Trying to remember the 2010 Padres: Game 7 (oh, God no... not interleague play?)

You have entered a site engaged in a highly complex experiment... an experiment designed to test the parameters of my mind... to determine how quickly I can dump the memory of interleague games from my brain's hard-drive. Seriously... there's little worth remembering about this Seligian concoction.

For series explanation and previous installments [go here]

GAME 7 of 18
June 19th, 2011
Padres v. Orioles @Petco Park
(Saturday/Right Field Lower Reserved 131)

WHAT I THINK I KNOW...

I know the Padres lost this interleague clash against the vaunted Orioles in what was a close and low scoring affair. Wait... the Orioles haven't really be vaunted since the early 70s. An epic 70s battle would have had way more cache. Actually, the Padres REALLY sucked in the 70s, what am I talking about?!

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This was a Friarhood meet-up and I rolled solo. It might have been a bobblehead give-away. Maybe Blanks? By this time Blanks was either figuring things out in Portland or shelved for the season. Of course... maybe there wasn't a bobblehead promotion.

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The Orioles don't do too much to excite me. They have local products Adam Jones and Brian Matusz from USD as well as the highly regarded Matt Wieters but outside of that there isn't too much to get excited about. Since I remember nothing I can only assume that these guys didn't do too much.

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Like I said; I'm pretty sure this was an uneventful and mostly forgettable match-up in which the pitchers and hitters did very little to shape the minds of the fans on the fence over the whole sport of baseball.

Source: Fond recollections of Inter-league clashes... and a ticket stub.

RESEARCH SAYS...

The Orioles defeat the Padres 5-4 to even the series at 1 game a piece. I was BOTH very right and very wrong. Ahhh, where to begin...

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The Padres DID lose but the game should have left a more indelible mark on my baseball consciousness. Once again Clayton Richard got the start in a game I attended in 2010 but he was a loser on this Saturday night. Richard fell to 4-4 after pitching 6 innings and giving up 5 runs (4 earned) on 8 hits. His K/BB ratio was 5/1... which is nice.

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Kevin Millwood was the winning pitcher for the Orioles improving his record to a deceiving 1-8 after giving up 3 runs in 6 innings. Just kidding. There's nothing deceiving about Millwood's record.

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The Orioles' Adam Jones hit a 2-run HR (2 for 4) and Luke Scott went 3 for 4 (1 RBI). Luke Scott recently made some sort of asinine political statement but I don't recall what it was.... could you look it up? Thanks.


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Jerry Hairston went 1 for 3 (BB/2 RBI/ 1 R).
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Chase Headley... a cool 0 for 5 with 2 Ks. With the tying run on third in the 9th, Headley K'd in a 5 pitch AB to end the game.

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Attendance: 28,138

NOTABLE OMISSIONS...

Tony Gwynn Jr. went 2 for 4.... which is a fragment sentence you don't hear every day. He also threw out Corey Patterson at the plate. Because he's a real good CF.

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Clayton Richard's relief help came in the form of Ryan Webb and Edward Mujica. Both struck out 2. Both live in Florida now.

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Remember those crazy stats about the Padres' record win they steal a base and how the record was astronomically good? Yea... the Padres didn't steal any bases during this game.

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Speaking of a Kyle Blanks bobblehead: Cory Brock reported that same afternoon that Blanks was returning to San Diego for an MRI on his elbow.

Source: Baseball Reference and Padres.com

LASTING IMPRESSIONS...

All-in-all this wasn't that bad of a game. A bit of drama in the 9th is always good. I'm sorry for being mean to you Orioles.


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I'm never a fan of 6 innings of a work by the starting pitcher and it is the 6 inning war that Clayton Richard often finds himself waging. CR's inability to make his way through 7 innings can usually be attributed to walking too many batters. The nice thing about tonight though was CR only walked 1 after 5 Ks. So maybe this wasn't that bad of a start... even though it was terrible.

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Jerry Hairston. Jerry Hairston carries himself with an AMAZING level of confidence considering how unremarkably average he is as a player. It is a confidence to behold in a player but also a confidence that can be very deceiving if you try to evaluate him without numbers right in front of you. Having said that, I don't think it's a coincidence that the Padres fell a part once Jerry's legs failed him. He was a heckuva important average Joe... er, Jerry.

