So much for going out with a bang. Pads dropped two out of three to the worst team in baseball to finish the season. On the other hand, I did see something in the finale I don’t believe I’ve ever seen. In the sixth inning, both clubs had runners on second and third with nobody [...]

Well, it’s October and technically the Padres still aren’t out of the race. Or, if you’re reading this later in the day, maybe they are. The Pads have already won 22 more games than they did all last year (and they still have three more to go against the worst team in baseball), and they’re [...]

The Giants bullpen tried to give the game to the Padres. The Padres hitters tried to give it back. In the end, some sloppy defense and a well-placed fly ball tipped the balance in the Pads’ favor. It may not have been pretty, but it was effective. Thanks to an extended stop at The Field [...]

After the obligatory fifth starter thrashing, the Padres came back to win the third game at Dodger Stadium. Brian Lawrence allowed the first five batters to reach base but settled down and held the Dodgers to three runs in six innings, becoming the first Padre 15-game winner since 1998. The bad news is that it [...]

What the heck, haven’t done one of these in a while. 7:08 PM Checking out ESPN’s Stat Pack. Great feature. Surprised to see that the Pads are running four lefties against southpaw Odalis Perez. Getting excited at the prospect of watching Terrence Long hit grounders back to the mound. 7:11 PM So much for Stat [...]

I didn’t get to watch much of last night’s game. By the time I got home, Jim Edmonds was just singling home Scott Rolen in the fifth to give the Cards a 5-1 lead. The Padres had their chances to get back into the game and managed to cut the defecit to 5-3 thanks to [...]

A four-game sweep at Shea certainly is a nice way to start a road trip. Eventually the guys are going to have to learn how to win at home, but now isn’t really the time to gripe about that. Great starting pitching in the series. The combined line: IP H R ER HR BB SO [...]

Freddy Guzman makes his big-league debut and the Padres score 11 runs at home. Interesting. Guzman, starting in center field and leading off, singled on the second pitch he saw from Jaret Wright, then proceeded to drive the Braves’ starter to distraction. How much of it was due to Guzman’s presence on the bases and [...]

Padres won their second straight road series, taking two of three from the Reds this weekend. Good offensive performances from pretty much every spot in the lineup. Real strong outing from Adam Eaton Sunday afternoon. His work in the fifth, striking out Adam Dunn and Willy Mo Peña with the bases loaded, was clutch. Eaton [...]

Frustrating homestand. Longest of the year, and the Pads finish 5-8. This is not how contenders play in August. Of course, if the Padres had been able to take care of business earlier in the year, this might not be such a problem. But that is water under the well-trodden bridge. After taking three of [...]