THIS DATE IN PADRE BASEBALL
1998 SEASON
PADRES WIN
PADRES 7 PIRATES 5
In a back and forth battle for the first 5 innings, with both starters scuffling, the game turned on a 2-run longball courtesy of Greg Vaughn, his 5th of the season.
Brian Boehringer (2-1) picked up the win with great 3 innings taking over for struggling starter, Joey Hamilton. Boehringer gave up only 2 hits while striking out 3 Pirates.
It would take both Dan Miceli and Sterling Hitchcock to get through the 8, but they handed the lead over to Trevor Hoffman, who knocked down the Pirates 1-2-3 for his 4th save of the year.
News and Notes - Hitchcock, starting to find his role in the pen, induced a pop out with runners on 2nd and 3rd on just 2 pitches.
PADRES 7 PIRATES 5
In a back and forth battle for the first 5 innings, with both starters scuffling, the game turned on a 2-run longball courtesy of Greg Vaughn, his 5th of the season.
Brian Boehringer (2-1) picked up the win with great 3 innings taking over for struggling starter, Joey Hamilton. Boehringer gave up only 2 hits while striking out 3 Pirates.
It would take both Dan Miceli and Sterling Hitchcock to get through the 8, but they handed the lead over to Trevor Hoffman, who knocked down the Pirates 1-2-3 for his 4th save of the year.
News and Notes - Hitchcock, starting to find his role in the pen, induced a pop out with runners on 2nd and 3rd on just 2 pitches.
Notable games of April 17
PADRES FRANCHISE RECORD ON THIS DATE = 18-25 .419
GAME OF THE DATE
GAME 2008 - Rockies 2 Padres 1 in 22 innings (LONGEST GAME IN FRANCHISE HISTORY)
Jake Peavy pitched a brilliant 8 innings, striking out 11 and allowing only 4 hits, but the Padres bats were equally squashed by Jeff Francis and the Rockies. A scoreless game until the 14th inning, when the Rockies walked in the first run of the game on a bases loaded free pass from Kevin Cameron.
But the Padres finally had an offensive outburst, with Josh Bard coming through after Khalil Greene was intentionally walked to load the bases. Bard's single to center scored Kevin Kouzmanoff to tie the game and reload the bases. Paul McNaulty and Colt Morton both ground out weakly to third to force even more baseball....nearly another full game!
In the 22nd inning, Troy Tulowitzki doubled home Willy Taveras, who was only on base because of a throwing error by Khalil Greene.
Adding injury to insult, Greene would be hit by pitch, and then get hit in the face sliding into second, attempting to break up a double play, unsuccessfully.
With no bats left on the bench, Kip Gross struck out Glendon Rusch to end the game with the tying run aboard.
With a game time of 6 hours and 16 minutes, it ended after 1 am San Diego time.
Padres Making MLB Debuts on April 17
1971
Enzo Hernandez
Age - 23
Position - PH
Stat Line - 0 for 1 with a strikeout in 4-0 loss to the Cardinals
Signed by the Houston Astros as an amateur free agent (1967)
Traded by the Baltimore Orioles with Fred Beene, Tom Phoebus and Al Severinsen to the San Diego Padres for Pat Dobson and Tom Dukes. Fred Beene returned to original team on May 16, 1971.(December 1, 1970)
Released by the San Diego Padres. (March 14, 1978)
Padre Career: .225 2 HR 113 RBI in 710 games (7 seasons)
ALL TIME PADRE LEADERBOARD
#19 Games - 710
#27 Runs - 241
#24 Hits - 522
T47 Doubles - 66
T26 Triples - 13
#9 SB - 129
Transactions of April 17
Traded Al McBean to the Los Angeles Dodgers. Received Tommy Dean and Leon Everitt.
- P McBean had just 1 start for the expansion Padres , losing it, giving up 4 runs in 7 innings for a 5.14 ERA. McBean was taken in the expansion draft with the 50th pick from the Pirates.
- SS/3B Dean would play 3 seasons for the Padres, hitting .182 with 4 HR and 23 RBI in 203 games.
- P Everitt would only appear in 5 games in his career, all in 1969, posting and 0-1 record and a 8.04 ERA.
2000
Signed Freddy Guzman as an amateur free agent.
- OF Guzman would make his MLB debut as a Padre in 2004. He would appear in 20 games that season, hitting .211 with 0 HR and 5 RBI. He would be traded to Texas on May 11, 2006.
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