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POSTGAME AUDIO
• NED YOST
• MANNY PARRA

Padres' pitcher Chris Young did not make many mistakes on the Miller Park mound.  In fact, he was perfect through eight and two thirds innings.  Then he made his only mistake of the game.  He shook off his catcher. 

Young had a 1-0 count on Gabe Kapler and instead of listening to catcher Nick Hundley and go with a slider, the man who went to Princeton, decided it was best to throw a heater.  Kapler smacked that fastball into the left field stands and broke up Young's attempt at perfection. 

"I followed his lead and one of the three times I shook him off, I gave up a home run so I've learned my lesson," Young joked.  "He called a slider.  I wanted to challenge him with a heater.  I wanted to be aggressive and came after him with a heater and he hit it out."

Young did not mind it so much on missing out on some history because the Padres still had a 10-1 lead and that would be the final score in San Diego's win over the Brewers.

"We had a big lead, I could relax, be comfortable out there, be myself in the dugout and not let it get to me," Young added.  "It wasn't like one run was going to beat us at any point."

Young (5-5) was simply brilliant on the mound as he got just his fifth win of the season.  Young's season has been a rough one filled with injuries but he looked sharp and efficient as he only faced 30 batters.  The 6'10" righty dazzled the Brewers' lineup by getting ahead in the count and fooling hitters into swinging early enough to either pop or fly out.  Of the Brewers' 30 outs, 16 were pop or fly ball outs. 

"When you get a guy that is that tall throwing straight downhill, he's got a lot deception, and we just kept getting under it and popping it up and popping it up," Brewers Manager Ned Yost explained.  "We could never center the ball.  He changed speeds, kept us off balance, and literally had us popping up all day long."

Mat Gamel was the only other Brewer batter to get a hit off the big righty which happened to be Gamel's first career hit.

Manny Parra and the Brewers' defense were far from perfect.  In fact, both down right struggled.  Parra (10-7) received his seventh loss of the season as he only made it through five innings, allowed six runs but only one was earned.  He gave up six hits, walked three, and struck out five.  He did not get a whole lot of help from the defense especially in the third inning when the Padres exploded for a five run rally.

It was Young who started off the damage when he hit a one out double.  Matt Antonelli then reached on J.J. Hardy's fielding error.  The headache continued when Parra loaded the bases with a walk to Chip Ambres.  Parra started to look like he was going to unravel and even Yost came out to the mound to calm him down.  

"I did not want him out there in that game trying not to let that one run from third score," Yost explained why he went out to the mound.  "I told him I didn't care if that run scored.  We were looking to do there is get outs."

The pep talk almost worked as Parra got Kevin Kouzmanoff to hit a grounder down the third base line.  Bill Hall totally misplayed the ball and instead of a double play, two runs scored on Hall's error. 

"Got the ground ball, we just didn't make the play," Yost explained.  "Billy just kind of took his eye off it to find the bag and it got by him."

Adrian Gonzalez drove in two more runs with a single to left.  Will Venable would drive in the final run of the inning with another single. 

The Padres added one more run in the fifth when Parra got charged with his only earned run of the game on Chase Headley's solo home run. 

David Riske's struggles continued as he was called upon to pitch the seventh.  Riske gave up four runs in the inning on four hits.  He also served up a home run ball to Kouzmanoff.  Riske's ERA is now up to 5.31.

The Cubs loss to the Reds still leaves the Brewers four games back in the division race.  The Brewers will host the Reds for a three game set at Miller Park.  Dave Bush (9-10, 4.33 ERA) starts for the Brewers and the Reds will send out Edinson Volquez.