The Pads left 16 men on base in a 2-1 loss in 11 innings in the first game of a double header against the NorthSiders. Luke Gregerson gave up the fatal jack in the bottom of the 11th in front of a crowd of 129 people and 200 birds at Wrigley.
Six. Teen. Left on base. One run. Including, I believe, 8 walks. If you get 8 walks in a game and you only plate one of those....well then you are the San Diego Padres.
It's getting ridiculous.
Wednesday, April 20, 2011
Tuesday, April 19, 2011
SSSHH....IT'S THE WIND
One day after the boys put up 8 against Houston, they lose a 1-0 game to the Cubbies in a game played inside a freezer. This marked about the 27th extra inning competition the team has played so far this season.
Still a decent game to watch because considering the pretty phenomenal pitching by Tim and Big Z, as well as that after nine innings the game had only run for about 2 hours. If this was Sox v. Yankees it would only have had been the top of the 5th after two hours and I would've had to take a second nap.
Anyway Dino missed the cut of man in the bottom of the 10th on a Tyler Colvin's double down the right field line and the Cubs plated a man for the walk off win. Personally, I blame the Cubs announcers for the bush-league use of reverse karma against Chad Qualls.
All in all I was glad to see Stauffer match Zambrano's dominance, and win or lose to get the boys off the field and back in the hotel before another game under supposedly worse conditions tomorrow.
Still a decent game to watch because considering the pretty phenomenal pitching by Tim and Big Z, as well as that after nine innings the game had only run for about 2 hours. If this was Sox v. Yankees it would only have had been the top of the 5th after two hours and I would've had to take a second nap.
Anyway Dino missed the cut of man in the bottom of the 10th on a Tyler Colvin's double down the right field line and the Cubs plated a man for the walk off win. Personally, I blame the Cubs announcers for the bush-league use of reverse karma against Chad Qualls.
All in all I was glad to see Stauffer match Zambrano's dominance, and win or lose to get the boys off the field and back in the hotel before another game under supposedly worse conditions tomorrow.
Saturday, April 16, 2011
Time for a little stability...
Hoyer keeps talking about giving these guys enough at-bats before we can judge. I believe his number was 150 at bats before we know what these guys are going to do. Well we are a 1/3 of the way to his magic number and i am little worried. At the same time I believe that if we have to wait it out we might as well find a standard lineup to put out there most nights. Lets give the guys some comfort in knowing their roles on the team. As much as Ludwick hasn't produced in the number 4 spot, he has hit some hard balls right at people. He wont hit .300 but he can hit 20 home runs and drive in 80 runs from the clean up spot. i am tired of the lineup flip flop everyday. Hundley was hot hitting in the number 8 spot and looking like he was putting things together offensively until that switch in the line up. The first night he was moved up in the order he has no hits in the next two games. He might have been hot but he didn't look as comfortable with the pressure of being the run producer in the lineup. Slumps cant last forever, this team will begin to produce. They won't score 10 runs a game but with the pitching 4 might do it most nights. Lets get out Sunday boys and give Clayton a little help.
DERP DE DERP
Loss 5-3 to the 'Stros.
Mat Latos is struggling. Well struggling if you are a starting pitcher for the San Diego Padres. We need them to be on point on the reg, and he has been giving up big home runs and allowed 5 over 6 1/3 today. I remember last year there was some talk that he might be tipping his pitches... or maybe hitter are figuring him out. We'll see, in a
Luckily my mlb.tv shitted (nice, firefox recognizes shitted as a correctly spelled word...but it doesn't recognize firefox as one?) out around the time of the collapse so I didn't have to witness the devostation.
In other great news Uncle Teddy told a horrendous story about some old school Padre cutting off his own finger during a baseball game after he 'jammed it' and the bone was sticking out, possible while grilling chilly in the club house. Delightful.
Just another goofy day in Padreland. The boys look to even up the series tomorrow in a savvy vs. shabby matchup:
One of these pitchers probably had a early morning paper route as a kid, the other lit bottle rockets attached to stray animals.
Mat Latos is struggling. Well struggling if you are a starting pitcher for the San Diego Padres. We need them to be on point on the reg, and he has been giving up big home runs and allowed 5 over 6 1/3 today. I remember last year there was some talk that he might be tipping his pitches... or maybe hitter are figuring him out. We'll see, in a
Luckily my mlb.tv shitted (nice, firefox recognizes shitted as a correctly spelled word...but it doesn't recognize firefox as one?) out around the time of the collapse so I didn't have to witness the devostation.
In other great news Uncle Teddy told a horrendous story about some old school Padre cutting off his own finger during a baseball game after he 'jammed it' and the bone was sticking out, possible while grilling chilly in the club house. Delightful.
Just another goofy day in Padreland. The boys look to even up the series tomorrow in a savvy vs. shabby matchup:
One of these pitchers probably had a early morning paper route as a kid, the other lit bottle rockets attached to stray animals.
SIDE NOTE
I looked it up, we don't play Colorado until May 13th. That's Friday, the 13, of May. Hopefully they will CTFO (chill tha fuck out) by then.
After too much time spent with Dick and Mud and the family at Ch4, I switched it up and caught most of the game with Uncle Teddy and my main man Andy Masur today and it was awesome. I know it's always been a love/loath thing with Ted, and I lean towards love for the record, but if there was a statistic kept for longest outro to commercial break after a half inning, Uncle Teddy be Babe Ruth of broadcasting.
Also I hope Adrian starts mashing a bunch but the Red Sox keep loosing, Chris Young stays healthy and continues to do well in NY.... and I don't really care anything about Peavy...I hope his favorite Nascar driver gets points or something.
Good updatin'
After too much time spent with Dick and Mud and the family at Ch4, I switched it up and caught most of the game with Uncle Teddy and my main man Andy Masur today and it was awesome. I know it's always been a love/loath thing with Ted, and I lean towards love for the record, but if there was a statistic kept for longest outro to commercial break after a half inning, Uncle Teddy be Babe Ruth of broadcasting.
Also I hope Adrian starts mashing a bunch but the Red Sox keep loosing, Chris Young stays healthy and continues to do well in NY.... and I don't really care anything about Peavy...I hope his favorite Nascar driver gets points or something.
Good updatin'
Friday, April 15, 2011
EXACTLY
This is exactly how to win games. Padres 4 Reds 2.
Assuming that our pitching is still the stinky shit, as it absolutely has been, all we need is our batters (Ludwick) to come through ONCE a game with runners in scoring position, an occasional jack with maybe a sack fly or small ball runs here and there and we will WIN ALL THE TIME. EVERY GAME.
The Padres are first in the bigs in quality starts (9 qs out of 15 games) and absolutely dead last in slugging percentage in the majors. On the positive side, it's a joy to watch our starters come to the ballpark and do work game in and game out. They are pitching out of jams and staying away from giving up the big innings. We're still not getting any close calls on the base pads but anyway.
On to game three out of four in the series.
C'MON MATTY LATOS LET'S DO THIS
Assuming that our pitching is still the stinky shit, as it absolutely has been, all we need is our batters (Ludwick) to come through ONCE a game with runners in scoring position, an occasional jack with maybe a sack fly or small ball runs here and there and we will WIN ALL THE TIME. EVERY GAME.
The Padres are first in the bigs in quality starts (9 qs out of 15 games) and absolutely dead last in slugging percentage in the majors. On the positive side, it's a joy to watch our starters come to the ballpark and do work game in and game out. They are pitching out of jams and staying away from giving up the big innings. We're still not getting any close calls on the base pads but anyway.
On to game three out of four in the series.
C'MON MATTY LATOS LET'S DO THIS
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