News Category: San Diego Padres

Padres, Blue Jays like how they’re playing despite latest outcomes

In placing No. 1 starter Yu Darvish on the 15-day injured list Wednesday due to neck tightness, the San Diego Padres got their first bad injury news of 2024. But as it prepares to open a three-game weekend series Friday night against the visiting Toronto Blue Jays, San Diego might get back a key component of its lineup. First baseman Jake Cronenworth, who sat out the last couple of games of the team’s series in

Joe Ross’ comeback tour continues vs. Padres

The Milwaukee Brewers will look to bounce back behind resurrected right-hander Joe Ross when they host the San Diego Padres on Monday in the opener of a short three-game homestand. Ross (1-0, 1.80 ERA), who missed most of the last two seasons after a second Tommy John surgery, makes his third start for Milwaukee. Right-hander Joe Musgrove (1-2, 6.87), who gave up one hit over eight innings the last time he faced the Brewers, gets

Dodgers’ Mookie Betts looks to stay hot vs. Padres

Mookie Betts is wearing out San Diego pitching in the early part of the season. Betts will look to inflict further damage on Sunday when the Los Angeles Dodgers host the Padres in the finale of a three-game series. Betts went 3-for-5 with two RBIs on Saturday night, when the Dodgers recorded a 5-2 victory. In four games against San Diego this season, Betts is batting .500 (10-for-20) with two homers and 12 RBIs. He

Dodgers enter unfamiliar territory vs. Padres’ Matt Waldron

Early in every season, there are times when a team won’t have much of an idea of what to expect of the next day’s starting pitcher. That will be the case Saturday night when the Los Angeles Dodgers meet the visiting San Diego Padres in the second game of this three-game series. The Dodgers know that San Diego right-hander Matt Waldron (0-1, 3.86 ERA) throws a knuckleball. Even if Waldron doesn’t consider himself a “knuckleball

After first series win of season, Padres battle Dodgers

San Diego right-hander Michael King walked seven batters in four innings during the Padres’ 13-4 win over the San Francisco Giants on March 31. In his next start, a 4-0 win vs. the Giants on Saturday, he walked just one in seven innings. King and the Padres hope his command will remain sharp Friday night when they open a three-game road series against the Los Angeles Dodgers. What was the difference in King’s two starts?

Padres ride momentum of 8-run rally in rematch vs. Cubs

On Monday night, the Chicago Cubs’ win probability rested at 99 percent when they led the San Diego Padres by eight runs entering the bottom of the sixth inning. But San Diego signed up for all 27 outs, so it continued to play on. The Padres scored seven runs in the sixth and Fernando Tatis Jr. drilled a two-run homer in the eighth in a 9-8 win. The Cubs will try to bounce back from

Padres’ Ha-Seong Kim aims to put bad day behind him vs. Cubs

San Diego Padres manager Mike Shildt said he’ll trust shortstop Ha-Seong Kim any day of the week defensively. But one of the best fielders in the major leagues had an off-game that might have cost his team a series win Sunday. Kim’s first two errors of the year led to three unearned runs and a 3-2 loss at San Francisco. Kim and San Diego will hope for a better result Monday night when the Chicago

All even as Padres, Giants square off for seventh time

Someone will walk away with an edge after the San Diego Padres and host San Francisco Giants meet for a seventh time already this season on Sunday afternoon. Two teams, separated by just three games in the standings at the end of last season, have split their first six head-to-head meetings this year. The Padres squared the season series when Jurickson Profar hit a grand slam and Michael King threw a shutout over seven innings

Padres’ Michael King looks for support vs. Giants

Right-hander Michael King hopes his new teammates are as generous with their support as they’ve been in his first two starts of the season when the San Diego Padres visit the San Francisco Giants on Saturday night. After the teams split four games to open the Giants’ campaign in San Diego last week, San Francisco got a leg up when Thairo Estrada ended Friday’s home opener with a walk-off double in the ninth inning of

Jung Hoo Lee set for home debut as Giants battle Padres

The San Francisco Giants will get the opportunity to introduce Jung Hoo Lee and reintroduce Bob Melvin to their fans when they host their home opener against the San Diego Padres on Friday afternoon. The clubs met to open the Giants’ season in San Diego, where Melvin was the manager the past two years. He recorded his first two Giants wins in the middle two games of the series, before and after the Padres earned