Baseball Historians

The Padres pounced on Dan Haren early and often, striking for four in the first inning and staking out a big lead for Jake Peavy. With that lead, it should be enough. Adam Dunn had other ideas, jacking a three run bomb in the bottom of the first to pull the Diamondbacks back within one. [...]

Adam Dunn and Doug Davis teamed up to beat the San Diego Padres in the opener of a three game series by a score of 7-6. The Padres made a late run with three runs in the top of the ninth inning but the Diamondbacks were able to hold off the Padres attempts to tie [...]

Cole Hamels was born and raised in the San Diego area. It was only fitting that he felt right at home in Petco Park against the Padres on Sunday. Hamels, with plenty of family and friends in the stands, left the Padres with zero chance at victory from the start of the game. The Phillies [...]

Starting his first game as an MLB pitcher, Chad Reineke had his work cut out for him: beat the Phillies with a solid outing. He did that, and more. He took the win from an 8-3 victory for the Padres, while getting his first MLB hit to drive in a run and come around to [...]

In a battle of two longtime pros, the soft tossing lefty scraped out just ahead of the righty with pinpoint control. The Padres Greg Maddux allowed just five hits over seven innings, but one of the hits left the park. Moyer, also going seven innings, allowed just three hits to the Padres offense. The Phillies [...]

The Padres late inning games of late have resulted in losses, but that changed in the first game of a series against the Reds. The Padres entered the top of the ninth down by a run, but threw three on the board to go up 6-4 and Trevor Hoffman avoided a rally by the Reds [...]

Cha Seung Baek did all he could to contribute, with a solid outing and a home run to support himself. He went for 6.1 innings on the mound and allowed just one earned run on six hits. He hit a two run homer in the fifth, his first career homer.
Nevertheless, the Cardinals took the game [...]

The Padres bats jumped out early, with five runs in the first two innings. That proved to not be enough on the night, as the St. Louis Cardinals jumped back with six runs total in the fifth and sixth innings to win 6-5.
Starters Randy Wolf and Todd Wellemeyer were ineffective in their outings, both giving [...]

The Padres could not finish off the first half with a win against the Braves in a 12-3 loss to wrap up the series and half. The Braves pounded out 16 hits and the Padres managed just eight in the game.
Kevin Kouzmanhoff had a great game for the Padres with three hits including a homer. [...]

The Padres could get nothing going against the Braves pitchers in the second game of the series and lost 4-1. Greg Maddux gave up just three runs in seven innings, but took the loss anyway dropping to 3-8 despite a 3.90 ERA.
The NL’s leading hitter, Chipper Jones, had three of the Braves eight hits raising [...]

Jake Peavy looked like no one could possibly hit him in a 4-0 victory over the Braves in the series opener. He walked only one and allowed just four hits in seven very impressive innings. He also struck out seven batters in the effort.
He received support from all of the top three hitters in the [...]

The first two games of the Padres-Diamondbacks series had been a disaster for all concerned on the Diamondbacks side. The pitchers had been great, but the runs were not coming and the Padres won both of the games.
The third game looked headed in the same direction, when Randy Johnson gave up a homer to Scott [...]

The Diamondbacks might be getting a little taste of the frustrations of the Padres season with their lack of run scoring lately. The story of the Padres season thus far has been the lack of ability to score runs. That came to be again for the Diamondbacks for the second straight night. Doug Davis was [...]

The Diamondbacks just cannot find the winning formula on a consistent basis. The pitching and hitting has not yet come at the same time and for a team that was the best in the bigs for the early part of the year, the season has started to become a lot more shaky. Dan Haren threw [...]

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 [...]