Padres MiLB July 8, Players of the Day

Ground-rules: you won’t see a too-old-for-his-league non-prospect get an award. The award may not go to the best performance of the previous night, but what I deem the most significant performance of the night…

Minor League Hitter of the Day

Chad Huffman (AA): 2-3, 2B, R, 2 RBI, BB

Minor League Pitcher of the Day

Stephen Faris (AA): 6.1 IP, 6 H, 1 R, 1 ER, 3 BB, 4 SO, 0 HR

Other Commentary

Stephen Faris’ night ended unfairly. After giving up only the single run one out into the seventh, the bullpen (Philip Barzilla) kept the Tulsa Drillers off the scoreboard through the eighth. However, in the ninth, the pen imploaded for 6 runs to blow the game.

Huffman isn’t rocking, but he is quietly putting together a very nice year. Going into Tuesday’s game he was hitting .301/.394/.443.