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Padres Game Notes - August 9, 2017 @ CIN

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SAN DIEGO PADRES 2017 GAME NOTES

SAN DIEGO PADRES (50-62) @ CINCINNATI REDS (46-67)

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 9, 2017 • 7:10 P.M. ET • GREAT AMERICAN BALL PARK • CINCINNATI, OH

LHP TRAVIS WOOD (2-3, 6.49) vs. RHP ASHER WOJCIECHOWSKI (2-1, 4.15)

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NUMBER 50: Last night, the Padres 7-3 victory over the Reds marked their 50th win of the season...San Diego is now 4-1 against the Redlegs in 2017, and the Padres have won seven of their last 10 games played at Great American Ball Park and three consecutive series opposite the Redlegs in Cincinnati, dating back to May of 2014.

• Last night, RHP Luis Perdomo logged his fifth win in eight starts, and he has worked 5.0 innings-or-more in 17 of his 20 starts and at least 6.0 innings in 13 of those outings...Perdomo has allowed two-or-less earned runs in eight outings this season.
• INF Yangervis Solarte amassed three hits for the sixth time this season and hit his 12th round-tripper of 2017.
• C Austin Hedges knocked his 15th home run to make it a 5-0 game in the sixth...the Padres' backstop now owns the second-most homers among catchers in the NL (behind CHC Willson Contreras' 21) and the fifth-most among catchers in the Majors.
• INF/OF Jose Pirela tied his career high with four hits in last night's contest (other: July 21 at SF)...he finished the game going 4-for-4 with two doubles and three runs scored.

WHERE THERE'S A WOOD, THERE'S A WAY: Starter LHP Travis Wood gets the ball for the third time this season in a Padres uniform...as a Padre, Wood is 1-0 with a 4.91 ERA (6 ER, 11.0 IP) in two games started, and opposing batters are hitting only .200 against him.

• Was acquired from the Royals on July 24, along with LHP Matt Strahm and INF Esteury Ruiz in exchange for LHP Ryan Buchter and RHPs Trevor Cahill and Brandon Maurer.
• Wood makes his 28th career appearance and his 12th start opposite the Reds, his former team...the southpaw owned an overall 4.12 ERA with Cincinnati, making 40 appearances and 35 starts in the 2010 and '11 seasons.
• In Wood's last start on August 4 at PIT, it was the first time he had worked at least 5.0 innings in back-to-back starts since April 21-28 of the 2015 season.

VS. CINCINNATI: The Padres' collective .315 batting average against the Reds this season is the highest against any opponent the club has faced thus far in 2017...in addition, San Diego's .565 slugging percentage and the team's 5.80 runs-per-game are the most against a club this season...Padres hurlers' 7.41 ERA (14 ER, 17.0 IP) at Great American Ball Park, however, is the second-highest at any stadium so far this season (behind their 8.84 ERA at Chase Field).

JOSE CAN YOU SEE: With his four hits last night, INF/OF Jose Pirela matched his career high in a game (also: July 21 at SF)...his three runs scored also tied his career high (other: June 10 vs. KC), and it was the first time in his career that he has hit two doubles in a game (his fifth career game with multiple extra-base hits)...with six total bases last night, he has had six-or-more total bases in consecutive games for the first time this season.

• In five games against CIN this season, Pirela is now hitting .500 (10-for-20) with a .565 OBP, a .950 SLG, three doubles, two homers, five RBI and nine runs scored.

TALK TO THE HAND: Despite walking consecutive batters for the second time this season (other: May 10 at TEX), LHP Brad Hand preserved his scoreless streak, having tossed 24.0 innings without allowing a single run...it is the longest active scoreless streak in the Majors, and Hand's streak is now the third-longest scoreless inning streak by a reliever in Padres history (Cla Meredith set the franchise record in 2006 with his 33.2 innings without allowing a run).

HERE'S YANGERVIS: INF Yangervis Solarte returned from the disabled list on July 30, and he has hit safely in his last four starts, batting .421 (8-for-19) with two home runs four RBI and three multi-hit games...dating back to the 2016 season Solarte has hit safely in his last nine games against Cincinnati...in that time, he is hitting .429 (15-for-35) with one double, two home runs, seven RBI, seven runs scored, a .429 OBP and a .629 SLG.

RUNS GALORE: Per STATS, the Reds have had 39 innings this season in which they have allowed four-or-more runs, and the Padres have had 38 such innings, ranking as the most and second-most in the Majors this season...the Reds have had 17 games in which they have allowed 10-or-more runs, and the Padres have done so in 16 games...this also ranks as the most and second-most in the league.

PADRES ON DECK: Last night, RHP Bryan Rodriguez allowed two runs on two hits with two strikeouts for Triple-A El Paso...the Dominican Republic native claimed the Pacific Coast League Pitcher of the Week honor after pitching the first complete-game shutout in Chihuahuas’ history on August 1.

• 20-year-old RHP Pedro Avila struck out 17 in 8.0 innings for Single-A Fort Wayne, allowing one run on three hits...over his last six starts for the TinCaps, Avila owns a 1.11 ERA, allowing five runs on 29 hits with 58 strikeouts in 40.2 innings of work.
• LHP Eric Lauer, allowed one run with five strikeouts for Double-A San Antonio.

DATES IN PADRES HISTORY: On August 9, 1988, C Benito Santiago drove in three runs with two homers, and RHP Eric Show allowed one run on four hits with four strikeouts in a complete game as the Padres defeated the Braves 5-1 in Atlanta.

• On August 10, 1987, RHP Jimmy Jones tossed a two-hit, complete-game shutout, and catcher Benito Santiago hit a two-run homer in a 2-0 Padres victory over Atlanta at San Diego Jack Murphy Stadium...Jones issued one walk and struck out four Braves.

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