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Aaron Cook has been dominant this year, but Tuesday night was a whole new level. He threw just 79 pitches in a complete game shutout of the Padres. He allowed just five hits in a game that lasted just an hour and 58 minutes, the shortest in Coors Field history. The Rockies won the game […]

Jake Peavy is undoubtedly one of the best pitchers in baseball, and if you take that off a team, it hurts. The Padres were more than happy to welcome Peavy back to their starting rotation and he was more than happy to remind people why he is so good.
Peavy masterfully threw six innings of three […]

In his last start he outdid Johan Santana. In his next start, he threw one run baseball over seven innings and struck out nine Dodgers.
Randy Wolf is slowly making this into a solid season for himself, and establishing himself as one of the best deals of the last offseason.
The Padres took home the win 4-1. […]

The Padres had a five game win streak snapped in the opener of a three game set with the Dodgers. They lost by a score of 7-2.
Greg Maddux had trouble controlling his pitches, something you won’t hear very often. He walked three and his pitch count went up high early, He only allowed one run, […]

Tony Clark sent the Padres and their fans home happy, with a second straight late inning  win. A day after Scott Hairston homered in the bottom of the tenth, Clark hit a three run, two out blast to center field off Billy Wagner.
The pitch came on a full count, and Clark did not miss. The […]

The Padres offense still is not lighting up the scoreboard by any stretch of the imagination, but they are lighting up the win column with surprising consistency. The Padres won their fourth straight game Saturday, by the same exact score each time. The score of 2-1 has become the Padres lucky combination to say the […]

The Padres are not scoring runs like they want to, but they are scoring exactly how many they need to. Three straight wins by a score of 2-1 and the Padres have now won eight of their last 12 games.
Pitching has been the key to this mini hot streak, and Randy Wolf was no exception […]

With the way the Padres season has been going thus far, they will take a win anyway they can get it. By all means, you will not hear any grumblings about having a hit batter force in the winning run from the Padres clubhouse.
That was just the scenario the Padres found won the game for […]

The Padres managed to break out of a mini slump, after losing three straight games. They took the final game of a series with the Cubs by a score of 2-1.
The runs came at opposite ends of the game, with the first coming in the first. Scott Hairston got things started off with a bang, […]

The Padres finally have a .300 hitter in their starting lineup. Adrian Gonzalez has been hotter than the sun lately, hitting .615 for the month of June and .442 in his last 10 games.
After two straight games with homers, and four RBI’s in last night’s game, he followed it up with a 3-5 game. He […]

Carlos Zambrano has earned himself a reputation as a good hitting pitcher. So when he had three hits in the game to help his own cause in a 7-6 Cubs win, it did not come as a huge surprise to anyone.
Zambrano went five innings on the mound giving up five hits and three runs while […]

A moment of indecision by a fielder can make the difference between an out or a base hit. In this case, a moment of indecision can mean a win or a loss.
The Padres took this loss especially hard. The game ended with the ball in shortstop Edgar Gonzalez hands and the score at 4-3.
Adrian Gonzalez […]

Josh Banks found lightning in a bottle in just his second major league start. The rookie took a shutout into the ninth inning against the Giants and left the field a 5-1 winner.
Ironically, manager Bud Black had jokingly suggested that Banks go out and throw a complete game for the Padres after the club placed […]

One night after avoiding extra innings, the Padres found a way to play bonus baseball yet again. In the 13 inning affair, the Padres outlasted the Giants and won by a score of 7-3.
The Padres had managed to squander plenty of opportunities in the game. Kevin Kouzmanhoff managed to ground into a triple play, a […]

The Padres have grown all too familiar with extra innings affairs. Not one or two extra innings, more like nine or ten. After playing 18 and 22 innings games already this year, winning in nine innings is a nice break for the Padres. Jody Gerut stepped up and erased the through of bonus baseball from […]

