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1969: Perry Dominates Padres

Sunday, September 30, 2007
by Geoff Young

September 30, 1969, San Francisco: Giants 6, Padres 1 (box score) The Giants scored three in the first off Al Santorini. With runners at second and third, and two out, Bobby Bonds singled to left, driving home Tito Fuentes and Ron Hunt. Left fielder Jim Williams and Santorini both made errors on the play, allowing Bonds to scamper home as well. San Diego threatened to cut the lead the next inning. Van Kelly led off with a single and Ivan Murrell doubled him to third. Gaylord Perry came back to strike out the side, keeping the Padres off the board. In the fifth, with the score now 4-0, San ...

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1969: Padres Score Early, Hold On Late to Beat Giants

Monday, September 24, 2007
by Geoff Young

September 24, 1969, San Diego: Padres 3, Giants 2 (box score) San Diego, with some help from the Giants defense, jumped on Juan Marichal immediately in this one. Jose Arcia and Roberto Pena singled to lead off the first. Ollie Brown then doubled home Arcia. After Marichal fanned the next two batters, Ivan Murrell flied to left for what should have been the final out of the inning. Jim Ray Hart dropped the ball, though, allowing Pena and Brown to score, and giving the Padres a 3-0 lead. Al Santorini held San Francisco in check until the eighth inning, when his control escaped him. A walk, two hit ...

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1969: Dodgers Chip Away, Beat Padres

Wednesday, September 12, 2007
by Geoff Young

September 12, 1969, Los Angeles: Dodgers 5, Padres 3 (box score) San Diego jumped out to an early 2-0 lead against Bill Singer. With one out in the second, Van Kelly drew a walk. Jerry Morales followed with a double to center that scored the Padres' first run. Morales advanced to third on a Ted Sizemore throwing error on the play, then scored on a sacrifice bunt by Chris Cannizzaro. The Dodgers came back with a run of their own in the fourth. Three straight singles off San Diego starter Al Santorini to start the inning made the score 2-1. It could have been worse, but Sizemore bounced ...

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1969: Padres Complete Four-Game Sweep of Dodgers

Friday, September 7, 2007
by Geoff Young

September 7, 1969, San Diego: Padres 4, Dodgers 2 (box score) When the Dodgers arrived in San Diego on Thursday, they were 74-59, 1 game out of first place in the National League West. When they left, their record had fallen to 74-63 and the team from Los Angeles found itself in fourth place, 2 1/2 back of the front-running Giants. The Padres, meanwhile, had pushed themselves ahead of the Expos, who took over as the team with the worst record in baseball. "How did it all go down?" you may ask. Go ahead, ask. Okay, if you insist, I will tell you. The Dodgers jumped out to ...

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1969: Phillies Pound Padres

Monday, September 3, 2007
by Geoff Young

September 3, 1969, San Diego: Phillies 9, Padres 1 (box score) Ugly, ugly loss. Did I say ugly? The Padres scored only once. In the seventh inning, with left-hander Woodie Fryman on the mound for the visitors, San Diego parlayed an Ivan Murrell single and two Phillies errors into a run. That made the score 9-1. The rest? You don't want to know, but I'll tell you anyway. Al Santorini made the start for San Diego. Allowed single runs in the first, second, and fifth innings, and four more in the sixth. You want details. Okay, then; Deron Johnson, Ron Stone, and Don Money each collected three hits. Johnny Callison drove ...

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1969: Expos in Town Means Victory

Wednesday, August 29, 2007
by Geoff Young

August 29, 1969, San Diego: Padres 3, Expos 0 (box score) Following two straight series sweeps at the hands of the Mets and Phillies, San Diego welcomed the Montreal Expos to town. For all the Padres' faults during their inaugural season (and there were plenty), they never seemed to have trouble beating their fellow expansion team from north of the border. On a Friday at San Diego Stadium, right-hander Al Santorini dominated. He allowed an infield single to journeyman outfielder Ty Cline in the third inning and a single to left off the bat of Coco Laboy with two out in the ninth. Those were the only two hits ...

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1969: Padres Lose Late in Philly

Thursday, August 23, 2007
by Geoff Young

August 23, 1969, Philadelphia: Phillies 7, Padres 6 (box score) The Padres drew first blood in this one, thanks mostly to the wildness of Philadelphia right-hander Bill Champion. Two walks, a wild pitch, and a passed ball in the first set up an RBI single by Nate Colbert. The Phillies scored a run of their own in the bottom half on singles by Tony Taylor and Dick Allen, wrapped around a Larry Hisle groundout. The home team extended its lead in the second. A two-out single off the bat of Taylor drove home two more runs, giving the Phillies a 3-1 lead. The two teams traded runs in the third. ...

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