The Padres still have a good record.<\/p>\n
They are not a good team.<\/p>\n
At least not at the moment.<\/p>\n
They\u2019ve lost six of seven, seven of 10 and have slipped to 5\u00bd games behind the short-handed Dodgers in the NL West.<\/p>\n
The Padres\u2019 bullpen has been every bit as good as advertised, and the rotation has held its own given the obstacles \u2014 no Joe Musgrove yet and Nick Pivetta\u2019s unexpected injury \u2014 but the offense is showing signs that the bubble is bursting in San Diego.<\/p>\n
The Padres rank 28th in runs scored, 30th in batting average (.218), 29th in on-base percentage (.293), 28th in slugging (.363) and 29th in OPS (.656).<\/p>\n
And it\u2019s June 1, so it\u2019s not early anymore, either.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe good thing about baseball, it\u2019s a very long season,\u201d Padres manager Craig Stammen said after Sunday\u2019s loss in Washington. \u201cWe\u2019ve played two months, and we\u2019ve got four to go, and we\u2019ve got four months to change the narrative on our hitting group and how we\u2019ve done so far. And we\u2019re working behind the scenes to get that done. It\u2019s not about hope, it\u2019s about working towards it and figuring it out, and I know these guys are committed to that.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re committed to that, and we\u2019re going to keep committing to that until the season\u2019s over.\u201d<\/p>\n
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1\u00a0\u00a0 |\u00a0\u00a0 Atlanta Braves (40-20; Last week: 1)<\/p>\n
Ronald Acu\u00f1a Jr., who missed 12 games with a hamstring strain, is making up for lost time with five homers in his last four games.<\/p>\n
2\u00a0\u00a0 |\u00a0\u00a0 Los Angeles Dodgers (38-21; LW: 3)<\/p>\n
Tarik Skubal is already back to playing catch two weeks after his NanoNeedle Scope, so the Dodgers are hoping for a similar quick path back to the mound for Blake Snell and loose bodies in his elbow.<\/p>\n
3\u00a0 \u00a0|\u00a0\u00a0 Milwaukee Brewers (35-21; LW: 4)<\/p>\n
The Miz means business: Jacob Misiorowski struck out 57 batters in May, a Brewers franchise record. He also allowed one earned run and held hitters to a .109 average.<\/p>\n
4\u00a0\u00a0 |\u00a0\u00a0 Tampa Bay Rays (36-20; LW: 2)<\/p>\n
Who doesn\u2019t like the Trop? The Rays are 21-6 at home and have won six straight home series.<\/p>\n
5\u00a0\u00a0 |\u00a0\u00a0 New York Yankees (36-23; LW: 5)<\/p>\n
The Yankees are a fan of the Athletics\u2019 Sacramento digs: They scored 13 runs in the third inning on Sunday, one run shy of the best offensive inning in franchise history.<\/p>\n
6\u00a0 \u00a0|\u00a0\u00a0 Cleveland Guardians (34-27; LW: 7)<\/p>\n
No a club you want to join: Tanner Bibee is the 12th opening day starter to get to June without a win since 1976.<\/p>\n
7\u00a0\u00a0 |\u00a0\u00a0 Chicago Cubs (32-28; LW: 9)<\/p>\n
Yeah, the Cubs will be in the market for pitching this summer, what with Jameson Taillon (5.37 ERA) leading the majors with 19 homers allowed and Shota Imanaga (4.37 ERA) tied for fifth with 13 allowed.<\/p>\n
8 \u00a0\u00a0|\u00a0\u00a0 Pittsburgh Pirates (32-28; LW: 11)<\/p>\n
One for one: The Pirates activated Ryan O\u2019Hearn (quad) and placed rookie shortstop Konnor Griffin on the 10-day injured list with an elbow strain.<\/p>\n
9\u00a0\u00a0 |\u00a0\u00a0 San Diego Padres (32-26; LW: 6)<\/p>\n
The Padres may have wanted to distance themselves from the Vedder Cup, but where would they be without those six wins against the \u201crival\u201d Mariners?<\/p>\n
10 |\u00a0\u00a0 St. Louis Cardinals (31-26; LW: 8)<\/p>\n
Is their bubble about to burst too? The Cardinals have lost seven of 10 and have a minus-10 run differential.<\/p>\n
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The rest<\/p>\n
11 |\u00a0\u00a0 Chicago White Sox (32-27; LW: 15)
\n12 |\u00a0\u00a0 Arizona Diamondbacks (31-27; LW: 10)
\n13 |\u00a0\u00a0 Washington Nationals (31-29; LW: 12)
\n14 |\u00a0\u00a0 Seattle Mariners (31-29; LW: 21)
\n15 |\u00a0\u00a0 Philadelphia Phillies (30-29; LW: 17)
\n16 |\u00a0\u00a0 Cincinnati Reds (30-28; LW: 14)
\n17 |\u00a0\u00a0 Toronto Blue Jays (29-31; LW: 18)
\n18 |\u00a0\u00a0 Texas Rangers (28-31; LW: 19)
\n19 |\u00a0\u00a0 Sacramento Athletics (28-31; LW: 13)
\n20 |\u00a0\u00a0 Baltimore Orioles (28-32; LW: 23)
\n21 |\u00a0\u00a0 Minnesota Twins (27-33; LW: 16)
\n22 |\u00a0\u00a0 Miami Marlins (26-34; LW: 20)
\n23 |\u00a0\u00a0 Boston Red Sox (25-33; LW: 22)
\n24 |\u00a0\u00a0 New York Mets (26-33; LW: 26)
\n25 |\u00a0\u00a0 Houston Astros (27-34; LW: 27)
\n26 |\u00a0\u00a0 San Francisco Giants (23-36; LW: 24)
\n27 |\u00a0\u00a0 Los Angeles Angels (23-37; LW: 30)
\n28 |\u00a0\u00a0 Kansas City Royals (22-37; LW: 25)
\n29 |\u00a0\u00a0 Detroit Tigers (22-38; LW: 28)
\n30 |\u00a0\u00a0 Colorado Rockies (22-38; LW: 29)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Padres still have a good record. They are not a good team. At least not at the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":708480,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,3914,591,1189,85],"class_list":["post-708479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-latest-headlines","tag-mlb","tag-san-diego-padres","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=708479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708479\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/708480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=708479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=708479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=708479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}