Padres save face in 10th
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Billy Wagner couldn't close it out. Trevor Hoffman couldn't, either. After two of baseball's best closers flopped again last night, Heath Bell had enough moxie to hang on for his first major league save.
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The San Diego Padres got the ball to Trevor Hoffman, and baseball's career saves leader did the rest. Chris Young shut down the Cardinals' offense for 6 2-3 innings, Russell Branyan's two-run double gave the NL West champions their first lead of the series and the Padres beat St. Louis 3-1 on Saturday, pulling to 2-1 in their NL playoff.
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Mike Cameron tripled leading off the 12th inning and scored on a sacrifice fly by pinch-hitter Eric Young, and the San Diego Padres avoided their first four-game sweep in San Francisco in nearly 13 years with a 6-5 victory over the Giants on Sunday.
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The San Diego Padres pulled out their second straight extra-inning victory after four straight losses. This one came against the fading Los Angeles Dodgers, who haven't had any success in extra-inning games &#151; or nine-inning ones, for that matter.
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Brett Tomko pitched six solid innings and the San Diego Padres won their season-high seventh in a row yesterday, defeating the visiting Pittsburgh Pirates, 6-3, and pulling to half a game behind first-place Arizona in the National League West.
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Greg Maddux finalized his $10 million, one-year contract with the San Diego Padres on Wednesday, then hinted that there's really no end in sight to his long, successful career.
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Things are going so well for the San Diego Padres' final-month surge, they could afford to give Trevor Hoffman the day off.
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Russell Branyan, Chris Young and Trevor Hoffman saved San Diego, stopping the St. Louis Cardinals from sweeping the Padres in the first round of the NL playoffs.
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Phil Nevin gave the San Diego Padres a superb start to a key road swing. Nevin homered, doubled and drove in five runs and the Padres built a big lead for Jake Peavy in beating the New York Mets 9-4 on Monday night.
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Mark Loretta hit a bases-loaded sacrifice fly with one out in the 10th inning and the San Diego Padres beat San Francisco 4-3 Wednesday night to knock the Giants out of first place in the wild-card race.
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Phil Nevin homered, doubled and drove in five runs, and the visiting San Diego Padres built an early lead Monday en route to trouncing the New York Mets 9-4.
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Adrian Gonzalez&#039;s second home run of the game, a three-run shot in San Diego&#039;s four-run seventh inning, led the Padres to an 8-6 victory over the Philadelphia Phillies on Monday night.
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Greg Maddux became the first pitcher in Major League history to record 10 wins for 20 consecutive seasons after the San Diego Padres crushed the Philadelphia Phillies 14-3 on Friday.
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Trevor Hoffman earned his 476th career save, Mike Cameron hit a three-run homer and the San Diego Padres rebounded from their crazy loss the night before in Los Angeles to beat the Arizona Diamondbacks 5-2 Tuesday night.
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Jim Edmonds belted two solo homers to lead the host St Louis Cardinals to an easy 9-3 win over the San Diego Padres in National League action at Busch Stadium Tuesday.
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SAN DIEGO - Ryan Klesko singled in the go-ahead run with none out in the eighth inning and the San Diego Padres beat St. Louis 7-3 Monday night to keep alive their slim playoff hopes and end the Cardinals' nine-game winning streak...
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Jay Payton&#39;s three-run homer led the San Diego Padres to a 5-1 win over the San Francisco Giants in National League play Saturday, despite a 701st career blast from Barry Bonds.