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On July 25, 1998, a tradition began that continues to thrill crowds at Petco Park."
Listed below are the pitchers who have saved 30 or more games in a season for five or more consecutive campaigns.
Hoffman, baseball's alltime saves leader with 596, has saved just five games in 10 chances with a 12.21 ERA.
That broke Roy Face's all-time record for most relief appearances with one club (775 for the Pirates from 1953 to 1968).
He makes it a point to stand at his locker and hold himself accountable on the rare occasions when he fails.
He is the best at what he does and has been for a long, long time. Any time anybody dominates a position (and these days, 'closer' is a position) the way he has done it consistently year after year after year, he gets my vote.
Only two pitchers have had streaks of four straight seasons with at least 40 saves. Hoffman did it not once, but twice.
One of the big arguments used against him is utterly ridiculous. But here it is: He posted 601 regular-season saves. But just four postseason saves.
There will be a lot of discussion over his struggles in the postseason and All-Star Games, but those small samples should be completely obscured by almost two decades of incredible regular-season excellence.
With his high leg kick and cap pulled down almost to his eyes, Hoffman looks the part of someone about to wring the last bit of life out of the opposing team.
Tony Gwynn Jr., son of the Hall of Famer whose statue stands outside the Padres' ballpark, hit a tying, two-out triple off Trevor Hoffman in the ninth inning and the Milwaukee Brewers beat San Diego 4-3 in the 11th on Saturday.
Holliday raced home on Jamey Carroll's shallow fly ball, capping a three-run rally against the all-time saves leader, giving the Rockies a 9-8 win in baseball's longest one-game tiebreaker.
But you will see him emerging from the Miller Park bullpen to the ominous tolling of "Hell's Bells", the AC/DC anthem that first became synonymous with baseball's all-time saves leader during the Padres' 1998 World Series run.
The closer ultimately delivered 43 pitches in a stint of two-plus innings, but Brown's nine-inning effort in Game 2 and Friday's day off, Hoffman said, gave his arm a chance to recover.
After two years in the Minors and not much batting potential to show for it, his manager Jim Lett suggested Hoffman try pitching instead, because he had such a strong arm.
Wainwright became only the second pitcher to garner the most first-place votes and not win the award. In 1998, Atlanta's Tom Glavine collected 11 first-place votes to 13 for San Diego's Trevor Hoffman but amassed the most points, 98-88, and took home the trophy.
Before Monday, he had been on the disabled list only once in his 16-year Major League career. Hoffman missed most of the 2003 season with a right shoulder injury that required surgery.
Basically, it stopped at home plate. Guys hadn't seen a pitch like that, and they couldn't adjust to it. He pitched so well off his fastball they couldn't just sit on it every pitch.
He's blown 20 of 84 save attempts in April for his career —- a 76.1 percent success rate. The rest of the season, he's converted 531 of 586 attempts —- a 90.6 percent rate of success.
Trevor Hoffman was trying to earn his first Petco Park save as a visitor, and Bud Black and Adrian Gonzalez weren't there to take in the experience.
In the closest balloting for the award since 1987, Hoffman, the San Diego closer, received 13 first-place votes, but fell 11 points short of Glavine, who got 11 votes for first place, but appeared on three more ballots.
On Sunday, Guerrero and Trevor Hoffman will join Alan Trammell, Jack Morris, Chipper Jones and Jim Thome as the 2018 inductees into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York.
I'll never forget games I've covered at Petco Park when Hoffman trotted in from the bullpen to pitch the ninth inning to the ear-shattering sounds of AC/DC's Hell's Bells — perhaps some of the loudest, most electrifying crowd noise I've ever heard.
He blew a save opportunity in his only World Series appearance (1998 with the Padres) and also failed on two save tries in the final three days of the 2007 season, costing San Diego the playoffs.
But Hoffman, master of the changeup, had 12 seasons with at least 37 saves -- a winning career owing to a slow and steady approach, just as the tortoise in Aesop's fable.
Hoffman was converted from shortstop to pitcher in the minor leagues when his manager got tired of him overthrowing first base.
Hoffman was acquired as a rookie from the Florida Marlins in 1993 during the Padres' infamous "Fire Sale" that stripped away most of their high-paid veterans.
Hoffman made the National League All-Star team six times as a Padre and was twice the runner-up (1998 and 2006) in the league's voting for the Cy Young Award.
That's because closing is baseball's most volatile role.
Hoffman was converted from shortstop to pitcher in the minor leagues when his manager got tired of him overthrowing first base.
Hoffman was acquired as a rookie from the Florida Marlins in 1993 during the Padres' infamous "Fire Sale" that stripped away most of their high-paid veterans.
The closer ultimately delivered 43 pitches in a stint of two-plus innings, but Brown's nine-inning effort in Game 2 and Friday's day off, Hoffman said, gave his arm a chance to recover.
Before Monday, he had been on the disabled list only once in his 16-year Major League career. Hoffman missed most of the 2003 season with a right shoulder injury that required surgery.
That broke Roy Face's all-time record for most relief appearances with one club (775 for the Pirates from 1953 to 1968).
Hoffman made the National League All-Star team six times as a Padre and was twice the runner-up (1998 and 2006) in the league's voting for the Cy Young Award.
Tony Gwynn Jr., son of the Hall of Famer whose statue stands outside the Padres' ballpark, hit a tying, two-out triple off Trevor Hoffman in the ninth inning and the Milwaukee Brewers beat San Diego 4-3 in the 11th on Saturday.
Holliday raced home on Jamey Carroll's shallow fly ball, capping a three-run rally against the all-time saves leader, giving the Rockies a 9-8 win in baseball's longest one-game tiebreaker.
But Hoffman, master of the changeup, had 12 seasons with at least 37 saves -- a winning career owing to a slow and steady approach, just as the tortoise in Aesop's fable.
He's blown 20 of 84 save attempts in April for his career —- a 76.1 percent success rate. The rest of the season, he's converted 531 of 586 attempts —- a 90.6 percent rate of success.
Trevor Hoffman was trying to earn his first Petco Park save as a visitor, and Bud Black and Adrian Gonzalez weren't there to take in the experience.
Hoffman, baseball's alltime saves leader with 596, has saved just five games in 10 chances with a 12.21 ERA.
There will be a lot of discussion over his struggles in the postseason and All-Star Games, but those small samples should be completely obscured by almost two decades of incredible regular-season excellence.
He makes it a point to stand at his locker and hold himself accountable on the rare occasions when he fails.
I'll never forget games I've covered at Petco Park when Hoffman trotted in from the bullpen to pitch the ninth inning to the ear-shattering sounds of AC/DC's Hell's Bells — perhaps some of the loudest, most electrifying crowd noise I've ever heard.
But you will see him emerging from the Miller Park bullpen to the ominous tolling of "Hell's Bells", the AC/DC anthem that first became synonymous with baseball's all-time saves leader during the Padres' 1998 World Series run.
With his high leg kick and cap pulled down almost to his eyes, Hoffman looks the part of someone about to wring the last bit of life out of the opposing team.
Listed below are the pitchers who have saved 30 or more games in a season for five or more consecutive campaigns.
