{"id":329200,"date":"2026-05-23T09:26:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T09:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/329200\/"},"modified":"2026-05-23T09:26:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T09:26:08","slug":"san-diego-padres-and-athletics-play-in-game-2-of-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/329200\/","title":{"rendered":"San Diego Padres and Athletics play in game 2 of series"},"content":{"rendered":"

Athletics<\/a> (26-25, first in the AL West) vs. San Diego Padres<\/a> (30-20, second in the NL West)<\/p>\n

San Diego; Saturday, 9:40 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

PITCHING PROBABLES: Athletics: J.T. Ginn<\/a> (2-2, 2.98 ERA, 1.07 WHIP, 44 strikeouts); Padres: Lucas Giolito<\/a> (1-0, 5.40 ERA, 0.80 WHIP, three strikeouts)<\/p>\n

LINE: Athletics -110, Padres -109; over\/under is 8 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The San Diego Padres host the Athletics with a 1-0 series lead.<\/p>\n

San Diego has a 30-20 record overall and a 15-12 record in home games. The Padres have an 18-1 record in games when they scored at least five runs.<\/p>\n

The Athletics are 26-25 overall and 16-13 in road games. Athletics hitters have a collective .396 slugging percentage to rank fourth in the AL.<\/p>\n

The teams match up Saturday for the second time this season.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Xander Bogaerts<\/a> has three doubles and seven home runs while hitting .243 for the Padres. Gavin Sheets<\/a> is 12 for 28 with a double and four home runs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

Nick Kurtz<\/a> has 11 doubles, a triple and eight home runs while hitting .281 for the Athletics. Zack Gelof<\/a> is 9 for 41 with a double and three home runs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Padres: 6-4, .214 batting average, 3.27 ERA, outscored opponents by four runs<\/p>\n

Athletics: 5-5, .255 batting average, 3.80 ERA, even run differential<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Padres: Jake Cronenworth: 7-Day IL (concussion), Jackson Merrill<\/a>: day-to-day (back), Matt Waldron<\/a>: 15-Day IL (arm), German Marquez: 15-Day IL (forearm), Joe Musgrove: 60-Day IL (elbow), Luis Campusano<\/a>: 10-Day IL (toe), Jhony Brito: 60-Day IL (elbow), Bryan Hoeing: 60-Day IL (elbow), Nick Pivetta: 15-Day IL (elbow)<\/p>\n

Athletics: Denzel Clarke<\/a>: 10-Day IL (foot), Gunnar Hoglund: 60-Day IL (knee), Max Muncy<\/a>: 10-Day IL (hand), Brooks Kriske: 15-Day IL (shoulder), Jacob Wilson<\/a>: 10-Day IL (shoulder)<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Athletics (26-25, first in the AL West) vs. San Diego Padres (30-20, second in the NL West) San…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1071,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[30942,116496,80631,77535,99757,51388,77180,48888,77534,3834,89235,4123,32869,74,76,75,2611,60758,99759],"class_list":["post-329200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-athletics","tag-denzel-clarke","tag-event_preview","tag-gavin-sheets","tag-j-t-ginn","tag-jackson-merrill","tag-jacob-wilson","tag-lucas-giolito","tag-luis-campusano","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-matt-waldron","tag-max-muncy","tag-nick-kurtz","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news","tag-san-diego-padres","tag-xander-bogaerts","tag-zack-gelof"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329200","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=329200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329200\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=329200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=329200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=329200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}