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I really like the Saturday 5:30 start time. It just works. For me anyway.

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Interleague games suck.

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Chase Headley as the last Padres hitter of the night seems to be revealing itself as a trend for my attendance in 2010.

The Padres have slipped to 3-2 (1-1 Storm) with me hangin' around. I've got 11 games to right the ship.

Trying to remember the 2010 Padres: Game 3 (Houston... we have a Beerfest?)

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GAME 3 of 18
April 30th, 2010
Padres v. Brewers @ Petco Park


WHAT I THINK I KNOW...

Beerfest?

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There are serious recollection issues on this one, friends. Let me see...

I believe this particular game was a part of the brilliantly conceived but poorly executed Beerfest hosted by the Broken Lizard comedy troupe. I'm basing this quasi-gut-feeling on the opponent. I seem to recall the comedic connection between having a Beer Fest prior to a game against the Brewers. I guess it's not really that funny.

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Like I said, great concept for Beerfest, but it was a logistical snafu right off the bat. I arrived with my buddy Al but we shunned the lines, instead settling for a Petco Park beverage over the choice microbrews of San Diego. There was just no denting the lines. We cursed Tom Garfinkel!

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Perhaps a Friarhood meet-up as well? If so, I seem to recall sitting with SDPads1 of RJ's Fro and also meeting Mel from The Sacrifice Bunt.

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The Padres win this game for sure. I'm going with a 3-0 shutout of the vaunted Milwaukee offense of Braun, Fielder, Hart, et. al.

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Weren't we starting to feel pretty good about the Padres at this point? I think the Milwaukee series saw the Padres staff begin to really assert itself allowing maybe just a couple of runs in a 4 game (?) series.

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I have no idea how the Padres scored. I have no idea who pitched. Did I just make up a bunch of stuff?

Source: An overactive imagination... and a ticket stub.

RESEARCH SAYS...

Phewwww! It was the Beerfest game! I guess I should be thankful that the opponent was the Brewers, giving me cause to connect the beer soaked dots.

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The Padres did in fact win the game 3-0 with Clayton Richard (1-2) getting the "W" after throwing 6 innings and striking out 8. Dave Bush was the big loser.

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With April coming to an end the Padres improved their record to 15-8 after blanking the Brewers in consecutive games by an aggregate score of 12-0. The Padres and Brewers would split the next two games; a 2-1 loss for Mat Latos but a series clinching win on Sunday for Jon Garland by a score of 8-0. Trevor Hoffman saved the lone win for the Brewers.

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As I said, the Padres had taken the 1st two games of the series by scoring 12 runs. Care to guess who went 0 for 8 with 1 walk in those two wins? I think the Padres offense will survive in 2011.

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Attendance-- 29,366. Pretty weak considering it was a Friday during a sustained run of success...with a BEERFEST promotion! Alas, it would be the attendance story of the season.

NOTABLE OMISSIONS...

GAB: Gregerson (7th), Adams (8th), and Bell (9th) made quick work of the Brewers resulting in a speedy game time of 2:46.

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BRO-B-I in full effect: in a 1-0 game in the 7th, Scott Hairston hit a pinch hit blast plating he and brother Jerry. The HR was vintage Hairston. Since his arrival from Arizona in 2007 he hit quite a few memorable homers at Petco that looked just like this one. Scotty was never afraid of Petco; too bad we couldn't have seen more of these.

Give it a look... it was a no doubter.

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Shutout streak of 24 innings for Padres pitching staff.

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This was the Padres 10th win in 11 games.

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New Padres catcher Greg Zaun was behind the plate for the Brewers going 1 for 3 with a walk.

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Tony Gwynn Jr., the evening's hitting star, went 2 for 3 with a walk and a run scored. TGJ finished April hitting .255 with a .758 OPS. However, Gwynn the Younger, could not maintain his torrid April pace; he now plies his trade in what I like to refer to as an Overcrowded Version of Hell (Los Angeles).

Sources: Baseball Reference & Padres.com

LASTING IMPRESSIONS...

Shut outs are cool. An expertly planned Beerfest may have been even MORE cool. Going to games with friends and meeting more once there is the very definition of good times... and a hangover.

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It's a beautiful day... let's play 15... more of these.