As first impressions go, newbies Casey Mize and Robbie Ray left a lot to be desired in their Padres debuts. The former turned in the worst start of his career. The latter wasn\u2019t nearly as good (5 IP, 4 ER) as he was in beating the Padres the previous week (6 IP, 1 ER).<\/p>\n
The Padres are hardly panicking about their deadline moves.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou\u2019re looking at, \u2018Will we be better with those guys over a period of time?,\u2019 not just in one single first start,\u201d Padres manager Craig Stammen said. \u201c \u2026 It\u2019s kind of the ebbs and flows of the season, and we\u2019re thankful that they\u2019re on our team and looking forward to the next eight, nine, 10 starts, playoff starts that they get.\u201d<\/p>\n
Their next starts will come against baseball\u2019s best team, the Milwaukee Brewers.<\/p>\n
Mize will start Monday, Ray will go Wednesday and the Padres begin the week a game behind the Phillies and Diamondbacks in the race for the NL\u2019s second and third wild-card spots.<\/p>\n
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The top-10 \u2026<\/p>\n
1\u00a0\u00a0 |\u00a0\u00a0 Milwaukee Brewers (74-44; Last week: 1)
\n2\u00a0\u00a0 |\u00a0\u00a0 Atlanta Braves (71-47; LW: 3)
\n3\u00a0\u00a0 |\u00a0\u00a0 Los Angeles Dodgers (70-48; LW: 2)
\n4\u00a0\u00a0 |\u00a0\u00a0 Tampa Bay Rays (71-46; LW: 4)
\n5\u00a0 |\u00a0\u00a0 Chicago Cubs (69-50; LW: 6)
\n6\u00a0\u00a0 |\u00a0\u00a0 New York Yankees (66-52; LW: 5)
\n7\u00a0\u00a0 |\u00a0\u00a0 Boston Red Sox (64-53; LW: 8)
\n8\u00a0 \u00a0|\u00a0\u00a0 Chicago White Sox (61-56; LW: 7)
\n9\u00a0 \u00a0|\u00a0\u00a0 Arizona Diamondbacks (63-56; LW: 12)
\n10 |\u00a0\u00a0 Philadelphia Phillies (63-56; LW: 10)<\/p>\n
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\u2026 and the rest<\/p>\n
11 |\u00a0\u00a0 SAN DIEGO PADRES (62-57; LW: 15)
\n12 |\u00a0\u00a0 Miami Marlins (60-58=9; LW: 16)
\n13 |\u00a0\u00a0 St. Louis Cardinals (59-59; LW: 13)
\n14 |\u00a0\u00a0 Houston Astros (60-59; LW: 22)
\n15 |\u00a0\u00a0 Texas Rangers (59-59; LW: 17)
\n16 |\u00a0\u00a0 Detroit Tigers (58-60; LW: 20)
\n17 |\u00a0\u00a0 Washington Nationals (59-61; LW: 11)
\n18 |\u00a0\u00a0 Pittsburgh Pirates (58-62; LW: 9)
\n19 |\u00a0\u00a0 Cleveland Guardians (58-61; LW: 14)
\n20 |\u00a0\u00a0 Minnesota Twins (58-61; LW: 19)
\n21 |\u00a0\u00a0 Baltimore Orioles (57-61; LW: 21)
\n22|\u00a0\u00a0 Seattle Mariners (56-63; LW: 18)
\n23 |\u00a0\u00a0 Toronto Blue Jays (56-63; LW: 24)
\n24 |\u00a0\u00a0 Cincinnati Reds (56-61; LW: 23)
\n25 |\u00a0\u00a0 New York Mets (52-67; LW: 26)
\n26 | \u00a0\u00a0San Francisco Giants (49-69; LW: 25)
\n27 |\u00a0\u00a0 Kansas City Royals (49-70; LW: 27)
\n28 |\u00a0\u00a0 Colorado Rockies (46-72; LW: 30)
\n29 |\u00a0\u00a0 Los Angeles Angels (45-73; LW: 28)
\n30 |\u00a0\u00a0 Sacramento Athletics (47-71; LW: 29)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As first impressions go, newbies Casey Mize and Robbie Ray left a lot to be desired in their…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":850255,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,3914,591,1189,85],"class_list":["post-850254","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\/850254","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=850254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/850254\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/850255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=850254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=850254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=850254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}