Padres (5-5) @ Dodgers (4-5)
Jake Peavy vs Brad Penny
7:40 p.m. PT
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Jake dominated the Dodgers last weekend in San Diego. Perhaps more importantly, he seems to have gotten into their heads with Smudgegate. Here’s hoping he can work that to his advantage.
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Just a couple of upbeat comments:
1) We didn’t lose yesterday.
2) Jake is on the mound tonight!
Go Padres!
Penny has a 2.84 ERA and is 1-1 compared to Jake’s next to nothing ERA and 2-0 record. Now, if the Pads could just knock some base runners in, we’ll be good to go.
#2: Mind you, that is against each team I believe. I may be wrong. I’m suffering from sleep deprevation.
no Direct ty ch 4 broadcast tonight ,,, have to watch Vin and listen to 1090
ok boys .. keep going …
clutch hits!!!
that’s my padres … 2 lob
Too bad that Giles and Edmonds battled back from 0-2 counts, taking several close pitches, only to strike out on pitches way out of the zone.
8. I don’t know .. at least they didn’t swing 1 – 2 – 3 .. got his pitch count up saw a lot of pitches
bunt double from Furcal
this is not starting well
ugly start
Peavy having a hard time finding the strikezone
nice way to pic up your pitcher boys … 463
Nice DP to bail Peavy out there!
The scoreboard doesn’t show it, but everyone’s having nice at bats so far. Keep making Penny work!
a bit of luck for Hairston
Grant is correct. Penny’s shoes ARE illegal.
look at that, another Padres single…
ok Bardo
What’s wrong with his shoes?
Anyone following the Aztec-Utah game? Stephen Strasburg has a 1-hitter with 19 strikeouts with one out in the 8th. Aztecs up 1-0.
19: That was more of an ROE than a single.
Make that 21 strikeouts! He just struck out the side again in the 8th.
Nice PA by Bardo. Everyone is having good PA’s. Can’t beat that.
nice at bat Bardo …. you can do it JAKE
18 what’s up with the shoes
I liked taking the bunt off there, but it didn’t work particularly well.
50 pitches for Penny ….
4 LOB in only two innings. sigh…
24.
Dude, are you being serious right now?
That is insane!!!
29: Technically that’s only three because of the double play. Small comfort.
#21: First they don’t match the rest of the team’s and second they are predominately white.
Jake just does not have his stuff
31: Oh yeah, you’re right
All right, looks like it’s time for Jake to go to the pine tar.
35: LOL
Sounds like the Dodger fans aren’t too happy with Jones. I’m sure glad we didn’t shell out $36 mil for him.
just got home…… Checking the blog before the TV????
I’m hopeless………..
rosin dirt pinetar …oh my
OT: Anyone in the IGD with the Ducksnort annual?
K K ..keep going
Nice back-to-back strikeouts after the leadoff double
YES
nice throw Scott ..dumb base running Martin
Bard ‘punched’ him away from the plate! Nice play for a catcher!!!
Jake slowed some things down and got some better pitches
he was damn close to being safe…even with the ball getting there 1/2 hour before him
ok .. second time around …. GET PENNY !!!!!
ok og
Another nice AB from Giles.
I like to see that Buddy has the hit-and-run on
YIPEE another single
Wow, AG beat out a DP grounder?!?
52: ?
This is my favorite commercial of all time (Yogi in the barber shop)!
Where on earth did this team’s power go?
Penny is on pace for 180 pitches….so we have that going for us.
54 … being sarcastic
SDSU’s Stephen Strasburg’s 9th innning:
HBP, sac bunt, K, K. Complete game 1-hitter with 23 strikeouts and a 1-0 victory.
Anyone know the NCAA record for Ks in a 9-inning game?
Also, where on earth did Peavy’s control go?
60: That’s my concern.
they are jumping on every pitch
Well that was really stupid by Kouz.
come on…strikeout then DP
50 nope.. great game .. wish would have seen that one insted of this one
64: Will be hard to get a DP with Pierre already on 2nd.
Well, now he’s on 2nd…
2 down. I’ll be happy to get out of this only giving up one run
whew. Jake struggling but keeping us in it
Hey! Another single! How will this one be stranded:
A) Next three hitters retired.
B) Double play ground ball
C) Three more singles, runner thrown out at the plate
C would be the most frustrating
That shot looked Tony Gywinn-ish.
What is that, like 25 straight hits that have gone for singles?!?
Nice!
WOOOOOOOOOOOHOOOOOOOOOO. Finally
wooohoo!
Oh, and another single
Embrace the power of little ball! All your singles are belong to us!
59 ::: Junior pitcher honored for her NCAA record 28 strikeouts against North Carolina May 2004
http://baylorbears.cstv.com/sports/w-softbl/spec-rel/052404aaa.html
bad bunt
woohoo station to station rally!
