that big of a deal. I would love to be considered.’ And obviously it worked out.”
Peavy is 3-0 with a 1.71 ERA against Arizona this year, with 45 strikeouts in 26.1 innings.
September 4, 2007 at 7:30 pm
Yes, some of this might be old news. But just in case someone hasn’t seen the whole stories …
September 4, 2007 at 7:30 pm
49: Hey Kev - love the effort. Check today’s open thread - we’ve debated a lot of these topics…..
September 4, 2007 at 7:32 pm
crapburgers.
September 4, 2007 at 7:33 pm
Am I the only one who hates how Byrnes finishes his swing? I know people hated Klesko’s bat flip, but I found Byrnes’ antics too hard to take.
September 4, 2007 at 7:33 pm
G’nite fellas. I’ll watch something else.
September 4, 2007 at 7:33 pm
#50: I’m just giving you grief because Tomko happened to be the focus of this particular entry.
September 4, 2007 at 7:33 pm
Yes, I know. But Peavy didn’t move on the wire until 8:45 Eastern, because I’m looking at the wire now. But yes, it was debated plenty before.
September 4, 2007 at 7:34 pm
I find everything about Byrnes hateable.
September 4, 2007 at 7:35 pm
Branyan hit his 10th homer of the season, this time for the Cardinals.
September 4, 2007 at 7:36 pm
55: Right, but the link includes the other moves.
September 4, 2007 at 7:36 pm
Mark Grace’s theory: Chris Young pitches much worse in the windup than in the stretch. OPS against with bases empty: .535. OPS against with runners on: .537.
He then conceded he might be reaching. Yes, you were.
September 4, 2007 at 7:37 pm
Okay, at this point, all we can hope is that CY finds his groove so that he has some momentum going into his next start…. oh yeah, we can hope to actually SCORE A RUN (maybe 6) off of DOUG F’N DAVIS!
September 4, 2007 at 7:38 pm
60: cool stats, thanks. I wonder if maybe CY is struggling more from the stretch now that he has been physicall ailing… I dunno, but I actually wondered the same thing even before Mark Grace mentioned it…..
September 4, 2007 at 7:40 pm
great AB by Adrian. i’m reaching for things to cheer about…
September 4, 2007 at 7:42 pm
62: Well, a huge part of his trouble was that leadoff walk he gave up to Drew and then the double he allowed to Drew in the third. I don’t remember, but it’s possible the homer to Clark was when he was in the windup too, since there was just a runner on third and two outs.
September 4, 2007 at 7:42 pm
Is Gracie the answer to the channel 4 trivia question, too?
September 4, 2007 at 7:43 pm
Can we hit into any more double plays? Jesus Kouz!
September 4, 2007 at 7:43 pm
Okay, so I believe we’re now supposed to hit a 2-run homer… if we follow the same script as the d-backs in the first…..
September 4, 2007 at 7:44 pm
I appreciate that the pitch to Kouz was fat and right down the middle, so it makes sense to swing at it. But then how do you hit it that weakly?
September 4, 2007 at 7:44 pm
This truly drives me nuts, your pitching CY when he’s hurting. Now you will pitch Jake on three days rest, risking his health.
September 4, 2007 at 7:44 pm
64: you’re right. he was in the windup, I think.
September 4, 2007 at 7:44 pm
ugh. that inning ended ugly. Doug Davis looks like friggin Cy Young out there
September 4, 2007 at 7:46 pm
69: How do you know more about CY’s health than the Padres? It is possible that he’s just struggling, even though he’s completely healthy.
September 4, 2007 at 7:48 pm
72: Interesting point. My gut says he is probably stiffer than he’d like, but in reality, he just needs several consecutive starts in order to get his mechanics back. The way I see this going is that we’ll make the playoffs and he’ll be more devastating than Sterling Hitchcock….
September 4, 2007 at 7:48 pm
Nope, former Aztec Travis Lee was the trivia answer… I was on the right track with the SDSU connection.
September 4, 2007 at 7:49 pm
I’m going by what Bud Black said in the paper, that CY’s back wasn’t healed and it would be start to start with him.
September 4, 2007 at 7:51 pm
Hmm, I thought I had read that he was healthy, and that it was just a matter of working out his mechanics. I think I agree with 73, especially the Sterling Hitchcock part.
September 4, 2007 at 7:52 pm
CY looked good that last half-inning. Cmon boys, time to solve the Doug Davis puzzle.
September 4, 2007 at 7:53 pm
Sterling Hitchcock in the ‘98 playoffs: 5 games started, 3-0, 22 IP, 3 ER, 32 K’s.
