1 Padres Press Clips Sunday, July 16, 2017 Article Source Author Page Padres, Sanchez walk off against Giants UT San Diego Lin 2 Padres’ Austin Hedges scratched for precautionary reasons UT San Diego Lin 5 Minors Cal Quantrill makes Double-A debut UT San Diego Sanders 7 Cahill wraps up series against Giants MLB.com Ruiz 10 Sanchez hits walk-off shot to beat former team MLB.com Cassavell/Haft 11 Szczur makes most of starting chance MLB.com Ruiz 14 Sanchez making most of chances for Padres MLB.com Center 16 Padres beat Giants; spoil Madison Bumgarner’s return Associated Press AP 18 This Day in Padres History, 7/16 FriarWire Center 20 Padres On Deck: Bashers Blash, Austin Allen; FriarWire Center 21 LHP Lauer pace Padres Prospects of the Week
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Padres Press Clips Sunday, July 16, 2017
Article Source Author Page
Padres, Sanchez walk off against Giants UT San Diego Lin 2
Padres’ Austin Hedges scratched for precautionary reasons UT San Diego Lin 5
Minors Cal Quantrill makes Double-A debut UT San Diego Sanders 7
Cahill wraps up series against Giants MLB.com Ruiz 10
Sanchez hits walk-off shot to beat former team MLB.com Cassavell/Haft 11
Szczur makes most of starting chance MLB.com Ruiz 14
Sanchez making most of chances for Padres MLB.com Center 16
Padres beat Giants; spoil Madison Bumgarner’s return Associated Press AP 18
This Day in Padres History, 7/16 FriarWire Center 20
Padres On Deck: Bashers Blash, Austin Allen; FriarWire Center 21
LHP Lauer pace Padres Prospects of the Week
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Padres, Sanchez walk off against Giants
Dennis Lin
Hector Sanchez found himself in an unexpected position Saturday night. A few swings
during batting practice had revealed that starting catcher Austin Hedges was less than
100 percent. Sanchez replaced Hedges in the lineup, beginning a game behind the
plate for just the fourth time this season. A procession of familiar faces cycled through
the batter’s box.
Nearly three hours later, Sanchez found himself being mobbed by his current
teammates. The Padres’ backup catcher had delivered a 5-3 victory over the San
Francisco Giants, crushing his former club with a two-run, walk-off homer at Petco
Park.
“Sometimes,” Padres right-hander Jhoulys Chacin said, “you have to be ready when
the opportunity comes. I think he was.”
Sanchez’s first-pitch swat off Steven Okert reached the top deck of the Western Metal
building and upstaged the return of Giants ace Madison Bumgarner, who came off the
disabled list to log seven innings. The switch-hitting Sanchez went 0-for-3 with the
left-hander on the mound.
In the ninth, Bumgarner could only watch as Sanchez launched his seventh hit of the
season, and his first from the right-handed side of the plate. His average rose from
.143 to .163.
“You look at his stat line, you wouldn’t come away thinking, ‘Well, how is that guy
winning baseball games for us?’” Padres manager Andy Green said. “But he’s done it
over and over.”
On April 30 in San Francisco, Sanchez socked a two-run, pinch-hit homer, forcing
extras in an eventual victory for the Padres. On June 24, Sanchez, recently returned
Padres beat Giants; spoil Madison Bumgarner's return
Associated Press
SAN DIEGO -- Madison Bumgarner was back on the mound after three long months away. The San Francisco Giants left-hander was making his first start since April 19 at Kansas City. The next day, he wiped out while riding a dirt bike on a day off in Denver, spraining the AC joint in his left shoulder and suffering bruised ribs. He pitched seven innings Saturday night and left with the score tied at 3 after allowing four hits, including home runs to Matt Szczur and Jabari Blash, while striking out five and walking two. The San Diego Padres won the game 5-3 on Hector Sanchez's two-run homer in the bottom of the ninth. "I felt pretty good the whole time and we kind of gradually built up to it," said Bumgarner, who threw 102 pitches. "I knew I wasn't going to be able to get much over 100, or they wouldn't have let me anyway. So yeah if you can get out there for seven, I'll take that any time."
