Padre season is once again upon us. Let’s hear it for a great 2007 for our boys in blue! The second home series at Petco Park for the Padres is against the San Francisco Giants. Last year the Giants were expected to go far in the season and even clench the Pennant, but they lost 13 of their last 15 games. Sad season for the Giants. Here’s to the Padres sweeping these Giants back to San Fran.
If you want tickets to any of the three games here are some places to look. AIW Tickets has great seats available already starting at $35.
Also these sites are worth checking out too.
If you still can’t find what you’re looking for you can go to TicketsNow or StubHub to see what they have.
Here’s a couple facts about the San Diego Padres from Wiki:
* The Padres are one of four teams to never have a pitcher toss a no-hit game (although several have come close). In one near-miss, on July 22, 1970, righthander Clay Kirby finished the eighth inning only three outs shy of a no-hitter. But because the Padres were trailing in the game 1-0, manager Preston Gomez sent Cito Gaston up to pinch hit for Kirby with two out in the bottom of the eighth. Gaston struck out. Gomez defended his decision by saying that his job was to win games, but was openly criticized by Bavasi, who lamented not having a no-hit pitcher as a drawing card for the team.
* The Padres have been no-hit several times, most notably on June 20, 1970, by the Pittsburgh Pirates’ Dock Ellis, who later claimed that he pitched the game while under the influence of the hallucinogenic drug LSD, a dose of which he ingested before drawing this pitching assignment.
* Nate Colbert is one of two major-league baseball players to have hit five home runs in one day, a feat he accomplished as a Padre.