SAN DIEGO PADRES GAME INFORMATION PETCO PARK l 100 PARK BLVD l SAN DIEGO, CA 92101 PROVIDED BY THE PADRES COMMUNICATIONS DEPARTMENT SAN DIEGO PADRES (56-69) vs. PITTSBURGH PIRATES (73-51) RHP Tyson Ross (3-5, 2.62) vs. RHP A.J. Burnett (5-8, 3.18) Tuesday, August 20, 2013 • 7:10 p.m. PT • Petco Park Game 126 • Home Game 64 • The Mighty 1090 AM • XEMO 860 AM • FOX Sports SD • FOX Deportes SD LIRIANO SILENCES PADRES BATS IN SERIES OPENER: The Padres hitters had trouble with Pirates lefty PADRES AT A GLANCE Francisco Liriano a majority of the evening and fell to the NL Central leaders, 3-1...Padres hurler Andrew Cashner NL West Standing ...................4th deserved better than his eighth loss of the season, allowing just one earned run (3 total) through seven innings on Home Record .................... 33-30 five hits...newly-recalled Brad Boxberger finished up with a scoreless eighth and ninth...the Friars offense compiled Road Record ..................... 23-39 six hits, two in the ninth which plated their lone run on a Nick Hundley double...left fielder Logan Forsythe secured Day Record........................ 15-22 the only multi-hit game for the club with a single and a double in four trips...after winning six straight against opposing Night Record...................... 41-47 left-handers, the Padres have now dropped three in a row to southpaws: the Rockies’ Jorge De La Rosa, the Mets’ This Homestand .................... 2-3 Jonathon Niese and last night to Liriano. Last Road Trip ....................... 2-4 Last Five Games ................... 2-3 MONEY ON THE MOUND: Last night’s starting pitcher Andrew Cashner has become a very reliable piece to the Padres rotation puzzle for 2013 and beyond...in Cashner’s last 13 starts dating to a June 6 outing at Colorado, he has Last 10 Games ...................... 4-6 allowed three or fewer runs in all but one outing (July 5 at WAS)...over that span, he has compiled a 3.75 ERA (34 ER, Streak ......................................L1 80.2 IP) with 10 quality starts, pitching into the seventh inning seven times and completing eight frames twice...“Cash” Series W-L-T (Home) ......... 8-8-4 was acquired by the Padres from the Cubs in early 2012 as part of a four-player trade that sent first baseman Anthony Series W-L-T (Road) ........ 4-13-3 Rizzo to the north side of Chicago. Series W-L-T (Total) ....... 12-21-7 Series Sweeps (Home).......... 4-1 RELIVING THE STREAK: Outfielder Will Venable saw his career-best and Padres’ season-high 15-game hitting Series Sweep (Road) ............ 2-5 streak (August 2-19) fall by the wayside last night, going 0-for-4...Will batted .377 (23-for-61) with 11 extra-base hits, Series Sweep (Total) ............. 6-6 12 runs scored and five stolen bases during the run...his August average of .354 remains 10th-best in the National 2013 vs. PIT .......................... 0-1 League while his .708 slugging pct. is the fourth-best...the 15-gamer blew by his previous career-long of 10 set 2013 vs. PIT at Home ............ 0-1 from September 16-29, 2010 and was the longest active hitting streak in baseball...Will is one of just six players 2013 vs. PIT on Road .............n/a in baseball with at least 17 home runs and 14 stolen bases, joining the Angels’ Mike Trout (21 HR, 28 SB), the All-Time vs. PIT ............. 205-239 Rockies’ Carlos Gonzalez (26, 21), the Brewers’ Carlos Gomez (18, 30), the Nats’ Ian Desmond (17, 16) and the All-Time vs. PIT at Home .....102-118 Pirates’ Andrew McCutchen (17, 26). All-Time vs. PIT on Road .... 