April 27, 1969, San Diego: Padres 5, Reds 2 (box score); Padres 10, Reds 9 (box score) The Padres swept the first ever doubleheader at San Diego Stadium. In the opener, right-hander Clay Kirby hooked up against right-hander George Culver. The Padres didn’t waste any time in this one. Tommy Dean led off the bottom [...]
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1969: Padres Mount Late Comeback to Defeat Reds
April 26, 1969, San Diego: Padres 5, Reds 2 (box score) Dick Kelley and left-hander Jim Merritt locked horns in the second of four games between the Padres and Reds at San Diego Stadium. Merritt, who won 12 games with Minnesota the previous season, came to the Reds in a November 1968 deal that sent [...]
1969: Bench, Maloney Lead Reds Past Padres
April 25, 1969, San Diego: Reds 4, Padres 1 (box score) The Reds, making their first visit to San Diego, sent right-hander Jim Maloney to the mound against Tommie Sisk. A Fresno native, Maloney had won 20 or more games in a season twice by age 25. In 1968, a down year by his standards, [...]
1969: Colbert Knocks First Homer, Padres Defeat Houston
April 24, 1969, Houston: Padres 4, Astros 1 (box score) A day after being completely dominated by Larry Dierker, the Padres set the tone early in this one. The game started innocently enough, with the two teams exchanging zeroes in the first inning. Ollie Brown then led off the top of the second with a [...]
1969: Dierker, Astros Shut Down Padres
April 23, 1969, San Diego: Astros 4, Padres 0 (box score) The Padres, perhaps feeling guilty about the eight runs they’d scored against Atlanta the previous night, put up very little fight against Larry Dierker and the Houston Astros. Dierker, who had lost to the Padres two weeks earlier, limited the home club to just [...]
1969: Ollie Brown Leads Padres Past Atlanta
April 22, 1969, San Diego: Padres 8, Braves 4 (box score) The Braves jumped out to an early lead against left-hander Dick Kelley. In the top of the second, after retiring the first two batters, Kelley served up singles to two of the weakest batters in the lineup, shortstop Sonny Jackson and pitcher Pat Jarvis. [...]
1969: Padres Return Home, Fall to Braves
April 21, 1969, San Diego: Braves 5, Padres 2 (box score) Back home in San Diego, the Padres welcomed the Atlanta Braves to town for a brief two-game series. The Braves were led by Hank Aaron, whose 512 career home runs placed him fifth on the all-time leaderboard behind Ted Williams, Jimmie Foxx, Willie Mays, [...]
1969: Padres Fall to Perry Again
April 19, 1969, San Francisco: Giants 5, Padres 3 (box score) Any hope the Padres had of building momentum based on the previous night’s victory evaporated quickly. In a rematch of the April 13 contest in San Diego, right-handers Dick Selma and Gaylord Perry went to battle at Candlestick Park. Perry had won the first [...]
1969: Santorini, Padres Stop Losing Streak
April 18, 1969, San Francisco: Padres 3, Giants 1 (box score) After dropping five straight, the Padres came out swinging in this one. With the help of two passed balls by Giants catcher Dick Dietz, San Diego scored two runs in the first. Roberto Pena scored the first run, with the second coming on a [...]
1969: Padres Lose Again to Marichal
April 17, 1969, San Francisco: Giants 5, Padres 4 (box score) Nine games into their existence as a big-league franchise, the Padres scored more than two runs in a game for the very first time. After pouncing on Juan Marichal for two runs in the top of the first inning and adding another in the [...]
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