In a mismatch, the Padres were blown away by a much better Dodger team

Not much good happened on Friday night at Chavez Ravine if you’re a Padres fan. In fact, a lot went bad and the Padres fell to the Los Angeles Dodgers 9-2. It was around 90 degrees when the game got …

The Padres and Dodgers have flip-flopped this season, but for good reason - next season will be more likely to tell the tale

As the Padres stir around in the clubhouse, or get ready to take batting practice on a Friday afternoon in Los Angeles, some notes are probably in order as we slide into September. The Dodgers used to be in last …

The Padres avoided being swept against the Diamondbacks thanks to good pitching and the long ball

Wednesday night was more like it. Will Venable and Jesus Guzman each hit a home run and the Padres finally took one from the Arizona Diamondbacks 5-1. And starter Robbie Erlin shined for the Friars. The Padres got on the …

Not for a lack of effort, Arizona prevailed over San Diego in extra innings, in an entertaining game for those not keeping score

You can say what you want about Tuesday’s loss to the Arizona Diamondbacks by the Padres, but you can’t say it was a boring game. It went ten innings, and the Snakes finally got over 10-9, but the Padres fought …

What started as a tight game got a little sloppy and Arizona topped San Diego

The Padres went to Arizona on Monday and simply failed to contain the Diamondbacks, losing 6-1 while playing some generally sloppy baseball. It didn’t help that the Friars didn’t seem capable of getting the bat off of their shoulders, either. …

First there was nothing, then there was something, and then finally something more, as the Friars prevail in the end

In a rather bizarre game that tried never to end, the Padres finally scored in the bottom of the fifteenth inning and edged the Cubs in walk-off fashion, 3-2, on Sunday. Hundreds of fans saw the ending when Nick Hundley …

The Padres managed to salvage some sunken treasure from the Pirates and avoid the sweep

If you take the Pittsburgh Pirates lineup and parse out the current roster before Wednesday’s game against Padres starter Ian Kennedy, as a group they were hitting .310 against him with a slugging percentage of .592 lifetime. If statistics mean …

In a game that got out of hand two-thirds if the way in, the Pirates ensured that they would take the series against the Padres

After splitting a four game series with the New York Mets and then dropping the first game of a three game series against the Pittsburgh Pirates, the Padres needed a win on Tuesday to have a chance at taking the …

After announcing the hiring of Mike Dee back in July, a formal introduction was made to media

On Tuesday afternoon, before the team photo was taken on the field, the Padres introduced Mike Dee as CEO and President of the ball club before a modest group of media at Petco Park. Padres Executive Chairman Ron Fowler and …

In a very tight game up until the eighth inning, the Mets waited out Tyson Ross and attacked the bull pen to pull out a win

Padres starter Tyson Ross and Mets hurler Zack Wheeler both pitched magnificent baseball, but neither were in the hunt for a win when they left the game with the score tied at a run each. Instead, reliever Luke Gregerson took …

In a move which many in baseball find historic, MLB owners look toward a replay system you might see in a Chargers game this season

http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/aug/15/51371/ After two days of the August Major League Baseball owners meeting, Commissioner Bud Selig announced that owners have agreed to expand its instant replay beyond what is covered now, which is limited to whether or not a ball is …

The Padres fought but couldn't get by the Colorado Rockies, in a close game with several missed opportunities

Wednesday afternoon, the Padres and Rockies played a good game – it was tight and hard fought, with both sides trying. Unfortunately for the Padres, the Rockies were a little bit better and downed the Friars 4-2, but they looked …

After an embarrassing loss on Monday, the Padres came back from behind to beat the Rockies

Padres Starter Eric Stults struck no one out on Tuesday against the Colorado Rockies. In fact, he didn’t even get through the fifth inning, giving up five runs on eleven hits and three walks, but the Padres bats finally woke …

In an almost entirely forgetful game, the Padres fail against the Rockies in every category

Monday night might have been the worst game the Padres ever played. Ray Kroc wouldn’t have grabbed the microphone of the public address announcer to apologize for the team’s poor play, he would have grabbed the nearest trash can and …

The Padres couldn't hit when they needed it and the Reds took advantage of it

On Sunday, the Padres played a frustrating game against the Cincinnati Reds, frustrating in a lot of ways. It went thirteen innings before the Friars fell to the Reds 3-2 in a game they could have won several times. Ian …

The Padres were patient and let the Reds beat themselves

What the Padres didn’t do well as a unit on Friday, they excelled at Saturday, even if the bats weren’t as prolific as they would have wanted. Utilizing only four hits, and going 0 for 12 with runners in scoring …

The bats of the Cincinnati Reds were no match for the Padres as the Friars drop the first game of their road trip

Ah, Cincinnati, the home of weird yet tasty stuff they call chili, with pasta and cheese and a strange, tangy sauce and onions on so on. Cincinnati is also the home of a very good baseball team – in fact, …

The Padres came back to tie but the Orioles manhandled the Friar's bull pen

What goes around apparently comes around. Back in May, the Padres were in Baltimore to beat the Orioles in a two-game series. In August, the Orioles returned the favor to the Padres, beating them on Wednesday 10-3 to take both …

The Padres inefficiency at the plate cost them all evening against the Baltimore Orioles

The Padres had won four straight series, but on Tuesday that came to an end when Baltimore came to town. The Friars offense couldn’t get hits when they needed them and the Orioles shut down the Padres 4-1, meaning that …

Padres shortstop Everth Cabrera gets suspended by MLB, comes clean with what he did, but is that enough?

The apology from Everth Cabrera on Monday, heartfelt as it seemed to be - along with what also seemed to be an honest confession, isn’t enough. It probably would have been enough back in February when Cabrera was first implicated …

In a pitcher's duel, the Padres couldn't score and the Yankees could so everyone got to see Mariano Rivera

Tyson Ross was good – in fact, he was perfect into the fifth inning before allowing the first Yankees runner, on a base hit by Lyle Overbay. But Ivan Nova was ultimately better against the Padres, who fell to the …

Yankees closer Mariano Rivera was honored at Petco Park but never got the chance to pitch as the Padres distanced themselves as the game went on

Looking at the New York Yankees on paper coming in to take on the Padres Friday, it figured to be a close game, with starting pitcher C.C. Sabathia for the Yankees tangling with the Friars’ starter Andrew Cashner. That turned …

The Padres are unlucky that their series with the Yankees will be buffered by Commissioner Bud Selig

The New York Yankees are coming to town! What should be a stoic occasion – the first time that The Bronx Zoo comes to Petco Park – will be entirely overshadowed by an impending agreement between the Office of the …