Padres Report - September 6th

Padres’ Minor League Report – September 6, 2006

O.K., I’m excited and pissed… The Padres won – nea, swept the visiting Rockies, which is obviously a BIG positive… But my blogger tools aren’t working properly. I wrote this big piece today about Rob Neyer’s Beane Count and how the NL West shakes down, but Blogger won’t let me add a table. OK, turn the spreadsheet into an image and post that, except Blogger is not letting me do that tonight. And the article just isn’t the same without the spreadsheet… Ugh!

Enough about me…

Clay throws 7 innings of shutout ball…
Cla throws 1.2 (more) innings of shutout ball…
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Newly promoted Paul McAnulty hits a game-winning, walk-off, 2-run, 1st career MLB home run.

On September 3rd, I wrote, “Lucky for [the Rockies] they don’t have to face Peavy or Wells.” No worries, Young, Williams, and Hensley took care of business… So the Padres get a day off on Thursday then San Francisco gets to face Peavy, Wells, and Young.

Wednesday I was watching (well more listening to while I worked on other stuff) the Reds-Giants game. Steve Phillips was in the booth and when asked about the Wild Card, he said he liked the Giants’ experience and thought they would overtake us. I’m pretty confident the Padres will take care of business and get another series win. I hope someone on the Padres got that to post as bulletin-board fodder…

Congrats to Cal Meredith for setting the new Padres’ record for consecutive scoreless innings.

The Dodgers are sending Brad Penny to the mound on Thursday to face Tom Glavine… Go Mets!

On to the report (the Hi-A & Lo-A participants are from their playoffs, SS Eugene played it’s final game of the season today)…

Hitters:

Hi-A – Sean Kazmir --- 0-3; 2 RBI, SO
Hi-A – Matt Hagen --- 2-5; 2 2B (2), 2 R, RBI, SO
Hi-A – Skip Adams --- 3-3; 2B (1), R, BB
Lo-A – Mike Baxter --- 2-3; HR (1), R, RBI, BB, SO
Lo-A – Will Venable --- 2-4; R
SS – Cedric Hunter --- 0-2
SS – Michael Cambell --- 2-4; 2 HR (5), 2 R, 3 RBI, SO

Pitchers:

Lo-A – Joakim Soria --- 2.O IP, 2 H, 1 R, 1 ER, 1 BB, 4 SO, 0 HR
SS – Jackson Quezada --- 2.0 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 0 BB, 3 SO, 0 HR

Commentary:

None of the Game 1 heroes from the Lake Elsinore game are legitimate prospects, but these are the playoffs, baby! Big win guys!

How unfair that Cedric only gets 2 AB has to suffer the indignity of not reaching base in the final game of his 1st professional season; a season defined by Cedric reaching base…

No, not THAT Michael Campbell... Way to go out in style!

Who is Jackson Quezada?