Padres Get One Hit and Win
April 20th, 2010 | Published in Daniel Gettinger, San Diego Padres, baseball, game recap | 9 Comments
The San Diego Padres defeated the San Francisco Giants this evening in a game in which they only recorded one hit.
According to Baseball-Reference’s play index, 36 teams have won a game with only one hit since 1920.
14 of those teams accomplished the feat with a single.
3 teams accomplished the feat exactly like the Padres: one single, three walks.
2 teams did it with one single and less than three walks.
1 team, the 2002 Seattle Mariners did it with one single and one walk.
Yup, the play-index is fun!
April 21st, 2010 at 10:43 am (#)
A win is nice but the bats need to come alive if they plan on winning any road games. I’m waiting to see when the Padres will give Cunningham and Cooper a shot. They have both been hitting well and I dont see a problem with giving them some experience as a reward for good performance. I certainly haven’t given up on Blanks, but his swings and approach have been awful and I think he may need to be sent down for a little bit. A good organization/business has to have a meritocracy which means moving up the players who perform and sending down the ones who don’t.
April 21st, 2010 at 10:46 am (#)
It’s been two weeks. That’s way too early to think about sending Blanks down.
April 21st, 2010 at 10:50 am (#)
Kevin-The same blanks who has a 0.354 wOBA, third highest on the team?
Sure the sample is small, and traditional scouting might be more valuable than stats at this point when evaluating Blanks’s performance, but Ray’s comment(2) summed up the situation perfectly.
April 21st, 2010 at 10:51 am (#)
Its not really the numbers that bother me its that he looks terrible at the plate. I’d rather be patient with him in july or august when the team will not be tied for first place.
April 21st, 2010 at 10:58 am (#)
Its too early to make a move I agree but its just something to look at over the next month.
April 21st, 2010 at 11:30 am (#)
Doesn’t really bother me that we’re having trouble scoring against the Giants. Sure you’d like to see more, but this is one of the best pitching staffs in baseball–everyone has trouble scoring on them. I’d wager the bats will heat up this weekend in Cincinnati.
April 21st, 2010 at 3:17 pm (#)
Kevin C., I think you’re being a bit unrealistic with Blanks. He has less than 200 major league ABs and the Padres knew he’d make mistakes as he develops. He can look terrible in one AB, taking hittable pitches for strikes while flailing at pitches way out of the strike zone, then in another AB lay off the outside pitches and work a walk. He’s done both in the same game!
Where he may look really bad is when he swings and misses at pitches in the strike zone. But lots of accomplished hitters look bad at swings and misses. Mike Schmidt was one of the worst looking, but a couple pitches later, he’d be trotting around the bases.
Your one comment bothered me, that you’d rather be patient in June when the Padres aren’t tied for first place. Who says the Padres won’t be tied for first in June? (Keep your guffaws down - my granma is napping.)
April 21st, 2010 at 6:01 pm (#)
It’s also the third game in the last 35 years where the ‘1 run on 1 hit’ line didn’t include a HR, and the only game in that span where the lone hit didn’t drive in the lone run.
That’s pretty unique, isn’t it? Save that ticket stub!
April 22nd, 2010 at 3:55 pm (#)
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