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.
126 Comments
One more hour…
Wish I could be downtown tonight. 45 minutes to go.
my prediction: 3-1 padres win late off a KK 2 run shot in the 8th Bell gets the win Hoffy gets the save.
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…
Woohoo! First pitch coming up.
Welcome back, DSers.
4: Let us not speak of Game 163.
I feel as giddy as a little kid on Christmas morning.
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.
Awesome! The countdown says 21 minutes!
Jon, I bought my 42″ HD plasma just for the Pads and Charger games!
Glad to see we got rid of Slient L.
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.
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.
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?
First pitch is next. Woo!
11: LCD>Plasma. Good choice. I just bought a 40″ LCD, baseball has looked beautiful all day.
I brought this up earlier but why is Khalil batting 6th? Does it make sense to bat your worst hitter there instead of 8th?
#13: Bill, I just know that he and CY were working on change-ups this spring.
Sadly, my computer is not in the same room as our big screen.
16: Bud’s an optimist? Good question, although we have no idea if P-Mac is better than Greene at this point.
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.
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!
they say you can tell a lot about how the season’s going to go from the first pitch…
nice!
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.
Adriaaaan. Nice catch to get Jake out of that one.
Looks like everyone’s a little rusty… including the cameramen.
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.
21: That’s awesome.
Jake throwing alot of pitches like usual. Oh well. Got him a CY last year.
23 – agreed. The announcers are hard on the ears.
GOOOOOCH! Niiiiiiice
Nice. Does Iguchi have a Ducksnorts nickname? If not, might I suggest “Gooch”?
Konichiwa Iguchi san.
“Up the middle” single by Kouz. 1st and 3rd 1 out. Lets turn a new leaf Padres! Forget all the LOB from last year.
Oswalt is gonna have a nice big bruise from that one!
“Gooch” sounds to me a lot like “Gook”. :-/
I am pretty sure Gooch has followed Iguchi from each team he has been on.
Good job Pads, make Oswalt work
Oswalt’s curve is sick
36: Too true. Hairston looked over-matched.
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.
Jake looks like he settled in. His stuff is moving and going for strikes.
The gun on ESPN has gotta be off, I dont think jake has really ever thrown a pitch 75 MPH.
37: Greene looked just as over-matched.
Shakespeare! Great wheels, turning a triple into a double.
41: That Oswalt guy is pretty good.
Way to go P-Mac!
42: Bardo could use a second gear.
All right P-Mac. 1st and 3rd 1 out again. Lets see if they let jake hit
Ok, I really hate having Peavy bunt here.
Attaboy Jake
Jake Peavy with the hardest contact of the night.
Next, they’ll ask Jake to catch for himself.
Just kidding. Good decision to let him swing away.
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.
Nice to see Kouz and Greene aren’t colliding this year on that play.
I thought OG was going to trip into the warning track.
#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!
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.
56: ESPN’s “A Squad” is plenty awful, too.
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…
Richard…I like John Miller, but Joe Morgan is a tool.
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.
I guess Bardo didn’t like that bat. LOL.
The Bard-PMac-Peavy thing seems to be working tonight.
Jake Peavy esta en fuego!
P-Mac swinging the wood – and Peavy doubles his RBI total! Give him the Silver Slugger already!
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.
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.
Every year since the big war.
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.
68: Or Kevin Brown, during the 1998 playoffs.
Candace Wiggins, son of Alan, just scored 41 points to lead Stanford to the Final Four.
Adriaaaaaaan!!!!!!!!!
‘Bout time Greene got something going.
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.
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.
The ESPN guys just praised Hairston, correctly, for going from first to third on Greene’s dinker to left. Smart heads-up play.
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?
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.
73: Gibson, definitely. Great athlete. Played for the Globetrotters for a year. He is one of the all time home run leaders among pitchers.
@72 – always a pleaseure to hear Gwynn shoot the BS
#73: Jeff did you buy the 2008 Annual? Great read about GY’s trip to Cooperstown.
Great PA by Peav.
79: Haven’t bought it yet, need to though.
Peavy causes Oswalt to get the hook. Sweet!
I’m sure Jake will be rubbing this game in Oswalt’s face later at the bar
Nice to see the Giles finally get on base tonight. He had some less than stellar ABs.
83: You have to assume he’ll be insufferable after wearing Roy out like that.
85: insufferable succotash
Domo adigato Mr. Iguchi. Domo…domo
The Gooch.
Kouz needs to take one for the team there…maybe…
Bases loaded with Adrian up. Whew.
DIPS and BABIP perspective: Peavy was 3 runs luckier than Oswalt today
Astros just lucked out.
Damn. Adrian smoked that one, and Petco claims another victim (with an assist from Bourn’s wheels). Park effects, indeed.
A book a highly recommend for this season: The Bill James Gold Mine
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/2008/04/01/opinion/01brooks.html
Must-read. Geoff, I nominate this for the Friday links.
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.
95: There was no reason not to at least let him start the seventh.
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.
Charachteristic hit by Silent L.
i like the silent break on mlb this year… go pads
There is a “hit” by Greene. Goes to show you not just anyone can play in the Petco OF.
97: Almost of all them should be 7th inning guys. Bullpen by script is stupid.
101: I agree, basically 2 spots should be fairly stagnant, mop up guy and closer.
Great performance by Jake, picking up right where he left off.
Gotta like our #1 pinch hitter option this year.
This kid Wright looks like he should still be in Middle school..
I think him and Lincecum are in the same class.
Backe v CY tomorrow. Backe’s their #2? That’s some dropoff from Oswalt.
hey…”Pen-Ultimate”. that’s kinda clever.
What the hell was Tejada thinking?
enjoyed watching cla a few times here in ‘zona…
We win!
PADRES WIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
No one got to do “Death, taxes, Hoffman?” Nice win!!!
a little more reserved than game one win last year, eh?… and about 2/3 comments. In any case, i hope they do well!
69: Candace is a girl and led the women’s Stanford team to the Final Four…Stanford men were knocked out in the Sweet Sixteen
Oops…meant to say Stanford men were knocked out in the Elite Eight…my bad
Ok last post I swear…Stanford men were knocked in the Sweet Sixteen…these late nights at ESPN are killin me
117: Yes, I knew that. Sorry. She is a WOMAN.
Latos is on the shelf with a sore shoulder. They say it is not serious but?
http://www3.signonsandiego.com/news/2008/mar/31/edmonds-ready-now-eager-return-saturday/
Just returned home from Petco. Terrific game; hopefully many more just like it.
Is there something to our top minor league pitchers having arm trouble? Schmidt, Latos, Stauffer, Carrillo, Bush…sorry had to throw that in there…all go down with arm injuries…those are some high draft picks, spread out over a few years. I guess those five are not statistically significant, but those five do represent some serious draft positions in our organization.
re 121: Yeah bad luck
Mark…don’t you think that if we have 5 of our top few draft picks all go down with injuries in a short bit of time would at least point to something more than just luck?
re 123:
No.
Seriously, what could it possibly point to? Is Moores instructing them to intentionally draft players who are already hurt(Stauffer, Schmidt) or to take players that the magic oracle has told him will get hurt in the future(Carillo, Bush) in an attempt to save money.
By the way, too soon to add Latos to that list. Plenty of guys miss 1 start when they are in A ball without any long term effects.
118 … and, just for the record, it’s Candice Wiggins …
http://gostanford.cstv.com/sports/w-baskbl/mtt/wiggins_candice00.html
… and she’s been an AWESOME basketball player @ Stanford!
125: I know, I follow the sport closely.