{"id":259451,"date":"2026-04-09T14:48:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T14:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/259451\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T14:48:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T14:48:11","slug":"old-colors-are-new-again-as-padres-release-new-city-connect-uniforms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/259451\/","title":{"rendered":"Old colors are new again as Padres release new City Connect uniforms"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Padres will take the field on Friday nights wearing less mint and pink and a lot more obsidian \u00a0and orange.<\/p>\n

But the binational vibe of the Padres\u2019 new City Connect uniforms, released early Thursday morning at Petco Park, remains the same. Just a little more muted.<\/p>\n

The City Connect 2.0 gear is a tribute to \u201cDia de los Muertos,\u201d an increasingly cross-border celebration of the dead typically held on Nov. 1 and Nov. 2. The Padres will wear their new uniforms for the first time on Friday against the Colorado Rockies at Petco Park, and will sport the new colors for every Friday home game after that. The club will also sport the new gear in its Mexico City Series opener against the Arizona Diamondbacks later this month<\/p>\n

The Padres\u2019 new, navy pullover jerseys feature the same \u201cSan Diego\u201d wordmark across the front \u2014 although this one is rendered in one color (white) instead of the pink-and-mint split that was the hallmark of the first City Connect iteration. A sleeve patch features La Catrina, a Dia de los Muertos icon, along with the word \u201cPadres\u201d in a new, bespoke font. (A woman dressed as La Catrina began appearing at Petco Park for the final home weekend of the 2025 regular season, likely as a tease to the new gear.)<\/p>\n

The club\u2019s new pants stripe features sublimated marigolds, the traditional flower of Dia de los Muertos. Accents of \u201cfireberry\u201d and teal harken back to the City Connect 1.0 gear.<\/p>\n

The biggest departure comes with the caps, which are whitr \u2014 the team calls it bone \u2014 with a marigold and obsidian interlocking \u201cSD\u201d and an obsidian (deep navy) bill. Gone are the mint-and-pink lids that became a recent staple among San Diego kids (and some adults) and were easily identifiable even in packed stadiums. The Padres will wear obsidian batting practice caps before thei City Connect nights.<\/p>\n

\"AA Fernando Tatis Jr. San Diego Padres new City Connect uniform is displayed at Petco Park on April 9, 2026 in San Diego, CA.(K.C. Alfred \/ The San Diego Union-Tribune)<\/p>\n

The Padres began wearing their polarizing City Connects in 2022, the second year of a partnership between Nike and MLB designed to bring more city-specific details to each team\u2019s uniform options (and, let\u2019s face it, sell merchandise). Teams are now cycling into their second \u2014 and in the Dodgers\u2019 case, third \u2014 iterations of the special uniforms.<\/p>\n

The Giants switched from an orange and white \u201cG\u201d logo, complete with a bridge and fog, to a black, purple and orange look best described as album art from the 1990s. The Rockies once wore forest green and white gear reminiscent of the state of Colorado\u2019s license plates; now, they\u2019re wearing a baby blue and purple getup meant to evoke Denver\u2019s sunsets.<\/p>\n

\"*City*City Connect 2.0 Photos for Media Distribution*
\nSAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA: Jackson Merrill #3 of the San Diego Padres poses in the 2026 San Diego City Connect Uniform.(Photo by Matt Thomas\/San Diego Padres)<\/p>\n

In many ways, the Padres\u2019 new gear is most reminiscent of what the NL West rival Diamondbacks have done with their City Connects in the last year. The Diamondbacks kept their initial City Connect wordmark \u2014 in their case, a cursive \u201cSerpientes\u201d \u2014 but switched the jersey color from sand to purple, a color they wore for the first decade of their existence. The Padres\u2019 return to navy (or obsidian) harkens back to the alternate jerseys that the club wore throughout its run to the 1998 World Series.<\/p>\n

Thursday\u2019s reveal largely reflects the leaks that have trickled out since November, when the Padres posted a teaser video featuring wrestler Dominik Mysterio, a San Diego native, approaching an ofrenda, the altar used for Dia de los Muertos. The hat he placed at the ofrenda in the video turned out to be the new City Connect lids. While the Padres said in November that they would have no comment on the new uniforms until the start of the 2026 season, online leaks gave fans a sneak peek of the new gear weeks ago.<\/p>\n

A Reddit post from around opening day revealed a purported jersey photo along with a tag that listed the Padres\u2019 launch date as April 6 \u2014 three days earlier than Thursday\u2019s announcement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Padres will take the field on Friday nights wearing less mint and pink and a lot more…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":259452,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[181,1334,74,76,75,2611,127,1696],"class_list":{"0":"post-259451","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-diego","8":"tag-latest-headlines","9":"tag-mlb","10":"tag-san-diego","11":"tag-san-diego-headlines","12":"tag-san-diego-news","13":"tag-san-diego-padres","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-top-stories-sdut"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=259451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259451\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/259452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}