The Rockies trailed the Los Angeles Dodgers, the Arizona Diamondbacks and the San Diego Padres for most of 2007 Major League Baseball season – however – by August, Colorado showed a steady series of wins, while the Division-leading Dodgers began to struggle.

On Sunday, April 1, 2007, Major League Baseball's 2007 Opening Night, the Padres announced that they had agreed to terms on a four-year contract with 1B Adrian Gonzalez, keeping him in San Diego until 2010 with a club option for 2011.

Prior to this contract agreement the Padres had offered to renew Gonzalez's contract during the offseason at $ 380, 500, only $ 500 over the league minimum for the 2007 season.

On September 23, 2007, Milton Bradley tore his right ACL while being restrained by Padres manager Bud Black during an altercation with first base umpire Mike Winters.

He missed the last week of the regular season in 2007, during which the Padres relinquished their wild card lead, ultimately losing to the eventual N. L.

In a cruel piece of irony, on September 29, 2007, the Padres were within one out and one strike of clinching the National League Wild Card berth, but Tony Gwynn, Jr., son of the longtime Padres legend, tripled against Hoffman to tie the game.

The Padres then met the Rockies on October 1, 2007 in Denver for a one-game playoff to decide the wild card winner.

The 2007 Rascals finished last in the league in both fielding and pitching and offense suffered after the team lost first baseman Bobby Mosby in a trade to the Northern League and outfielder Phil Laurent, who was signed by the San Diego Padres.

The Proctor Padres Baseball Club was established in 2007 to allow baseball players from Proctor and the surrounding area an opportunity to play America's Pastime, to provide a summer hometown baseball experience for players from Proctor and the surrounding area who play baseball in college, and to promote amateur baseball in the western Lake Superior region.

Eighteen teams have all hosted an all-star game at least twice since the Mets last did: Atlanta Braves ( 1972 and 2000 ), Chicago White Sox ( 1983 and 2003 ), Cincinnati Reds ( 1970 and 1988 ), Cleveland Indians ( 1981 and 1997 ), Detroit Tigers ( 1971 and 2005 ), Houston Astros ( 1968, 1986, and 2004 ), Kansas City Royals ( 1973 and 2012 ), Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim ( 1967, 1989, and 2010 ), Milwaukee Brewers ( 1975 and 2002 ), Minnesota Twins ( 1965, 1985, and 2014 ), New York Yankees ( 1977 and 2008 ), Philadelphia Phillies ( 1976 and 1996 ), Pittsburgh Pirates ( 1974, 1994, and 2006 ), San Diego Padres ( 1978 and 1992 ), San Francisco Giants ( 1984 and 2007 ), Seattle Mariners ( 1979 and 2001 ), and St. Louis Cardinals ( 1966 and 2009 ), and Washington Senators / Texas Rangers ( 1969 and 1995 ).

On December 26, 2007, Prior agreed to a $ 1 million, one-year, incentive-laden contract with the San Diego Padres.

He signed a minor league contract with the San Diego Padres on July 27, 2007.

He spent 12 days with the Padres ' Class-AAA affiliate, the Portland Beavers, before being released on August 8, 2007.

Matsui and the Rockies clinched the 2007 National League wild card game by winning a one-game regular season playoff matchup against the San Diego Padres, propelling Colorado into their second playoff appearance in club history.

Years later, after Glavine joined the Mets and Maddux played for the San Diego Padres, the three ( along with Smoltz who still pitched for Atlanta ) all recorded wins on the same day, June 27, 2007.

The first home game as a member of the Padres organization was April 12, 2007 a 2 – 0 win against the Tulsa Drillers.

The team, which played in the Texas League, was the Double-A affiliate of the Kansas City Royals major-league club from 1995 to 2007, and of the San Diego Padres from 1987 to 1994.

On July 31, 2007, Ledezma was traded to the San Diego Padres for reliever Royce Ring.

Velandia played with the San Diego Padres ( 1997 ), Oakland Athletics ( 1998 – 2000 ), New York Mets ( 2000 – 2003 ), Tampa Bay Devil Rays ( 2007 ), Toronto Blue Jays ( 2008 ), and Cleveland Indians ( 2008 ).

