Stat break: 09 Padres

Hitters

Name                AB     R   H   RBI   2B  3B   HR   BB   SB   Avg,
Blanco                12      2     2     0       2    0      0      2      0      .167
Blanks                19      3     5     9       1    0      2      1      0      .264
E Cabrera          52      2   13     6       5    1      0      6      1      .250
Eckstein             54    11   15     4       2    0      1       3      1     .278
Giles                  16       2     1    1       0    0      0      2       0      .063
A Gonzalez        47    10   12     7      1    0      3     10       0     .255
T Gwynn Jr        37      2     9     4       1    0      0      2       1     .243
S Hairston         15      1     3     0       1    0      0      0       0      .200
Headley             39      5     9     4       1    0      1      6       1      .231
T Hundley          36      3    11    4       1    2      2      3       0      .306
Kouzmanoff       41      1   11     1       1     0     0       2       0     .268
L Rodriguez       11     0      0     0       0     0     0      2       0      .000
O Salazar            1     0      0     0       0     0     0      0       0      .000
Venable             37     3      9     5       1     0     0      5       1       .243

Pitchers

Name                G    GS   IP        H    R    ER   BB    K     Sv.     W    L     ERA

H Bell               2      0       2         0      0      0      0      3        2      0     0      0.00
Correia             4      4     26       26   16    15      8     24        0      1     2     5.19
Gaudin             3      3     20        16     5      5      7     21        0      2    1      2.25
Geer                2      0       6          5     1      1      1       3        0      1     0     1.50
Gregorson       3      0      4          2      0      0      1       3        0      0     0     0.00

Latos               1      1       9         2     0      0      4       6         0     1     0       0.00

Mujica              4      0       8.6      7     2      2      1       8        0      1     0       2.08
Peavy              1      1       8         7     2      1      3       9        0       0     1      1.13

Perdomo         3      0       6         5     4      4       0      2         0      0     0      6.00
Richards         1      1       5         6     4      4       5       3        0      0     0      7.20

Stauffer           2      2       9.6    16     9      4       4       6        0      0     2      3.72
Thatcher         2      0       2.6       1    0       0      2       3        0      0     0      0.00
C Young          1      1        5        5      3      3      1       3        0      0     1       5.40

George bracket: Red Sox (09) defeat Padres (09) in six games

Game One: 09 Red Sox 10, 09 Padres 3
WP: Beckett (2-1)
LP: Correia (1-2)
HR: A Gonzalez (2), Ortiz (1), Drew (2)

Game Two: 09 Red Sox 2, 09 Padres 1
WP: Saito (1-0)
LP: Peavy (0-1)
Save: Papelbon (4)
HR: Youkilis (2)

Game Three: 09 Red Sox 3, 09 Padres 1
WP: Lester (2-0)
LP: Gaudin (2-1)
Save: Papelbon (5)
HR: Bay (3)

Game Four: 09 Padres 10, 09 Red Sox 4
WP: Geer (1-0)
LP: Matusazka (0-1)
HR: Bay (4), Baldelli (2), A Gonzalez (3)

Game Five: 09 Padres 8, 09 Red Sox 7
WP: Mujica (1-0)
LP: Papelbon (0-1)
HR: Drew 2 (4), Blanks 2 (2)

Game Six: 09 Red Sox 5, 09 Padres 1
WP: Wakefield (1-0)
LP: Stauffer (0-2)
HR: Drew (5)

The Red Sox overpowered the Padres in a 2009 matchup heavy on bullpens and multi-run homers.

The Sox opened with an easy win in Fenway. Josh Beckett allowed a second-inning run on three singles, but his teammates scored two in the bottom of the inning, then added two in the third and two more in the fourth, getting six doubles and a homer in those three innings against Kevin Correia. Boston really opened it up with four runs in the seventh off Luis Perdomo, with two more doubles, a triple and a homer.

Game Two was much more sedate. Tim Wakefield and Jake Peavy each allowed a run in the second inning, and the next run game in the bottom of the eighth, when Kevin Youkilis led off with a homer off Peavy. Wakefield allowed eight hits and three walks with two strikeouts in 6.2 innings. Takashi Saito got the last out of the seventh after Wakefield had loaded the bases and then pitched around a two-out triple in the eighth to get the win. Peavy went the distance in his loss, allowing just one earned run in eight innings on seven hits.

