1998 San Diego Padres season

MLB yearly infobox
name = San Diego Padres
season = 1998
misc = 1998 National League Champions

current league = National League
y1 = 1969
division = Western Division
y2 = 1969
Uniform
ballpark = Qualcomm Stadium
y4 = 1969
city = San Diego, California
y5 = 1969
owners = John Moores
managers = Bruce Bochy
television = KUSI-TV
Cox Channel 4
(Mark Grant, Mel Proctor, Rick Sutcliffe)
radio = KFMB (AM)
(Jerry Coleman, Ted Leitner, Bob Chandler)|

Offseason

*December 15, 1997: Derrek Lee was traded by the San Diego Padres with Steve Hoff (minors) and Rafael Medina to the Florida Marlins for Kevin Brown. [http://www.baseball-reference.com/l/leede02.shtml]

Regular season

Opening Day Starters

Other batters

"Note: G = Games played; AB = At Bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting Average; HR = Home Runs; RBI = Runs Batted In"

Relief pitchers

World Series

Game 1

October 17, 1998 at Yankee Stadium in New York, New York

With the Yankees up 2-0, they sent David Cone to the mound to face former Yankee pitcher, Sterling Hitchcock, the MVP of the NLCS. Both teams were kept off the scoreboard until the bottom of the 6th when Hitchcock himself led off the inning with a single off Cone. He and Qulivio Veras both scored two batters later when Tony Gwynn shot a double down the line past Tino Martinez at first base. Gwynn would also score in the inning to give San Diego a 3-0 lead. However, a half inning later the Yanks jumped on Hitchcock for two runs beginning with a home run to left-center by Scott Brosius. The second run came in after Shane Spencer doubled and scored on an error by Ken Caminiti. In the 8th, the call was made to Trevor Hoffman after Randy Myers walked Paul O'Neill to open the inning. Hoffman then walked Tino Martinez before Scott Brosius tagged a three run blast over the fence in dead center. With a 5-3 lead, the Yankees wrapped up the victory when Mariano Rivera picked up the save in the 9th to end it.

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October 21, 1998 at Qualcomm Stadium in San Diego, California

Award Winners

1998 Major League Baseball All-Star Game

References

* [http://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/SDP/1998.shtml 1998 San Diego Padres team page at Baseball Reference]
* [http://baseball-almanac.com/teamstats/roster.php?y=1998&t=SDN 1998 San Diego Padres team page at Baseball Almanac]