Embree played for the Cleveland Indians ( 1992 – 1996 ), Atlanta Braves ( 1997 – 1998 ), Arizona Diamondbacks ( 1998 ), San Francisco Giants ( 1999 – 2001 ), Chicago White Sox ( 2001 ), San Diego Padres ( 2002 & 2006 ), Boston Red Sox ( 2002 – 2005 ), New York Yankees ( 2005 ), Oakland Athletics ( 2007 – 2008 ), and the Colorado Rockies ( 2009 ).

Scott Hairston about to celebrate with teammates at home plate after hitting a game-winning home run for the San Diego Padres in 2007.

He played for the Cincinnati Reds ( 1999 – 2003 ), Boston Red Sox ( 2003 -), Chicago Cubs ( 2005 – 2006 ), San Diego Padres ( 2006 ), and the Baltimore Orioles ( 2007 ).

Though a losing season, this was a 26-game improvement over 2004, and sufficient for second place in a woefully weak NL West, five games behind the San Diego Padres.

On April 4, 1999, the Rockies made history as they played their Opening Day game against the defending National League champion San Diego Padres at Estadio de Beisbol Monterrey in Monterrey, Mexico – marking the first time Major League Baseball opened the regular season outside the United States or Canada.

As a result of the Rockies ' remarkable September run, the team finished the regular season tied with the Padres for the National League wild card spot in the playoffs.

In that season, the Marlins traded their young set-up reliever Trevor Hoffman and two minor-league prospects to the San Diego Padres for third baseman Gary Sheffield.

In the offseason, the Marlins also pulled the plug on their returns from the disastrous Cabrera / Willis trade dealing Andrew Miller to the Red Sox for a minor league prospect and Cameron Maybin to the Padres for a pair of reliever to aid a struggling bullpen from the 2010 season.

Mark Davis, the 1989 league leader in saves ( 44 ) and boasting a 1. 85 earned run average while earning the 1989 National League Cy Young winner and back-to-back All-Star selections ( 1988, 1989 ) with the San Diego Padres, became a free agent at the close of the 1989 season.

The Brewers won the first two games of their final homestand of the season to pull within two games of the Cubs, but faced a near impossible task with the club's elimination number down to only three and the wild card leading Padres coming to town.

On September 29 the Brewers beat Padres 4 – 3 in extra innings to secure a winning season.

Strasberg asked Smith to do a backflip for fans during Fan Appreciation Day on October 1, the Padres ' last home game of the season.

The parties entered into a contract dispute before the 1980 season, and when negotiations lasted into spring training, the Padres renewed Smith's contract at his 1979 salary of $ 72, 500 Angered by the Padres ' attitude during those contract talks, Gottlieb took out a help-wanted ad in the San Diego Union, part of which read, " Padre baseball player wants part-time employment to supplement income.

During July of the 1984 season, Smith went on the disabled list with a broken wrist after being hit by a pitch during a game against the Padres.

What was not publicly known during the regular season and playoffs was that Smith had torn his rotator cuff after suffering an impingement in his right shoulder during the July 11 – 14 homestand against the Padres.

The most memorable moment of that 1978 season occurred on May 28, 1978, when pinch hitter Mike Ivie, acquired from the San Diego Padres during the offseason for Darrel Thomas, hit a towering grand slam off of Dodgers pitching ace Don Sutton in front of Candlestick Park's highest paid attendance of 58, 545.

In 2010, in a season described with the slogan " Giants Baseball: Torture " by broadcaster Duane Kuiper, the club won the National League Western Division title for the first time since 2003 after trailing the San Diego Padres most of the season.

Before the 1974 season began, the Padres were on the verge of being sold to Joseph Danzansky, who was planning to move the franchise to Washington, D. C. by the beginning of the 1974 season.

About half of the Padres ' player cards printed by Topps that season displayed " Washington National League " as the team name.

" The following season, 1975, would be the first season that the Padres would not finish in the National League West cellar ( finishing fourth ), and brought the promise of an owner who would make the necessary changes to the organization.

The good times did not last, as the Padres closed out the decade with another losing season in 1979, a 68 – 93 record that cost Craig his job.

In the 1984 World Series, the Padres faced the powerful Detroit Tigers, who steamrolled through the regular season with 104 victories ( and had started out with a 35 – 5 record, the best ever through the first 40 games ).

During the 1988 season, Bowa was replaced by Jack McKeon and the Padres won 83 games, finishing in third place.