Padres (18-33) vs Reds (23-27)
Greg Maddux vs Matt Belisle
1:05 p.m. PT
Channel 4SD
AM 1090, FM 105.7, XM 183
MLB, B-R
There was a rumor that Sunday’s game might be canceled due to extreme apathy. The truth is, it would have been, but nobody could be bothered to do the canceling.
108 Comments
Iguchi well on his way to striking out 100 times. I would say that overall he has been a failure. Also, is it just me or does anyone notice who very average his range is defensively ?
I think the next four months will determine if he has been a failure.
#2@Kevin: I would be suprised, if Iguchi is a Padre for the next four months.
Greene lays of a low outside pitch, then doubles on the next. They are skiing down bandini mountain in Hades.
#1@JP: It also looks like he is slow on the pivot on double plays.
#5@Kelly in SD: My perception is just the oppisite. It looks to me, like turning the pivot is what Iguchi does best.
#4@Field39:
I used to love those commercials.
Has Ducksnorts settled on a theme song for this year? I know we’re winning today (so far) and I’m not trying to bum us out but how about “Let Down” by Radiohead?
I’m “let down” but I’m “hanging around”.
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Because it went to the second “deck”
#6@Field39: It is not something I have noticed over the whole year, but over the last few nights, he just seems slow. I don’t know if it’s footwork or transfer or throws without much on them, but something seems slow.
Mongo hit ball far. They should think long and hard before moving Kouz, and if they move him it can’t be for 50% off.
Still a gold glover
#12@Field39: Maybe Kouz is just one of those slow starters. I remember Steve Finley being an atrocious April/sometimes May hitter
Nice play Shrek & PMac
#3@Field39: Sure. But two months of a season is not enough to call anyone a failure.
Shrek really needs to hold onto that since PMac didn’t make contact. I know PMac was very close to him, but still.
Looking for a new lose.
Great defense guys, should have been no runs, but now 3. Mad Dog is pi55ed.
I am not impressed at all, with Pmac’s baseball IQ.
I thought college players were supposed to be more fundamentally sound? McAnulty sure seems like he makes a lot of dumb plays out there — I wonder if he was like that in the minors?
Not his fault that Maddux decided to follow the Trevor Hoffman game plan against Adam Dunn though — you think Dunn’s eyes popped out when he saw a pitch up and over the plate from Maddux?
And Shrek leads off the inning with another poor at bat, swinging first pitch at a low outside pitch (on TV), swinging second pitch at a high one, and getting another poor swing on the third pitch and grounding out.
17: You are right but P-Mac still should have back up the play and not trying for it. That’s twice P-Mac has done that I remember.
Should have been out of the inning with no runs.
I know PMac screwed up royally. He is a born DH. Except he doesn’t have the power. He is just atrocious in the field. When I was really watching games in April, I was shocked at how poorly he played the position.
Did that actually bounce down the tunnel? Lousy time for a ground-rule double.
Kouz crushed that ball, and it hits a glove.
now clay is trying to tick off Hairston Jr. by throwing over to first. Nice.
ouch. Clay, not again….
Of course….
They are locked into that goal of 111 loses and a new recdord in Padre futility.
You have to hand it to the Padres, each game they find new and interesting ways to lose.
Right now, my main hope for the Padres is that Stephen Strasburg stays healthy until this time next year.
#31@Schlom: He will stay healthy until his first workout as a Padre. Then…
GIDP…
Of course.
Holy crap.. did I just see that?
#34@Richard D.: yes
Nice AB by Khalil there. Watches strike one right down the middle, swings at one around the letters, takes one in the dirt and then predictably waves at a slider outside. We’re going to lose anyway so I guess it’s not even worth getting worked up over.
Results be damned, I really hated the decision to have Hairston bunt. But credit to the boys for coming back.
