I've been out of town on bizness since last weekend and had very little access to a computer, so my blogging is a little bit behind. While I was gone, the Padres were shutout for the first time. It happened on April 5th, the 5th game of the season, by a difference of 5 runs, in a city with 5 letters in its name. Weird right?
Here's the table I posted last year with this year's update.
Earliest shutout of the Padres offense
Year | Game | Opponent | Home/Away | Runs | Runs Against |
1974 | 1 | LAD | @ | 0 | 8 |
1971 | 1 | SFG | 0 | 4 | |
2002 | 1 | ARI | @ | 0 | 2 |
1975 | 1 | SFG | 0 | 2 | |
1982 | 1 | ATL | 0 | 1 | |
2012 | 2 | LAD | 0 | 6 | |
1978 | 2 | SFG | @ | 0 | 6 |
1976 | 2 | ATL | 0 | 3 | |
1990 | 2 | LAD | 0 | 1 | |
1973 | 3 | LAD | 0 | 4 | |
2011 | 3 | STL | @ | 0 | 2 |
1981 | 3 | SFG | @ | 0 | 2 |
1986 | 3 | LAD | @ | 0 | 1 |
1969 | 4 | SFG | 0 | 8 | |
2010 | 4 | COL | @ | 0 | 7 |
2014 | 5 | MIA | @ | 0 | 5 |
1970 | 6 | LAD | @ | 0 | 6 |
1983 | 6 | ATL | @ | 0 | 4 |
1985 | 8 | LAD | 0 | 5 | |
1997 | 8 | PIT | 0 | 2 | |
1972 | 8 | LAD | @ | 0 | 1 |
1991 | 8 | CIN | 0 | 1 | |
1989 | 9 | ATL | 0 | 5 | |
1987 | 9 | SFG | 0 | 1 | |
2004 | 10 | ARI | 0 | 5 | |
2005 | 10 | LAD | @ | 0 | 4 |
2006 | 10 | ATL | @ | 0 | 2 |
2008 | 10 | SFG | @ | 0 | 1 |
1996 | 12 | ATL | 0 | 4 | |
1988 | 13 | LAD | @ | 0 | 6 |
1994 | 13 | STL | @ | 0 | 5 |
1984 | 13 | LAD | @ | 0 | 4 |
1999 | 13 | PIT | 0 | 3 | |
1977 | 13 | ATL | @ | 0 | 2 |
1992 | 13 | HOU | @ | 0 | 1 |
2001 | 14 | COL | 0 | 8 | |
2003 | 15 | LAD | @ | 0 | 3 |
2009 | 15 | SFG | @ | 0 | 1 |
1995 | 17 | CHC | @ | 0 | 5 |
2013 | 17 | SFG | @ | 0 | 2 |
1979 | 20 | PHI | @ | 0 | 2 |
1998 | 23 | PIT | 0 | 6 | |
2000 | 32 | CIN | @ | 0 | 2 |
1993 | 35 | SFG | 0 | 3 | |
2007 | 37 | STL | 0 | 5 | |
1980 | 44 | HOU | @ | 0 | 1 |
I was curious as to whether the Padres usually shutout a team first or were shutout first. So I created another table.
YEAR | GM # SHUTOUT BY | GM # SHUTOUT OF | EARLIEST |
1969 | 2 | 4 | BY |
1970 | 5 | 6 | BY |
1971 | 27 | 1 | OF |
1972 | 3 | 8 | BY |
1973 | 11 | 3 | OF |
1974 | 60 | 1 | OF |
1975 | 11 | 1 | OF |
1976 | 26 | 2 | OF |
1977 | 54 | 13 | OF |
1978 | 10 | 2 | OF |
1979 | 21 | 20 | OF |
1980 | 10 | 44 | BY |
1981 | 13 | 3 | OF |
1982 | 7 | 1 | OF |
1983 | 24 | 6 | OF |
1984 | 19 | 13 | OF |
1985 | 2 | 8 | BY |
1986 | 2 | 3 | BY |
1987 | 20 | 9 | OF |
1988 | 9 | 13 | BY |
1989 | 21 | 9 | OF |
1990 | 15 | 2 | OF |
1991 | 17 | 8 | OF |
1992 | 8 | 13 | BY |
1993 | 37 | 35 | OF |
1994 | 5 | 13 | BY |
1995 | 20 | 17 | OF |
1996 | 8 | 12 | BY |
1997 | 27 | 8 | OF |
1998 | 11 | 23 | BY |
1999 | 10 | 13 | BY |
2000 | 2 | 32 | BY |
2001 | 22 | 14 | OF |
2002 | 7 | 1 | OF |
2003 | 6 | 15 | BY |
2004 | 15 | 10 | OF |
2005 | 3 | 10 | BY |
2006 | 28 | 10 | OF |
2007 | 1 | 37 | BY |
2008 | 1 | 10 | BY |
2009 | 42 | 15 | OF |
2010 | 11 | 4 | OF |
2011 | 28 | 3 | OF |
2012 | 25 | 2 | OF |
2013 | 32 | 17 | OF |
So as you can see the Padres were shutout first by another team 27 times and they did the shutting out 18 times first. This information probably isn't too valuable, but I thought I'd share.