Padres have to keep getting picked up by their best relievers; better to be lucky and good; David Peralta was a bight light even before he got hot
If there is a theme for a team that was thought to have been built around stars, it is that there is no one face of this franchise in 2024. At least not on the field. Not where it matters.
That is pretty much what Robert Suarez says about all the times he has gone four outs or protected four-run leads.The Padres last night got what has, of late, been a rare quality start, got some gifts from the Pirates and then turned the game over to Jason Adam, Scott and Suarez.) about Michael King’s six innings, the way the Padres got their runs and how those relievers worked the final three innings in a 3-0 victory over the reeling Pirates.Indeed.
As noted in yesterday’s newsletter, the Padres have done to the Pirates and Marlins over the past week what good teams often do to bad teams. They have taken advantage of miscues.On Monday, the Padres were helped to one of their two runs by a wild pitch and the other by an error. Last night, two of the Padres’ three runs were a direct result of errors.
“That’s baseball,” Machado said. “That’s why you play 162 games. And I always say, ‘It’s the beauty of playing a full season.’ There’s a lot of ups and downs and a lot of baseball gods to be dealt with. There’s good luck, there’s bad luck. So you take it as they come.”The three best records since the All-Star break belong to teams in the National League West — the Padres , Diamondbacks and Dodgers .Speaking to him is like a hug wrapped in a smile lathered with a pep talk.
He is not naive. He was asked the other day how much awareness he had that his time could be running short had he not started producing back in early July.
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