I think the 5th inning nicely summarized our season thus far. A routine fly ball should have ended the Reds’ half of the inning with no score, but it’s dropped. The Reds get 3 when Dunn homers on a fat pitch. In the Padres’ half of the inning, with runners on first and second Adrian rips a ball down the right field line that should score both of them. Instead, it hops over the fence and only one scores, leaving runners on second and third with one out. Kouz crushed a ball right at the third baseman, and then Khalil K’s.
The season in a microcosm: stupidity, bad luck, and bad play all coalesce to royally screw the team.
The boys are fighting hard today, though. Coming back to tie in the eighth, ninth and eleventh.
I really hope we win. All the benefit of the comebacks could turn into “why do we even bother” if we lose anyway.
Beavers (win) and Missions (loss) also played extras today.
Headley went 4-5 with a double, HR, and walk.
Let’s win this friggin’ game already.
This is a nightmare in slow motion.
Hey a lead-off double…
And the only place he goes is back 90 feet to first base to play defense some more…
How many in a row can Harang get? Sitting on the double hat-trick, can he make it a treble?
Peavy had 9 in a row last year. Harang definitey picked the right team to break the record against. Bigger issue is how many more innings does he have?
#43@Sean Callahan: If Dusty is willing blow off his next start, he will just stay in until he gets the win.
Figures Giles would prevent us from making the national media tonight…
45 comments. That’s less than three an inning.
Damn, Hoffman is the reason the Padres are even in extra innings.
My family and I left to look at houses, go to El Cuervo for Mexican food, and go shopping at Costco after the sixth inning. I get home and the game is still going on.
Wow.
#46@Kevin: Well, I don’t know about everyone else, but I’m pretty much speechless at this point.
Reality started to set in for me about 2 weeks ago.
Of course, this game is a little more exciting than the 22 inning game.
nice job by Josh Banks here
6 homers and 11 doubles. A little different than against Colorado. I am impressed by what I have seen of Banks.
#50@Kelly in SD: I find this one more frustrating because Hoffman blew this one, making it a marathon.
The Padres didn’t walk anyone between David Ross in the top of the 6th and the two intentional walks in the 17th.
Harang, Volquez. How many pitchers can Baker overuse?
Banks with 5 decent innings…
So, we have Henn remaining in the bullpen plus Wolf, Ledezma and Huber. Ledezma pitched yesterday and Wolf pitched 7 innings on Thursday. I wonder if we don’t score if Banks goes another?
#53@Kevin: Yeah, I am still reviewing Gameday to see what happened.
Checks
Was it really Hoffman’s fault? I see two infield singles, a regular single and 3 Ks. Was Hoffman wild? I see 21 strikes to 7 balls.
What happened?
#56@Masticore317: Yucky Sean Henn was a starter in the minors for a while. If he could come in for an inning or two without giving up nine runs, I’d say he’s next in line.
#55@Kevin: The answer to your question is: Dusty Baker is insane.
#47@Kevin: You could blame Kouz for tying it in the 8th, Hariston for tying it in the 9th or Giles for tying it in the 12th.
Better yet, blame the three unearned runs that McAnulty and Hariston gave the Reds.
damn Freel
now would be a good time for the ol’ hidden ball trick
#57@Kelly in SD: I was actually just going by the boxscore. So I speak from ignorance.
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I think Freel has been playing too long today. And that reminds me of something the Pads would do.
#60@Sean Callahan: It’s hard to blame players for doing good things. The unearned runs are an issue though.
Banks is still hitting 90-91 on the gun after 75 plus pitches.
#65@Kelly in SD: The Padres lost the last marathon because of an error by Greene, who has no backup.
gameday had that one at the fence — how close was it to being gone?
#66@Kevin: Trevor didn’t help, but he didn’t “blow it” any more than any of the other pitchers that have given up the other 8 runs today.
You can’t assume Hariston would have hit a home run if it was tied in the bottom of the ninth.
That’s gotta be it for Banks after throwing two yesterday!
#48@Kelly: El Cuervo is amazing! I don’t live in SD anymore but I make a stop everytime I am in town and am lookin forward to some rolled tacos when I’m out there in July
Lets get at least one guy on to get to Giles – time for the ORANGE CRUSH!
