The Yankees swept the Padres in four games.

In the 2005 NLDS, the reigning National League champion St. Louis Cardinals, who finished the season with the majors ' best record, swept the Padres in three consecutive games.

Following the All-Star break, the Padres continued to struggle, getting swept in a four-game series in St. Louis and losing two of three in Cincinnati.

They swept the Kansas City Royals in the American League Championship Series ( ALCS ) and then beat the San Diego Padres in five games in the World Series for Anderson's third world title.

Both home runs would prove to be crucial, as the Giants swept the Padres in a 3-game series, with a score of 3 – 1.

He had five hits in nine at bats with four runs scored and two RBIs in the NLDS as the Cardinals swept the Padres.

He earned his first World Series ring when the Yankees swept the Padres.

The Padres played the St. Louis Cardinals in the 1996 National League Division Series ( NLDS ) and were swept in the series 3 – 0.

The Padres were swept 3 – 0 in the playoffs by the Cardinals, who had a majors-best 100 – 62 record in the regular season.

Despite his lackluster performance, he earned a ring as the Yankees swept the Padres four games to none.

Bochy led the 1998 Padres to the World Series where they were swept in 4 games by the New York Yankees.

The Padres were swept in four games and Leyritz did not record a home run or RBI in any game.

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.

In 1996, under new owner John Moores ( a software tycoon who purchased controlling ownership in the team in 1994 from Tom Werner, who subsequently formed a syndicate that purchased the Boston Red Sox ) and team president Larry Lucchino, and with a team managed by former Padres catcher Bruce Bochy ( a member of the 1984 NL championship squad ), the team won the NL West in an exciting race, sweeping the Los Angeles Dodgers at Dodger Stadium in the final series of the regular season.

In the final game of the season, the Padres defeated the Diamondbacks 7 – 6 to win back to back division titles for the first time in team history ( they were tied with the Dodgers for the division title, but because of winning the season series against them, the division title went to them and the wild card went to the Dodgers ).

The final out of the final game of the 2006 regular season – confirming the Padres as Division champions – was a highly unusual play.

With a 3 – 0 loss on October 3, the final game of the season, the Padres were officially eliminated from playoff contention and the eventual World Series champion San Francisco Giants won the division.

The final sale of the Padres to MountainStar Sports was approved on September 26, 2012.

He was awarded the National League Gold Glove Award for catchers, as the Padres climbed to second place in the season's final standings.

In 1984, Gossage clinched another title, earning the save in Game 5 of the NL Championship Series and sending the Padres to their first World Series ; after San Diego had scored four runs in the seventh inning to take a 6-3 lead against the Chicago Cubs, Gossage pitched the final two innings, getting Keith Moreland to hit into a force play for the final out.

On May 31, 2010 the Padres scored a season high and broke a Petco Park record for runs scored in a whole game with 18 runs to defeat the New York Mets on a final score of 18 to 6.

One of the dominant closers in baseball history, Smith held the major league record for career saves from until, when San Diego Padres relief pitcher Trevor Hoffman passed his final total of 478.

He joined his older brother Tony with the San Diego Padres for his final season in 1996.

On September 29, 1996, in the final game of the season, Gwynn hit what would prove to be the game-winning, two-run, pinch-hit double in the top of the 11th inning against Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Chan Ho Park to complete a three-game sweep of the Dodgers and clinch the Padres ' second National League Western division championship in team history.

There was some criticism of Padres manager Bruce Bochy for using John Vander Wal as a pinch runner, leaving the responsibility of facing Rivera for the final at bat to Andy Sheets.

In, Giles, in the third and final guaranteed year of his contract with the Padres, vetoed a potential trade to Boston, citing a desire to remain close to his family In 2008, 58 % of his strikeouts were " looking ," by far the highest percentage in the major leagues.

* California Angels pitcher Scott Bailes pitched the first " Dizzy Bat Home Run Derby " and Bruce Hurst of the San Diego Padres pitched the third and final installment.

Hoffman recorded saves in each of the final three games against the Dodgers as the Padres won the NL West for their first division title in 12 years.

