San Diego Padres vs. Atlanta Braves at Petco Park
The Atlanta Braves will be coming to San Diego to play the Padres this summer. I remember when it was a race for the Pennant in ’98 and I was lucky enough to get to a Braves vs. Padres game. What a match up between teams! Hopefully the series this year will be as exciting as that series. If you can’t find the tickets you want to this show at the box office here are the places to shop for after market tickets:
1. AIW Tickets always has a great inventory and usually has the cheapest prices too.
2. Stubhub is an excellent place to shop online as well.
They’ll even let you sell your tickets there.
3. TicketsNow is also a solid after market ticket vendor and usually has access the hard to find tickets
4. If those aren’t cutting it for you try a couple of these ticket vendors as well:
And for you Padres fans here is some info about the team from Wiki:
Although the Padres continued to struggle after Colbert’s departure in 1974, they did feature star outfielder Dave Winfield, who came to the Padres in 1973 from the University of Minnesota without having played a single game in the minor leagues. Winfield was also drafted by the Minnesota Vikings of the National Football League, the Atlanta Hawks of the National Basketball Association and the Utah Stars of the American Basketball Association.
Winfield took over where Colbert left off, starring in the Padres outfield from 1974 through 1980, when he joined the New York Yankees. In seven seasons, Winfield played in 1,117 games for San Diego and collected 1,134 hits, 154 home runs and drove in 626 runs. But most importantly, he helped the team out of the National League West basement for the first time in 1975, under the guidance of manager John McNamara, who took over the club at the start of the 1974 season.
Winfield’s emergence as a legitimate star coincided with the turnaround of a promising young lefthanded pitcher named Randy Jones, who had suffered through 22 losses in 1974. Jones became the first San Diego pitcher to win 20 games in 1975, going 20-12 in 37 outings as the Padres finished in fourth place with a 71-91 record, 37 games behind the Cincinnati Reds.
Jones won 22 games in 1976, winning the prestigious Cy Young Award in the process, another franchise first. The club set a new high with 73 wins, but fell to fifth place.
