List of San Diego Padres Opening Day starting pitchers
Pitchers

List of San Diego Padres Opening Day starting pitchers

Section Title: Pitchers
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Season	Pitcher	Decision	Final score	Opponent	Location	Attendance	Ref.

1969	Dick Selma	W	2–1	Houston Astros	San Diego Stadium	23,370

1970	Pat Dobson	W	8–3	Atlanta Braves	San Diego Stadium	25,125

1971	Tom Phoebus	L	0–4	San Francisco Giants	San Diego Stadium	34,554

1972	Clay Kirby	W	6–5	Atlanta Braves	San Diego Stadium	16,655

1973	Clay Kirby (2)	W	4–2	Los Angeles Dodgers	San Diego Stadium	32,019

1974	Bill Greif	L	0–8	Los Angeles Dodgers	Dodger Stadium	31,566

1975	Randy Jones	ND (L)	0–2 (10)	San Francisco Giants	San Diego Stadium	17,670

1976	Randy Jones (2)	W	8–2	Atlanta Braves	San Diego Stadium	44,728

1977	Randy Jones (3)	L	3–5	Cincinnati Reds	Riverfront Stadium	51,937

1978	Gaylord Perry	ND (W)	3–2	San Francisco Giants	Candlestick Park	36,131

1979	Gaylord Perry (2)	W	4–3	Los Angeles Dodgers	Dodger Stadium	46,536

1980	Randy Jones (4)	W	6–4	San Francisco Giants	San Diego Stadium	29,535

1981	John Curtis	ND (W)	4–1	San Francisco Giants	Candlestick Park	54,520

1982	Juan Eichelberger	L	0–1	Atlanta Braves	Jack Murphy Stadium	30,188

1983	Tim Lollar	W	16–13	San Francisco Giants	Candlestick Park	50,542

1984**	Eric Show	W	5–1	Pittsburgh Pirates	Jack Murphy Stadium	44,553

1985	LaMarr Hoyt	ND (L)	3–4	San Francisco Giants	Candlestick Park	52,714

1986	Eric Show (2)	L	1–2	Los Angeles Dodgers	Dodger Stadium	49,444

1987	Eric Show (3)	ND (L)	3–4 (12)	San Francisco Giants	Candlestick Park	52,020

1988	Ed Whitson	ND (L)	3–6	Houston Astros	Astrodome	39,906

1989	Eric Show (4)	L	3–5	San Francisco Giants	Jack Murphy Stadium	52,763

1990	Bruce Hurst	L	2–4	Los Angeles Dodgers	Dodger Stadium	48,686

1991	Ed Whitson (2)	ND (W)	7–4	San Francisco Giants	Jack Murphy Stadium	48,089

1992	Bruce Hurst (2)	ND (W)	4–3	Cincinnati Reds	Riverfront Stadium	55,356

1993	Andy Benes	L	4–9	Pittsburgh Pirates	Three Rivers Stadium	44,103

1994	Andy Benes (2)	L	1–4	Atlanta Braves	Jack Murphy Stadium	42,251

1995	Andy Benes (3)	L	2–10	Houston Astros	Jack Murphy Stadium	41,961

1996*	Andy Ashby	ND (L)	4–5 (10)	Chicago Cubs	Wrigley Field	38,734

1997	Joey Hamilton	W	12–5	New York Mets	Jack Murphy Stadium	43,005

1998**	Kevin Brown	W	10–2	Cincinnati Reds	Cinergy Field	54,578

1999	Andy Ashby (2)	L	2–8	Colorado Rockies	Estadio de Béisbol Monterrey	27,104

2000	Sterling Hitchcock	ND (L)	1–2	New York Mets	Shea Stadium	52,308

2001	Woody Williams	L	2–3	San Francisco Giants	Pacific Bell Park	40,930

2002	Kevin Jarvis	ND (W)	0–2	Arizona Diamondbacks	Chase Field	47,025

2003	Brian Lawrence	ND (L)	2–5	San Francisco Giants	Qualcomm Stadium	61,707

2004	Brian Lawrence (2)	W	8–2	Los Angeles Dodgers	Dodger Stadium	53,850

2005*	Woody Williams (2)	ND (L)	10–12	Colorado Rockies	Coors Field	47,661

2006*	Jake Peavy	W	6–1	San Francisco Giants	Petco Park	43,767

2007	Jake Peavy (2)	W	7–0	San Francisco Giants	AT&T Park	42,773

2008	Jake Peavy (3)	W	4–0	Houston Astros	Petco Park	44,965

2009	Jake Peavy (4)	L	1–4	Los Angeles Dodgers	Petco Park	45,496

2010	Jon Garland	L	3–6	Arizona Diamondbacks	Chase Field	49,192

2011	Tim Stauffer	ND (W)	5–3	St. Louis Cardinals	Busch Stadium	46,368

2012	Edinson Volquez	L	3–5	Los Angeles Dodgers	Petco Park	42,941

2013	Edinson Volquez (2)	L	2–11	New York Mets	Citi Field	41,053

2014	Andrew Cashner	ND (W)	3–1	Los Angeles Dodgers	Petco Park	45,567

2015	James Shields	ND (L)	3–6	Los Angeles Dodgers	Dodger Stadium	53,518

2016	Tyson Ross	L	0–15	Los Angeles Dodgers	Petco Park	44,317

2017	Jhoulys Chacín	L	3–14	Los Angeles Dodgers	Dodger Stadium	53,701

2018	Clayton Richard	ND (L)	1-2 (12)	Milwaukee Brewers	Petco Park	44,659

2019	Eric Lauer	W	2-0	San Francisco Giants	Petco Park	44,655

Sentence(s)

In 1997, with San Diego Hamilton started on Opening Day for the Padres.

final_sentence: In 1997, with San Diego Hamilton started on Opening Day for the Padres.