The Padres became the first team in baseball history to hit a grand slam in four straight games, here is a complete list of their total grand slams by season… with a few fun tidbits along the way.
2020 – 6
Stats aside: Fernando Tatis’s grand slam, swinging on a 3-0 count with the Padres holding seven runs, on Aug. 17, 2020, is the largest lead a player has hit a grand slam while swinging 3-0 since pinch count data has become readily available (1988)… and it was awesome.
2019 – 4
2018 – 4
2017 – 1
2016 – 3
2015 – 5
2014 – 3
2013 – 2
2012 – 4
2011 – 3
2010 – 5
2009 – 1
2008 – 1
2007 – 4
2006 – 2
2005 – 4
2004 – 1
Stats aside: With the Padres leading the Dodgers, 1-0, and the bases loaded in the top of the 5th inning, Phil Nevin hit a 1-1 pitch from Hideo Nomo out for his seventh career grand slam – he remains the franchise’s all-time leader.
2003 – 3
Stats aside: On June 20, 2003, Rondell White was facing Jeff Nelson with the bases loaded, two outs, two strikes, and the Padres trailing the Mariners, 3-1. He hit a deep flyball to left field to score Mark Kotsay, Mark Loretta, and Ryan Klesko – the only time in franchise history that a player hit a walk-off grand slam with the Padres down to their last strike.
2002 – 5
2001 – 10 (franchise record)
Oct. 6 – Phil Nevin
Sept. 27 – Phil Nevin
Sept. 1 – Ray Lankford
Aug. 25 – Bubba Trammell
Aug. 2 – Ryan Klesko
July 28 – Phil Nevin
July 14 – Damian Jackson
July 4 – Bubba Trammell
June 14 – Phil Nevin
May 1 – Ben Davis
2000 – 4
1999 – 1
Stats aside: all three of Tony Gwynn’s career grand slams were go-ahead grand slams with the Padres either trailing or tied – Mr. Padre made them count. Aug. 22, 1995, off Tommy Greene with the Padres trailing the Phillies, 3-0, in the top of the 5th inning; June 26, 1997, off Mark Guthrie with the Padres and the Dodgers tied, 4-4, in the top of the 7th inning; Aug. 4, 1999, off Ken Mercker with the Padres trailing the Cardinals, 3-2, in the top of the 5th inning.
1998 – 4
1997 – 3
Stats aside: The Friars first grand slam of 1997 was a go-ahead, inside-the-park grand slam by Tony Gwynn, scoring on the play was a roll call of stars – Greg Vaughn, Rickey Henderson, and Steve Finley… but here is where it gets fun: this was Tony Gwynn’s second career inside-the-park homer, he would finish his career with more inside-the-park home runs than the Man of Steal, who had just one. And just to continue down the wormhole, unrelated to slams, Gwynn stole a career-high five bases on Sept. 20, 1986. At that point he had higher single-game stolen base total than Rickey, as he is wont to do, would be outdone by no one when it came to thefts, not even Mr. Padre, and he stole five of his own in a game on July 29, 1989, a game in which he went 0-for-0 with four walks and five stolen bases, but stole each base while the Athletics were trailing at least eight runs and as many as 12 runs at the time of his five swipes.
1996 – 6
1995 – 9
Stats aside: Bip Roberts hit the first ever walk-off grand slam in franchise history on May 20, 1995 – with the Padres trailing the Pirates, 6-5, with two out in the bottom of the 9th inning, he took Dan Miceli’s first pitch deep, scoring Andujar Cedeno, Ray Holbert, and Melvin Nieves, earning Fernando Valenzuela his first career win as a member of the Padres.
1994 – 4
1993 – 2
1992 – 4
1991 – 4
1990 – 4
1989 – 5
1988 – 3
1987 – 0
1986 – 1
1985 – 4
1984 – 2
1983 – 4
1982 – 0
1981 – 1
1980 – 1
1979 – 0
1978 – 1
1977 – 4
1976 – 3
1975 – 2
Stats aside: San Diego tallied just four grand slams between 1974 and 1975, half of them were hit by Willie McCovey… he hit 18 career grand slams, and in 121 career games against the Padres, he hit none.
1974 – 2
1973 – 0
1972 – 3
1971 – 2
1970 – 3
Stats aside: Mike Corkins became the first, and remains the only, pitcher in franchise history to hit a grand slam, taking Jim Merritt of the Reds deep to put San Diego ahead 7-0. Corkins and the Padres would hold on to beat the Reds narrowly, 15-2.
1969 – 4
Stats aside: First ever grand slam in franchise history came on May 2, 1969, by pinch-hitter Al Ferrera against Cincinnati’s George Culver at Crosley Field.
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