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Johan Santana pitched a satisfying shutout and the Mets batters showed they can carry New York without needing David Wright to excel in every game.

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Dillon Gee struck out a career-high nine, won consecutive starts for the first time in nearly a year, and doubled and scored the go-ahead run Friday night to lead the New York Mets over the San Diego Padres 6-1. Getting help from a fine catch and throw from left fielder Mike Baxter that led to an inning-ending double play in the first, Gee allowed ... (more)

Dillon Gee of the New York Mets pitches in the first inning against the San Diego Padres at CitiField on May 25, 2012.

Everth Cabrera was hitless since being called up from Triple-A Tucson until the last game of the Cardinals series.

Jeremy Hefner was making his first MLB start against the first professional organization that he ever played for.

While the injury bug tortures the Padres, forcing 15 transactions involving the disabled list, they cannot help but be thankful Anthony Bass remains one of the few players from the Opening Day roster unscathed.

The Mets arrive home for a long home stand that coincides with Memorial Day weekend, and welcome in the San Diego Padres for their first head-t0-head match-up in 2012 at Citi Field.

By using a starting pitcher in a relief pitcher slot, you can guarantee yourself an extra start or two per week, which means more strikeouts and wins.

The addition of second baseman Alexi Amarista and Everth Cabrera has certainly added a bounce to the step of the Padres middle infield.

The St. Louis Cardinals won't have much time to dwell on getting swept in Los Angeles and hope a return home will cure their struggling ways.

It took 13 innings and heroics by tomorrow's starter, Clayton Richard , but the Padres finally defeated the Angels and declared themselves Kings of Southern Southern California today, but more importantly for the pride of all involved, they moved into 4th place in the NL West, moving ahead of the hated Rockies of Colorado.

SAN DIEGO -- Pitcher Clayton Richard scored the winning run from first base on an error by fill-in left fielder Howie Kendrick with two outs in the 13th inning and the San Diego Padres beat the Los Angeles Angels , 3-2, on Sunday in an unusual extra-inning game.

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Sunday afternoon baseball is hard to beat. There's a full slate on sunshiny games today and the Cardinals and Dodgers close out the week on Sunday Night baseball.

Angels righty Ervin Santana has been soaring after a rough start to the season, and he will look to keep it up when the Angels and Padres wrap up their first series of Interleague Play on Sunday at Petco Park.

SAN DIEGO Dan Haren entered Saturday night's game against the San Diego Padres having dropped his past three starts in games in which the Angels were shutout.

Alexi Amarista scored San Diego's first two runs against his former team and then doubled in the go-ahead run off Dan Haren in the seventh inning to lead the Padres to a 3-2 victory against the Los Angeles Angels on Saturday night.

On Friday night, for example, Angels center fielder Mike Trout got a triple on a ball that hooked and rolled into the corner, then stopped against the fence at the foul pole instead of rolling back into fair territory.

Unfortunately for us Friars fans, we have been treated to quite a few rebuilding processes over the couple of decades.A We have seen stars come and go for bigger pay-days, rosters overhauled, etc., and for the most part, these rebuilding endeavors were not very pleasant to have watched.A Despite the negativity attached to the constant rebuilding ... (more)