Show Says He’ll Talk With Gwynn About Rift

SAN DIEGO —  Pitcher Eric Show of the San Diego Padres said Tuesday he plans to talk with teammate Tony Gwynn about negative remarks Gwynn made about Show after the Padres’ 11-2 loss Sunday to the San Francisco Giants.

“I’m sure that everything’s going to be OK,” Show said. “I think a lot of this has been blown up a little. Tony and I have always been, I thought, good friends. I’d just like to talk to him about this.”

Show gestured angrily toward the field and had words with Manager Larry Bowa when he was removed from Sunday’s game after giving up four runs--three unearned--in one-third of an inning.

After hearing that Show had made comments about not receiving support when he pitches, Gwynn, according to the San Diego Tribune, said:

“His job is to get outs. Our job is to make it easier for him to get outs. There was an error (by Garry Templeton) and a bad decision (by John Kruk) that opened up the door for it. But that’s part of the game. I don’t particularly like people coming in here and saying they’re not getting support after they’ve been taken out of a game. Obviously, we made some mistakes, and they cost us. But it just doesn’t happen when he’s on the mound. Sometimes you’ve just got to tough it out.”

Said Carmelo Martinez: “That’s nothing new for Eric. He’s always complaining. . . . He gets so much into the game that he forgets about other people. He’s just thinking about himself.”

On Monday, Show said: “Tony has popped off about me. I realize that Tony is a very good player and a lot of things he says carry a lot of weight. So, I’m at a disadvantage, but Tony is not God. Yet, people take what he says as gospel because he’s hitting .360.”

But by Tuesday, Show--who is 2-9 with a 4.14 earned-run average--was trying to put the incident behind the Padres.

“If I’ve been wrong about some things, I want to know, and if I feel I’ve been a little mistreated, I hope he understands that too and we can come to some kind of terms here. I’m not interested in prolonging any type of bad feelings.”

Gwynn said: “We try to win for everybody. . . . I’m through talking about the matter. I’m playing baseball now.”