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 [...]
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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: Padres Drop Final Game of Inaugural Road Trip
April 20, 1969, San Francisco: Giants 3, Padres 2 (box score) The final game of their inaugural road trip saw the Padres send Tommie Sisk to the mound. The Giants countered with right-hander Bobby Bolin. After trading single runs early, the Padres and Giants remained deadlocked until the bottom of the sixth. In that inning, [...]
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 [...]
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