Clay Hensley is a professional baseball player. He's a right-handed pitcher for the San Diego Padres and wears number 52. He is managed by pitching manager Darren Balsley.
Randy Ready, who remains a candidate to become manager of the Houston Astros, is one of six coaches agreeing to contracts to return to the San Diego Padres' staff. Padres manager Bud Black said Thursday that if Ready doesn't get the Astros job, he'll be back with the Padres. Ready was named Padres hitting coach on July 31 to replaced the fired Jim Lefebvre. Ready had been managing Triple-A Portland at the time. Also agreeing to one-year contract extensions were bench coach Ted Simmons... Read Full Story
Pumped-up Brad Penny dazzled in his home debut and Juan Uribe homered twice, tripled and drove in five runs as the San Francisco Giants beat the San Diego Padres 9-4 on Monday. Uribe and Edgar Renteria hit back-to-back home runs, helping the Giants remain two games back of the Rockies in the NL wild-card race. Colorado beat Cincinnati. Penny (2-0) didn't give up a hit until Will Venable's triple leading off the fifth. The Padres certainly didn't want a repeat of Jonathan Sanchez's improbable... Read Full Story
Gerardo Parra doubled in the go-ahead runs, Brandon Allen and Ryan Roberts homered and the last-place Arizona Diamondbacks rallied to beat the Colorado Rockies 7-5 Friday night, sending the NL wild card leaders to their fifth loss in six games. With the score tied at 4 and two outs in the seventh, Parra hit a deep fly down the right field line. After a long run, Brad Hawpe gloved the ball but dropped it before running into the fence, allowing two runs to score. Troy Tulowitzki homered for... Read Full Story
Who are you guys and what have you done with the San Diego Padres ? It didn't matter that their manager and starting catcher had been tossed on Memorial Day, the Padres found a way to beat the Arizona Diamondbacks 9-7 and stretch their out-of-the-blue winning streak to ten games. One big hit after another was capped by a 10th-inning Chase Headley two-run rip that helped his team rally from a six-run deficit with just two innings to play. Snapping an 11-game road losing streak, the Pads... Read Full Story
Aaron Cook pitched six solid innings, Clint Barmes hit a three-run homer and Seth Smith added a two-run shot to lead the Colorado Rockies to a 10-1 victory over the San Diego Padres on Thursday night. Cook (9-3) continued his dominance over the Padres by getting out of two bases-loaded jams while only allowing one run. Cook raised his career record against the Padres to 13-4. He allowed a run in the first and pitched out of trouble in every inning except the second when he had his only 1-2-3... Read Full Story
Edgar Gonzalez visited the San Diego Padres' clubhouse Monday, two days after he was hit in the head with a pitch and hospitalized with a concussion. The 31-year-old infielder, who was released from the hospital Sunday afternoon, saw the replay of his beaning for the first time on Monday in the team's video room. "I didn't know I got to the ground that fast, I thought I took more time," he said. "I felt pretty bad but I'm saying when I saw it, I can see how people could think it was really... Read Full Story
Holy crap! A Dinosaur wearing sneakers! The Colorado Rockies , after fighting tooth and nail to sweep the Arizona Diamondbacks , are headed to their first World Series in franchise history. With their 21st win in 22 games -- a 6-4, Game 4 victory in Colorado Monday -- the Rockies squeezed all their scoring into one neat little pile, with NLCS MVP Matt Holliday 's three-run bomb into the forest topping off the six-run fourth. With two weeks remaining in their regular season, the Rockies stood... Read Full Story
The San Diego Padres' Edgar Gonzalez was helped off the field after he was hit in the head by a pitch in the sixth inning of Saturday night's game against the Colorado Rockies. Gonzalez was hit near the ear hole on his batting helmet with a fastball from Colorado's Jason Hammel and immediately grabbed his head and fell to the ground. He remained clutching his head in a prone position for several minutes before finally sitting up. Gonzalez walked to a cart with help from head trainer Todd... Read Full Story
Major League Baseball has suspended umpire Mike Winters for the rest of the season after his instigation of ticking time bomb , San Diego Padres left fielder Milton Bradley . The incident occurred during last Sunday's game against the Colorado Rockies , when Bradley was ejected for arguing with Winters at first base. According to Padres first base coach Bobby Meacham, Winters made the situation worse by swearing at Bradley, who then totally flipped out and tore his ACL... which will keep him... Read Full Story
San Diego Padres righty Clay Hensley has elected to have season-ending surgery Friday morning to repair a tear in his pitching shoulder. After undergoing an MRI in July when the tear was discovered, he tried to pitch through the pain and ended up hurting himself even more. However, the 28-year-old finally decided to end his season in favor of surgery. "At least now I can go into next year healthy and go forward with it and put this year behind me," Hensley said. "I know it wasn't a good... Read Full Story
