IGD: Padres vs Astros (31 Mar 08)
Mon, Mar 31, 2008
by Geoff Young
Padres (0-0) vs Astros (0-0)
Jake Peavy vs Roy Oswalt
7:05 p.m. PT
Channel 4SD
AM 1090, FM 105.7, XM 184
MLB, B-R
It’s beginning to look a lot like Opening Day. What better time to bust out an esoteric table:
| Str/Pit | GS | IP/GS | H/9 | HR/9 | BB/9 | K/9 | ERA | W-L | RS/G | RA/G |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Statistics are courtesy of Baseball-Reference. | ||||||||||
| >.66 | 10 | 6.80 | 5.16 | 0.40 | 2.51 | 11.25 | 1.72 | 8-1 | 6.70 | 2.60 |
| .63-.66 | 15 | 6.60 | 7.64 | 0.45 | 2.36 | 9.00 | 2.36 | 6-4 | 3.73 | 2.87 |
| <.63 | 9 | 6.30 | 7.31 | 0.79 | 3.65 | 8.89 | 3.81 | 5-1 | 6.44 | 3.78 |
Throwing strikes is good. Apparently so is having your teammates score lots of runs.
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March 31, 2008 at 6:09 pm
One more hour…
March 31, 2008 at 6:20 pm
Wish I could be downtown tonight. 45 minutes to go.
March 31, 2008 at 6:21 pm
my prediction: 3-1 padres win late off a KK 2 run shot in the 8th Bell gets the win Hoffy gets the save.
March 31, 2008 at 6:25 pm
Here we go…this is what I get for moving to Atlanta - praying for the occasional ESPN telecast and shelling out $120 for MLB.TV. Ain’t technology wonderful?
Glad to see familiar names - it’s been a long offseason. The Colorado game was (just about) six months ago tonight…
March 31, 2008 at 6:27 pm
Woohoo! First pitch coming up.
Welcome back, DSers.
March 31, 2008 at 6:28 pm
4: Let us not speak of Game 163.
March 31, 2008 at 6:36 pm
I feel as giddy as a little kid on Christmas morning.
March 31, 2008 at 6:42 pm
I bought a High Def TV recently and I’m so stoked to be able to watch the games in high def. I’ve been waiting for this day since the day I bought this thing. I already told the whole family that the living room is mine tonight.
March 31, 2008 at 6:43 pm
Awesome! The countdown says 21 minutes!
March 31, 2008 at 6:47 pm
Jon, I bought my 42″ HD plasma just for the Pads and Charger games!
Glad to see we got rid of Slient L.
March 31, 2008 at 6:57 pm
10: Rick, I went with 42″ LCD. The glare would’ve been bad at my place for a plasma, from what I was told. Let’s just say I had people coming over to watch the Super Bowl.
I second your Silent L statement.
Here’s to a good season everyone and Thanks GY for making this possible.
March 31, 2008 at 6:58 pm
ESPN has been weird with the black-outs today. They are lasting too long. I am hoping the black-out from the Angels game doesnt last deep into the Padres game.
March 31, 2008 at 6:59 pm
Good luck to your Padres. My Phillies didn’t fare so well today.
Any truth to the concerns that have been floating around about Jake Peavy’s mechanics begging for elbow problems?
March 31, 2008 at 6:59 pm
First pitch is next. Woo!
March 31, 2008 at 7:01 pm
11: LCD>Plasma. Good choice. I just bought a 40″ LCD, baseball has looked beautiful all day.
March 31, 2008 at 7:01 pm
I brought this up earlier but why is Khalil batting 6th? Does it make sense to bat your worst hitter there instead of 8th?
March 31, 2008 at 7:01 pm
#13: Bill, I just know that he and CY were working on change-ups this spring.
March 31, 2008 at 7:02 pm
Sadly, my computer is not in the same room as our big screen.
March 31, 2008 at 7:04 pm
16: Bud’s an optimist? Good question, although we have no idea if P-Mac is better than Greene at this point.
March 31, 2008 at 7:05 pm
Amazing how good Oswalt has been since he’s been in the Majors. His worst season was ‘04 with a 125 ERA+.
