This Date In Padre Baseball - October 9

               

THIS DATE IN PADRE BASEBALL

1998 SEASON

NLCS Game 3 Matchup: Atlanta at San Diego

Greg Maddux vs Sterling Hitchcock

MLB PLAYOFFS - 

Indians 6 Yankees 1 (Indians lead series 2-1)

Notable games of October 9

PADRES FRANCHISE RECORD ON THIS DATE = 0-1

1984 WORLD SERIES - GAME 1 - TIGERS 3 PADRES 2

 The Padres first World Series game is at home at Jack Murphy Stadium, and 57,908 fans watched a tense game.

The Tigers opened up with consecutive hits by their dynamic double play combo of Lou Whitaker and Alan Trammel, scoring the games first run.

Dick Williams went out to settle down a clearly over-amped Mark Thurmond, who worked around 2 more hits to keep the damage to 1 run.

In the Padre half of the first, the Padre veterans came through. First Steve Garvey singled, then Craig Nettles did the same, bringing up Terry Kennedy with 2 outs. Kennedy drove one to the wall for a stand up double, bring in both vets for a 2-1 lead.

Detroit starter Jack Morris settled down from there, allowing 5 hits the rest of the way. In the 5th, Larry Herndon would knock one into the stands, scoring Lance Parrish, to take a 3-2 lead.

Morris had it from there, and the Padres couldn't mount any rally to drop the opener.

Transactions of October 9

2004

Kerry Robinson granted Free Agency.

• OF Robinson, acquired from the St. Louis Cardinals via trade in March, appeared in 80 games during the 2004 season, hitting .250 with 5 RBI. Would sign again for a month in 2005, but did not appear at the big league level.

2018

Carter Capps granted Free Agency.

• P Capps, acquired from the Miami Marlins via trade in 2016, appeared in 11 games during the 2017 season, posting no record with a 6.57 ERA