Jeff Sanders
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‘Keep jogging’: Gavin Sheets makes one swing count in Padres’ wild-card win (opens the original)
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The Padres are doing better if he’s jogging. Sheets took one swing in the NL Wild Card Series, yanking a pinch-hit, two-run homer to the right-field stands in the fourth inning Wednesday night at a sold-out Petco Park. The blast gave the Padres’ bullpen a bit more breathing room as it closed out a series sweep with a 4-1 win over the Chicago Cubs. Afterward, Sheets was doused in alcohol as he’d been six nights earlier in a cramped visiting clubhouse at Dodger Stadium. Sheets had been merely a sp
First look: Padres vs. Brewers in NLDS (opens the original)
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The Padres have not lost a series since dropping consecutive sets to the Pirates, Rays and Reds as the calendar flipped from August to September. Penning baseball’s best record (41-18) since July 24 included sweeping baseball’s winningest team — the 103-win Brewers — in August at Petco Park and this week sweeping the Cubs out of the NL Wild Card Series at Petco Park. Up next: Carrying that momentum into Milwaukee to start the best-of-five National League Division Series. “I always say, go into t
Before rising to the occasion in September, Xander Bogaerts was as low as he’d been in more than a decade (opens the original)
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By the time it was past time to have a conversation about Xander Bogaerts, the decision already had been made. The Padres could no longer afford to have Bogaerts — a two-time World Series champ, a five-time Silver Slugger and a four-time All-Star who will turn 34 on Thursday — occupying a premium spot in the lineup with a sub-.640 OPS. “It really wasn’t like a big conversation, honestly,” Padres manager Craig Stammen recalled of a July 21 talk with Bogaerts in Atlanta. “I kind of sat down with h
Padres pregame: Nick Pivetta starts vs. Cubs’ Kevin Gausman in potential clincher (opens the original)
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Since the advent of the current postseason formula in 2022, teams are 15-1 when winning Game 1 of a wild-card series. That’s not all that’s working in the Padres’ favor ahead of Wednesday’s Game 2 of the NL Wild Card Series. Because Michael King covered seven innings in Game 1 and Yuki Matsui and Joe Musgrove covered the final frames, the Padres have all their best relief arms rested to back up Nick Pivetta’s start. Last year, left-hander Adrián Morejón’s 4⅓ innings were second on the team in th
Made for this: Padres rookie Ethan Salas poised to become youngest to ever catch a postseason game (opens the original)
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Ethan Salas’ grandfather played baseball for some two decades in Venezuela. His uncle runs academies in multiple countries. His father caught for six years in the Atlanta Braves system. So when Salas’ pre-teen training regimens included his dad tossing trios of different colored balls in the air and calling out a specific color to be attacked with a smooth, left-handed swing, Salas never really thought much of it. Dad, Salas said, always had a “bunch of wacky stuff” up his sleeve. “I always thou
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