Fuentes Five-for-Five in San Diego Debut

San Diego, CA - Instant dividends were realized by the Padres today from their key offseason decisions. Tito Fuentes, acquired in a trade with the A's, went five for five and reigning NL batting champ Al Bumbry and Dave Kingman went deep in re-configured and re-named Jack Murphy Stadium as the Padres hammered 23-game winner Bill Bonham and the 108 win Cincinnati Reds. A team loaded with power in Steve Garvey, Dave Winfield and Kingman, the Padres struggled on their home field last season and decided to install a closer and lower fence for the 1976 season. The Padres also elected to move Dave Kingman to 3B to make room for other outfielders. So far so good for the Padres. Not to be overlooked, Danny Frisella was sensational in four innings of relief for the victors.


San Diego 8, Cincinnati 5

4/5/1976, CIN76-SDP76, Jack Murphy Stadium
 
                       1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9     R  H  E   LOB DP
1976 Cincinnati        0  0  1  0  3  0  0  0  1     5  9  1     6  0
1976 San Diego         0  4  0  1  1  2  0  0  x     8 15  0     7  0
 
Cincinnati           AB  R  H BI   AVG    San Diego            AB  R  H BI   AVG
Geronimo          cf  5  1  3  1  .600    Bumbry            cf  5  2  2  1  .400
Concepcion        ss  5  0  1  2  .200    Fuentes           2b  5  1  5  2 1.000
Rose              3b  2  0  1  1  .500    Garvey            1b  5  0  1  0  .200
Bench             c   4  0  0  0  .000    Kingman           3b  4  1  1  2  .250
Foster            lf  4  0  1  0  .250     Rader            3b  0  0  0  0  .000
 Carroll,C        p   0  0  0  0  .000    Winfield          rf  4  2  2  0  .500
Morgan            2b  4  0  0  0  .000    Davis,W           lf  4  1  2  0  .500
Vail              rf  2  0  0  0  .000    Hundley           c   4  1  1  1  .250
 Darcy            p   0  0  0  0  .000    Hernandez         ss  3  0  1  2  .333
 Collins          ph  1  0  0  0  .000    Greif             p   2  0  0  0  .000
 Hinton           p   0  0  0  0  .000     Frisella         p   1  0  0  0  .000
 Bell             lf  0  1  0  0  .000     Melendez         ph  1  0  0  0  .000
Lum               1b  4  1  1  1  .250     Fingers          p   0  0  0  0  .000
Bonham            p   0  1  0  0  .000                         38  8 15  8
 Biittner         rf  3  1  2  0  .667
                     34  5  9  5
 
Cincinnati                       INN  H  R ER BB  K PCH STR   ERA
Bonham           L 0-1           3.1 10  5  4  0  5  63  45 10.80
Darcy                            1.2  2  1  1  0  1  23  17  5.40
Hinton                           2.2  3  2  2  0  1  37  21  6.75
Carroll,C                        0.1  0  0  0  0  0   4   3  0.00
                                 8.0 15  8  7  0  7 127  86 
 
San Diego                        INN  H  R ER BB  K PCH STR   ERA
Greif                            4.0  6  4  4  1  5  76  49  9.00
Frisella         W 1-0           4.0  1  0  0  0  3  36  27  0.00
Fingers                          1.0  2  1  1  1  1  20   9  9.00
                                 9.0  9  5  5  2  9 132  85 
 
CIN: Biittner inserted at rf in the 4th
     Collins batted for Darcy in the 6th
     Bell inserted at lf in the 8th
SDP: Melendez batted for Frisella in the 8th
     Rader inserted at 3b in the 9th
 
E-Bonham. 2B-Concepcion, Biittner, Bumbry, Winfield. HR-Lum(1), Bumbry(1), 
Kingman(1). K-Concepcion, Bench 3, Foster 2, Vail, Lum, Collins, Bumbry 2, 
Kingman 3, Winfield, Greif. BB-Rose, Bell. SF-Rose, Hernandez. HBP-Bonham. 
HB-Greif. WP-Greif. 
GWRBI: Hundley