After a slumping start and the Padres' decision to remove him from Wednesday's game, Merrill returns to the sixth spot in the order for tonight's game against the Cardinals.
Jackson Merrill #3 of the San Diego Padres runs to the dugout in between inning during a game against the St. Louis Cardinals at Petco Park on May 10, 2026 in San Diego, CA. Imaging did not reveal any structural concerns. The Padres pulled Merrill after his first at-bat on Wednesday and sat him on Friday after Thursday’s off-day.said.
“He was fighting to play yesterday, and fighting to stay in the game on Wednesday, so good thing with the off-day, you know, yesterday for him to kind of recoup and get ready and be ready for today. ” The slumping Merrill will return to the sixth spot in the order on Saturday, where he’d been for four straight games until Wednesday’s exit.is also slumping — .129/.176/.129 over his last nine games — and will sit for the first time since May 6 asSong, who will bat ninth, is 2-for-15 over 12 games since collecting two hits in his first start in the majors in San Francisco on May 5.
“Trying to rest him a little bit,” Stammen said of the day off for Bogaerts. “He’s been going at it pretty hard ever since has been down. He’s had to play a lot of shortstop, doesn’t really have that backup shortstop that we had, and Song’s going fill in today. ”, a day after a hitting a home run, is out of the lineup.
The third-year starter went eight innings in his last start but lost both the no-hitter and the game via a walk-off homer. He has a 44-to-17 strikeout-to-walk ratio through 51⅓ innings and has a 2.64 ERA in eight starts. This is Ginn’s first appearance against the Padres. He sat 90.4 mph while allowing three runs in five innings on Sunday in his Padres debut in Seattle.
Giolito struck out three and walked three. Giolito has a 5.01 ERA in four career starts against the Athletics and a 7.71 ERA in one career start at Petco Park .
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