This should be a great game.
March 31, 2008 at 7:07 pm
Hey, my 12 year old just played Take Me Out to the Ball Game on the piano in his room. It was great. Four years of piano lessons have finally paid off. Go Padres!
March 31, 2008 at 7:09 pm
they say you can tell a lot about how the season’s going to go from the first pitch…
nice!
March 31, 2008 at 7:17 pm
This ESPN b-quad announcing crew isnt doin it for me. The Padres need to play small ball, the Padres have no offence and the Padre’s catchers are terrible comments get old quick.
March 31, 2008 at 7:18 pm
Adriaaaan. Nice catch to get Jake out of that one.
March 31, 2008 at 7:18 pm
Looks like everyone’s a little rusty… including the cameramen.
March 31, 2008 at 7:18 pm
That first inning seems to normally be the toughest for Jake. Happy to see him get through it even though it wasnt exactly “pretty”
OT: TG Jr. 2-3 with and RBI and SB today, not too shabby.
March 31, 2008 at 7:19 pm
21: That’s awesome.
Jake throwing alot of pitches like usual. Oh well. Got him a CY last year.
March 31, 2008 at 7:19 pm
23 - agreed. The announcers are hard on the ears.
March 31, 2008 at 7:23 pm
GOOOOOCH! Niiiiiiice
March 31, 2008 at 7:23 pm
Nice. Does Iguchi have a Ducksnorts nickname? If not, might I suggest “Gooch”?
March 31, 2008 at 7:23 pm
Konichiwa Iguchi san.
March 31, 2008 at 7:25 pm
“Up the middle” single by Kouz. 1st and 3rd 1 out. Lets turn a new leaf Padres! Forget all the LOB from last year.
March 31, 2008 at 7:25 pm
Oswalt is gonna have a nice big bruise from that one!
March 31, 2008 at 7:27 pm
“Gooch” sounds to me a lot like “Gook”. :-/
March 31, 2008 at 7:29 pm
I am pretty sure Gooch has followed Iguchi from each team he has been on.
Good job Pads, make Oswalt work
March 31, 2008 at 7:33 pm
Oswalt’s curve is sick
March 31, 2008 at 7:38 pm
36: Too true. Hairston looked over-matched.
March 31, 2008 at 7:39 pm
The president was roundly booed last night, but he is not the reason the park is hard to get to.
There are about five parking spaces there. The shuttle leaves you five blocks from the park. You can take the Metro, but it’s a shit neighborhood.
There is a lot of excitement about the park, but here in the office, where we are all cynical, we don’t know if it will last the whole season.
March 31, 2008 at 7:41 pm
Jake looks like he settled in. His stuff is moving and going for strikes.
March 31, 2008 at 7:42 pm
The gun on ESPN has gotta be off, I dont think jake has really ever thrown a pitch 75 MPH.
March 31, 2008 at 7:44 pm
37: Greene looked just as over-matched.
March 31, 2008 at 7:45 pm
Shakespeare! Great wheels, turning a triple into a double.
March 31, 2008 at 7:46 pm
41: That Oswalt guy is pretty good.
March 31, 2008 at 7:46 pm
Way to go P-Mac!
March 31, 2008 at 7:46 pm
42: Bardo could use a second gear.
March 31, 2008 at 7:46 pm
All right P-Mac. 1st and 3rd 1 out again. Lets see if they let jake hit
March 31, 2008 at 7:46 pm
Ok, I really hate having Peavy bunt here.
March 31, 2008 at 7:47 pm
Attaboy Jake
March 31, 2008 at 7:47 pm
Jake Peavy with the hardest contact of the night.
March 31, 2008 at 7:47 pm
Next, they’ll ask Jake to catch for himself.
March 31, 2008 at 7:47 pm
Just kidding. Good decision to let him swing away.
March 31, 2008 at 7:47 pm
If P-Mac isn’t better then Khalil at home the Pads might be in some trouble the early part of the season.
I like the Bard-McAnulty combo back to back. Two guys that get on base and have some doubles power. That’s another reason to bat Khalil behind them on the chance that he runs into one.
Does Carlos Lee always run like that? He looks like he’s injured out there. He’s barely lifting his knees.
