{"id":420647,"date":"2026-08-01T08:37:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-01T08:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/420647\/"},"modified":"2026-08-01T08:37:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T08:37:09","slug":"san-diego-padres-host-the-san-francisco-giants-saturday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/420647\/","title":{"rendered":"San Diego Padres host the San Francisco Giants Saturday"},"content":{"rendered":"

San Francisco Giants<\/a> (47-63, fourth in the NL West) vs. San Diego Padres<\/a> (56-54, third in the NL West)<\/p>\n

San Diego; Saturday, 8:40 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

PITCHING PROBABLES: Giants: Tyler Mahle<\/a> (3-9, 4.96 ERA, 1.40 WHIP, 80 strikeouts); Padres: Walker Buehler<\/a> (6-5, 5.13 ERA, 1.41 WHIP, 91 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

LINE: Padres -138, Giants +115; over\/under is 8 1\/2 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The San Diego Padres host the San Francisco Giants on Saturday.<\/p>\n

San Diego is 56-54 overall and 30-25 at home. The Padres have a 27-42 record in games when they have allowed at least one home run.<\/p>\n

San Francisco is 47-63 overall and 21-36 in road games. The Giants have the fourth-ranked team batting average in the NL at .253.<\/p>\n

The teams meet Saturday for the ninth time this season. The season series is tied 4-4.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Fernando Tatis Jr.<\/a> has a .286 batting average to lead the Padres, and has 22 doubles, two triples and eight home runs. Manny Machado<\/a> is 14 for 44 with three home runs and eight RBIs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

Rafael Devers<\/a> leads the Giants with 22 home runs while slugging .475. Luis Arraez<\/a> is 14 for 41 with a double and seven RBIs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Padres: 7-3, .296 batting average, 3.27 ERA, outscored opponents by 19 runs<\/p>\n

Giants: 5-5, .239 batting average, 3.99 ERA, outscored opponents by 11 runs<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Padres: Nick Pivetta: 60-Day IL (elbow), Samad Taylor<\/a>: 10-Day IL (oblique), Joe Musgrove: 60-Day IL (elbow), David Morgan<\/a>: 15-Day IL (knee), Miguel Andujar<\/a>: 10-Day IL (wrist), Lucas Giolito: 15-Day IL (elbow), Jason Adam: 15-Day IL (shoulder), Ramon Laureano<\/a>: 60-Day IL (hip), Bryan Hoeing: 60-Day IL (elbow)<\/p>\n

Giants: Harrison Bader<\/a>: 10-Day IL (plantar fasciitis), Joel Peguero<\/a>: 60-Day IL (hamstring), Victor Bericoto<\/a>: 10-Day IL (oblique), Matt Chapman<\/a>: 10-Day IL (leg), Jonah Cox: 10-Day IL (oblique), Matt Gage<\/a>: 15-Day IL (elbow), Casey Schmitt: 10-Day IL (leg), Trevor McDonald<\/a>: 15-Day IL (elbow), Jose Butto: 60-Day IL (arm), Hayden Birdsong: 60-Day IL (forearm), Randy Rodriguez<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Rowan Wick<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow)<\/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":"San Francisco Giants (47-63, fourth in the NL West) vs. San Diego Padres (56-54, third in the NL…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1071,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[47258,80631,3494,74527,95094,73483,3834,3493,46987,77295,47882,49642,7868,111734,85279,73895,74,76,75,2611,4820,91464,54972,141916,92756],"class_list":["post-420647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-david-morgan","tag-event_preview","tag-fernando-tatis-jr","tag-harrison-bader","tag-joel-peguero","tag-luis-arraez","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-manny-machado","tag-matt-chapman","tag-matt-gage","tag-miguel-andujar","tag-rafael-devers","tag-ramon-laureano","tag-randy-rodriguez","tag-rowan-wick","tag-samad-taylor","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news","tag-san-diego-padres","tag-san-francisco-giants","tag-trevor-mcdonald","tag-tyler-mahle","tag-victor-bericoto","tag-walker-buehler"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420647","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=420647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420647\/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=420647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=420647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=420647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}