Bouncing Back

Dale Scott may have contributed to the Padres loss Sunday to the Dodgers, but they didn't let it keep them down. The Padres came into Denver to face the Rockies. The forecast at one time called for snow, and many may have expected the results of the weekend to snowball for the Padres.  It became clear that the only snowballing going on would be the offense as they smacked 7 doubles amongst their 14 hits enroute to a 7-1 win over the Rockies. Chase Headley led the way with 3 doubles, and Nick Hundley had 3 hits, and 3 RBI.  The only Friar batters not to collect a hit were Jeremy Hermida (whom according to Bud Black hit the ball "on the nose" but at people) and Cory Luebke, who still reached on an error , and knocked in a run almost had an RBI to help his winning effort (the initial scoring was an RBI. It apparently was later changed to know RBI

The offense was great and combined with clean defense (no errors!) and solid pitching, this was by far the best played game of the young season.  Luebke pitched 7 innings, scattering 7 hits and gave up just one run, showing signs of being the true ace of the staff, and worthiness of his spring training contract extension. Andrew Cashner came in the game in the 8th inning , and after giving up a walk and a hit, settled down and got out of the inning, before Micah Owings closed out the game with 9 pitches, 8 of them for strikes while collecting 2 strikeouts.  A solid performance all around from a team looking for them.