Sweeeeeeeeeeet! About time!
GILES!
More singles!!!!!!
ok I will take singles if they are stung together like that
and yet another single
‘Bout time Cha Cha
More singles!!!!
LMAO!!!! ANOTHER RUN-SCORING SINGLE
59 .. still looking for men’s record
between innings I’m going to look to see how many straight singles we are at now
Record for Ks in an NCAA game is 26 by Buddy Schultz of Miami (Ohio) vs. Wright State on April 30, 1973.
DINK!!!DINK!!!DINK!!!DINK!!!DINK!!!DINK!!!DINK!!!DINK!!!DINK!!!DINK!!!DINK!!!DINK!!!DINK!!!DINK!!!DINK!!!DINK!!!DINK!!!DINK!!!DINK!!!DINK!!!DINK!!!DINK!!!DINK!!!DINK!!!DINK!!!DINK!!!DINK!!!DINK!!!DINK!!!DINK!!!DINK!!!
This is bordering on fun to watch. I’d like to see an extra base hit, though.
alright, now this is a lot funner!
Holy Santa Maria!!!!!
Singles!!!! This is absolutely absurd. Seriously. This team is supposed to hit .240 with enough power and walks to push them back to average. WHY ARE WE ONLY HITTING SINGLES?!!?!?!?
Lovin’ the singles, but how about a gapper or a bomb here from Kouz?
93: That’s great.
As a qualifier to the NCAA record, NCAA records only go back to 1957, it’s possible there is a higher strikeout game.
OK, our last 29 hits have been for singles. That’s got to be a record streak of hits without an extra-base hit. (9 today, 4 Thur, 13 Wed, and the last 3 hits Tue)
Zagz .. what did the one batter do that he did not striek out ??
That was a wicked nasty slider!!!
101: In the live ball era, maybe.
So who does the Dodgers sign next year to a big contract to play CF? LOL!
102: No idea, I just got the info from the 2008 NCAA record book. I’ll try a google search.
100 comments after 3.5 innings. You’ve come a long way, baby.
Nice 3 to 1 play.
Nice play Gonzo!
nice play Adrian .. and Jake
There was a lot of time spent yesterday bashing Edmonds. How about those Dodgers and their centerfielder? Would everyone be happier with AJones in CF for the Pads with his pricetag?
I don’t like much about Brad Penny, but his entrance music is pretty sweet. Baba O’Riley by the Who.
111: Jones is probably a bit more likely to have a productive season than Edmonds still. Given the price tag, though, I’ll take Scott Hairston.
111: No. Just happier with Hairston and one of our young guys. Sure, Edmonds looks good compared to a worse scenario.
111: Thank goodness KT didn’t sign THAT deal. I’d rather have Edmonds, whose hitting 304, cost $6 mil for one year and average defense; than Jones, whose hitting 121, cost $36 mil for two years
We currently have five guys in the lineup batting over 300
116: All those singles are good for something, I guess.
If they keep hitting singles, they will all be slugging .300.
30 straight now
Yet another single. Amazing.
Ohhh, so close. I was screaming at my computer for Khalil to go to second on that, to break the streak. But no, it’s just another in the avalanche of singles.
18: LMAO!
Good AB KG….thought my boy was gonna strike out. Another single.
San Diego State IP H R ER BB SO AB BF ERA
—————————————————–
Strasburg, Stephen.. 9.0 1 0 0 1 23 26 30 1.97
Aztec’s win 1 -0
I could be wrong, but I think the DBacks are riding 30 straight extra-base hits. Those boys can hit!
See if Peavy can record outs against Furcal and Pierre
Dang it
OK BARDO !!!!!!
perfect throw by Bard. Love it.
WOW!!!!!!
Caught Stealing!!!! OMG!!!!
I was screaming so loud on that throw I scared the dog who was sound asleep
now that was an inning !!!
Nice. Jake may go another complete game if they keep this up.
Nice inning of work there Peavy
I’d have the pen up ready for the quick hook for Peavy in the sixth. The scoreless innings are something of a mirage, as he’s still getting hit and still struggling to locate his pitches. A very nice changeup to retire Ethier though.
That Caught Stealing was sure nice to see – watching Furcal run wild on us last year made me sick
‘Missed it by that much.’
I wouldn’t mind breaking our singles streak !!
136: ain’t that the truth
I’m surprised that Torre is letting Penny stay in this long. He’s already well over 110 pitches
Good attention span Dodger crowd.
Strasburg’s game for SDSU is amazing. From the opposite end of the college baseball spectrum I offer you:
http://mutigers.cstv.com/sports/m-basebl/stats/2007-2008/mu_32.html
Pretty good day for a kid named Jacob Pridy.
