A 6-4 comeback completes two-game sweep of the Giants, pushing the Padres past .500 for the first time in weeks
You’ve ridden the rides at the baseball-bashing carnival. You’ve had your fun in the thin air of a balmy glider port, where a trip to the bathroom can mean missing two home runs in a place where RBIs are as commonplace as Chiclets.
What can the Padres bottle up and carry across the border, into matchups with the Reds, Dodgers and beyond?“The short answer would be confidence,” Padres manager Bob Melvin said Sunday, the day the team vaulted over .500 for the first time since April 12 withagainst the Giants for a two-game border-crossing sweep. “It’s what we were kind of looking for coming in here.
Perhaps as important as anything, they created some emotional cement. When it dries, a singular trip like this means they’ll be closer. It’s easy to forget how many pieces are new, from Bogaerts, Nelson Cruz and Matt Carpenter to rotation pieces Seth Lugo and Michael Wacha. “We came in here with an offense really trying to find its way,” Carpenter said. “To swing the bats like we did the last two days, I feel like really is a great thing for our confidence going forward. So I’m looking at this as potentially the series that jump-starts this club and gets us on a roll that leads all the way to the end of the season.
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