Robbie Erlin

It was a few minutes before midnight when Robbie Erlin's cell phone rang. Manager Pat Murphy's name popped up on the screen, and the Tucson Padres left-hander couldn't imagine what his skipper wanted. Murphy was calling to tell Erlin he was being...

Lorenzo Bundy swears he has a house in Tucson. "I know I live here because I make the mortgage payments," the manager of the Albuquerque Isotopes said. In a good year, Bundy gets to spend six to eight weeks in the Old Pueblo with his wife and...

The Sports Xchange MLB Team Report - San Diego Padres - INSIDE PITCH With left-hander Clayton Richard on the disabled list and Tyson Ross unable to start because he can't swing a bat, the Padres will look toward the minor leagues the next time they need...

The Sports Xchange MLB Team Report - San Diego Padres - INSIDE PITCH Left-hander Eric Stults started for the Padres Thursday afternoon and the Padres defeated the Cubs 4-2 at Wrigley Field. Stults was not around when the Padres scored their four runs...

The Sports Xchange By Jack McCarthy, The Sports Xchange Padres blow past Cubs with fourth-run eighth CHICAGO -- It was a pitcher's kind of day at Wrigley Field with a cold wind howling from the north and runs hard to come by. But the San Diego...

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The Sports Xchange MLB Team Report - San Diego Padres - INSIDE PITCH Executive chairman Ron Fowler says the Padres are preparing to offer third baseman Chase Headley the biggest contract in franchise history. Headley says thanks, but maybe not now....

The Sports Xchange By Jack McCarthy, The Sports Xchange Padres 4, Cubs 2 CHICAGO -- Everth Cabrera singled home the go-ahead run as the San Diego Padres sent 10 men to the plate in the eighth inning on the way to a 4-2 victory over the Chicago Cubs...

The Sports Xchange MLB Team Report - San Diego Padres - INSIDE PITCH Left-handed reliever Joe Thatcher has been much sharper in his last five outings than he was in his first eight. Ten of the first 20 batters who faced Thatcher over his first 3 1/3...

The Sports Xchange MLB Team Report - San Diego Padres - INSIDE PITCH Right-handed starter Edinson Volquez might not be totally out of the woods, but there are some encouraging signs. For one thing, for the first time in his 248-start career, Volquez...

The Sports Xchange MLB Team Report - San Diego Padres - INSIDE PITCH It might be mere coincidence that former American League right-handed pitchers Tyson Ross and Dustin Moseley suffered the same injury in the same situation after being acquired by...

The Sports Xchange MLB Team Report - San Diego Padres - INSIDE PITCH Right-handed pitcher Andrew Cashner pitched, hit and ran for a trifecta Friday night against the Giants at Petco Park. Cashner became the first pitcher to get a hit and a stolen...