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04-23-2005, 10:40 AM
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Redding's failure leaves No. 5s at 0-12 since late '04
By Bill Center
UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER
April 23, 2005
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San Diego Padres starting pitcher Tim Redding delivers in the second inning against the Arizona Diamondbacks in Phoenix.
PHOENIX – Tim Redding knows why he is a Padre.
He was brought in from Houston near the end of spring training to stop the bleeding at the back end of the rotation.
And he hasn't done it.
"This has got to stop," Redding said last night after he suffered his third straight loss, 5-3 to Arizona before 26,407 at Bank One Ballpark. "If it doesn't, I won't be starting much longer.
"For me to be 0-3 to start the season is not something I expected. The way I'm pitching now, I'm not going to help the team unless I change."
The way Redding is pitching now is much the same way that four other No. 5 starters performed at the end of last season after Ismael Valdez was traded to the Florida Marlins.
For those who are keeping count, the post-Valdez No. 5s are 0-12 with a 7.85 ERA. Redding represents a quarter of the loss total with a 6.85 ERA.
Last night he gave up all five Diamondbacks runs on nine hits in just 3 1/3 innings, three of the runs coming on first-inning homers by Royce Clayton and Troy Glaus.
Making matters tougher for the Padres was what happened after Redding departed the game. Darrell May, who lost the last spot in the rotation to Redding at the end of spring training, worked 2 2/3 scoreless innings in relief.
Asked if there could be a change in the No. 5 spot, manager Bruce Bochy pleaded for time to go over his options.
"We're going to talk," he said. "That's not a question I'm going to answer right now."
Bochy is not going to answer immediately because Redding is something of an enigma.
"He's making some really great pitches," Bochy said. "You see the stuff with Redding. I thought he made some great pitches tonight. I saw some good things. But he has to eliminate some of those mistakes. He's erratic. He pitched himself into trouble. He has to get untracked."
To the point that Redding wondered whether he might be tipping some of his pitches – "some of the pitches I made tonight that they put into play," Redding said. "Batters are good. They can pick up spin. They can . . . "
Possibly see things that pitchers don't.
Redding's problems started quickly. The second hitter he faced, Clayton, crushed a fastball on the inside corner, sending it 362 feet.
After Luis Gonzalez singled, Glaus hit a 393-foot homer – although Redding thought he had struck out Glaus on the previous pitch, a check swing on a 2-2 pitch.
Glaus made it 3-0.
The Padres made it interesting in the fourth. Phil Nevin led off with his 150th homer as a Padre. Ryan Klesko followed with a double. After a one-out walk to Xavier Nady, the Padres loaded the bases on a ball that Jesse Garcia hit to Glaus at third. Klesko broke for the plate, drawing a Glaus throw home. But Klesko retreated to the unprotected bag, thus loading the bases with Redding coming to the plate.
Bochy faced a decision. Down 3-1 with the bases loaded and one out, he stayed with his beleaguered pitcher, who struck out. Geoff Blum grounded to third to end the threat.
"We've used our bullpen so much recently that I didn't want to get into it that early," Bochy said.
In the bottom of the fourth, the Diamondbacks scored their final two runs – thanks largely to a bloop single and an infield single.
The Padres would add two more homers – a Ramon Hernandez shot off starter Brad Halsey in the sixth and Nady's 436-foot bomb off reliever Brandon Lyon in the ninth. But the Padres had only two other runners in the final five innings.
Meantime, Redding knows the score.
"May threw great tonight," he said. "It's been a tough season for me so far. It's up to me to turn it around."
Redding's failure leaves No. 5s at 0-12 since late '04
By Bill Center
UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER
April 23, 2005
http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20050423/images/sports_padres.jpg
ASSOCIATED PRESS
San Diego Padres starting pitcher Tim Redding delivers in the second inning against the Arizona Diamondbacks in Phoenix.
PHOENIX – Tim Redding knows why he is a Padre.
He was brought in from Houston near the end of spring training to stop the bleeding at the back end of the rotation.
And he hasn't done it.
"This has got to stop," Redding said last night after he suffered his third straight loss, 5-3 to Arizona before 26,407 at Bank One Ballpark. "If it doesn't, I won't be starting much longer.
"For me to be 0-3 to start the season is not something I expected. The way I'm pitching now, I'm not going to help the team unless I change."
The way Redding is pitching now is much the same way that four other No. 5 starters performed at the end of last season after Ismael Valdez was traded to the Florida Marlins.
For those who are keeping count, the post-Valdez No. 5s are 0-12 with a 7.85 ERA. Redding represents a quarter of the loss total with a 6.85 ERA.
Last night he gave up all five Diamondbacks runs on nine hits in just 3 1/3 innings, three of the runs coming on first-inning homers by Royce Clayton and Troy Glaus.
Making matters tougher for the Padres was what happened after Redding departed the game. Darrell May, who lost the last spot in the rotation to Redding at the end of spring training, worked 2 2/3 scoreless innings in relief.
Asked if there could be a change in the No. 5 spot, manager Bruce Bochy pleaded for time to go over his options.
"We're going to talk," he said. "That's not a question I'm going to answer right now."
Bochy is not going to answer immediately because Redding is something of an enigma.
"He's making some really great pitches," Bochy said. "You see the stuff with Redding. I thought he made some great pitches tonight. I saw some good things. But he has to eliminate some of those mistakes. He's erratic. He pitched himself into trouble. He has to get untracked."
To the point that Redding wondered whether he might be tipping some of his pitches – "some of the pitches I made tonight that they put into play," Redding said. "Batters are good. They can pick up spin. They can . . . "
Possibly see things that pitchers don't.
Redding's problems started quickly. The second hitter he faced, Clayton, crushed a fastball on the inside corner, sending it 362 feet.
After Luis Gonzalez singled, Glaus hit a 393-foot homer – although Redding thought he had struck out Glaus on the previous pitch, a check swing on a 2-2 pitch.
Glaus made it 3-0.
The Padres made it interesting in the fourth. Phil Nevin led off with his 150th homer as a Padre. Ryan Klesko followed with a double. After a one-out walk to Xavier Nady, the Padres loaded the bases on a ball that Jesse Garcia hit to Glaus at third. Klesko broke for the plate, drawing a Glaus throw home. But Klesko retreated to the unprotected bag, thus loading the bases with Redding coming to the plate.
Bochy faced a decision. Down 3-1 with the bases loaded and one out, he stayed with his beleaguered pitcher, who struck out. Geoff Blum grounded to third to end the threat.
"We've used our bullpen so much recently that I didn't want to get into it that early," Bochy said.
In the bottom of the fourth, the Diamondbacks scored their final two runs – thanks largely to a bloop single and an infield single.
The Padres would add two more homers – a Ramon Hernandez shot off starter Brad Halsey in the sixth and Nady's 436-foot bomb off reliever Brandon Lyon in the ninth. But the Padres had only two other runners in the final five innings.
Meantime, Redding knows the score.
"May threw great tonight," he said. "It's been a tough season for me so far. It's up to me to turn it around."