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Padres Go Extra Again, Lose In Thirteen

Okay, what happened?  I go to Pittsburgh for a week and leave behind the club with the best batting average in the National league.  I come home to a team that has now gone 2-7 in the last nine games and can’t hit home runs with aluminum bats in batting practice.

The punchless Padres lost another extra inning game tonight too the Giants, 3-2.  That makes a poor San Francisco team 3-1 this year against the Padres and they have now won two extra inning games.  What’s more, they have twice been victimized by Benji Molina, not exactly Carlton Fisk when he is in the batters box.

This team is obviously not hitting the long ball, although on paper they should be better than last year.  Adrian Gonzalez had thirty last year, Kahlil Greene twenty-seven and for the last several years Jim Edmonds has hit more home runs than Mike Cameron.  Kevin Kouzmanoff started hitting in April this year and should be goods for twenty to twenty-five and Brian Giles is supposed to have more power again after that surgery.

It doesn’t seem to be working out.

The starting pitching is fine.  A couple of small bumps.  The bullpen is not performing the way we are accustomed to seeing them perform, and of course the “Trevor’s old” crowd will be out in full force after Hoffy gave up Molina’s dinger.

The ball club is just not getting enough scoring right now.

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