Not known much for his hitting, but his stellar defense, Khalil Greene hit two homeruns (10, 11) while rising pitching star, Chris Young, went 7 innings silencing the Boston Red Sox (47-26) only allowing one hit helping lead the San Diego Padres (42-31) to a 6-1 win.
Being out-hit and out-pitched the Red Sox still had to deal with some controversy. Fill-in umpire Brian Knight had two calls reversed during the game leading to the eventual ejection of Terry Francona, second of the season.
The call that lead Francona to be ejected, the second overturned call of the night, was a homerun ball that former Red Sox catcher Josh Bard ripped down the left field line that Knight originally called foul. All the umpires had their second conference of the night and once it was overturned giving Bard the homerun Francona had seen enough and let his voice be heard.
Francona gave crew chief Dana DeMuth his piece of mind then Knight and eventually was tossed out of the game.
Following the Bard homerun, Greene launched his second homerun of the night off of Wakefield who only lasted 5.1 innings, on eight hits, six earned runs, zero walks, four strikeouts, and gave up three long balls. Greene was his final batter of the night.
Bard who clearly had trouble catching Wakefield had no trouble hitting him. Bard also hit and RBI double to deep left in the bottom of the second giving the Padres the early 1-0 lead. Bard ended the night with three RBI’s all coming against Wakefield.
Wake got through the next three innings, but Greene and Marcus Giles touched him up in the fourth as Greene hit his first of two homeruns and Giles doubled to deep left scoring Kevin Kouzmanoff putting the score at 3-0 in favor of the Padres.
While the Sox starter was getting roughed up, Padres starter, Young was pitching a gem. Young lowered his home ERA to 0.94 and only gave up one hit that came off of J.D. Drew’s bat back in the fifth inning.
Young also struck out 11 Sox batters missing his career high by one strikeout.
