Peavy is a Beast

I could not have asked for much more from my favorite day of the year. The Padres started the season out with a great game led by Jake Peavy’s 7 innings of 3 hit shut out ball and his 2 RBI’s. This guy can do it all. I don’t believe he had even close to his best stuff tonight but he blew right through a pretty tough and powerful lineup and the Padres came away with a 4-0 victory while compiling 14 hits (many against Oswalt, one of the more dominating pitchers in the game).

Other highlights:

1. Tad Iguchi breaks out for three hits in his Padres debut including two doubles.
2. PMAC has great at bats all around and ends up with a few solid base hits to start the season out.
3. Adrian and Tony Clark come through in the clutch with big RBI’s
4. The bullpen takes care of the 8th and 9th to close out the shutout
5. Hairston throws out Miguel Tejada trying to stretch a leadoff single into a double in the top of the ninth.
6. Petco Robbed the Astros of home runs on a few deep deep drives that would be out in other parks (especially Minute Maid Park)

1. We didn’t have to see Trevor pitch in a clutch situation in a big game (my fear is if he were to choke he would have psychological issues after blowing the last two of last year)

The Few Lowlights:

1. Padres leave 12 runners on base
2. Padres fail to score in some 1 out runner on third situations (the same thing that plagued them all of last year)
3. PETCO robbed us of some home runs on deep shots
4. We didn’t get to see Hell’s Bells and Trevor come in and notch his first save. (woulda been fun with the sell out crowd of almost 45K

Astros manager Cecil Cooper said “It wasn’t by accident that he won the Cy Young last year. That won’t happen too often with us. Three hits, four hits? That won’t happen very often.”

Oh yeah Cecil, just wait until tonight….

CY is unleashed