SIX HOURS LATER, PADRES STILL CAN'T BEAT CARDS; NOW ONE GAME AWAY FROM BEING SWEPT

By Liz Alper

Photo courtesy @Padres on Twitter

July 20, 2016 (St. Louis) – After losing earlier today, the Padres looked to rebound in game two of today’s doubleheader.  Paul Clemens made his debut as a starter against St. Louis’ Jaime Garcia.

The game stayed silent until the third when Jedd Gyorko continued Operation Revenge on the Team That Traded Me with a solo home run—his fifth home run in five games—to give the Cards a 1-0 lead.

If you didn’t think Gyorko was serious about his revenge on the Friars, he proved it to you in the fifth with—you guessed it—another homer, this time for two runs and a 3-0 Cards lead.

Kemp tried to start a fight back with a solo homer of his own in the sixth to make the score 3-1 Cardinals.

The Pads pulled to within one in the seventh with a solo homer from Ryan Schimpf and the Cards’ lead was 3-2.  Schimpf becomes the 13^th Padre to homer in both games of a doubleheader.  But the rally was stopped short there and the Padres would go on to lose by one, 3-2.

Game four, the final game of the series, will be an hour earlier tomorrow at 4:15 p.m.  The Padres will try and avoid the sweep.  There will be a slightly lopsided pitching matchup in Andrew Cashner for San Diego against Adam Wainwright for St. Louis.

Transaction News:

• Padres recall left-hander Keith Hessler from AAA El Paso as 26^th man for today’s doubleheader