Huston Street Represents Padres For 2012 All-Star Game
The Major League Baseball summer break is upon us, those few days in July that frame the All-Star game, the game that is supposed to mean something now (between the National and American leagues where the game winner ensures home-field …
Padres Complete Three-game Sweep of Diamondbacks
Which team in Major League Baseball currently owns the longest current winning streak? Incredibly, it's the San Diego Padres. The Padres just swept the Arizona Diamondbacks and have now won five games in a row. Baseball is a crazy game. …
Padres On a Roll, Take Down the Diamondbacks
After leaving Colorado with a series win, the rubber game a 2-0 shutout engineered by new Padres pitcher Kip Wells, the San Diego Padres traveled to Phoenix to battle a better team in the Arizona Diamondbacks. Padres starter Clayton Richard …
Volquez Gets Support, Padres Beat Rockies
Edinson Volquez hasn't always been the beneficiary of the offense he deserved in order to win more games this season. Perhaps living karma is real, then, because Volquez wasn't exactly brilliant on Saturday, but he did just enough and the …
Rockies Roll Over Padres
San Diego Padres starter Jason Marquis (pictured) was unlucky Friday night, or else the Colorado Rockies simply had a knack for getting the key hit at the right time. Marquis went six innings and gave up a walk and six …
Cashner, Amarista Power Padres Past Astros
In six innings, Andrew Cashner made only one mistake, otherwise eighteen Astros hitters would have gone down in order. In the second inning, Cashner walked Houston catcher Jason Castro, but otherwise did not allow a hit. In the seventh inning …
Cashner Begins Career as a Starting Pitcher
Andrew Cashner will make the start Thursday night for the San Diego Padres, as they play the final game of a four-game series against the Houston Astros in Houston. The Padres took the first game against the Astros but have …
Outhit by Padres, Rangers Still Win 2-1
After completing a ten-day, nine-game road trip with a record of five wins against four losses, the Padres came home to face the offensive powerhouse Texas Rangers on Monday evening to kick off a three game series. Instead of the …
Padres Fall Just Short, Lose to Giants
http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2012/jun/07/25762/ Unlike the first game of this three-game set on Tuesday night against the San Francisco Giants, the Padres fell just short on Wednesday afternoon and the Giants hung on for a 6-5 win. But it wasn't as though the …
Quentin and Forsythe Slay Giants
http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2012/jun/06/25700/ It hasn't been often this season that the San Diego Padres have done the majority of their damage with the long-ball, but on Tuesday evening that is precisely what happened. Carlos Quentin hit a pair of home runs and …
Padres Draft Pitching and Infielders
Through the first 15 rounds of the 2012 Major League Baseball first-year player draft, the San Diego Padres selected eight pitchers and six infielders with their 19 picks, including compensation picks for players lost through free agency in 2011. Also …
A Balk, a Walk, and Diamondbacks Bite Padres
http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2012/jun/03/25500/ There are countless ways to lose a baseball game, some rare and some common, but most involve the pure play of the game in so much as the team that plays better in critical moments prevails. But there are …
Guzman Mashes, Padres Rattle Diamondbacks
After a disastrous 10-game road trip which resulted in only one win, the Padres were apparently hungry for some home cooking. Once again back in Petco Park, the Padres offense waited until the eighth inning to erupt for six runs …
Venable Shines, But Pads Swept By Cards
http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2012/may/23/24908/ Will Venable only did one thing wrong in Wednesday evening's loss to the St. Louis Cardinals. He failed to hit a triple. Since 2010, Venable has now had five shots at being the first Padres player to hit for …
Tull Romances Gwynn in Bid for Padres
http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2012/may/23/24877/ Tony Gwynn has been courted, successfully, by a man who must be used to that sort of thing from both sides. Thomas Tull has convinced Tony Gwynn to join him in his effort to purchase the San Diego Padres. …
Cardinals Take Second In a Row Against the Pads
http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2012/may/22/24834/ John Baker is one of the nicest guys you'll ever meet. Personable, easy to talk to. He's the perfect back-up catcher, he knows his role and he's entirely comfortable in it. He calls a good game, never mind he …
Padres Split with Nationals, Then Dodgers and Orlando Hudson
http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2012/may/18/24648/ A lot can happen in a week, some of it meaningful, some of it irrelevant, and some of it surprising. In the case of the San Diego Padres, it's entirely possible that none of that applies at the moment. …
Phillies Take Series From Punchless Padres
http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2012/may/13/24301/ This can't be stressed enough: It isn't Petco Park, and the fences have nothing to do with it. Citizens Bank Park is practically anti-Petco, and Padres hitters aren't doing much damage there, either. The latest victim of the inability …
Richard Good, but Padres Offense Again Not Supportive
http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2012/may/06/23958/ Both the Miami Marlins and the San Diego Padres - after going twelve innings on Friday night and using much of their respective pitching staffs - needed a lot from their starters on Saturday. Both clubs got just that, …
Extra Innings Don't Go Padres Way, Marlins Win In 12
Yonder Alonso (pictured) has a sweet swing, that much has been obvious since his college playing days at the University of Miami. Fitting that swing into a ballpark like Petco is what a lot of people have been waiting for. …