#55@Kevin: The Reds are screwed for the next several days after this!
No Sean Henn!!! Let’s end it here boys!!
Why don’t they make Voloquez, tuck that monster chain away? It couldn’t hurt.
#75@Nick G: That’s definitely gotta be added incentive!!!
#70@Sean Callahan: True.
Is Henn up in the pen? I wonder if they’d have Wolf go an inning instead?
#74@Masticore317: Arroyo pinch hit. So they have only Cueto left. Baker used three relievers for less than an inning. They combined to pitch two innings. Wow.
#79@Masticore317: Screw Henn, get Buddy up in the pen!
He’s probably got a few innings in him
dammit
at least Scotty stole the base there, so it’s like a SH
#81@Nick G: I’m all for that.
#80@Kevin: If Baker brings Cueto also he may get fired on the spot. There’s gonna have a very long week ahead of them.
Nice at bat by the Gooch…way to battle. I see Hairston is on 2nd just in time for the crush!
#80@Kevin: Again, Baker is insane. He’s put his team in a bit of a pickle here.
Some sort of error and now Giles is on 1B?
you know what would be nice? A wild pitch
#84@Masticore317: He should have just used a position player instead of Volquez. It’s just one game.
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#87@Nick G: OR A FREAKING HOMER!!!!! HOLY CRAP
#88@Kevin: No doubt!!!
A-GONE! Hell yeah! That’s exactly what this team needed!!!
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Nice fly by Gonzalez.
one for every inning.
It was awesome to see the fans behind the plate jump to their feet as AGon hit it.
Gamecast showed the pitch was down by his shoes – was it that low???
AWESOME WIN PADRES!!!
#95@Masticore317: It was pretty low…. don’t know if it was THAT low.
PUT ME TO BED YOU ORANGE SOB!
Josh Banks gets a well-deserved first MLB victory – 6 IP, no unintentional walks, 4Ks, 5 hits.
Finally, a walk-off victory.
That’s a wonderful way to end a long day. Will it have long term effects? Maybe, maybe not. But it sure feels a lot better than losing
#100@Rich Campbell: Hell yeah it does.
Holy crap I just watched Indiana Jones, came back and the game was still on. They and We won!!! Nice
When I saw the CF running back, I prayed “Please let it go, man… do yourself and everyone else a favor and just let the ball drop so the game can end right here”… Turned out he didn’t have to shame himself the way I was hoping. Thank god it’s an off day tomorrow.
#102@Oside Jon: How was the new Indy? I’ve heard lukewarm reviews.
#104@Richard D.:
My kids liked it, but I’d give it 5 on a scale of 1 to 10. It wasn’t bad and it could’ve been way worse. I just read some nice reviews from cannes online and was expecting more. Plot was not bad but there were plenty of extremely lame action scenes that seem to be put in there so we can foresee and experience a new ride at Disneyland. A decent movie but the digital manipulation (in some scenes) was something I could do without. There were groundhogs digitally created (see jar jar binks – or however you spell it) and no purpose other than George Lucas needed something to do.
All in all, not sure it was worth $40 for the whole family, but the kids were excited and that’s worth more than $40.
I’m no Siskel and Ebert. As a man, big time thumbs down but as a father thumbs up. Let me know what you think.
I let out a huge roar on the Bellagio floor (Las Vegas) when Agon hit his blast. Yes, I bet on the Padres ! The game was on a small TV in the corner of the sportsbook. Everyone was watching the Laker-Spurs game and my yelp made everyone turn around as they must have wondered why I was yelling during a 3rd quarter Spurs timeout.
Banks looks pretty good actually with excellent control and a lot of poise. I am about to go to baseball cube and check his past performance. He has won a place in my heart.
UT gave up early:
Padres allow nine runs in extra innings loss
(posted at 4:43PM on the 25th)
http://www3.signonsandiego.com/news/2008/may/25/padres-allow-nine-runs-extra-innings-loss/
Shame on them.
#107@Sean Callahan: That’s quite Bolshevik of them.