SAN DIEGO PADRES GAME INFORMATION PETCO PARK 100 PARK BLVD SAN DIEGO, CA 92101 PROVIDED BY THE PADRES COMMUNICATIONS DEPARTMENT SAN DIEGO PADRES (62-70) at LOS ANGELES DODGERS (76-58) Friday, August 29, 2014 • 7:10 p.m. PT • Petco Park • San Diego, CA RHP Andrew Cashner (2-6, 2.43) vs. RHP Dan Haren (11-10, 4.44) Game 133 • Home Game 65 • 1090 AM • XEMO 860 • FOX Sports SD PADRES AT A GLANCE All Padres game information including game notes and rosters is available at http://padrespressbox.com. Overall Record: 62-70 SWEET HOME, SAN DIEGO: The Padres will continue their 11-day, 10-game homestand tonight at Petco Park as NL West Standing: 3rd (-13.0) they will welcome the Los Angeles Dodgers to “America’s Finest City” for a three-game set...following the current Home Record: 36-28 series, the Padres will welcome the Arizona Diamondbacks to town for a four-game set, before embarking on a three- Road Record: 26-42 city, 11-day, 10-game road trip to Colorado (Sep 5-7), Los Angeles (Sep 8-10) and Arizona (Sep 12-14). Day Record: 20-22 • The Friars kicked-off the current homestand with a three-game series with the Milwaukee Brewers, from whom Night Record: 42-48 the Padres took two of three games. Homestand: 2-1 TREVOR HOFFMAN INDUCTION: Tomorrow, August 30, Trevor Hoffman will be inducted into the Padres Hall of Last Five Games: 3-2 Fame prior to the club’s 5:40 p.m. game against the Los Angeles Dodgers at Petco Park. Last 10 Games: 4-6 • Hoffman will be the ninth person to be inducted into the Padres Hall of Fame, joining Buzzie Bavasi, Nate Col- Streak: W2 bert, Jerry Coleman, Tony Gwynn, Randy Jones, Ray Kroc, Dick Williams and Dave Winfi eld. • Hoffman, who now serves as the Padres’ upper-level pitching coordinator, retired as Major League Baseball’s All-Time Record: 3,383-3,913-2 all-time saves leader with 601 in 677 opportunities, a 61-75 record, 2.87 ERA (347 ER/1089.1 IP), .211 op- All-Time at Home: 1,827-1,821-1 ponent batting average and 1,133 strikeouts in 1,035 relief appearances…the seven-time All-Star (1998, 99, All-Time at Petco Park: 458-416 2000, 02, 06, 07, 09) also fi nished in the Top 10 in Cy Young voting (1996, 98, 99, 2006) and in the Top 25 in All-Time on Road: 1,556-2,092-1 Most Valuable Player voting (1996, 98, 2005, 06) on four occasions each. • Over his 16 seasons with San Diego, Hoffman compiled a 54-64 record with 552 saves in 618 opportunities 2014 vs. LAD: 4-9 (.893 save percentage), a 2.76 ERA (292 ER/952.1 IP), .211 opponent batting average and 1,029 strikeouts 2014 vs. LAD at Home: 2-4 in 902 relief appearances. 2014 vs. LAD on Road: 2-5 RECOGNIZING THE MAD-DOG: Tonight the Padres will honor former Padres pitcher Greg Maddux by celebrating All-Time vs. LAD: 366-409-1 his recent induction into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York...Maddux will be recognized All-Time vs. LAD at Petco Park: 47-50 during a pregame on-fi eld ceremony scheduled to begin at 6:59 p.m. All-Time vs. LAD in San Diego: 193-192-1 All-Time vs. LAD at Dodger Stadium: 173-217 WINNING WAYS: With Wednesday night’s win over Milwaukee, the Padres are now 14-10 during the month of Au- All-Time vs. LAD in Los Angeles: 173-217 gust...with three games remaining this month, the Padres have thusly secured their fi rst winning month of the 2014 campaign...prior to this month, the last time the Padres had a winning month was September of last season (16-11). RECORD WHEN... HOLDING DOWN THE MISSION: Through 64 games at Petco Park this season, the Padres own a 36-28 (.563) Sunday 12-10 Thursday 4-9 record, the ninth-best home record in Major League Baseball and the fi fth-best mark in the National League. • Since June 29, the Padres have 17 of their last 22 games at Petco Park...their .773 winning percentage at Monday 7-6 Friday 10-11 home in that time is the best mark in Major League Baseball. Tuesday 8-13 Saturday 10-11 • In 35 games at Petco Park this season against teams above .500, the Padres own a 19-16 record, the sixth- Wednesday 11-10 best home winning percentage in Major League Baseball in this scenario and the fourth-best in the NL. • The Padres pitching staff has pitched to a 2.59 ERA (170 ER, 591.0 IP) and has limited the opposition to a .218 March 1-0 July 12-13 batting average at Petco