DOUBLE YOUR PLEASURE OR FRUSTRATION TODAY

Obviously it was a no go yesterday and just as well. I think the Padres as a team needed a day off. MLB really put the screws to the Padres this season with the schedule they made.

Either Padres fans will be doubly pleased today or our frustration will be doubled as the Padres play a twin bill today with the Chicago Cubs...the first of the season.

Since we didn't play yesterday there is not much to write but I will share with you some of what Cash Kruth wrote on the piece on mlb.com about today's double-header below in the blue text.

Cubs righty Matt Garza (0-2, 6.27 ERA) will face San Diego's Dustin Moseley (0-3, 1.83) in the first game, beginning at 1:20 p.m. ET.

Garza has gotten off to a slow start in his first season with the Cubs. His most recent outing was a loss against the Rockies in which he allowed five runs in six innings. The 27-year-old right-hander has faced the Padres once in his career, on June 24 of last season, when he allowed three runs in eight innings to earn the victory.

Moseley has pitched better than expected thus far, although his record certainly doesn't show it. In all three of his starts, the Padres have been shut out. According to the Elias Sports Bureau, he is the first pitcher since Kenny Rogers in 2008 whose team was shut out in each of his first three starts of a season. Before Rogers, Rudy May suffered the distinction in 1972.

Regardless of his hard-luck start, Moseley said he isn't letting the lack of offensive support affect how he prepares.

"You just have to worry about what you can control, and that's going out and doing my job," Moseley said. "I leave the rest up to the game of baseball. [The hitters] could go out and score all sorts of runs for me in the next 10 outings. It's just part of it."

The nightcap, scheduled for 6:05 p.m., features Padres right-hander Aaron Harang (3-0, 1.50) against Chicago left-hander James Russell (1-1, 7.20).

Russell, normally a reliever, is filling in for the Cubs' injured pitching staff, which has Randy Wells and Andrew Cashner on the disabled list. In his first Major League start on April 12, Russell allowed five runs (four earned) in 1 2/3 innings.

"You can only hope it'll go better," said Russell, who has had two short relief appearances since. "I'm looking forward to it."

Harang, a 10-year veteran, has had no such struggles en route to his undefeated start. According to Elias, he is the first pitcher in franchise history to win each of his first three career starts as a Padre while allowing one earned run or less in each of those games.

In his last outing, the 32-year-old righty held the Astros to one run on three hits and struck out a season-high eight in six innings.

The only thing I want to say about the games today is this:

FOR THE LOVE OF EVERYTHING THAT IS GOOD PADRES, PLEASE TRY AND GIVE MOSELEY A WIN TODAY!

HE SHOULD BE 3-0 THIS SEASON BASED ON HIS LAST THREE STELLAR PITCHING PERFORMANCES!

And Harang has done a great job as well this year and I hope we give him run support today as well.

So for today I hope the Cubs lose both games- but after today, until we see them at Petco Park in September for the last 3 games of the season, I really hope they do well and can pull ahead of the Reds solidly into first place in the National League Central division.



If we cannot be in a World Series then I want to see one played at Wrigley Field before someone decides that the nearly 100 year old stadium with loads of baseball history needs to meet the wrath of a wrecking ball.

Boston has already had post season in equally as historical and ancient Fenway Park- now it's time to give Wrigley Field the chance to host the big show in October...so after today- best of luck to the Chicago Cubs!

PLAY BALL!