Iguchi is probably Penny’s last batter
143 .. thanks for the info … he’s a senior .. looks like he had a great college career
Peavy’s changeup looks like his best pitch tonight.
F$#%% Loney
ouch
So that’s what an extra base hit looks like.
Jake is not on his game tonight.
No worries. Jones is up. Easy out
Where did that miss?!!!!
many of Jake’s pitches tonight have gotten too much of the plate – like the homer to Loney and the single by Martin.
Here come’s Thatcher….
152: It didn’t.
one more Jake
whew. out of the sixth.
way to go boys … Sweeny was on deck …. yuck
Not his best six innings, but Peavy has done a good job in keep the Dodgers in check without his best stuff (or pinetar
)
I’ll give Blake DeWitt credit for chosing Led Zepplin’s ‘Battle For The Evermore’ as his intro music.
Kouz has to love being sandwiched between Gonzalez and Edmonds in the late innings. He’s going to see lots and lots of LOOGYs.
Count up to 31
Edmonds reminds me of watching ‘Silent L’ last year…
163: Ugh
163: That’s harsh
Edmonds breaks the streak! lol
EXTRA BASES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
78 Padres had 39 straights singles ….. and with that the streak ends at 31
AN EXTRA BASE HIT!!! AN EXTRA BASE HIT!!!
And the streak ends at 31
New nickname for Edmonds—Silent L2.
Blum would pull a hit out of his ass once and awhile as well.
time to purchase some insurance here…get the RBI Greenie
ok KG bring them in the flood gates are now open for extra bases
Good job KG!
atta boy Greenie. got that run back.
It almost looked like KG got more of that.
I’m OK with going to the pen now
Thatcher looked good in his last outing. Hopefully he keeps it going
Furcal is a real pain in the arse.
Yeah he is
Not bad for a sophomore. 16 of final 17 by K, with the one exception a sac bunt.
From SDSU site:
SAN DIEGO – “San Diego State sophomore right-hander Stephen Strasburg etched his name in the record books as he struck out 23 batters in the Aztecs’ 1-0 win over Utah Friday evening at Tony Gwynn Stadium. Strasburg set both the SDSU and Mountain West Conference marks for strikeouts in a game as he allowed only four base runners on the night, none of which passed second base.
…the night belonged to Strasburg (4-1), who did not allow a base runner until the fourth inning with a base on balls to Corey Shimada. After Shimada was caught stealing, Strasburg got 16 of the Utes’ final 17 outs via the strikeout with the other coming on a sacrifice bunt in the final frame. Utah’s lone hit of the contest was a chopper by Michael Beltran that got through the middle of the diamond in the sixth.”
our bull pen is just not as good as in past years …
I’ve never heard of Troncoso…
Time for a new singles streak. There’s 1.
184….LOL
time for the Crabbe schuffel around the bases
Sue, you got yor shuffle!
I could have gone without the bad K
keep going Calix
GOOOCH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
There’s 2!
Alright!!!!! The streak is up to 2
CRABBE SHUFFLES HOME!!!!
gotta love the clutch (and situational) hitting that the Pads have managed tonight. Now the bully has to get 6 more outs – anyone else nervous like I am?
I can hear the fans chanting “LET’S GO PADRES” how awesome is that!
194: only nervous about the last three
Kouz – make them pay!
DINK!!! DINK!!! DINK!!!
Can you say 5.5 hole?
3
Thank you Kouz may I have another!!!!
There’s 3!
“The Dodgers are being eaten alive by an angry moth.” -Scully
SEEMS LIKE WE BE LIKEN THE SINGLES TONIGHT LOL
203: hmm, interesting…
A flock of moths .. there fans are boooing the heck out of them …
or ws that all the terrific Padres fans yelling KOOOOZ
1 down, 5 to go
this long AB is scaring me
whew, that was close
Goodness Bell does not look right.
long and scarey but just a noisy out
day of yesterday .. last year they were not their best after days off
another long AB
3 more outs
210: No he doesn’t. He just can’t put away hitters right now. 2 deep fly ball outs plus deep counts to every hitter.
a few more singles would be nice … say 5 or so ..lol
I say we try and pass 31 in a row this inning. So… only 28 singles needed this inning. Yes we can!
Hoffman and Meredith are up.
Hoffman if we don’t score, Meredith if we do
Let’s go PMac!
Forgive me, but I don’t need to see Hoffy in this game tonight
There’s 4.
4
I’m assuming Hoffman will be in for the save, Meredith with a four-run lead.
but if we keep getting singles .. how will we ever hit for the cycle
come on Mac
3 outs Hoffy. YOU CAN DO IT!!!!
bong bong bong
Si se puede!
uno
Flyout to Hairston.
Death.
Dong!
