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Message #: 32289
This being in Colorado, it was no surprise that the Padres blew early (4th or 5th inning)leads of 5-0,4-1 and 7-2. Somehow they managed a split to stay alive in the topsy turvy NL West. The split cards were their usual bad. You can tell when the 5's in the field made as many plays as they missed. game 1: Caminiti had a 2 run homer in the first. Could have been a much bigger inning if Discarcina didn't hit into a hit and run double play. Flaherty tripled and scored in the 2nd. Caminiti homered and Flaherty had an rbi single in the 3rd to make it 5-0. Galaragga had an rbi single in the 3rd to get Colorado on the board and his 3 run homer in the 5th tied the game. Bichette hit a pinch 2 run homer in the 6th and Fermin had an rbi single in the 8th to make the final score 8-5. game 2: This was the only game SD did not blow an early lead. Caminiti had a 3 run homer and Gomez a 2 run double in the first. Colorado got one back on a Galaragga double. Caminiti homered in the 3rd and SD got an unearned run in the 4th. Sanders helped himself out with a 2 run double in the 5th as the Padres scored 4 times to make it 11-1. Galaragga had an rbi single in the 6th and Cianfrocco and rbi double in the 8th. Bryce Florie came on and did something that I doubt has been done before. In 2 innings he allowed 3 hits, all on splits of 1 (2 of them triples) to make the final score 12-4. game 3: Galaragga homerd in the 4th for the first run of the game. Flaherty's 3 run doubled capped a 4 run 5th for SD to put them on top. Castilla homered in the 5th for Colorado and Gwynn had an rbi single in the 6th to keep it a 3 run lead. Castilla homered again in the 7th. Jump to the bottom of the 9th. Lead off batter rolls 6-6 and draws a 3 on the 1-12 single chance. 2nd batter repeats (same 6-6 roll, same split of 3). Castilla rolls a 2-2 and gets a split of 4 to load the bases. After a flyout, pinch hitter Larry Walker grounds one to Gary (2e10) Discarsina for what should be a game ending double play. Yeah right. It's an rbi single A walk forces in the tying run and Cooper gets a split of 1 on his ab for a game ending single. San Diego worked hard to lose this one as they left 14 on base in 9 innings (colorado technically left 6 on since they had the bases loaded when the game ended). Colorado had 6 hits the first 5 innings and 5 in the 9th. game 4: SD again struck for a big first inning. Gwynn had a double and came aroun on the error to make it 3-0 and Caminiti homered to make it 4-0 before Rockies fans knew what hit them. Colorado used 4 singles in the 2nd to make it 4-2. SD scored 3 times in the 4th on a double, error and 3 singles to make it 7-2.Colorado then broke out the big bats Galarraga homered in the 4th, Bichette hit another pinch homer leading off the 5th and Castilla had a 3 run homer later in the inning and it was 7-7. Holbert and Clark had doubles in the 6th to put SD back on top. Galaragga homered yet again, this one a 2 run shot in the 7th to put Colorado on top. Caminiti countered with a 3 run shot in the 8th and SD somehow had a wild 11-9 win. 11 different Padres had hits as everyone but Lieberthal played in the season finale. There were 15 homers in the series, by a total of 4 players. Caminiti hit all 6 of SD homers while Galaragga had 4, Castilla 3 and Bichette 2 for Colorado. Caminiti had 11 rbi for SD while Galaragga had 10. |
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