San Diego Padres Tickets

San Diego Padres tickets are on sale to see a great game at PETCO Park over the course of the 2012 regular season schedule. The standouts this season include closer Huston Street, starter Cory Luebke, and third baseman Chase Headley. TheSeats has the San Diego Padre tickets to enjoy amazing seats for a terrific baseball game in the sunny afternoon of the cool of the evening.

San Diego Padres Tickets on Sale

Closer Huston Street is the gem of the pitching staff. Street has recorded 13 saves in 13 opportunities with an amazing 1.17 ERA, 0.65 WHIP, and an 11.74 K/9. Starter Cory Luebke made quite an impression before heading to the DL in April. In 5 games he went 3-1 with a 2.61 ERA and 1.16 WHIP. Luebke will be back before the end of the season and is perhaps the first of the recent influx of talent to make a lasting impact and work toward claiming the role of staff ace. Street is likely going to be traded. He should be able to draw a good pitching prospect or two.

Left fielder Carlos Quentin was having an amazing season, but a tough June dragged his batting average down to .277 with 7 homeruns in 30 games. He would be the one listed in the first paragraph instead of Headley. Well, the third baseman is the best the Padres have to offer. He is hitting .272 with 8 homeruns, leading the team in both. The one statistical category in which the Padres do excel is stolen bases. Headley, Everth Cabrera, and Cameron Maybin have recorded double digit steals.

San Diego History

The San Diego Padres began playing back in 1969. They joined the MLB along with the Montreal Expos, Kansas City Royals, and Seattle Pilots. The Padres spent the first few seasons at the bottom of the NL West. Finally, by 1975 moved from fifth to fourth. San Diego featured the play of future Hall of Fame baseball players like Dave Winfield, Rollie Fingers, Gaylord Perry and Ozzie Smith, yet the decade was still spent futility attempting to crawl out of the cellar.

Luckily, the 1980s took the San Diego Padres to the World Series. In 1984, Tony Gwynn captured his first batting title and veterans like Steve Garvey, Garry Templeton, Graig Nettles, and Alan Wiggins added the necessary hitting to support Eric Show, Ed Whitson, and Mark Thurmond. Goose Gossage closed the games and the Padres vanquished the Chicago Cubs in a full five-game series and met the Detroit Tigers in the World Series. The Tigers emerged victorious, defeating the Padres in five games.

It 14 years, but the San Diego Padres returned to the World Series. In 1998 Gwynn remained on the roster. This time Ken Caminiti, Wally Joyner, Steve Finley, and Greg Vaughn joined him in the batting order. Kevin Brown and Andy Ashby anchored the starting rotation and Trevor Hoffman served as closer. The Padres beat the Astros and Braves and met the Yankees in the World Series. There, the Yankees swept San Diego. TheSeats has the San Diego Padres tickets to enjoy the new season schedule as the team tries and return to the World Series for a third time in franchise history.