Despite having some competitive at-bats, the San Diego Padres just couldn\u2019t get it together, falling short in Game 2 against the Kansas City Royals. They\u2019ll now be staving off the sweep against KC in today\u2019s series finale. Starter Griffin Canning went just 3 2\/3 innings, surrendering four runs to the Royals. That was more than enough, as San Diego put up just one run in the third inning.<\/p>\n
Yesterday was a tough one for the Padres. The club fell short in Game 1 on Friday night after some incredible performances from the offense and Mason Miller to put the Friars three runs up in the 10th inning. They\u2019d go on to lose the game. The loss in Game 2 felt like San Diego was still shaking off the loss from the night before. They\u2019ll need to regroup to salvage the finale.<\/p>\n
Noah Cameron (KC) v. Germ\u00e1n M\u00e1rquez (SD)<\/p>\n
Like most of the Kansas City rotation, Cameron has seen better days. The lefty owns 4.89 ERA this year after a breakout rookie campaign in 2025 (2.99 ERA, 138.1 IP). He just threw seven innings against the Baltimore Orioles last week, but gave up five runs in the process and earned the loss.<\/p>\n
Cameron\u2019s problem has been consistency. (Sound familiar, Friar Faithful?) The left-hander hasn\u2019t been able to locate his pitches well, giving up three or more walks in five of 18 starts this season. He\u2019s walked two or more batters in 11 of 18.<\/p>\n
M\u00e1rquez has looked mostly solid since returning from the IL. The veteran has given up five runs through 12 innings pitched, good for a 3.75 ERA across that time. His last start against the Toronto Blue Jays was tougher, but he made it through four innings having given up just three runs.<\/p>\n
The right-hander has faced the majority of the Royals\u2019 lineup before, and it doesn\u2019t look great. Starling Marte and Josh Rojas have the most experience against M\u00e1rquez (32 combined at-bats) and boast a combined .281 batting average. Hopefully, he\u2019ll be able to quiet their bats this afternoon.<\/p>\n
Well, at least Fernando Tatis Jr. hit a home run. The lone run the Friars managed to put up came on Tatis\u2019 sixth homer of the season. Beyond that, the Padres were stymied at every turn by Kansas City\u2019s pitching staff. The club grounded into three double plays, going 1-for-9 with RISP. They\u2019ll need to be better to salvage the series finale.<\/p>\n
Fernando Tatis Jr., RFJackson Merrill, CFXander Bogaerts, DHManny Machado, 3BGavin Sheets, LFTy France, 1BJake Cronenworth, 2BFreddy Fermin, CSung-Mun Song, SS<\/p>\n
Bogaerts hasn\u2019t had an off day recently and could be penciled in at DH today. That would likely put Song at shortstop, though Cronenworth could move over and rearrange some of the San Diego infield. Either way, the offense needs to score some runs against Cameron.<\/p>\n
It wasn\u2019t a bad game for the bullpen by any means. Matt Waldron gave up two runs over 2 1\/3 innings before Ron Marcinaccio and Jhony Brito pitched two scoreless frames. That came following Canning\u2019s first regression in quite some time. Thankfully, Waldron saved the \u2018pen a bit with his outing.<\/p>\n
The Friars will have Kyle Hart, Yuki Matsui, Mason Miller, Adrian Morejon and Bradgley Rodriguez available in the series finale this afternoon. All but Hart have been high-leverage options for the Padres to turn to this season. If the offense can get some runs on the board, San Diego shouldn\u2019t have too much trouble staving off the sweep.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Despite having some competitive at-bats, the San Diego Padres just couldn\u2019t get it together, falling short in Game…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":404448,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[74,76,75,95057,108390,10793],"class_list":["post-404447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news","tag-san-diego-padres-analysis","tag-san-diego-padres-game-information","tag-san-diego-padres-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404447","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=404447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404447\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/404448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=404447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=404447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=404447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}