The lefty retired the first seven batters before Szczur homered to left, his third. Bumgarner walked Carlos Asuaje leading off the fourth and retired the next two batters before Blash drove a two-run shot an estimated 424 feet to straightaway center field for a 3-2 lead. It was his second. "Obviously I'd like to be able to have a redo on a couple pitches, but they weren't bad pitches," Bumgarner said. "Obviously now looking back they were probably the wrong pitches, but I mean I felt pretty good for the most part for especially the first time back in three months or whatever."
The ace said he "tried to be all business about it. Any negativity is just going to make it worse, so you've got to try to find a way to make the best out of whatever situation you're in."
Sanchez, the backup catcher, found out during batting practice Saturday that he would start in place of Austin Hedges, who took a foul ball off his mask the night before. Several hours later, after going 0 for 3 against Bumgarner, Sanchez hit a no-doubt, two-run homer off Steven Okert to lift the Padres. Four of the switch-hitting Sanchez's seven hits this year are homers -- three as a pinch-hitter and then Saturday night's walk-off.
"It's fun seeing him succeed," manager Andy Green said. "He's been such a good teammate and he's had such limited opportunity to play. He's been big for us. He's been worth like probably three wins. "You look at this stat line, you wouldn't come away thinking, `How is that guy winning baseball games for you?' He's done it over and over," Green said.
Sanchez came in hitting .154 in 39 at-bats in just 29 games.
"It's not an easy job, but I know my job. I have to be ready every single day," Sanchez said. "If something happens, I have to be ready."
Blash started the winning rally when he singled leading off the ninth against Cory Gearrin (3-3) and advanced on Erick Aybar's sacrifice bunt against Okert. Sanchez said he was looking to hit a line drive to bring in Blash. Instead, he drove a fastball an estimated 407 feet off the Western Metal Supply Co. Building in the left-field corner for the win.
"It's great," Sanchez said. "To get the victory for my teammates and my team, that's more important for me. That's all that matters."
Padres starter Jhoulys Chacin was happy for Sanchez. "He wasn't expecting to play and he got the huge hit," Chacin said. "I know how much he wants to play but sometimes you have to be ready when the opportunities come, and he was."
Brandon Maurer (1-4) pitched the ninth for the win. The Giants lost for the sixth time in eight games. It was San Diego's sixth win in nine games.
Joe Panik tied it at 3 with a solo shot to right leading off the sixth, his sixth. Chacin gave up three runs and six hits in six innings, struck out four and walked four.
He labored through a 34-pitch first inning, when he loaded the bases on two walks and a single before allowing a two-run single by Hunter Pence.
TRAINER'S ROOM
Giants: Johnny Cueto was placed on the 10-day DL with blisters on the tips of his right thumb, forefinger
and middle finger that forced him out of Friday night's game after four innings. With Cueto expected to
miss at least two starts, Matt Cain moves back into the rotation.
Padres: Green said Hedges "didn't feel quite right" during batting practice. The Padres don't think Hedges
has a concussion.
UP NEXT
Giants: RHP Jeff Samardzija (4-10, 4.58 ERA) is scheduled to start the series finale Sunday. His 10 losses
are tied for the most in the NL.
Padres: RHP Trevor Cahill (3-3, 3.38 ERA) is scheduled to make his third start since coming off the DL
July 16, 1977 — The Dodgers’ Steve Garvey ends the no-hit bid of Padres left-hander Bob Owchinko with a one-out bunt single in the eighth inning. The Dodgers get two more hits and a run in the eighth inning against Owchinko to defeat the Padres 1–0 at San Diego Stadium.
July 16, 1984 — Left-hander Mark Thurmond allows four hits and two walks with three strikeouts over eight innings and goes 2-for-4 at the plate with an RBI as the Padres defeat the Cubs 4–0 at Wrigley Field.
July 16, 1985 — Seven Padres plus manager Dick Williams help the National League score a 6–1 win over the American League in the 56th All-Star Game in Minneapolis. First baseman Steve Garvey, catcher Terry Kennedy, third baseman Graig Nettles, outfielder Tony Gwynn and pitcher LaMarr Hoyt all start the game. Hoyt allows one unearned run in three innings and gets the win and is named the game’s Most Valuable Player. Garvey is 1-for-3 with a RBI. Kennedy is 1-for-2 with a RBI. Shortstop Garry Templeton has a hit in his only at-bat. Goose Gossage strikes out two in a scoreless inning of relief.