March 31, 2008 at 7:53 pm
Nice to see Kouz and Greene aren’t colliding this year on that play.
March 31, 2008 at 7:55 pm
I thought OG was going to trip into the warning track.
March 31, 2008 at 7:57 pm
#34:
It is what Coleman has been calling him all spring and it reminds me of Arnold’s bully in Diff’rent Strokes which is kind of cool. I vote for “The Gooch”. Of course it was given less than desirable connotations by the guys from “Jackass” show & movie.
Regardless, I am so freaking excited I can’t believe this day is finally here!
March 31, 2008 at 8:00 pm
Re: 23 - “B-Squad” is really a compliment to them..they are more like the X squad…they are terrible.
This East Coast thing sucks…it is bed time and it is only the 3rd inning. I need a coffee…or a scotch.
March 31, 2008 at 8:01 pm
56: ESPN’s “A Squad” is plenty awful, too.
March 31, 2008 at 8:02 pm
Re: 45 - that was his second gear…he runs like me…
And is Arestis talking about the “1st half” in regards to KK not hitting? Dude, he did not hit in April…
March 31, 2008 at 8:03 pm
Richard…I like John Miller, but Joe Morgan is a tool.
March 31, 2008 at 8:15 pm
Peavy was throwing some heat this inning, but he was missing badly with his location. Nice work setting up the K on the heat with the changeup.
March 31, 2008 at 8:19 pm
I guess Bardo didn’t like that bat. LOL.
March 31, 2008 at 8:23 pm
The Bard-PMac-Peavy thing seems to be working tonight.
March 31, 2008 at 8:23 pm
Jake Peavy esta en fuego!
March 31, 2008 at 8:23 pm
P-Mac swinging the wood - and Peavy doubles his RBI total! Give him the Silver Slugger already!
March 31, 2008 at 8:31 pm
D.J. Gallo of ESPN.com’s Page 2 had his NL preview today, and his riff on the Padres seems appropriate tonight:
Like division rivals Arizona, Los Angeles and San Francisco, the Padres have difficulty scoring runs. But San Diego will still be competitive, thanks to a pitching staff led by Jake Peavy, who led the NL in wins, strikeouts and ERA last season. Peavy also led the Padres with 17 hits, a .233 batting average and seven RBIs.
March 31, 2008 at 8:32 pm
They just talked about how this was Jerry Coleman’s 63rd straight spring training — he hasn’t missed one since he signed as a professional in 1946. Pretty amazing.
March 31, 2008 at 8:33 pm
Every year since the big war.
March 31, 2008 at 8:33 pm
random thoughts…Isn’t Peavy like watching the 1970s pitchers. He can pitch, hit, and not afraid to slide.
What about bard back to middle of lineup, maybe 5th? Seems a better fit than Hairston.
March 31, 2008 at 8:41 pm
68: Or Kevin Brown, during the 1998 playoffs.
Candace Wiggins, son of Alan, just scored 41 points to lead Stanford to the Final Four.
March 31, 2008 at 8:41 pm
Adriaaaaaaan!!!!!!!!!
March 31, 2008 at 8:43 pm
‘Bout time Greene got something going.
March 31, 2008 at 8:44 pm
Oswalt throws one in the dirt. Grant say “they never swung at them when I threw it down there”. Gwynn replies, “You always showed your pitches. Grant’s reply, “Now you tell me. Gwynn, without missing a beat, “I told you then, too”
It’s fun to listen to Tony taking about hitting. So simple. So matter of fact.
March 31, 2008 at 8:47 pm
69: I’m a St. Louis area guy. Gibson was what I was thinking about, but Kevin Brown is a good call.
I’ve been reading the Ducksnorts for the last couple years, finally posting. Looks like I’m hooked.
March 31, 2008 at 8:48 pm
The ESPN guys just praised Hairston, correctly, for going from first to third on Greene’s dinker to left. Smart heads-up play.
March 31, 2008 at 8:49 pm
Suppose to rain Wednesday. If a rain out will they play a double header on Thursday? If so, how does that work out for ticket holders?
