Comments on: IGD: Padres vs Astros (2 Apr 08)

By: OkiPadres

OkiPadres — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 14:36:47 +0000

Look at he bright side fellow Padres fans. We own baseball’s highest team batting average at 355! And everyone said we couldn’t hit….

By: PM

PM — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 14:31:54 +0000

Well, lets not panic, but we all know whats coming, Trevor is coming to the end of his run and the Padres better have a plan in place to ease him and the fans through this tough transition.

For instance:

Run Bell out there on consecutive nights
Promote Bell as the successor to Trevor
Cool it on the Trevor Time theatrics
Maybe even commit to a retirement now so we can all enjoy his final year.

The Padres, Trevor and his agent must have the courage to face the music, if they don’t, he will whither on the vine and we will be pissed by the end of the season.

He still has gas in the tank, but not on consecutive nights.

By: Rickey Henderson

Rickey Henderson — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 13:32:36 +0000

Capitol blog you’ve got over here Pads fans. Rickey shall return.

http://ridingwithricky.blogspot.com

By: Richard

Richard — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 08:17:42 +0000

148: I was yelling at my tv when he walked Cruz. I still don’t get why he didn’t give Cruz a chance to hit it at someone.

By: Field39

Field39 — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 05:38:39 +0000

147. What I don’t understand, is not challenging Cruz. If Cruz takes him deep I can live with that, but walking the weak hitter?

By: Schlom

Schlom — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 05:19:58 +0000

144:

I don’t remember seeing any pitches that were close that were called balls — unless they expected an Eric Gregg-Livan Hernandez strike zone.

That was an odd blown save by Trevor. Usually you can tell right away when he’s going to have a bad outing as his fastball velocity is way down — anytime I see it sitting at 83-84 I know it’s going to be ugly. But he was fine the first two batters and then lost control of his change to Cruz (and didn’t throw a fastball). Then he left his fastball up to the next three batters. Trevor has such a fine line for success and if he doesn’t have good control, he needs luck to get outs (hope the ball gets hit at someone). Unfortunately he didn’t get the luck tonight.

By: Geoff

Geoff — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 05:15:04 +0000

144. I thought the first few pitches to Berkman were borderline calls that didn’t go Hoffy’s way, putting Berkman in a hitters count and forcing Hoffman to throw basically a BP fastball down the middle. Considering Berkman was 0-7 going into tonight and Carlos Lee was on deck, I don’t blame Hoffman for going after Berkman. Again, this would not have happened had he got one of the first two pitches (which I assume were outside, maybe high on the second pitch).

Either way the game had been tied at this point and the save blown.

By: Turbine Dude

Turbine Dude — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 05:13:02 +0000

I’m vexed on my feelings about Hoffman. The guy is one of the best at what he does. However, there comes a time when we all have to say that we are too old and tired to do what we do.
My commentary is stupid given we’ve only really seen him twice so far and I feel guilty even making these comments.

By: LynchMob

LynchMob — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 05:11:33 +0000

rotoworld.com says this about Hoffman’s outing …

The home-plate umpire’s lack of generosity definitely played a role in the poor outing.

… but I’m not hearing any of you that were watching it say anything about ball/strike calls … what could they be talking about?

By: krs1

krs1 — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 05:07:22 +0000

139.

Agree

141.

Agree