This Date In Padre Baseball - April 13

THIS DATE IN PADRE BASEBALL

1998 SEASON

PADRES WIN! 
PADRES 1 DIAMONDBACKS 0

Padres (11-2) sweep the Diamondbacks on the back of Andy Asbhy's (2-1) 4-hit shutout.

Archi Cianfrocco is the offensive hero, blasting his first home run of the season to left in the 5th inning for the only run Ashby would need. Lone singles by Andy Sheets and Tony Gwynn were all the baserunners the Padres would muster all day as Brian Anderson (1-2) was equally tough on the Friars.

The Diamonbacks would mount threats in the 1st and the 6th, putting men on the corners with 2 outs, but Ashby wouldn't be giving anything up today.


News and Notes - Padres lead MLB in wins 

Standings:

SDP	11	2	.846	--
SFG	8	5	.615	3.0
LAD	6	6	.500	4.5
COL	5	9	.357	6.5
ARI	2	11	.154	9.0

COLD FRIAR: Greg Vaughn 0 for 3, hitless in last 10 AB, dropping his average to .257HOT FRIAR:  Andy Ashby CG shutout 2 BB, 7 K lowering season ERA to 2.49

Notable games of April 13

PADRES FRANCHISE RECORD ON THIS DATE = 22-22 .500

Game 5 1981 Reds 7 Padres 1 - 1st game at the newly renamed Jack Murphy Stadium

Game 7 1987 Giants 13 Padres 6 - Marvell Wynne, Tony Gwynn, and John Kruk go back-to-back-to-back to lead off the 1st.

Game 8 2009 Padres 6 @Mets 5 - 1st game at Citi Field, Jody Gerut  becomes the 1st player in MLB history to hit a home run in the first AB to open a ballpark.


GAME OF THE DATE!
Game 7 1986 Padres 7 Reds 6 

Handing Goose Gossage (1-0) a one run lead after mounting a 3 run comeback in the 7th inning. Home runs by Marvell Wynne and Kevin McReynolds pulled the Padres in front, 6-5.

In the 9th, Kal Daniels led off the inning with a game tying home run, giving Gossage his first blown save of the season.

But Marvell Wynne's second home run of the night leading off the bottom of the 9th would send the Friar faithful home happy!

This was the start of the 1986 Padres longest winning streak of the season, a whopping 4 games (tied 3 other times.) This first streak was special, as all 4 games were walk off winners
- longest win streak 4 games, sad, but all walk offs

Padres Making MLB Debuts on April 13

1976

Mike Dupree
Age - 22
Position - P
Stat Line - 2 1/3 IP, 4 H, 4 R, 3 ER, 2 BB, 1 K, also 1 for 1 with a run scored

Drafted by the San Diego Padres in the 4th round of the 1973 amateur draft 

Padre Career:  0-0 9.19 ERA in 12 games (1 season) (1 MLB AB, 1 H)

1993

Ricky Gutierrez
Age - 23
Position - PH/RF
Stat Line - 0 for 1, 1K

Drafted by the Baltimore Orioles in the 1st round (28th pick) of the 1988 amateur draft.
The Baltimore Orioles sent Ricky Gutierrez to the San Diego Padres to complete an earlier deal made on August 31, 1992
Traded by the San Diego Padres with Derek Bell, Doug Brocail, Pedro Martinez, Phil Plantier and Craig Shipley to the Houston Astros for a player to be named later, Ken Caminiti, Andujar Cedeno, Steve Finley, Roberto Petagine and Brian Williams. (December 1994)


Padre Career:  .247 6 HR 54 RBI in 223 games (2 seasons) Finished 11th in ROY voting in 1993.

1993

Kerry Taylor
Age - 22
Position - P
Stat Line - 1/3 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 0 BB, 0 K

Signed by the Minnesota Twins as an amateur free agent (June 26, 1989)
Drafted by the San Diego Padres from the Minnesota Twins in the 1992 rule 5 draft.

Padre Career:  0-5 6.56 ERA in 37 games (2 seasons)

Transactions of April 13

1976
Sold Randy Hundley to the Chicago Cubs.

• C Hundley appeared in 74 games for the 1975 Padres, hitting .206 with 2 HR and 14 RBI.

1994
Signed Kevin Maas as a free agent.

• 1B Maas would spend April at AAA Las Vegas before being released in May.