1 Padres Press Clips Wednesday, May 31, 2017 Article Source Author Page Hedges, Lamet lead Padres past Cubs UT San Diego Lin 2 Chase d’Arnaud getting opportunity with Padres UT San Diego Lin 5 Minors Reyes, Kennedy muscle up in Missions’ win UT San Diego Sanders 8 First pitch: Is Brand Hand destined to rep Padres in All-Star Game? UT San Diego Sanders 10 Perdomo aiming for elusive first victory MLB.com Muskat 11 Hedges’ 4 RBIs puts Cubs under .500 MLB.com Cassavell/Muskat 13 Myers, Padres need your ASG support MLB.com Cassavell 16 Lamet’s recipe for success? Strike one MLB.com Cassavell 17 d’Arnaud making the most of playing time MLB.com Cassavell 19 Andy’s Address, 5/30 Friar Wire Center 21 Hedges, Lamet help Padres hand Cubs 5 th straight loss AP AP Staff 25
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Padres Press Clips Wednesday, May 31, 2017
Article Source Author Page
Hedges, Lamet lead Padres past Cubs UT San Diego Lin 2
Chase d’Arnaud getting opportunity with Padres UT San Diego Lin 5
Minors Reyes, Kennedy muscle up in Missions’ win UT San Diego Sanders 8
First pitch: Is Brand Hand destined to rep Padres in All-Star Game? UT San Diego Sanders 10
Perdomo aiming for elusive first victory MLB.com Muskat 11
Hedges’ 4 RBIs puts Cubs under .500 MLB.com Cassavell/Muskat 13
Myers, Padres need your ASG support MLB.com Cassavell 16
Lamet’s recipe for success? Strike one MLB.com Cassavell 17
d’Arnaud making the most of playing time MLB.com Cassavell 19
Andy’s Address, 5/30 Friar Wire Center 21
Hedges, Lamet help Padres hand Cubs 5th straight loss AP AP Staff 25
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Hedges, Lamet lead Padres past Cubs Dennis Lin
Concern filled the home dugout at Petco Park in the second inning Tuesday. A pitch
had ricocheted off the bat of Chicago Cubs star and former Padres prospect Anthony
Rizzo. The ball had drilled Austin Hedges square in the face mask. The catcher
paused. A team trainer jogged onto the field.
“I must be getting used to (taking foul tips off the mask),” Hedges said afterward. “I
feel like there’s been a thousand of those this year. It got me all right, but I’m OK.”
In the Padres’ 6-2 victory, Hedges would remain in the game and change the course of
it. He quickly proved his mettle, launching a two-run homer in the bottom of the
second. He caught five strong innings by Dinelson Lamet, who was making his second
start in the majors. And then, with the Cubs staggering, he delivered a crunching
blow.
Batting in the bottom of the fifth, Hedges followed Hunter Renfroe’s two-run double
with one of his own. A 2-2 tie had turned into a 6-2 lead. The Padres preserved their
advantage as the defending World Series champions dropped to a game below .500.
Hedges, who was drafted in 2011 by current Cubs General Manager Jed Hoyer,
finished 2-for-4 with four RBIs, a new career high. He ushered another 24-year-old
through a similarly impressive performance.
As he had in his big-league debut last week, Lamet struck out eight batters over five
innings, showing uncommon poise along the way. The right-hander yielded two runs,
one of which could have been ruled unearned. He pumped first-pitch strikes, 13 to the
Cubs’ first 15 batters, looking unintimidated by a formidable lineup.
“A big mistake you can make is not really trusting your pitch,” Lamet, who threw 69
of 94 pitches for strikes, said through an interpreter. “It ends up being a ball if you’re
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not being aggressive with it. If you’re scared of that, it’s not going to go well. For me, I
always try to be aggressive and just attack in the zone.”
Chicago took an early lead after a two-out grounder tipped off the glove of third
baseman Cory Spangenberg. Willson Contreras was credited with an RBI double.
The Padres wasted little time in erasing the deficit. Two at-bats after Franchy
Cordero’s leadoff single, Hedges sent a tracer over the fence in left-center. The two-
run shot, his ninth home run of the season, gave San Diego a 2-1 lead.
After striking out pitcher Eddie Butler in the third, Lamet issued his only walk of the
game and hit a batter. He came back to strike out 2016 National League MVP Kris
Bryant on four pitches. Rizzo popped out, ending the half-inning.
“He’s outstanding,” Hedges said of Lamet. “His stuff is really, really good. All three of
his pitches — four, kind of — but his three main pitches are plus-plus pitches.
“When he gets ahead, he’s got three options at any time. Even behind in the count,
he’s got enough command to throw any pitch in any count, which keeps the hitters off
balance. “
The Padres still led in the fifth when Lamet made a two-out, 0-2 mistake to Kyle
Schwarber. A game-tying drive soared into the right-field seats. Bryant doubled.
