Nick Pivetta allowed one run in 6 2/3 innings and Ramón Laureano had three of the Padres' 14 hits as San Diego completed a three-game sweep of the San Francisco Giants with an 11-1 rout.

The Los Angeles Dodgers are the opponent San Diego Padres fans focus on, and for very good reason. Finishing ahead of Los Angeles would allow the Padres to skip the first round of the playoffs — that is,

Jose Iglesias hit a two-run homer in the second inning, Jackson Merrill connected in the eighth for insurance, and the San Diego Padres beat the struggling San Francisco Giants 5-1.

After being decimated by their in-state rivals 11-1, on Wednesday, are Bob Melvin and the Giants ready to start looking toward 2026?

San Francisco Giants manager Bob Melvin was very frustrated after another one-run game against the San Diego Padres on Tuesday night.

Jake Croneworth hit a go-ahead RBI single in the seventh and Freddy Fermin followed with a two-run homer off Logan Webb as the San Diego Padres backed Yu Darvish in a 4-1 win over the San Francisco Giants.

It’s position preview week on the pod and we start with the glamour position: The Quarterbacks. John Daigle joins Matt Harmon to identify this year’s league winners, sleepers and fades at the QB position. The two also discuss the growing evolution of SuperFlex (and 2QB) league formats and the best QB strategies in drafts for that format.

Mired in a three-game losing skid and trailing by a trio of runs, the Giants just needed one hit, one player ,to create a spark against the Padres. Instead, as they have often done during a miserable post-All Star break stretch, the bats came up empty when it counted. Patrick Bailey and Heliot Ramos each popped up to end the threat.