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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. …
Out with the New and in with the Old?
http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2012/may/04/23909/ Apparently Jeff Suppan doesn't realize that 37-year old pitchers aren't supposed to just show up and throw five shut-out innings in his first start for his seventh major league club. And no one told 36-year old Mark Kotsay that …
Junior Seau 1969 – 2012
You never know what’s truly going on inside your spouse’s head. Or your kid’s head. Or anyone else’s head for that much. We’ll never know why Junior Seau took his life and there’s no reason why we should. I assume …
Kotsay and Volquez Great Again, Padres Shut Out Brewers
http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2012/may/02/23760/ Monday night, Ryan Braun of the Milwaukee Brewers dismantled the Padres with three home runs and a triple. On Tuesday, Mark Kotsay only needed one swing of the bat. For the second time in a week, Kotsay and starting …
Bring In the Fences? We Don't Need No Stinking Bringing in the Fences!
http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2012/apr/29/23651/ Et tu, Tom Garfinkel, et tu? All of this talk about bringing in the fences at Petco Park. And so many are nodding in agreement. I'm left wondering exactly which Padres club I've been following for all of these …
Bass Caught In San Francisco, Padres Get Bit
http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2012/apr/29/23630/ Anthony Bass was perfect for the longest time, untouchable, no San Francisco Giants bat could get to him, he flirted with immortality for a good long while. Right into the sixth inning, perfect. All it took was the opposing …
Hundley Magnificent, Padres Beat Giants
http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2012/apr/28/23611/ The easiest thing to do, according to sage philosophers, mixed martial arts experts, and failed politicians, is to kick a man when he is down. The second easiest thing to do then, is to bury a professional baseball team …
Volquez Brilliant, Kotsay Pushes Padres Past Nationals
http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2012/apr/27/23560/ A few hours before the game on Thursday, media members slowly spilled out of the clubhouse and into the Padres dugout. Having dropped the first two games of a three game set to the Washington Nationals, chatter seemed to …
Wieland Good, Zimmerman Better as Nats Beat Pads
Joe Wieland (pictured) was good on Wednesday afternoon, he simply wasn't quite as good as the Nationals' Jordan Zimmerman. Hours before the game, the talk of possible rain was laughable as the eighty degrees and sunshine made batting practice look …