The Padres certainly know how to bounce back quickly. Sort of.

After a discouraging start to the season, and an even more discouraging game yesterday, the Padres bounced back today to take early command of the game against the Rockies.

It started in the first inning as the Padres took a 2-0 lead. Nick Hundley who was 1-23 coming into the game, blasted a double into right field to score Headley for the second run of the inning.

From there, they never backed down scoring runs in the second, fourth, seventh and ninth innings dominating with a total of seven runs.

Cory Luebke further proved my statement that he will become an ace before Ednison Volquez. Luebke pitched 112 pitches over the course of 7 innings allowing just one run. Definitely his most successful outing yet. He is really starting to prove himself. I think he’s one of our strongest throwers, I really do. I mean, dude only walked one batter all night (forgive me for my casual writing. The newsroom has me extremely delirious tonight).

Cashner has me a little concerned on the mound now. He was responsible for the bases-loaded walk-in loss on Friday. I think until he proves otherwise, I’m going to be wary every time he gets called to the mound. Sure, dude throws hard. But control is a key issue with him. It’s hard to control pitches when you’re throwing balls 100 m.p.h.

I will say that I am sad to see Brad Brach sent down. I think he had potential and our bullpen is already shallow enough and this lost one more arm for us. I understand that he was still kind of weak, I just think there were other players that could have and should have been moved around to activate Kotsay. Our bullpen cannot take another hit.

All in all, I would say that it sounded like baseball again tonight (I couldn’t watch because once again we are in the newsroom). Bats were moving, gloves were working and the team sounded alive. I hope I don’t jinx it, but it sounded like Major League Baseball. I really hope this is around for good.