Sunday September 6, 2009
Happy Labor Day!
The San Diego Padres defeated the Los Angeles Dodgers 4-3 tonight at Chavez Ravine to take their 4th straight series. Throw out the two series against the St Louis Cardinals, the best team in the NL right now, and the Padres have not lost a series for a month.
After a 15-14 August, their first winning month in 2 seasons, the Padres are now 4-1 in September.
Who would have thunk it?
Its fun watching these kids play. Sometimes you have to look between the fingers you have put over your eyes because you are not quite sure if they are going to get it done, but its still fun.
And you know they are going to make some mistakes, like the 3 errors in one game (and the error tonight) by Everth Cabrera and a bad pitch here and there from the young pitchers, but its still fun.
Tonight we saw a resurgent Tim Stauffer throw 6 2/3 innings of 1 run ball for his 4th win of the season and 3rd straight. In fact if Joe Thatcher had not come in with 2 men on and 2 outs and given up a double on the first pitch to the left handed Andre Ethier the Padres likely would have won this game 4-1. We saw rookie reliever Luke Gregerson come in and shut the Dodgers down for 1 1/3 perfect innings.
We also saw Kevin Kouzmanoff drive in 3 runs, his 81st, 82nd, and 83rd; and Adrian Gonzalez hit his 35th home run. Heath Bell got his 35th save of the season. We saw Cabrera score his 48 run in just 77 starts. That is a 100+ run pace.
Not one Padre I mentioned there is over 30 except 31 year old Heath Bell.
That folks, is exciting! I can't wait to see what these kids and hopefully a couple of key Free Agent or Trade acquisitions this off season can do in 2010.
Sunday, September 06, 2009
Saturday, September 05, 2009
Padres 2010 Draft Slot
Saturday September 5, 2009
As of today the San Diego Padres would receive the 7th pick in the 2010 draft.
At the All Star break the Padres would have received the 2nd draft pick behind the Washington Nationals.
At the pace they have been playing at since the All Star break, the Padres would finish with the 10th draft pick.
Are you happy that the Padres have started playing well and winning, or would you rather have seen them continue to play sub .400 ball and end up with the 2nd pick?
As of today the San Diego Padres would receive the 7th pick in the 2010 draft.
At the All Star break the Padres would have received the 2nd draft pick behind the Washington Nationals.
At the pace they have been playing at since the All Star break, the Padres would finish with the 10th draft pick.
Are you happy that the Padres have started playing well and winning, or would you rather have seen them continue to play sub .400 ball and end up with the 2nd pick?
Friday, September 04, 2009
Beat LA, Beat LA, Beat LA
Friday September 4, 2009
6 shutout innings from LeBlanc, a clutch 2 out single from Kouz, and Bell shuts them down in the 9th for his 34th save of the season - Beat LA
from websoulsurfer's twitter post
Twitter is fun, but that pretty much sums up this game.
Dodgers pitching held the Padres to just 5 hits, but Wade LeBlanc threw 6 innings of 2 hit, shut out ball and a 2 out single by Kevin Kouzmanoff drove in David Eckstein in the 1st inning for what proved to be the winning run.
The only other offense in this game came on a single by Oscar Salazar and two errors on a single play, a grounder to short by Nick Hundley, that allowed Salazar to score.
In the only really scary moment for the Padres, after hitting Russell Martin and giving up a single to Rafael Furcal bring the go ahead run to the plate, Joe Thatcher got a key out against Andre Ethier in the 7th to end the rally.
The Padres have now won 8 of their last 10 games.
6 shutout innings from LeBlanc, a clutch 2 out single from Kouz, and Bell shuts them down in the 9th for his 34th save of the season - Beat LA
from websoulsurfer's twitter post
Twitter is fun, but that pretty much sums up this game.
Dodgers pitching held the Padres to just 5 hits, but Wade LeBlanc threw 6 innings of 2 hit, shut out ball and a 2 out single by Kevin Kouzmanoff drove in David Eckstein in the 1st inning for what proved to be the winning run.
The only other offense in this game came on a single by Oscar Salazar and two errors on a single play, a grounder to short by Nick Hundley, that allowed Salazar to score.
In the only really scary moment for the Padres, after hitting Russell Martin and giving up a single to Rafael Furcal bring the go ahead run to the plate, Joe Thatcher got a key out against Andre Ethier in the 7th to end the rally.
The Padres have now won 8 of their last 10 games.
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