The series shifted to San Diego and Petco Park, where Jon Lester and Chad Gaudin provided another pitchers duel in Game Three. The Padres scored in the first but left the bases loaded, an opportunity they would regret. Jacoby Ellsbury doubled home Lester in the third to tie the score, and Jason Bay homered in the sixth for the lead. The Sox added a third run in the eighth off Edward Mujica. Lester allowed just two hits after the first inning.

With the Sox up 3-0, the Padres pounded Daisuke Matsuzaka for five runs in the third inning of Game Four and and Paul Byrd for four more in the fifth. Clayton Richards gave up four runs in five innings, and Josh Geer threw four innings off shutout relief to get credit for the win in a scorer's decision. Evereth Cabrera went 4-for-4 with a walk, two doubles and two RBIs but didn't score a run for the Padres, who lost their number four and five hitters, Kevin Kouzmanoff and Chase Headley, to injury.

Those injuries forced Kyle Blanks into the lineup and the cleanup slot, and he came up big in a dramatic Game Five slugfest. Blanks clubbed a three-run homer off Beckett in the first inning to give the Padres a 3-0 lead. The Sox responded with six runs in the third off Correia, with J.D. Drew bopping a grand slam. Drew added a solo shot in the fifth off Mujica to make it 7-3. But Blanks hit another three-run homer in the bottom of the inning to pull the Padres within a run. The bullpens trades scoreless innings (Mujica going four innings in total for San Diego) until the bottom of the ninth. Jonathan Papelbon got the first two hitters, but then Cabrera walked and stole second, David Eckstein singled him home to tie the game. Gonzalez walked, and Blanks ripped what would have been an extra-base hit had it not brought home the winning run from second base.

The Padres' big-inning magic ran out there. Back in Boston for Game Six, Wakefield had his second quality start, allowing one run in six-plus innings on four hits and three walks. By the time he departed, his teammates had put up five runs against Tim Stauffer, highlighted by Drew's three-run homer. Four of the five runs the Sox scored were unearned.

Player of the series: J.D. Drew hit four home runs and had 11 RBIs. He gets the honor in a narrow decision over Wakefield.

Player availability: Lester and Beckett are available for the first two games of Round Three. The bullpen will be fully available.

Projected rotation: Lester-Beckett-Brad Penny-Clay Buchholz-(Lester)-(Beckett)-(Penny)

Stat break: 09 Padres

Hitters

Name                AB     R   H   RBI   2B  3B   HR   BB   SB   Avg,
Blanco                  8      2     2     0       2    0      0      2      0      .250
Blanks                  7      1     0     0       0    0      0      0      0      .000
E Cabrera          29      1     6     3       2    1      0      2      0      .207
Eckstein             29      6     8     3       1    0      1       2      0     .276
Giles                     3      0     0     0       0    0      0      0      0     .000
A Gonzalez        28      4     6      5      1    0      1      2       0     .214
T Gwynn Jr        21      1     7     1       0    0      0      1       1     .333
S Hairston            8      1     2     0       1    0      0      0       0     .250
Headley             25      3     6     3       1    0      1      4       0      .240
T Hundley          15      2     4     3       0    1      2      3       0      .267
Kouzmanoff       28      0     7     1       0     0     0       2       0     .250
L Rodriguez         2     0      0     0       0     0     0      0       0      .000
Venable             20     1      6     3       1     0     0      1       1      .300

Pitchers

Name                G    GS   IP        H    R    ER   BB    K     Sv.     W    L     ERA

H Bell               2      0       2         0      0      0      0      3        2      0     0      0.00
Correia             2      2     16       11     4      4      3     14        0      1     1      2,25
Gaudin             2      2     13       11     3      3      3     16        0      2     0      2.08
Geer                1      0       2.        2     1      1      1       2        0      0     0      4.50
Gregorson       2      0       2         0     0      0      1       1        0      0     0      0.00

Latos               1      1       9         2     0      0      4       6         0     1     0       0.00

Mujica              2      0       4         4     0      0      0       5        0      0     0       0.00

Perdomo         2      0       4         0     0      0       0      0         0      0     0      0.00