Lamet induced a Rizzo fly out, avoiding further damage.
Lamet is the first rookie to strike out at least eight batters in each of his first two
major league starts since the New York Yankees’ Masahiro Tanaka in 2014. Only 11
other rookies have accomplished the feat since 1900.
“We’re not trying to set up on the outside corner of the plate, trying to dot it,” Padres
manager Andy Green said. “We understand that his stuff is good enough to win in the
strike zone, so we ask him to attack the plate. The change-up’s real, and the slider is
real. Those are real weapons. That’s three above-average major league pitches, and
that’s a really exciting thing to see out of a young guy.
“I couldn’t be more pleased with what he’s done in two starts.”
Padres manager Andy Green discussed a number of topics during Tuesday’s pre-game media session starting with Tuesday night’s starter, Dinelson Lamet.
“I don’t think we’d ask for anything to be different at this point in time,” said Green when asked what the Padres might want to see different from Lamet in his second Major League start after holding the Mets to one run on three hits over five rainy innings in New York last Thursday.
“He threw his fastball by hitters, mixed in the slider and his change up was the most pleasant surprise,” continued Green. “He really threw the change at the bottom of the strike zone. It played off his fastball nicely. He punched some good hitters out with it. I kind of want to see the same thing out there again.”
“He’s not the guy who is going to be pinpoint command. That’s not really who he is. But he is a guy who has margin for error. That’s the best way to look at his fastball. He’s got the type of fastball that even if he misses his spot, he’s got a chance to get away with it. Now you don’t always get away with it, but he has a chance to get away with it more than most. There are some fastballs there right where the glove was. And there were some where the glove was down and it went up and it blew by good hitters.”
“The Cubs are a very good fastball hitting club, but if you locate at the top of the zone you have a chance against them.”
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Green then discussed his closer combination of Brad Hand and Brandon Maurer, who has the save in each of the last two games.
“Maurer’s been great the last two days,” said Green. “It’s the best I’ve ever seen him, against really good lineups. More of the same is what we want. The fastball is not just down and away right now, it’s to all quadrants of the zone and that’s a good step forward for him. I think he’s doing a good job.”
“Maurer has experienced a lot of bad luck for a while, the way some of the saves got away from him. I’ve been impressed with his resiliency. Even as every day passes, he’s more comfortable in that role, pitching in high leverage situations. His confidence is there right now and he’s going to do some great things.”
But Green said he would remain “open-minded” when it comes to who pitches and eighth and who pitches the ninth between Maurer and Hand.
“With Maurer and Hand, it’s looking at the game and trying to figure out the best way to get through the eighth and the ninth,” said Green. “Some days, when one guy down, it makes the decision easier.”
“Starting the game yesterday, if you asked me who is closing I couldn’t tell you. Where we are in the lineup and how we like the matchups is how we’ll proceed with that. The only negative (with deploying two closers) is if someone’s ego is bigger than the team and we don’t have that situation. I don’t think there is a negative whatsoever.”
“I think both these guys are mature that way, selfless that way. They just want to win baseball games and be in situations where they can succeed. I don’t feel obligated to pitch someone. I like looking at the lineup the way you do the rest of the game. You do that all the way through a baseball game until you get to the ninth and then you basically turn your brain off and say ‘go close it out.’”
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“That doesn’t make sense when you have the flexibility we have. Now if you’ve got Trevor Hoffman sitting in the ninth, then, yeah, I’m going to hand him the ball and get out of the way. We’re not sitting there right now. They have a good vibe collectively down there.”
Green turned to Chase d’Arnaud, who was making his third straight start at shortstop Tuesday.
“D’Arnaud is going to continue to play,” said Green. “He’s played well. He’s going to get some days off. You are talking about a guy who basically sat for the entire first month of the season . . . he hasn’t played that much.”
“It’s not like Erick (Aybar) has been forgotten about at this point in time. Chase is going to play and get ample opportunity as he builds himself up. We’ll see what he does and the better he plays the more he plays. It’s no secret that we like guys who have that type of energy and that kind of intensity and cover that kind of ground.”
“We’ve been kind of looking to have that answer long-term and there’s no indication that he is or isn’t the answer at this point in time. But he’s going to get the opportunity and get a look. There’s been a lot of guys who get the opportunity later in their careers and run with it. He’s happy to have opportunity. He’s happy to be on the field. He’s working. He’s a Southern California guy through and through as you are ever going to see. He loves it here.”
“The last couple days at shortstop, he’s helped us win baseball games with his glove. It’s good to see. I looked at video and thought this guy could play shortstop. He’s got the arm strength, he’s got the lateral mobility. He’s got the want to and he’s locked in pretty well. He’s looked good so far.”
“Now, there’s a difference between playing a couple days and grinding out month long stretches. He’s got the opportunity right now and we’ll see how he handles it.”
