No Extra Bases In Extra Innings

Benji Molina's walk off homer (second of the game) in the bottom of the 11th capped a frustrating night by the bay for the Friars, the Giants even the series with the 3-2 win. San Diego's offense produced 13 hits, for just 13 total bases. Without the stellar pitching by the Padres, this team's lack of punch would be even more glaring. Cla Meredith took the loss while working in his second inning of relief and watched a down and in slider pulled over the left field wall by the Giants slugging catcher.

Randy Wolf threw well for the second time in two San Diego outings, however the southpaw didn't factor into the decision in either game. The pen kept the station to station Friars in the game until the 9th when a lead off walk issued to Josh Bard hurt San Francisco after a line drive down the left field line by pinch hitter Tony Clark and a sacrifice fly scored the Padres catcher. Besides the lack of extra base knocks the Padres ran into another out on the bases that cost them a chance at a huge inning. With the bases juiced and no outs Khalil Greene, put a charge into a ball to left that hit off the fielders glove; what seemed like a break for San Diego ended up costing them when the runner on 2nd (Kouzmanoff) thought the ball was caught and returned to second only to be forced out at 3rd.

You Can Hang Star...
In one of the best defensive plays you will ever see by a first baseman, Adrian Gonzalez snared a ground ball on his way to tapping the first base bag before throwing a strike across the diamond to force the runner at 3rd. Making that double play more impressive was that it came with no outs in the bottom of the 10th to help Cla Meredith side step a lead off single and stolen base. Kouzmanoff deserves credit as well by blocking the bag to assist in the twin killing.

Firsts
Callix Crabbe collect his first big league knock, a line drive single with 2 outs in the top of the 10th at AT&T Park.

Scott Hairston became the first Padre to be ejected this season, the home plate umpire gave the left fielder a quick thumb while arguing a check swing strike three.

Padres used all of their position players and even dipped into their starting staff when they used Jake Peavy as a pinch runner in the 9th inning.

Four!
A night after Adrian Gonzalez picked up 4 base hits, Brian Giles added 4 singles to his stat sheet