Stauffer           1      1       5         6     4      3       3       3        0      0     1      5.40
C Young         1      1        5        5      3      3      1       3        0      0     1       5.40

George bracket: Padres (09) defeat Padres (69) in seven games

Game One: 09 Padres 6, 69 Padres 0
WP: Correia (1-0)
LP: J Niekro (0-1)
HR: Headley (1)

Game Two: 69 Padres 3, 09 Padres 0
WP: Kirby (1-0)
LP: C Young (0-1)
Save: Baldschun (1)
HR: Colbert (1)

Game Three: 09 Padres 4, 69 Padres 3
WP: Gaudin (1-0)
LP: Santorini (0-1)
Save: H Bell (1)

Game Four: 09 Padres 4, 69 Padres 0
WP: Latos (1-0)
LP: D Kelley (0-1)
HR: Eckstein (1)

Game Five: 69 Padres 4, 09 Padres 3
WP: J Niekro (1-1)
LP: Correia (1-1)
Save: Reberger (1)
HR: N Hundley (1), Spiezio (1), Ferrara (1)

Game Six: 69 Padres 5, 09 Padres 3
WP: Kirby (2-0)
LP: Stauffer (0-1)
Save: Reberger (2)
HR: Colbert (2), N Hundley (2), Ferrara (2), Spiezio (2)

Game Seven: 09 Padres 3, 69 Padres 0
WP: Gaudin (2-0)
LP: Santorini (0-2)
Save: H Bell (2)
HR: A Gonzalez (1)

The shutout ruled in this series. The 2009 Padres threw three shutouts at the 1969 Padres, who recorded one themselves.

Kevin Correia set the tone in the opener with a five-hitter. He walked one and struck out seven. Joe Niekro was burned for three unearned runs in the third inning, but he also allowed two earned runs. Chase Headley gathered three RBIs, and David Eckstein scored twice.

Clay Kirby, with relief help from Billy McCool and Jack Baldschun, returned the favor in Game Two. Kirby allowed four hits and two walks in seven innings while pitching around a pair of errors. His hitters put together a two-run inning on four straight scratch singles in the second against Chris Young, and Nate Colbert bashed a no-questions homer in the third.

The series moved from 2009's Petco Park to 1969's Jack Murphy Stadium for Game Three. The visitors scratched out four one-run innings in the first six against Al Santorini, with two of the runs unearned. (The innings involved two sac bunts, two sac flies and two defensive errors.) The home team broke out in the sixth against Chad Gaudin for three runs, but could do nothing in the final three frames against the 2009 bullpen.

Mat Latos dominated Game Four with a two-hit shutout. He walked four but got a double-play ball and a caught stealing, so he faced only four batters over the minimum. David Eckstein hit an unlikely three-run homer off Dick Kelley in the second inning, and Evereth Cabrera had three hits, including a double and a triple.

Niekro yielded a pair of runs in the top of the first inning of Game Five, but Ed Spiezo countered with a three-run homer in the bottom of the inning. Nick Hundley tied it in the fourth with a solo shot, but Al Ferrara countered with a solo homer in the sixth. That concluded the scoring.

Back in Petco, Kirby tossed another gem in Game Six, going seven innings and allowing just one run (he walked four men in the fourth inning). Colbert, Spiezio and Ferrara each homered as the 69 team built a 5-1 lead. Johnny Podres gave up a two-run homer to Hundley in the ninth to narrow the margin and set up a save opportunity for Frank Reberger.

Game Seven was essentially decided quickly. In the bottom of the first, Eckstein singled and Adrian Gonzalez homered. One out later, Headley singled and scored on a double by Max Venable. Santorini settled after that, allowing just four more baserunners in his seven innings, but Gaudin allowed just five hits in seven innings. Luck Gregorson and Heath Bell finished off the 2009 team's third whitewashing of the series.

Co-players of the series: Clay Kirby of the 69 Padres allowed one run in 14 innings for his two wins; Chad Gaudin allowed three runs in 13 innings and won the decisive seventh game. They share the honor.

Player availability: The bullpen will be rested and ready for the second round. The rotation will be largely madeover.

Projected rotation: Correia-Jake Peavy-Gaudin-Clayton Richards-(Correia)-(Stauffer)-(Gaudin)