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Padres On Deck: Bashers Blash,
Austin Allen; LHP Lauer pace Padres
Prospects of the Week By Bill Center
Right fielder Jabari Blash and catcher Austin Allen each had three homers and reached double digits in RBIs last week to head this week’s list of Padres Minor League Players of the Week along with Double-A left-handed starter Eric Lauer.
Tri-City’s Emmanuel Ramirez and Moises Lugo of the Dominican Summer League Padres join Lauer as the pitchers on the Padres’ weekly list.
Triple-A El Paso’s Blash and Advanced Single-A Lake Elsinore’s Allen are joined by teenage infielders Reinaldo Ilarraza (Single-A Fort Wayne) and Eguy Rosario (Arizona Rookie League).
A look at the seven Padres Minor League Players of the Week:
Triple-A El Paso — Right fielder Jabari Blash:
Blash was 10-for-21 last week with four walks, two doubles, three homers and 10 RBIs. He hit .476 with a .560 on-base percentage and a 1.000 slugging percentage. He has hit safely in nine of his last 10 games (13-for-32) with four homers and 13 RBIs. Blash, 28,has 18 homers (tied for fifth in the PCL) despite almost a third of the season while with the Padres. Ranks third in PCL in slugging (.637) and OPS (1.043).
Double-A San Antonio — Left-handed starting pitcher Eric Lauer:
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Lauer is 1–0 with a 1.42 earned run average in his first two starts with the Missions after being promoted from Lake Elsinore. In his first start for the Missions, the 22-year-old allowed seven hits and no walks with nine strikeouts in 7 2/3 innings scoreless inning. The Padres third first-round pick (25th overall) in the 2016 draft, Lauer had a 2.79 ERA and 84 strikeouts in 67 2/3 innings for the Storm before his promotion.
Advanced Single-A Lake Elsinore — Catcher Austin Allen:
The 6-foot-4, 225-pound, left-handed hitter was 11-for-30 (.367) last week with a double, three homers, three walks, eight runs scored and 12 RBIs. He had a .424 on-base percentage and a .700 slugging percentage for a 1.124 OPS. The 23-year-old Allen was the Padres fourth-round pick in the 2015 draft. He is hitting .249 on the season with 11 homers and 49 RBIs. The Storm also used Allen at first and as the designated hitter last week.
Single-A Fort Wayne — Infielder Reinaldo Ilarraza:
The 5-foot-10, 150-pound Venezuelan missed almost all of the 2016 season with a broken ankle. Although he is hitting only .220 on the season, the 18-year-old second and third baseman is hitting .291 on the year with runners in scoring position. He has reached base in 13 straight games and is hitting .340 (17-for-50) since June 26 with two doubles, a home run, five walks and four stolen bases for a .411 on-base percentage.
The 22-year-old native of Puerto Rico is 1–0 with a 1.66 ERA in his last three starts, allowing four runs on 17 hits and four walks with 18 strikeouts in 21 2/3 innings. The 6-foot-2, 190-pounder, who signed with the Padres in 2012, is 2–1 in five starts with the Dust Devils with a 2.70 ERA this season and 25 strikeouts in 26 1/3 innings. He earlier had a 3.63 ERA in seven relief appearances for Fort Wayne.
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Arizona Rookie League — Infielder Eguy Rosario:
The 17-year-old, 5-foot-9, 150-pound native of the Dominican Republic is hitting .426 after the first 11 games of the season while playing second and third. He is 20-for-47 with five doubles, two triples, a homer, five walks, seven runs scored and 12 RBIs for a .481 on-base percentage, a .681 on-base percentage and a 1.162 OPS. He hit .206 for Fort Wayne earlier this season as the youngest player in the Midwest League.
Dominican Summer League — Right-handed starting pitcher Moises Lugo:
In two starts last week for the Padres, the 18-year-old Lugo allowed two runs (one earned) on five hits and two walks with 15 strikeouts in 10 innings. On the season, Lugo has a 0.72 ERA in five starts with a 0.88 WHIP and a .193 opponents’ batting average. He has allowed three runs (two earned) on 17 hits and five walks with 27 strikeouts in 25 innings. Lugo is the son of a groundskeeper at the Padres’ Academy.