Tuesday Oct 02, 2007
Tuesday Oct 02, 2007
Here's what I have to say about the Padres' loss and failure to advance to the playoffs this season:
19 wins, 2.36 ERA and 234 K's by your ace pitcher don't matter because 6.1 IP, 10 H, 6 ERs in game #163 does.
42 saves don't matter because 7 blown saves does. Especially the last 2.
162 games in a season. It goes to 163 games. And the Padres couldn't win (enough).
Every game matters, especially the extra, tiebreaker game.
And Holliday didn't touch home plate. At least he got a mouthful of dirt.
Maybe its for the best and end it now, otherwise Philly would have dominated them in the NLDS anyways. Saved us (Padres fans) from further pain, misery and the false hope for a third consecutive season.
Props to Adrian Gonzalez and Khalil Greene for having great seasons, offensively and defensively.
Props to the bullpen for keeping our team in contention all season.
Trevor Hoffman and Jake Peavy have gone down a couple notches in my book. Its a shame for Trevor.
And I really miss Tony Gwynn. I can still remember his last season when he wasn't
playing much, but would come in to PH and get hits. He was magic. That was Padres clutch.
Sorry about the loss (which you're handling much better than Mets fans). That was an incredible game!
Posted by dilly on October 02, 2007 at 12:22 PM PDT #
Kind of chilling and ironic that the Padres were one strike away from making the playoffs, but were done in by Tony Gywnn Jr. His triple in the bottom of the 9th in game 161 against Hoffman was just like what his dad had done many times. He just went with the pitch and stroked it into the corner. Fate works in weird ways.
Posted by Tom Jenney on October 09, 2007 at 09:58 AM PDT #