THIS DATE IN PADRES BASEBALL
1998 SEASON
PADRE RALLY FALLS SHORT
METS 4 PADRES 3
Joey Hamilton (3-3) stumbled in the first, allowing 3 runs on a home run by Carlos Baerga, and the rest of the Padres never recovered on a drizzly night in Mission Valley.
Bobby Jones (2-3) only allowed 4 hits, including Greg Vaughn's 9th home run in the 4th inning, before handing the ball over to Mets closer John Franco.
Franco has struggled this year, and the Padres made sure he wasn't going to have an easy night. Tony Gwynn led off the 9th with a single, his second hit of the night. Wally Joyner would ground out to first, moving Gwynn over to second. Greg Vaughn would come up and drive a ball deep into the empty left/center field stands for his second HR of the game, and his 10th of the season to bring the Padres within 1 at 4-3.
Franco would get a scare from pinch-hitter Eddie Williams who drove one to deep right center, but the now heavier rain pushed the ball into the glove of center fielder Brian McRae for a loud out. Andy Sheets would strike out looking on what was clearly a ball to end the game.
News and Notes - Quilvio Veras is still recovering from his injury, mainly appearing as a pinch hitter or late inning replacement. Bochy says a few more days like this and he should be back in the starting lineup.
Notable games of May 13
PADRES FRANCHISE RECORD ON THIS DATE = 23-23 .500
Game 37 2006 - Padres 4 @Cubs 3 - Catcher Mike Piazza hits a three-run, ninth-inning homer off Cubs closer Ryan Dempster to give the Padres a 4–3 win over the Cubs at Wrigley Field. It is the Padres seventh straight win on the road.
Game 34 2010 - Padres 1 @Giants 0 - Right-hander Mat Latos gives up only a sixth-inning single to reserve catcher Eli Whiteside in a complete-game, one-hit shutout in a 1–0 Padres win at San Francisco. For a franchise without a no-hitter, this is the 24th 1-hitter in Padres history.
GAME OF THE DATE
Game 35 1969 - @Cubs 19 Padres 0 - Most runs allowed, matched later this season and would stand until 1996!
Chicago Tribune beat writer George Langford, said it way better than I can:
"Ernie Banks, that cheerful humanitarian, instigated a massacre yesterday that would have elicited the admiration of all the Indians at the Little Big Horn.
It was Ol’ Ern who fired the first shot and it was Dick Selma who neatly attended to the burials as the frisky Cubs turned against the San Diego Padres, rampaging to a 19 to 0 victory which equaled one club and one league record.
Banks triggered two three run homers and drove in a seventh run with a double. Selma allowed only three hits [two were infield singles by Rookie Jerry Da Vanon], won his first game as a Cub, and enabled the north siders’ pitching staff to claim its third consecutive shutout, the first time the Cubs have accomplished such a feat since 1909.
And if Preston Gomez, the manager of the Padres, did not have a certain empathy for General Custer after Ernie’s charge, Nate Oliver [who drove in four runs], Don Young [who hit a three-run homer], Billy Williams [producer of two triples] and Don Kessinger provided it."
It equaled the most lopsided shutout in National league history, a mark which was set by the Cubs when they defeated the New York Giants July 7, 1906.
To add insult to injury, Dick Selma, who started the Padres first game earlier that season before being traded, pitches a complete-game, three-hit shutout for the Cubs.
Padres Making MLB Debuts on May 13
No players as ever made their MLB debut as a Padre on this date.
Transactions of May 13
1971
Traded Al Ferrara to the Cincinnati Reds. Received Angel Bravo.
- OF Ferrara played 3 seasons for the Padres, appearing in 293 games, hitting .265 with 27 HR and 109 RBI.
ALL TIME PADRE LEADER BOARD
T16 - HBP = 18
- OF Bravo would appear in 52 games, hitting .155 with 0 HR and 6 RBI.
2002
Signed Jose Lobaton as an amateur free agent.
Signed Jose Lobaton as an amateur free agent.
- C Lobaton would make his MLB debut as a Padre in 2009. He would appear in 7 games, hitting .176 with 0 HR and 0 RBI.
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