Seatbelt fastened. Tray table in the locked and upright postition.
dos
K
Taxes.
Dong! Dong!!
ON my FEET
The light-hitting Pierre is up
CAUTION: Trevor Hoffman has been known to cause cardiac arrythmia.
crap
ugh
Hoffman seldom gets through an outing unscathed anymore.
This is not a recommended trait for a closer.
why cant it just be easy!
He seems to leave EVERYTHING up in the zone. If he does that with Kent…well…
oh my. Stop the bleeding!!!!!!!!!!
He was out. Bad call.
Can someone pls. dial 911 for me? Trevor is killing me.
I know Hoffman being done is not a popular opinion around here yet, but when is it time to start saying he’s done? How many bad games does he need to have?
Whew!
tres. Thank goodness.
K
Hoffman.
Dong! Dong!! Dong!!!
For one strike, vintage Hoffman.
If he can keep the fastball down, he can still be effective.
I think.
That was an ugly win, but a win none the less. Good game
Nice pitching to Kent. He ripped off a few great changeups and got him swinging.
248: Dude, he gave up two squibbled singles. Nothing was hit hard. He struck out two guys. The problem was his approach against DeWitt and Furcal, where he tried to paint the outside corner instead of challenging them.
Hoffy lowered his ERA … frightening, indeed …
248: After about month or five weeks, that will be a decent enough sample size to use.
Hoffman’s location is off. Not much off but just enough to be a problem for him, since he doesn’t throw hard. His location has to be right on.
Either’s infield hit should have been an out. It was fairly clear on replay.
248: I think it’s 50-50 or better that Hoffman is, indeed, finished as an effective reliever. I’ve had a lot of fun watching him over the years, and I very much hope that he can get it together for at least the remainder of this season.
But the end is coming, if not this year, then next…
#248: I was at the first game that they played Hell’s Bells. I love Trevor the same as I do Tony G. for entertaining me for so many years. But I agree. At some point, a person has to make the decision to hang it up and move on to Cooperstown.
I’ll buy another brick for Trever just as I did for Tony!
248: Agreed. His approach suggests he’s not confident in going right after hitters. Walking DeWitt in that situation is not OK, especially considering he’s 0 for whatever this year against us. Make him hit the ball.
Sorry, that should have been 256: Agreed…
Hoffy isn’t done, but he does need his confidence back
I’m not even saying he’s done, though I think his role as a closer is about at it’s end. I’m not a fan of players being grandfathered into their spots. Then again I’m not sure who on the staff should be closing either, as Bell hasn’t looked himself lately either.
It looks like Hoffman his throwing his slider much, much more this year. Fangraphs says he’s throwing it 15% of the time this year (obviously small sample size, but still indicative of his approach) versus 5% in previous years. Tonight, his strategy was using his slider to get ahead of righties and his fastball to get ahead of lefties, trying to get into a favorable count where he could use his changeup. The slider approach certainly seemed to work against Jones and Kent, but he had trouble locating his fastball away against the lefties. The umpire was also very consistently calling a tight outside corner throughout the game, and that really hurts Trevor. I think he should have been more aggressive in going after DeWitt and Furcal, since a walk was almost as harmful as a home run from either of them. Mixing up his pitches earlier in the count to lefties might help as well if he’s struggling to hit that outside corner.
That’s my $.02 on how he’s pitching now. Here’s the fangraphs link where you can see his pitch percentages at the bottom of the page. Tonight, according to the mlb gameday pitch identifying algorithm (which seemed to work pretty well for his pitches), he threw 19 fastballs (all but one to lefties), 7 sliders (all to righties), and 5 changeups. The result of the changeups were: weak fly to left, two swinging strikes, and the two weak singles.
http://www.fangraphs.com/statss.aspx?playerid=1035&position=P
258: I didn’t think his location was off… He put the ball right where Bard asked for it and the plate ump didn’t give him any corners… the numbers don’t look good, but compared to Heath Bell’s 1-2-3 inning, Trevor was just better… Bell was all over the place and got hit hard twice for long outs whereas Trevor hit his spots within inches and nobody hit him hard.
Peavy gave up three runs in six innings, but he improved to 3-0 with a 1.64 ERA.
Thatcher ERA: 10.80
Bell: 1.17
Hoffman: 0-2, 9.80 ERA. 3-for-4 in save chances.
Giles went 1-for-3 to give the Padres six regulars batting .300.
The Padres had 17, 16 of them singles.
267: You’re probably right, but if the umpire thinks your off, then you are. Maybe he’s not going to “get” calls, if he’s not pitching well.
268: 17 hits, that is.
Trevor looked better. It was scary, but he looked better. It looked like he was getting squeezed a little and he got robbed of an out by a terrible call by the first base umpire.
Correction on Hoffman’s ERA: 11.57