The Padres came from behind twice to beat the Marlins to start the week. Sunday’s come-from-behind win over the Pirates secured a third straight series win.
Good thing, too.
Because it’ll be quite some time before the Padres can pad their record against a last-place team again.
The Padres are three games into a stretch of 26 games in 27 days and they play their next 17 games against the Giants, Dodgers and Diamondbacks, not to mention a Brewers team that has won seven straight games.
And only three of those games are at home.
Of course, the Padres know there is only one way forward:
“Day at a time,” Fernando Tatis Jr. said.
1 | Detroit Tigers (39-21, Last week: 2)
Go ahead and give a second AL Cy Young to Tarik Skubal, whose 89-to-3 strikeout-to-walk ratio is the best such ratio over 10 starts in a single season in MLB history.
2 | Chicago Cubs (37-22, LW: 3)
The Cubs did just fine after Kyle Tucker exited with a jammed finger on Sunday, but they can’t afford to lose him for long with both the Cardinals and Brewers charging up the standings.
3 | Los Angeles Dodgers (36-23, LW: 5)
Mookie Betts has bigger problems than the toe fracture that’s sidelining him a few days. The 32-year-old is hitting .254/.338/.405 with eight homers two months into the season.
4 | New York Yankees (36-22, LW: 1)
Think pitching might be a problem? The Yankees don’t have Gerrit Cole or Luis Gil and they gave up eight runs to the Dodgers on Friday and 18 more on Saturday before Ryan Yarbrough of all people got a win on Sunday.
5 | New York Mets (37-22, LW: 6)
Juan Soto on Saturday ended a 17-game homer drought, the fourth longest of his career. He had two extra-base hits and a .143 batting average during that stretch.
6 | Philadelphia Phillies (36-23, LW: 4)
Bryce Harper says he’s “super day by day” with the right elbow injury that’s sidelined him since Tuesday, adding injury to insult as the Brewers swept a three-game series in Philadelphia.
7 | St. Louis Cardinals (33-26, LW: 8)
May flowers: A 19-8 month was the Cardinals’ best month of baseball since a 22-7 stretch in August 2022.
8 | San Diego Padres (33-24, LW: 10)
A sign of better days to come? Manny Machado’s 349th career homer on Sunday was his fourth in his last 10 games.
9 | San Francisco Giants (33-26, LW: 7)
For mom: Camilo Doval returned to the closer’s role on Saturday for the first time since 2023 and retired four of the five batters he faced while pitching in front of his mother for the first time in the majors.
10 | Seattle Mariners (32-26, LW: 11)
Big thumper: On June 1, Cal Raleigh leads the majors with 23 homers, just as we all predicted.
The rest
- 11 | Minnesota Twins (31-27, LW: 9)
- 12 | Tampa Bay Rays (30-29, LW: 15)
- 13 | Houston Astros (32-27, LW: 12)
- 14 | Milwaukee Brewers (32-28, LW: 20)
- 15 | Cleveland Guardians (32-26, LW: 13)
- 16 | Kansas City Royals (31-29, LW: 14)
- 17 | Cincinnati Reds (29-31, LW: 18)
- 18 | Toronto Blue Jays (31-28, LW: 22)
- 19 | Atlanta Braves (27-31, LW: 19)
- 20 | Boston Red Sox (29-32, LW: 16)
- 21 | Texas Rangers (29-31, LW: 21)
- 22 | Arizona Diamondbacks (28-31, LW: 17)
- 23 | Washington Nationals (28-31, LW: 24)
- 24 | Los Angeles Angels (26-32, LW: 23)
- 25 | Miami Marlins (23-34, LW: 26)
- 26 | Pittsburgh Pirates (22-38, LW: 27)
- 27 | Sacramento Athletics (23-37, LW: 25)
- 28 | Baltimore Orioles (22-36, LW: 29)
- 29 | Chicago White Sox (18-41, LW: 28)
- 30 | Colorado Rockies (9-50, LW: 30)
