San Diego Padres

If the early league-wide returns offer evidence that it’s only going to take 84 wins or so, as it did last year, to reach the postseason, there are plenty of reasons to believe the Mets should be able to stay in the Wild Card hunt.

Dylan Cease struck out 12 and combined with two relievers on a one-hitter, and the San Diego Padres beat the Chicago Cubs 3-0 on Wednesday. Cease went seven innings in a triumphant return to Chicago after the White Sox dealt him to San Diego in March.

The 2024 season is roughly at the quarter mark of the schedule. A look at some of the historic paces the players and teams are on.

San Diego Padres pitcher Yu Darvish helped lead the Padres to a 6-3 win over the Chicago Cubs on Monday in his second game back from the 15-day injured list. Darvish landed on the IL in mid-April due to neck tightness. While going up against his former team Monday, Darvish pitched his second consecutive shutout performance. Despite putting in another strong outing, Darvish is setting a goal for where he wants to improve in his next start — to get closer to throwing 100 pitches in a start.

CHICAGO (AP) — Cody Bellinger was on a roll prior to his injury. He sure gave the Cubs a big boost in his return. Bellinger homered and had three hits to help Chicago beat the San Diego Padres, 3-2, on Tuesday night after the slugger missed two weeks because of broken ribs. “Obviously, you don’t expect to […]

Michael Busch homered to lead off the ninth inning, lifting the host Chicago Cubs to a walk-off, 3-2 victory over the San Diego Padres on Tuesday. Busch deposited a first-pitch fastball from Enyel De Los Santos (1-2) over the wall in right-center field. The homer was Busch's seventh of the season and first since he went deep in five straight games from April 10-15. The blast made a winner out of Hector Neris (2-0), who overcame a single and a walk to record a scoreless top of the ninth. Jurickson Profar belted a two-run homer while Fernando Tatis Jr. and Jose Azocar had two hits apiece, but the Padres fell for the second time in three games. Jake Cronenworth reached on a sixth-inning single to

CHICAGO (AP) — When Justin Steele got hurt on Opening Day, the big question for the Chicago Cubs centered on the state of their rotation without their ace left-hander. That concern faded away over time. Steele returned to one of baseball’s best rotations on Monday night, starting Chicago’s 6-3 loss to the San Diego Padres in the […]

When Chicago Cubs president of baseball operations Jed Hoyer thinks back on some of the calmer moments of his long front-office career, a lock-down closer tends to take center stage. As the Cubs bullpen inconsistencies have been impossible to ignore, despite entering Monday with the third-most wins in the National League, Hoyer recalled how having Jonathan Papelbon and Aroldis Chapman as the ...

Jake Mintz & Jordan Shusterman discuss the Padres-Marlins trade that sent Luis Arraez to San Diego, as well as recap all the action from this weekend in baseball and send birthday wishes to hall-of-famer Willie Mays.

"It’s hard to have a comp to Tony Gwynn, but if there is one in our modern game, now we have him on our team. And that just feels right."

The Diamondbacks were flattened by the San Diego Padres on Saturday night at Chase Field.

This is what the Padres had in mind when they dealt for Luis Arráez.