On September 24 in the Padres last home game of the year, Hoffman retired eventual 2006 NL batting champion Freddy Sanchez for the final out of a 2 – 1 win over the Pittsburgh Pirates, keeping the Padres game lead atop the NL West with seven games left to play.

Hoffman, however, did blow a save opportunity in his only World Series appearance and also failed on save tries twice in the final three days of the 2007 season as the Padres vied for the playoffs.

During the Mariners ' final season, the team was owned by then-San Diego Padres and McDonald's owner Ray Kroc.

On January 29, 2008, Major League Baseball announced that the final Hall of Fame Game would be played on June 16, 2008 between the Chicago Cubs and San Diego Padres, citing " the inherent challenges " of scheduling teams in the modern day as the reason for ending the annual contest.

Myers had 28 saves for the Blue Jays in his final season,, before being traded back to the Padres after being claimed on waivers.

The game lasted 13 innings, and although the Padres got two runs off of a Scott Hairston home run in the top of the 13th inning to break a 6 – 6 tie, the Rockies came back in the bottom of the 13th by scoring three runs off of closer Trevor Hoffman to win 9 – 8.

They were originally slated to begin play in 1971, but Symington would not accept the prospect of having Kansas City wait three years for another team and pressured MLB to have the Royals and their expansion brethren ( the Pilots and the National League's San Diego Padres and Montreal Expos ) ready for play in 1969.

Winfield and Fingers represented the team at the game, but conspicuously absent was starting pitcher Gaylord Perry, who joined the Padres after spending three years with the Texas Rangers.

All Perry did that summer was post a 21 – 6 record and a 2. 73 earned run average, edging Montreal's Ross Grimsley to earn the Padres ' second Cy Young Award in three seasons.

The Padres won three of four in the Steel City and during the series the Pirates traded former Padre underachiever Xavier Nady to the Yankees for prospects.

The logo only lasted one year, as the Padres changed their logo for the third time in three years, again by switching colors of the ring.

Following in 2000 the Padres began wearing a camouflage, to honor the military ; the jersey has since gone through three different versions.

Hunter hit three home runs in one game against the San Diego Padres on June 13, 2009.

Randa made his first and only playoff appearance in 2005 with the Padres, hitting. 364 in three games.

In the Padres home opener in 1987, Marvell Wynne, Gwynn, and John Kruk hit back-to-back-to-back homers to start the game for San Diego, the first time an MLB team had led off a game with three consecutive home runs.

Despite having a mediocre season until August, Lowe was exceptional in September 2010, with a 5 – 0 record, a 1. 77 ERA, 29 strikeouts while walking only three batters, which helped the Braves secure a playoff berth as the NL Wild Card, being one game ahead of the second place Padres at the end of the regular season.

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.

He was drafted on three different occasions, by the Pittsburgh Pirates in 1969, the San Diego Padres in the second round in the 1970 January secondary draft, and again by the Cleveland Indians in the 1970 June secondary draft, but never signed.

He played nineteen seasons for the San Francisco Giants, and three more for the San Diego Padres and Oakland Athletics, between and.

He snapped an 0 – 23 hitting slump on September 23 against the Padres, but had been benched for three consecutive games before that.

In his 13-year career, Salazar played in three different times with the San Diego Padres ( 1980 – 84, 1987, 1989 ), and for the Chicago White Sox ( 1985 – 86 ), Detroit Tigers ( 1988 ) and Chicago Cubs ( 1989 – 92 ).

A shortstop, he played parts of three seasons in Major League Baseball for the San Diego Padres in 2001 and 2003.

After spending three seasons in the minors, Nicholson played 37 games for the Padres in 2000.

Hurst chose to leave the only organization he'd ever known as a free agent following the 1988 season, and signed a three year contract with the San Diego Padres worth $ 5. 25 million.

The San Diego Padres won the National League West division by twelve games over both the Atlanta Braves and the Houston Astros, then defeated the Chicago Cubs, three games to two, in the National League Championship Series.

With the Padres ' NL pennant in 1984, Williams became the second manager to take three teams to the World Series ( he had previously taken the 1967 Red Sox and the 1972 and 1973 Athletics to the Fall Classic ).