San Diego Padres News

Now that he's finally pulled on a San Diego Padres jersey, Greg Maddux might try to pitch forever. Maddux finalized his US$10 million, one-year contract with the Padres on Wednesday, making a quick trip from his off-season home in Las Vegas to take his physical _ which he passed _ and then be introduced at a news conference. The Padres tried to sign Maddux as a free agent twice before ...

Dave Roberts stood in the San Diego clubhouse shaking his head, unable to explain why the Padres failed to come up with any clutch hits in their first round loss to the St. Louis Cardinals. ``I wish I knew,'' said the Padres left fielder, who hit .438 in the series. ``That's the difference, obviously, in the series. When they had to make pitches, they made pitches.'' For the second straight ...

Just like last year, the St. Louis Cardinals breezed by the San Diego Padres and into the NL championship series. Chris Carpenter recovered from a shaky start for his second victory of the series, Juan Encarnacion hit a tiebreaking triple and the Cardinals beat the San Diego Padres 6-2 Sunday night to win their best-of-five first-round NL playoff 3-1. St. Louis nearly wasted a seven-game lead in the final two ...

Russell Branyan, Chris Young and Trevor Hoffman saved San Diego, stopping the St. Louis Cardinals from sweeping the Padres in the first round of the NL playoffs. Branyan's two-run, fourth-inning double gave the NL West champions their first lead in three games, Young shut down the Cardinals' offence for 6 2-3 innings and Hoffman made it to the mound for the first time in the series, leading San Diego to a 3-1 victory Saturday that pulled the ...

Instead of trying to avoid a first-round playoff sweep, the St. Louis Cardinals are trying to complete one. After finishing the regular season in a tailspin, the Cardinals took a 2-0 lead in the best-of-five series against the San Diego Padres. The series resumes Saturday with the first post-season game at the new Busch Stadium. ``The last six weeks or two months, we had trouble winning two games in a row,'' Cardinals manager Tony La Russa said ...

Not even San Diego native David Wells could save the Padres, who appear to be headed for their same ol' post-season fate against the St. Louis Cardinals. Albert Pujols and Jim Edmonds hit RBI singles off Wells in the fourth inning and Jeff Weaver held the popgun Padres in check to lead the Cardinals to a 2-0 win Thursday at Petco Park and a 2-0 lead in the division series. The two-time NL West champion Padres spoke ...

Kelly Calabrese took a break from treating the aches and pains of major leaguers to jog out to the first-base line to take her place among the San Diego Padres players and staff. ``There's nothing like on opening day or during playoffs running out on the field and getting introduced,'' Calabrese said. ``I still get chills every time it happens. It's phenomenal.'' Yeah, five months after being called out on ...

This is the kind of game that has ``Boomer'' written all over it. At least the San Diego Padres hope it does. Down one game to the St. Louis Cardinals in the division series, the Padres will turn to 43-year-old San Diego native David Wells to start Game 2 on Thursday afternoon against Jeff Weaver. The Padres acquired Wells on Aug. 31 from Boston because of his reputation as a ...

With one swing of Albert Pujols' bat, a St. Louis Cardinals lineup that looked so sickly in September suddenly got a lot better under the California sun. San Diego Padres ace Jake Peavy tempted Pujols with one pitch too many and the slugger, who has a shot at a second straight NL MVP award, responded with a two-run homer that launched the Cardinals to a 5-1 victory in the opening ...

Josh Barfield, the San Diego Padres' rookie second baseman, has already tied his father, Jesse, in playoff appearances. ``I think he's more excited than me, because he realizes how hard it is to get here,'' Josh Barfield said about his father, a former AL home run champion whose only post-season appearance was with Toronto in the 1985 AL championship series, which the Blue Jays lost to Kansas City. Jesse Barfield ...

Eight years after beating them in the World Series, David Wells gets to start a playoff game for his hometown San Diego Padres. Wells, who plans to retire after this season, will start Game 2 of the division series against the St. Louis Cardinals on Thursday at Petco Park. ``I couldn't be happier,'' the 43-year-old left-hander said Tuesday. ``This is like a dream come true. I've been going to Padres ...

Home-field advantage has never looked so good to the San Diego Padres and their healthy ace, Jake Peavy. A year after being swept out of the playoffs by the St. Louis Cardinals, the NL West champion Padres get another shot at Chris Carpenter and the NL Central champions. This time, the first two games will be at Petco Park, starting Tuesday afternoon. If needed, Game 5 also will be played ...

The Padres are in the post-season for the second year in a row, thanks to David Wells' first victory since he was traded to San Diego a month ago. The 43-year-old left-hander, who missed his previous start with gout in his right foot, threw six scoreless innings and Mike Cameron hit a two-run homer to power San Diego past the Arizona Diamondbacks 3-1 on Saturday. The Padres' win clinched consecutive ...

San Diego's celebration was delayed when Livan Hernandez pitched shutout ball into the seventh inning and Eric Byrnes homered in a 3-1 victory by the Arizona Diamondbacks on Friday night that prevented the Padres from clinching a playoff berth. San Diego would clinch no worse than the wild-card spot with one more victory or a loss by Philadelphia, which routed Florida 14-2. The Padres entered with a one-game NL West ...