San Diego Padres vs. Los Angeles Dodgers at Petco Park
The best games of the Padre season are the home games up against the LA Dodgers. They are lively and fun and usually such a great match-up between teams. Last year
the Dodgers swept the San Francisco Giants in the last series of the season to secure an 88-74 record and land them in a tie with the San Diego Padres for first place in the western division. However, due the fact that the Padres took 13 of the 18 head-to-head meetings during the regular season, the Dodgers were forced to cede the division title to San Diego and settle for the National League’s Wild Card spot. They were eventually swept, 3-0, by the New York Mets in the 2006 National League Division Series. They lost the first two games at Shea Stadium, 6-5 and 4-1, and the third game at Dodger Stadium, 9-5. Wikipedia
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And some more Padres facts for your reading pleasure from Wiki:
* In the strike-shortened 1994 season, Tony Gwynn captured his fifth National League batting championship with a .394 batting average, the highest major-league batting average since native San Diegan and former PCL Padres star Ted Williams (the last player to hit over .400 in a regular season) hit .406 in 1941 while playing for the Boston Red Sox. In an amusing coincidence, the uniform number 19, which was worn by Gwynn throughout his Padres career, was also worn by Williams during his tenure with the PCL Padres.
* On April 10, 1998, in a game that is considered by many Padre fans to be one of the greatest in the Ball Club’s history, the Padres achieved one of the most thrilling comebacks in recent sports memory. Facing the Arizona Diamondbacks, the Padres rallied back from a 4-2 deficit in the bottom of the 9th inning. With three on, and two out, Steve Finley ended the game in dramatic fashion with a walk-off grandslam against reliever Felix Rodriguez; earning the Padres a 6-4 win and foreshadowing one of the club’s best seasons in team history. Ironically, announcers Mark Grant and Rick Sutcliffe jokingly predicted a grand slam win earlier in that night’s telecast.
