Tucson Padres

OF Alexi Amarista tallied his third multi-double game of the season Wednesday, equaling a career high. Amarista drove two balls deep to the right-center gap in his first two at-bats, one hopping over the fence for a ground-rule double and the other...

MLB Team Report - San Diego Padres - INSIDE PITCH The Padres could be facing a keep-or-release decision on four players they signed last winter to minor league contracts. The four are currently with Triple-A Tucson and have opt-out clauses in their...

The home of the El Paso Triple-A baseball team is starting to take shape -- like a diamond. Just a month after the demolition of El Paso's former City Hall, construction crews are working on the foundation of Downtown's new baseball stadium, said City...

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 zeros on the scoreboard were beautiful to look at for the Albuquerque Isotopes -- except for that "8." The Tucson Padres scored eight runs in the fifth inning, and the Isotopes dropped their third straight Pacific Coast League baseball game 8-3 at...

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 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 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...

In Japan, Kensuke Tanaka is a baseball star. He was a three-time Mitsui Golden Glove winner and last season was one of the Best Nine, an honor given to the top overall players at each individual position in Japan's Central and Pacific leagues. In...