Game 6: Padres lose game, series, and......the ability to make contact?

Today's game was a 4-2 defeat to the Rockies. Road misery thus endeth.

What's there to even say about this game?

• It doesn't seem to matter who gets penciled into the 1 and 2 holes of the line-up card. ALL fail miserably and equally. Everth Cabrera had two really nice ABs to start the day but in the end he only had strikeouts to show for the effort. He probably helped to nudge Ubaldo Jimenez out of the game a bit sooner but he didn't set the table for the rest of the team.
• Didn't matter if the table was set because all anyone did today was strikeout. A lot of Ks. All day long. All week long.
• Chase Headley gets the + for the week (see below).
• John Garland is.......well, he's just John Garland. He's in need of the dog food diet. Petco. Is that not funny? Fine......(click below to read more)

So week one ends and the Padres are in last place with a 2-4 record. Before the season began I made predictions and one of those was that the Padres would finish the season with 83 wins. This was a bold statement. The prediction however was made with the following caveats in mind:

1. The Padres would get off to a fast start (uhhh...that didn't happen!)
2. The team would enjoy a healthy season (uhhh...Chris Young is already on the DL!)

I'm not going to abandon all hope for this simple reason: look at who/where they played. The Padres have been absolutely miserable playing in Arizona over the years and many of the pundits picked Colorado as the class of the division. The Padres faced two tough aces in Dan Harren and Ubaldo Jimenez and were dealt the results most would have probably figured.

So what were realistic expectations for week one? I think to have finished at 3-3 would have been solid but instead we were a notch below at 2-4. We were in games but failed to cash in on opportunities...... and there were a lot of strikeouts. The team is young and struggle and pain are to be expected. Want growth? Everyone is striking out except Chase Headley: 2 Ks in 27 plate appearances. The others will begin to get it at some point.

Corey Brock [padres.com]
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