Monday August 31, 2009
From Jon Heyman on Twitter, Peavy's elbow soreness is just a bruise from being hit by the line drive in his last outing.
For Peavy's sake I hope so. He has always been a favorite Padre of mine and I hope he gets healthy and pitches again soon.
Monday, August 31, 2009
Padres post 1st winning month of the 2009 season
Monday August 31, 2009
Tim Stauffer threw 6 1/3 innings of 5 hit ball and was backed up by nice defense and RBI doubles from David Eckstein and Kevin Kouzmanoff in the 1st to get his 3rd win of the season, 3-1 over the Washington Nationals at Petco Park tonight.
Chase Headley added an insurance run with a 414 foot solo blast to RF in the 8th and Heath Bell came in to record his 32nd save of the season and 18th save in 18 opportunities at Petco.
With the win the Padres improved to 15-14 on the month, their first winning month of the 2009 season.
Its stretches like this that give you hope for 2010. Without Peavy and Young and with 8 other guys on the DL, the Padres still pull out a winning month.
Tim Stauffer threw 6 1/3 innings of 5 hit ball and was backed up by nice defense and RBI doubles from David Eckstein and Kevin Kouzmanoff in the 1st to get his 3rd win of the season, 3-1 over the Washington Nationals at Petco Park tonight.
Chase Headley added an insurance run with a 414 foot solo blast to RF in the 8th and Heath Bell came in to record his 32nd save of the season and 18th save in 18 opportunities at Petco.
With the win the Padres improved to 15-14 on the month, their first winning month of the 2009 season.
Its stretches like this that give you hope for 2010. Without Peavy and Young and with 8 other guys on the DL, the Padres still pull out a winning month.
Sunday, August 30, 2009
Bud Black is an idiot
Sunday August 30, 2009
In what many expect to be Mat Latos' last game of the season, Bud Black left him in the game to get pounded in the 4th inning.
Bud Black, for a former pitcher, has absolutely no recognition of when a pitcher is done.
There was no reason to leave Latos in to take the 5 run beating he did. After allowing 2 singles and walk it was evident that Latos was done. He was missing badly with all of his pitches having throw 6 pitches in the dirt and three higher than the batters heads in just 4 batters. Balsley had already been out to the mound to talk to him.
The next batter drove in two runs on a single back up the middle on a batting practice pitch. This is when Latos should have been pulled from the game.
There was no reason for Black to leave him in to throw even one more pitch.
Instead Black left him in and he walked the next batter. Why didn't Black take Latos out at that point? A good manager would have. Nope, Black left him in until he allowed a hit that drove in 3 more runs.
Now this kid will have all off season to think about how he gave up 5 runs in his last outing.
I cannot think of a single way in which Black could have mismanaged a young pitcher in a worse manner. Black is totally clueless.
In what many expect to be Mat Latos' last game of the season, Bud Black left him in the game to get pounded in the 4th inning.
Bud Black, for a former pitcher, has absolutely no recognition of when a pitcher is done.
There was no reason to leave Latos in to take the 5 run beating he did. After allowing 2 singles and walk it was evident that Latos was done. He was missing badly with all of his pitches having throw 6 pitches in the dirt and three higher than the batters heads in just 4 batters. Balsley had already been out to the mound to talk to him.
The next batter drove in two runs on a single back up the middle on a batting practice pitch. This is when Latos should have been pulled from the game.
There was no reason for Black to leave him in to throw even one more pitch.
Instead Black left him in and he walked the next batter. Why didn't Black take Latos out at that point? A good manager would have. Nope, Black left him in until he allowed a hit that drove in 3 more runs.
Now this kid will have all off season to think about how he gave up 5 runs in his last outing.
I cannot think of a single way in which Black could have mismanaged a young pitcher in a worse manner. Black is totally clueless.
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