A big night for Will Venable, who tripled, singled and homered to center field (video) in his first three at bats. San Diego scored 10 times in the fourth inning and crushed Atlanta in the Padres' home opener. Of the team's 17 runs, four were recorded by Venable.
While Venable fell a double short of becoming the first San Diego player to hit for the cycle, he is just one of just 30 players in the modern era to steal a base, leg out a triple and go deep in one of their first 129 career games.
Pawel Buczak is quoted in a Daily Princetonian article reacting to the death of Polish president Lech Kaczynski.
