Between August 24 and September 19th, the Padres went 9-15, the Dodgers went 14-10. The Dodgers would eventually win the division by three games (with tiebreaker). If the Padres had gone 5-1 against the Twins and Orioles rather than going 1-5, they would have won the division. The losses to Minnesota and Baltimore may have cost us the season, along with the division, considering home-field advantage and how weak Cincinnati was coming into the playoffs. Just food for thought to show how close we actually were.

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  3. It still hurts 😢
    It really shows how one or two series can make a huge difference.

  4. You probably couldn’t just included the Minnesota and Baltimore series. That was terrible baseball against bad competition and we could’ve easily had 3 more wins in the stretch

  5. Cost us the NL West but do you think we’ve would’ve done better against the Reds or Phillies?

  6. That’s the stretch, but it’s the players…. With prospects and farm is decimated, concern is high

  7. Let it go can’t change it. Padres have a knack to lose to bad teams. They lose to pitchers with an ERA at 5.00 that just got brought up from the minors. Is it a lack of focus, trying too hard, or just not executing? I don’t know? Padres need a manager to light some fire in them. Need to play hard and not let up.

  9. And? 72 losses. The losses to SF, the losses to AZ, the losses to…well there was 72 of them. It would be pretty easy to find 10 games they should NOT have lost. Yet they did. It is BASEBALL. How many days until Pitchers and Catchers report? 

  10. Even if we had the west I highly doubt our ice cold bats (Slug) match up and pull us through.

  11. The entire schedule has games that they should have won but didn’t.

    For me, that Aug 15-17 sweep in LA was pretty telling about this teams ability to finish. They were playing well with momentum, tied for the division lead, and the Dodgers were scuffling badly and we completely shit the bed. G1 Kershaw dominated us throwing trash, G2 Cease completely imploded and G3 Suarez gives up a HR after we came back from 4 runs down.

  12. Bogey getting hurt contributed to that tough stretch. Also Laureano injury probably cost us the WC vs Cubs. Just didn’t have the depth to counter injuries. 

  13. The Reds were not that weak as the Dodgers made them look. They have strong starting pitching than the Padres didn’t do any damage to all regular season long. Padres didn’t win a series against them in the 2025 season. They have strong left handed pitching compared to the Cubbies.

    We were that far away from the NL West last year either.

    The lack of adjustments in offense & RISP did us in because the padres offense relied on the bullpen to win so many games. Not adding on or scoring in the 7/8/9 more consistently or being able to score off of +.500 bullpens. The bats didn’t have the same mojo as last year and it shows. The September injuries weren’t great either with Laureano & Adam.

  14. Well it doesn’t unbreak laureano’s finger and doesn’t make us hit better (against even better starting pitching in the Phillies)

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