103-121 All-Time vs. PIT at Petco .....19-11 PADS VS. PIRATES: The Padres and Pirates tonight meet for the second time this season...the clubs are playing each other for the first time since a San Diego sweep almost exactly a year ago from August 20-22 here at Petco Park...the Pirates were the final National League club the Padres faced in 2013...the clubs will see each other again next month for a four-game series at PNC Park from September 16-19...the Padres have won each of the past eight season-series from Pitttsburgh dating to 2005 and haven’t lost a season series since going 2-4 in 2003 (was 3-3 in 2004). CUBS WILL WRAP UP HOMESTAND THIS WEEKEND: The Padres will play the sixth game of a season-long 10-game homestand tonight, the middle game of the three-game series against the NL Central leader Pittsburgh...tonight, the Padres will salute the San Diego Police Department in the fifth (of six) First Responders Recognition Nights of the season...prior to tomorrow’s series finale, there will be a special pregame ceremony honoring the San Diego Armed Services YMCA...after an off day on Thursday, the Cubs (August 23-25) come calling this weekend...the Padres and Cubs split four games at Wrigley Field from April 29-May 2...the 1984 NLCS rivals each won three games last season, with the home team completing three-game sweeps...the Padres are 203-247 all-time vs. the Cubs, one-game under .500 at 111-112 in San Diego and 19-14 at Petco Park. AS YOU MAY KNOW...Padres attendance in 2013 at Petco Park is up over 70,000 from a year ago at this time (through 63 home dates)...BUT DID YOU KNOW...that the Padres are one of 13 clubs in baseball that has seen an increase in overall attendance from last season?...in addition, the club has seen 20 crowds thus far of 30,000 or more fill Petco Park this season with the team 13-7 (.650) in those contests. 2012 2011 Career 2013 2012 Career Tyson Ross vs. Pirates -- -- -- Major League Record 3-5 (2.62 ERA) 2-11 9-23 AJ Burnett vs. Padres 0-1 -- 1-5 Major League Record 5-8 (3.18 ERA) 16-10 142-129 TYSON ROSS is set to make his ninth start of the season in his 28th Tyson’s 2013 starts appearance of the year tonight, his fourth start at home…will be his first career FINAL WHEN appearance against the Pirates…Padres have gone 4-4 in his eight starts thus far, DATE OPPONENT SCORE IP H R ER HR BB SO TP-K LEFT 4/6 at Colorado L, 3-6 4.0 3 3 2 0 4 2 96-61 1-1 winning four of his last six since April 17 and three of his last five since rejoining 4/12 Colorado ND, 5-7 5.1 5 3 3 1 3 8 93-53 3-3 4/17 at Los Angeles-NL ND, 7-2 4.2 6 1 1 0 3 2 99-56 4-1 the rotation on July 23…was recalled from Triple-A Tucson on July 23 for his 7/23 at Milwaukee W, 6-2 6.0 2 1 1 0 2 6 82-51 4-1 second stint with San Diego this season, after being optioned to Tucson on July 7/28 at Arizona W, 1-0 8.0 3 0 0 0 1 7 101-66 1-0 8/3 New York-AL L, 0-3 6.0 3 2 2 1 3 9 95-55 0-2 9…tonight will be his 30th career start and 81st career appearance…Ross, 26, 8/10 at Cincinnati W, 3-1 7.0 4 1 1 0 4 6 96-51 2-1 8/15 New York-NL ND, 1-4 7.0 5 1 1 0 0 8 109-74 1-1 was acquired from the Athletics in a four-player trade on November 16, 2012. 2013 Totals (Starter) 3-2, 2.06 48.0 31 12 11 2 20 48 771-467 61% ANOTHER SEVEN STRONG--Tyson worked 7.0 innings and allowed just one 2013 Totals 3-5, 2.62 79.0 61 27 23 5 31 70 -- -- run for his second-straight start his last time out this past Thursday, August 15 to Career Totals 9-23, 4.39 227.2 229 119 111 17 101 172 -- -- begin this homestand and open a four-game series against the New York Mets… he left the game after the seventh with the score tied at 1-1 before the Mets won by a score of 4-1, scoring two in the eighth and one in the ninth against the Padres pen. STINGY STARTER--Ross has a 2.06 ERA (11 ER, 48.0 IP) with 48 strikeouts in his eight starts...amongst starters with at least eight starts this season, his 2.06 ERA as a starter ranks third-best among all Major League starters behind Clay Buchholz (1.71) and Clayton Kershaw (1.80)…as it stands right now, his 2.06 ERA as a starter would be the best-ever for a Padres pitcher in a season (min. 8 starts)...his .185 (31-for-168) opponents average as a starter is the second-lowest in the Majors among pitchers with at least eight starts this season, behind Kershaw (.182)…began the season in the rotation, making three starts from April 6-17, going 0-1 with a 3.86 ERA (6 ER, 14.0 IP) in those starts before landing on the 15-day DL on April 20 with a left shoulder injury…since rejoining the rotation on July 23, he has gone 3-1 with a 1.32 ERA (5 ER, 34.0 IP), a .149 (17-for-114) opponents average and 36 strikeouts against 10 walks...his 1.32 ERA since July 23 is the fourth-best in baseball while his 36 stikeouts are tied for the fifth-most.