Members of the '84 National League pennant-winning San Diego Padres reflect on the current team's season, noting significant changes in playing style and teamwork.
Winning a World Series is the goal on every team's mind entering the season but some teams wait decades before winning another.On Wednesday, San Diego celebrated the '84 National League pennant-winning team and a few of them offered their thoughts on this season’s bunch, so much has changed in San Diego and around the game., the Padres’ shortstop in ’84, said before the group was honored Wednesday at Petco Park. “They’re moving runners and getting that extra hit here or there.
While it is a different era of baseball, the fundamentals are the same, and disciplined baseball is fun to watch.‘I don’t know if you were teaching it, but I bet you were, about situational hitting, productive outs, moving runners,’”“I love watching them because they’re a team. I couldn’t watch them the last couple years.”
The city is still anxiously awaiting another pennant. Just making the playoffs gives any team a chance to win. This year's team will most likely get in with a Wild Card.. “The fans are hungry for a championship. They just want a winner. If you put a winner here in San Diego, these fans will go crazy.”Maren Angus-Coombs was born in Los Angeles and raised in Nashville, Tenn. She is a graduate of Middle Tennessee State University and has been a sports writer since 2008.
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