{"id":434074,"date":"2026-08-15T21:52:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-15T21:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/434074\/"},"modified":"2026-08-15T21:52:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-15T21:52:08","slug":"padres-pregame-on-a-six-game-winning-streak-as-wandy-peralta-opens-in-cleveland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/434074\/","title":{"rendered":"Padres pregame: On a six-game winning streak as Wandy Peralta opens in Cleveland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With five left-handed hitters in the Guardians lineup, the Padres will open with left-hander Wandy Peralta on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>First pitch is at 4:10 p.m. on Padres.TV, as well as KFMB\/8.1 (CBS) and TV Azteca.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A look at tonight\u2019s lineup. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/aW2ZpDAATW\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/aW2ZpDAATW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 San Diego Padres (@Padres) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Padres\/status\/2088717524661666019?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">August 15, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Peralta (2-2, 3.39 ERA) has turned in four scoreless innings across four stints as an opener. He is allowing lefties a .245\/.333\/.340 batting line and righties a .293\/.343\/.447 batting line.<\/p>\n<p>Right-hander Randy V\u00e1squez (8-6, 4.16 ERA) figures to get bulk innings today. He has a 2.05 ERA in 22 innings since returning from his ankle contusion. This would be V\u00e1squez\u2019s first career appearance against the Guardians.<\/p>\n<p>V\u00e1squez has history with two current Guardians:<\/p>\n<p>OF Jo Adell (1-for-2)<br \/>\n1B Rhys Hoskins (0-for-1 BB)<\/p>\n<p>The Padres (66-57) have won six in a row to maintain a one-game lead over the Phillies (65-58) and the Diamondbacks (65-58) in the race for the NL\u2019s second and third wild-card spots.<\/p>\n<p>Fangraphs pegs the Padres playoff odds at 63.1%.<\/p>\n<p>Left-hander Joey Cantillo (8-7, 3.91 ERA) will start for the Guardians.<\/p>\n<p>Padres drafted Cantillo out of Kailua High School (Ha.) in 2017 and included him in the package that netted Mike Clevinger in 2020. Cantillo, 26, has a 3.80 ERA in 253\u2154 IP since making his debut in 2024 and has thrown a career-high 119\u2154 innings this year. His only history with the team that drafted him was throwing two innings last year in relief (2 H, 3 R, 1 ER, 2 BBs, 1 K).<\/p>\n<p>Here is how Cantillo has fared against current Padres:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-article_inline lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/cantillo-pads.jpg\" data-attachment-id=\"9998476\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Here is how Cleveland will line up for Game 2:<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">8\/15 \u26be Guardians Lineup is Out!<br \/>Provided by mlbstartingnine (<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/DailyMLBLineups?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">@DailyMLBLineups<\/a> for link)<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udcca Live Line: Guardians -116 \u2022 O\/U 8.5<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hashtag\/Guardians?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">#Guardians<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hashtag\/GuardiansLineup?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">#GuardiansLineup<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hashtag\/MLB?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">#MLB<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Q1NUHluyIi\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/Q1NUHluyIi<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 MLB Daily Lineups (@DailyMLBLineups) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/DailyMLBLineups\/status\/2088702364622733807?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">August 15, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With five left-handed hitters in the Guardians lineup, the Padres will open with left-hander Wandy Peralta on Saturday.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":434075,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[181,1334,74,76,75,2611,127],"class_list":["post-434074","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\/434074","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=434074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434074\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/434075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=434074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=434074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=434074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}