Opening Night Padres Tickets at Petco Park
Padre Season is right around the corner. With such a stellar 2006 season behind them people are sure to jump on the bandwagon and see what the San Diego Padres have to show for themselves this 2007 season. It’s best to get your tickets to the games early. Opening Night is April 6th against the Colorado Rockies. Here’s what to do to get your tickets early:
AIW Tickets has seats starting at $45.
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If you still can’t find what you’re looking for check out TicketsNow and StubHub as well.
If you are looking for tickets to Spring Training in Peoria you can find them on those sites as well.
Here’s what Wiki has to say about their 2006 season:
The Padres started April 2006 with a 9-15 record and were stuck in the cellar of the NL West. However, after going 19-10 in May, the club moved into first place in the division. Closer Trevor Hoffman was elected to the 2006 All-Star Game in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, threw one inning in that game and got the loss. On September 24 (the last home game of the regular season), Hoffman became the all-time saves leader when he recorded his 479th career save, breaking Lee Smith’s record of 478. (Hoffman’s career total as of the end of the season was 482.) Hoffman’s 2006 campaign (2.14 ERA, 46 saves in 51 opportunities through 65 games pitched) was one of his best. The 2006 Padres would attribute their success largely to the team’s pitching staff. Their ERA was 3.87, first in the NL and trailing only the Detroit Tigers in all of MLB.
On September 30, 2006, the Padres clinched a playoff berth with a 3-1 win over the Arizona Diamondbacks. In the final game of the season, the Padres defeated the Diamondbacks 7-6 to win back to back division titles for the first time in team history (they were tied with the Dodgers for the division title, but because of winning the season series against them, the division title went to them and the wild card went to the Dodgers). The Padres opened the 2006 National League Division Series at home against the St. Louis Cardinals on Tuesday, October 3, 2006. After losing the first two games at home (5-1 and 2-0 respectively), they won game 3 at Busch Stadium 3-1, but were eliminated with a 6-2 loss in game 4, when the Cardinals, who trailed 2-0 before their first at-bat, scored six unanswered runs (two in the first, and four in the sixth) for the win.
Overall the Padres have a post-season record of 12-22; rhey have lost 10 of their last 11 games since winning the National League pennant in 1998.
2006 also ended up being the last year of Bruce Bochy’s tenure as the manager of the Padres, taking the managerial position for their divisional rivals, the San Francisco Giants.