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Green talked briefly about Yangervis Solarte, Luis Perdomo, Trevor Cahill, Manuel Margot and Jered Weaver:
On Weaver: “Weaver threw a pen today. When we were passing, he said ‘I’m feeling freer.’ We’re working on some mobility things, working on those hips so they function like they’ve functioned in the past. There’s inflammation, tightness. Things don’t function the way they used to function.”
On tomorrow’s starter Perdomo: “He’s done a lot of work to combat lefties, to attack them in a different manner. We’re going to continue to see if that work comes to fruition. I think we’re seeing some progress. There are still some things to work on to make him better against lefties, to get his fastball to play better against left-handed hitters.”
On Solarte: “He’s reined in the over-aggression since he moved to the №2 hole. He was swinging at pitches outside the strike zone. You don’t notice it as much with Solarte as other guys because he has the ability to put the bat on almost any ball.”
On Cahill: “He is nearing the end of the 10-day to-14 day window when he can start throwing.”
On Margot: “Manny had an MRI this morning. It showed nothing of consequence. He has inflammation and fluid. Structurally, he’s sound. We have to get the fluid out of the calf.”
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Hedges, Lamet help Padres hand Cubs 5th straight loss Associated Press
SAN DIEGO -- The rebuilding San Diego Padres are hoping to follow the Chicago Cubs' blueprint -- the one that required years of losing before a title was delivered. Not that the defending World Series champions are looking all that unbeatable up close.
Austin Hedges had a home run and a career-high four RBI, rookie Dinelson Lamet produced another strong outing and the Padres beat the Cubs 6-2 on Tuesday night, giving Chicago its fifth straight loss. Hedges hit a two-run homer and a two-run double as the Padres clinched the three-game series against the struggling Cubs.
Lamet (2-0), one of Padres' top prospects, was making his Petco Park debut and looking to build on his stellar first start. Against the New York Mets on Thursday, the right-hander threw five innings of one-run ball, allowing three hits. He was nearly as good against the potent Cubs, limiting them to two runs, five hits and a walk over five innings. For the second straight start, he struck out eight. He showed three effective pitches in a fastball, slider and changeup.
"We knew we would see great stuff, but a 4-to-1 strike-to-ball ratio today?" Padres manager Andy Green said. "He's in the strike zone, and that is the No. 1 thing for him to be successful." Eddie Butler (2-1) was seeking his third straight win, but he lasted only 4 1/3 innings, charged with six runs and seven hits. "We had a good game plan, executed a lot of pitches, but missed with a few too many," Butler said.
He walked three and struck out five as his teammates were no match for Lamet.
"Fortunately everything went well," Lamet said through a translator. "I got confidence once I got a strike on these guys, then I could go after them with my offspeed pitches and my breaking stuff. I was trying to be aggressive and attacking the strike zone."
Hunter Renfroe had a two-run double in the fifth that put the Padres up 4-2 and gave him six RBI in two games. "We gave up the lead and that was largely because they did pitch well again and we're not hitting like we can," Cubs manager Joe Maddon said. "So that is a bad combination."
Hedges got to reliever Brian Duensing for another two-run double into the left field corner, extending the edge to 6-2.
Kyle Schwarber burned Lamet on an 0-2 pitch, turning on an elevated fastball for a solo homer in the fifth to tie it at 2 and snap his 0-for-13 skid. "The rest of the outing it was lights out for the young guy," Green said. "I feel really good about his ballgame, and I couldn't be more pleased in what he has done in his two starts."
Hedges' ninth homer of the season, a two-run shot off Butler's fastball, pushed the Padres ahead 2-1 in the second inning. Franchy Cordero opened with a single. The Cubs struck first when Willson Contreras' bad-hop grounder got past Cory Spangenberg at third for a double in the second for a 1-0 edge, scoring Cordero after he singled. Chicago, which has fallen a game under .500, has nine hits in the series' first two games. They left nine runners on base.
TRAINER'S ROOM
Cubs: 2B Ben Zobrist is starting but a sprained left wrist is restricting him when he bats right-handed. He's avoiding hitting from that side but is getting better, according to manager Joe Maddon. Padres: RHP Jered Weaver (hip inflammation) threw his first bullpen session Tuesday since going on the DL on May 20. ... RHP Trevor Cahill (shoulder strain) has yet to throw after going on the DL May 14. ... CF Manuel Margot (strained left calf) had an MRI, which the team said came out well. UP NEXT
Cubs: RHP Jake Arrieta (5-4, 4.92) has lost three of his last four starts. Against the Padres, Arrieta is 2-1 with a 3.18 ERA. He last faced them in August when he threw eight shutout innings. Padres: RHP Luis Perdomo (0-0, 4.19) has lost his last two decisions after setting a franchise mark with six straight no-decisions to start a season. Perdomo has pitched against the Cubs just once, allowing two runs, two hits and two walks in three innings.