The Padres almost put together a three game win streak for the first time this year, but could not muster enough late inning efforts to win and fell to the Washington Nationals by a score of 6-4. Scott Hairston homered in the bottom of the seventh, part of a three run inning that pulled the […]

Kevin Kouzmanhoff and Adrian Gonzalez went back to back to help the Padres win back to back games. After a much needed off day after an 18 inning affair with the Reds two days before, the Padres took the opener over the Washington Nationals by a score of 4-2.
Randy Wolf took a no decision after […]

The Padres split a four game series with the Cincinnati Reds over the weekend. The Padres took the finale in dramatic fashion, winning on a walk off homer by Adrian Gonzalez in the 18th inning. The homer brought home three runs and gave the Padres a 12-9 win.
Scott Hairston sent the game to extras when […]

The Padres suffered a large defeat by a score of 11-3 to the Cardinals Wednesday night. As if that was not enough, Albert Pujols managed to be on the end of two injuries sustained by Padres players.
First, Pujols hit a sharp liner back through the box that broke pitcher Chris Young’s nose. He was left […]

The offense still was not impressive, but it was enough to beat the Cardinals 3-2. Earlier in the day, the Padres had a meeting behind closed doors. One can only guess what it was about, but it is pretty likely that managed Bud Black had plenty to say about the teams abysmal performance to this […]

The Padres offense failed to perform again. The story of the season thus far has still yet to change. Losing their best pitcher to the DL is not the news a slumping team needs, but that is the news they received. Star Jake Peavy was placed on the DL, and Wil Ledezma made the start […]

Erik Bedard gave the Padres more than they could handle, and left them defeated. The Mariners won 4-2 over the Padres to even the series at a game each. Bedard went eight solid innings, punching out 10 Padres and giving up just two runs.
The Padres offense continued with its season long woes and had just […]

The Padres showed an offensive spark that has been lacking all season in a 6-4 win over the Mariners. The struggles at the dish have been highly publicized and criticized openly this year.
Brian Giles led the way for the Padres with a 4-5 game with two runs driven in. Tadahito Iguchi pounded out three hits […]

Greg Reynolds, the No. 2 overall pick in the 2006 Draft, had about as good a debut as anyone could have hoped for. The 21 year old right hander went 5.2 innings, allowing six hits and four runs. The Rockies bats did not show up to back him, and they plated just one run in […]

Greg Maddux joined elite company Saturday. In his fifth attempt to win his 350th game, he succeeded. He got the victory over the Rockies by a score of 3-2.
Maddux gave up just three hits in six innings, only allowing one unearned run.
Ubaldo Jimenez had his most impressive start of the year for the Rockies. […]

Aaron Cook had his best outing of the year, allowing just three hits in seven innings to beat the Padres 4-2. Garrett Atkins had three hits and Brad Hawpe drove in two runs to back the victory. Cook improved to 6-1 on the year.
Jake Peavy took the loss for the Padres, dropping to 4-2. He […]

Matt Diaz singled home the winning run with one out in the bottom of the ninth to lift the Braves to a 5-4 win over the Padres in the series finale. It was the Braves sixth straight win, and the Padres dropped to 12-23 on the year.
The Padres pitchers held the Braves in check all […]

The Padres dropped the second game of the series to the Braves 5-2. Tim Hudson was impressive going seven innings and allowing just two runs on six hits. He picked up the win to improve to 5-2. Brian McCann had three hits to support the winning effort.
The Padres had just six hits and starter Randy […]

Jair Jurrjens continued to impress early in his first full season and Chipper Jones cannot be explained anymore. Jurrjens picked up his fourth win of the year by a score of 5-3, beating his win total last season with the Tigers. He struck out eight Padres in just six innings allowing just one run. Jones […]

Greg Maddux was pounded for 11 hits in 5.2 innings in a loss to the Marlins 10-3. Glendon Rusch threw just .1 innings and allowed three runs in relief, and Wil Ledezma was hit around for the first time this year. He gave up two runs in 1.2 innings, but did K three.
Andrew Miller was […]