March 31, 2008 at 8:50 pm
68:
Moving Hairston down in the order against RHP is probably a good idea. Certainly he should be in the middle of the order against lefties though.
Wild game in Atlanta tonight. The Pirates blew a five run lead in the bottom of the ninth, got a 3 run HR from Nady (his 2nd of the game) in the 12th but then gave up 2 runs in the bottom of the inning before getting the 3rd out with the tying run on first. Some poor performances from closers so far this season.
March 31, 2008 at 8:50 pm
73: Gibson, definitely. Great athlete. Played for the Globetrotters for a year. He is one of the all time home run leaders among pitchers.
March 31, 2008 at 8:50 pm
@72 - always a pleaseure to hear Gwynn shoot the BS
March 31, 2008 at 8:54 pm
#73: Jeff did you buy the 2008 Annual? Great read about GY’s trip to Cooperstown.
March 31, 2008 at 8:57 pm
Great PA by Peav.
March 31, 2008 at 8:59 pm
79: Haven’t bought it yet, need to though.
March 31, 2008 at 9:00 pm
Peavy causes Oswalt to get the hook. Sweet!
March 31, 2008 at 9:01 pm
I’m sure Jake will be rubbing this game in Oswalt’s face later at the bar
March 31, 2008 at 9:02 pm
Nice to see the Giles finally get on base tonight. He had some less than stellar ABs.
March 31, 2008 at 9:02 pm
83: You have to assume he’ll be insufferable after wearing Roy out like that.
March 31, 2008 at 9:04 pm
85: insufferable succotash
March 31, 2008 at 9:05 pm
Domo adigato Mr. Iguchi. Domo…domo
March 31, 2008 at 9:05 pm
The Gooch.
Kouz needs to take one for the team there…maybe…
March 31, 2008 at 9:09 pm
Bases loaded with Adrian up. Whew.
March 31, 2008 at 9:09 pm
DIPS and BABIP perspective: Peavy was 3 runs luckier than Oswalt today
March 31, 2008 at 9:10 pm
Astros just lucked out.
March 31, 2008 at 9:11 pm
Damn. Adrian smoked that one, and Petco claims another victim (with an assist from Bourn’s wheels). Park effects, indeed.
March 31, 2008 at 9:13 pm
A book a highly recommend for this season: The Bill James Gold Mine
March 31, 2008 at 9:13 pm
Waaaaaay off topic, but this has to be shared. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a Padre mentioned in a New York Times op-ed…let alone two of them in one column.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04.....rooks.html
Must-read. Geoff, I nominate this for the Friday links.
March 31, 2008 at 9:15 pm
So, any 2nd guessing on Peavy not coming out?… 91 pitches after 6 IP… first game of the season. I can understand him batting in the bottom of the 6th… best stick on the club
… but lift him for a pinch-runner after the walk.
March 31, 2008 at 9:19 pm
95: There was no reason not to at least let him start the seventh.
March 31, 2008 at 9:19 pm
95 - only question I’d have with that is, do we have a clear 7th inning guy in the bullpen yet; or would that choice be lineup/matchup-driven? I’m OK with letting Jake go the 7th, to set up Bell - Hoffman.
March 31, 2008 at 9:20 pm
Charachteristic hit by Silent L.
March 31, 2008 at 9:23 pm
i like the silent break on mlb this year… go pads
March 31, 2008 at 9:26 pm
There is a “hit” by Greene. Goes to show you not just anyone can play in the Petco OF.
March 31, 2008 at 9:26 pm
97: Almost of all them should be 7th inning guys. Bullpen by script is stupid.
March 31, 2008 at 9:29 pm
101: I agree, basically 2 spots should be fairly stagnant, mop up guy and closer.
March 31, 2008 at 9:33 pm
Great performance by Jake, picking up right where he left off.
March 31, 2008 at 9:34 pm
Gotta like our #1 pinch hitter option this year.
March 31, 2008 at 9:37 pm
This kid Wright looks like he should still be in Middle school..
March 31, 2008 at 9:39 pm
I think him and Lincecum are in the same class.
March 31, 2008 at 9:39 pm
Backe v CY tomorrow. Backe’s their #2? That’s some dropoff from Oswalt.