Park, the best home ERA in Major League Baseball and tied for the best opponents April 12-16 August 14-10 average with Seattle. May 13-14 September 0-0 June 10-17 October 0-0 CASH ACCEPTED AT PETCO PARK: Dating back to June 11 of last season, Andrew Cashner, tonight’s starting Leading after six 47-1 pitcher for the Padres, has allowed two earned runs or less in 14 consecutive starts at home, the second-longest ac- tive streak in the Majors behind only Miami’s Jose Fernandez who has done so in 20 consecutive games at Marlins Tied after six: 6-11 Park...the streak is tied for the longest in Padres franchise history with Randy Jones, who did so from Sep- Trailing after six: 9-58 tember 2, 1977 - June 24, 1978. Leading after seven: 48-2 • During this 14 start stretch at Petco Park, Cashner owns a 4-5 record with a 1.43 ERA (15 ER, 94.1 IP) with Tied after seven: 7-8 64 strikeouts against 20 walks while limiting the opposition to a .209 batting average...his ERA at home in that Trailing after seven: 6-61 time ranks second in the Major Leagues to Jose Fernandez (0.95) while his opponents average ranks 10th in Leading after eight: 51-1 the National League. Tied after eight: 6-6 • Tonight will be the his eighth start of the season at home and his fi rst since taking the hill at Petco Park on June Trailing after eight: 5-63 18 vs. Seattle...is 2-2 with a 1.39 ERA (7 ER, 45.1 IP) in downtown San Diego this season. Scoring fi rst: 40-17 WALK IT OFF: With Rene Rivera’s walk-off RBI single in the 10th inning in Wednesday night’s game vs. Milwau- Opponents score fi rst: 22-53 kee, the Padres now have eight walk-off wins this season, tied for the sixth-highest total in the Major Leagues and Shutouts: 7-16 fourth-most in the National League, trailing only Miami (11), Pittsburgh (10) and Washington (9)...since the start of the 2005 season, the Friars have notched 84 walk-off wins, tied with the Cincinnati Reds for the highest Home crowds of 20,000+: 28-20 total in baseball. Home crowds of 30,000+: 14-8 Home crowds of 40,000+: 3-3 CLUTCH CATCHER: Wednesday night, Rene Rivera hit a solo home run off Francisco Rodriguez in the ninth inning to tie the game at two and then hit a game-winning single in the bottom of the tenth propelling the Padres to a win Scoring less than three: 10-51 over the Brewers....Rivera is the third player in Padres history to get a game-tying hit in the ninth inning of game Scoring three or four: 23-13 and then a walkoff hit in extra innings of the same game, joining Ed Sprague, Jr. in 2000 and Sean Burroughs in Scoring fi ve or more: 29-6 2004 (ELIAS). • Having driven in the game-tying run and the game-winning run in the same game, Rivera was the fi rst Padres One-run games: 24-18 player since Adrian Gonzalez on June 18, 2010 to record the game-tying RBI and game-winning RBI in the Two-run games: 10-21 same game…Gonzalez drove in the game-tying RBI in the sixth inning that day and delivered the walk-off RBI Games decided in last AB: 15-12 in the ninth. Extra Innings W-L: 8-4 Playing series opener: 18-24 IN THE SECOND HALF: Since the second half of the season began on July 18, the Padres own an 21-16 record Playing series fi nale: 20-22 (.568), the third-best record in the NL, behind only Washington (24-15, .615) and Los Angeles (22-15, .595). • In the second half the Padres have scored a total of 157 runs in 37 games, the fourth-highest total in the Na- Series W-L-T (Home): 9-9-3 tional League behind Washington (176), Pittsburgh (172) and Colorado (158). Series W-L-T (Road): 5-14-2 Series W-L-T (Total): 14-23-5 STARS OF TEXAS: Yesterday, the Texas League announced its 2014 Post-Season All-Star team, including Padres prospects OF Yeison Asencio and RHP James Needy...also included in the postseason awards was San Antonio’s Series Sweeps (Home): 3-1 athletic trainer Dan Turner, who was selected by his peers as the Minor League Athletic Trainer of the Year for the Series Sweeps (Road): 0-1 Texas League. Series Sweeps (Total): 3-2 • A native of San Diego, Needy, 23, went 10-5 with a 2.90 ERA (4th in TL) and a K:BB ratio of 113:50 over 145.2 innings...Needy, a two-time TL Pitcher of the Week award winner, tossed the fi rst seven innings of a combined White Jerseys: 23-16 no-hitter at Corpus Christi on July 30.