September 4, 2007 at 7:54 pm
78: sorry, 4 GS.
September 4, 2007 at 7:55 pm
78: That’s what I’m talking about!
BTW, IMHO I agree with the diamondback announcers about the wildcard. I really think the current system has some flaws and the wildcard winner should have a tougher road to the series…
September 4, 2007 at 7:55 pm
Nice! An Ensberg sighting, with good results.
September 4, 2007 at 7:56 pm
At least a double play now plates a run…
September 4, 2007 at 7:57 pm
Bases loaded. Here we go lads…need the big hit.
September 4, 2007 at 7:58 pm
82: Shh, now they’re going to have a 5-2-3 DP.
September 4, 2007 at 8:01 pm
Good contact by Cameron - that ball was hit hard. We’ll take it. Cmon Milton!
September 4, 2007 at 8:01 pm
well, that’s a start…
September 4, 2007 at 8:02 pm
Uh, Milton, it’s called pine tar…
September 4, 2007 at 8:03 pm
Milty just got himself tossed.
September 4, 2007 at 8:04 pm
Ooof. Saw that one coming.
September 4, 2007 at 8:04 pm
…and that will hurt our chances. Milton, the ump gave you plenty of slack there….
September 4, 2007 at 8:04 pm
BUD BLACK HAS TO GET OUT THERE QUICKER THAN THAT!!! COME ON BUDDY!
September 4, 2007 at 8:05 pm
Obviously Bradley is an idiot sometimes. That was a strike. Get in your word and walk away. What he did was silly….
September 4, 2007 at 8:05 pm
The strike three he took hurt us a lot more than him getting tossed.
September 4, 2007 at 8:07 pm
Marsh, I disagree…that’s not on Bud. If Bud comes running out, Milton would have started talking immediately and got run anyway… Bradley had every chance to walk away. The ump gave him more than enough rope, he really did…
September 4, 2007 at 8:08 pm
94: Yeah, I might have overreacted.
September 4, 2007 at 8:08 pm
Lousy inning, even with the one run. You could tell Milton was gonna get run as soon as he started taking off his batting gloves.
September 4, 2007 at 8:09 pm
75: Re: CY’s back after his last start. Here’s a quote from the padres.com notes after his last start against Arizona:
Black said Friday that Young was experiencing the normal “day-after soreness in the arm” and in his back after Young threw 4 1/3 innings against the Diamondbacks.
Black said Young is on target to make his next start on Tuesday in Arizona, and that he doesn’t see the tightness in the lower back that caused Young to miss one start being an issue moving forward.
“I thought yesterday he threw the ball, stuff-wise, good,” Black said. “Obviously, he was erratic in the zone and outside the zone. But he was rusty and his mechanics got out of whack.”
http://sandiego.padres.mlb.com.....mp;c_id=sd
September 4, 2007 at 8:09 pm
Anyone know why they pulled Young after only 4 innings? I know we were down 5-0, but if he were healthy I would think they would have left him in there even after Blum got a hit.
September 4, 2007 at 8:10 pm
98: Because we were down 5 runs and the leadoff man got on. Ensberg’s single was the key to the inning, and if we had gotten 2 or 3 runs there we would have been right back in it.
September 4, 2007 at 8:12 pm
99: I hear you, I just wanted to be sure that it was something other than Young aggravating his injuries.
September 4, 2007 at 8:18 pm
does anyone have mlb.tv?
September 4, 2007 at 8:20 pm
101: yes, lot of us do. I’m watching on it now.
September 4, 2007 at 8:20 pm
102: if you live in san diego, does it black out all the games or just once in a while?
September 4, 2007 at 8:22 pm
103: I live in Boston. I think the trick is that if the game is going to be showed locally, then it is blacked out on mlb.tv.
September 4, 2007 at 8:23 pm
When I’m in San Diego, it blacks out all the Padre games, even when they’re not shown locally.
September 4, 2007 at 8:25 pm
Kouzmanoff has seen four pitches in flying out, grounding into a double play, and grounding out.
September 4, 2007 at 8:25 pm
I guess KK is now established enough to swing first pitch against the erratic Doug Davis.
September 4, 2007 at 8:27 pm
Mark Grace just credited Doug Davis attacking the strike zone and throwing lots of strikes for his success today. Yes, the Davis that has thrown almost half of his pitches for balls today and walked 5 batters in 5 2/3 innings.
September 4, 2007 at 8:30 pm
It would be nice if Blum would have at least taking strike 2 before poppin up.