May 2: Today in Padre History

Today in Padre History

May 2, 1980

Padres 1, Mets 0

The Padres have only 2 hits, and 0 RBIs, but first baseman Willie Montanez
scores the game's only run from third base on a botched pick-off by Met
catcher John Stearns.

Start Rick Wise gets his second win of the season by pitching 6-1/3 innings,
with reliever John D'Acquisto blunting a seventh inning Met rally and Steve
Mura getting his second save of the season by pitching the final two
innings.

At Shea Stadium
Attendance: 8,037

In tomorrow's "Today in Padre History":
The Padres and Dodgers go 15 innings at Dodger Stadium.

On Wed, 2 May 2007 16:31:23 -0500, "Komet17" <selucas.RemoveThis@sbcglobal.net> wrote:

>May 2, 1980
>Padres 1, Mets 0
>
>The Padres have only 2 hits, and 0 RBIs, but first baseman Willie Montanez
>scores the game's only run from third base on a botched pick-off by Met
>catcher John Stearns.
>
>Start Rick Wise gets his second win of the season by pitching 6-1/3 innings,
>with reliever John D'Acquisto blunting a seventh inning Met rally and Steve
>Mura getting his second save of the season by pitching the final two innings.

>At Shea Stadium Attendance: 8,037


The opposing team managers in this 1980 contest were:

Joe Torre (Mets)
Col. Coleman (Padres)


Joe Torre compiled a record of 225 wins and 358 losses (!)
during his NY Mets stint from 1977 to 1980. That is a .388
winning percentage. Ouch.

The Padres won 73 games that year, to the Mets' 67.