Friar Watch

David Wells: The Padres needed Wells to go deep into the game tonight after yesterday’s marathon and Boomer did the job. He gave up two runs over 7 innings, and both of those were in questionable circumstances. He had good command of both his fastball and his curve, retiring 16 in a row […]

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Clay Hensley: Another rough outing for Clay. He gave up two runs in the first and was lucky that it wasn’t worse, a line shot to Marcus Giles led to a double play to end the inning. He settled down a little after that but his pitches never really looked good. […]

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Not much to say about this one.

That covers Wells and Thompson. Cameron got off to a rough start but came back to get Furcal and Pierre to get out of the jam. Bell looked fine, he reminds me a little of Scott Linebrink.

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I was at the game so my observations aren’t as detailed for this game.
I missed the first two innings thanks to a freight train (if you decide to park at the convention center make sure you get there early) so I didn’t see that debacle but I thought the game was lost in the 5th […]

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Greg Maddux: The Professor looked good for the most part. Same old Maddux control and movement. Unfortunately he made a few uncharacteristic mistakes and they cost him the game. A hit batsman, a wild pitch and a home run all contributed to 4 runs and in Petco that’s enough to cost you […]

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