The Padres\u2019 postseason odds, as calculated by Fangraphs, had slipped below 10% before the season\u2019s best offensive showing salvaged a win in Kansas City.<\/p>\n
Jackson Merrill homered twice. So did Ty France. Fernando Tatis Jr. homered in consecutive days.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s a start and it\u2019s about time, but is it too late?<\/p>\n
The Padres are still looking for Manny Machado to get his first hit of the second half and the test ahead \u2014 at the Braves and at the Marlins, both ahead of the Padres in the NL landscape \u2014 is quite a bit more difficult, especially with the trade deadline looming.<\/p>\n
The Padres are 1-2 to start the second half, are 2\u00bd games out of wild-card spot, have five teams to overtake to get back into playoff position and have just 13 games to convince baseball ops chief A.J. Preller to invest further into this 2026 season.<\/p>\n
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The top-10 \u2026<\/p>\n
1\u00a0\u00a0 |\u00a0\u00a0 Los Angeles Dodgers (63-37; Last week: 1)
\n2\u00a0\u00a0 |\u00a0\u00a0 Milwaukee Brewers (62-37; LW: 2)
\n3\u00a0\u00a0 |\u00a0\u00a0 Atlanta Braves (57-41; LW: 3)
\n4\u00a0\u00a0 |\u00a0\u00a0 Chicago Cubs (56-43; LW: 5)
\n5\u00a0\u00a0 |\u00a0\u00a0 New York Yankees (55-44; LW: 6)
\n6\u00a0\u00a0 |\u00a0\u00a0 Tampa Bay Rays (56-42; LW: 4)
\n7\u00a0 \u00a0|\u00a0\u00a0 Chicago White Sox (52-46; LW: 10)
\n8\u00a0 \u00a0|\u00a0\u00a0 Pittsburgh Pirates (52-48; LW: 11)
\n9\u00a0\u00a0 |\u00a0\u00a0 Philadelphia Phillies (55-45; LW: 7)
\n10 |\u00a0\u00a0 Boston Red Sox (50-48; LW: 22)<\/p>\n
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\u2026 and the rest<\/p>\n
11 |\u00a0\u00a0 Miami Marlins (52-48; LW: 8)
\n12 |\u00a0\u00a0 St. Louis Cardinals (51-47; LW: 9)
\n13 |\u00a0\u00a0 Cleveland Guardians (52-48; LW: 14)
\n14 |\u00a0\u00a0 Arizona Diamondbacks (51-48; LW: 16)
\n15 |\u00a0\u00a0 Washington Nationals (50-50; LW: 13)
\n16 |\u00a0\u00a0 Seattle Mariners (50-50; LW: 12)
\n17 |\u00a0\u00a0 Texas Rangers (50-49; LW: 15)
\n18 |\u00a0\u00a0 Baltimore Orioles (49-51; LW: 21)
\n19 |\u00a0\u00a0 SAN DIEGO PADRES (49-50; LW: 18)
\n20 |\u00a0\u00a0 Minnesota Twins (49-51; LW: 17)
\n21 |\u00a0\u00a0 Detroit Tigers (46-53; LW: 23)
\n22 |\u00a0\u00a0 Toronto Blue Jays (46-53; LW: 20)
\n23 |\u00a0\u00a0 Houston Astros (47-54; LW: 19)
\n24 |\u00a0\u00a0 Cincinnati Reds (45-53; LW: 24)
\n25 | \u00a0\u00a0San Francisco Giants (42-57; LW: 26)
\n26 |\u00a0\u00a0 New York Mets (42-58; LW: 27)
\n27 |\u00a0\u00a0 Sacramento Athletics (42-57; LW: 25)
\n28 |\u00a0\u00a0 Kansas City Royals (40-60; LW: 30)
\n29 |\u00a0\u00a0 Los Angeles Angels (39-61; LW: 28)
\n30 |\u00a0\u00a0 Colorado Rockies (40-61; LW: 29)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Padres\u2019 postseason odds, as calculated by Fangraphs, had slipped below 10% before the season\u2019s best offensive showing…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":405199,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[181,1334,74,76,75,2611,127],"class_list":["post-405198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-latest-headlines","tag-mlb","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news","tag-san-diego-padres","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405198","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=405198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405198\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/405199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=405198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=405198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=405198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}