Weekly Snapshot
Record last week:Â 3-3
Runs scored last week: 25
Runs allowed last week: 26
Scores
Game 4 (Monday): Giants 3, Padres 2
Game 5 (Tuesday): Giants 9, Padres 3
Game 6 (Wednesday): Padres 7, Giants 1
Game 7 (Friday): Red Sox 5, Padres 2
Game 8 (Saturday): Padres 3, Red Sox 2
Game 9 (Sunday): Padres 8, Red Sox 6
Padres Standings
TL;DR
Giants series
Game 1: Walker Buehler‘s Padres debut did not go well in the Padres’ 3-2 loss. It wasn’t horrible, either. But with the offense scuffling in the early stages of the season, Buehler’s not-so-good performance stood out a bit more. The right-hander allowed three runs on five hits, while walking two and striking out three. Of his 72 pitches, only 43 were strikes. After retiring the first six batters of the game, Harrison Bader went and got a lollipop curve and drove it into the Petco Park bleachers in the third inning. With two out and two on in the fourth following a single and a walk, Buehler surrendered three straight singles, two of which drove in runs for a 3-0 Giants advantage. The Padres’ offense, meanwhile, was being shut down by right-hander Landen Roupp, who allowed two hits over six shutout innings. The Friars were down to their final strike in the bottom of the ninth when Jackson Merrill avoided the shutout by cranking out a two-run homer.
Game 2: Facing an ace for the second time in five games, the Padres continued to scuffle offensively in a 9-3 loss. They managed six hits and scored all three runs in the third inning. Giants right-hander Logan Webb kept the Friars mostly in check, allowing three hits, but walking four while striking out five over six innings. The Padres got to him in the third inning as Fernando Tatis Jr. and Manny Machado drew one-out walks, with Jackson Merrill delivering an RBI single to right. Xander Bogaerts grounded out, scoring Machado from third and Miguel Andujar singled home Merrill. But that was the extent of the offense. In his Padres debut, right-handed starter German Marquez lasted just three innings, giving up four runs on eight hits, walking one and striking out one. He threw 65 pitches, including 41 strikes. Three of those runs came in the first inning. Willy Adames led off the game with a homer then, after a walk and a single sandwiched around an out, Jung Hoo Lee doubled in a pair of runs. Kyle Hart followed with two scoreless innings, but ran into trouble in the sixth. Harrison Bader had a leadoff double and Patrick Bailey walked. After a strikeout, Hart gave up an RBI single to Adames and an infield single to Rafael Devers before being pulled in favor of Bradley Rodriguez. Heliot Ramos had a two-run single and ex-Friar Luis Arraez a sacrifice fly to make it 8-3.
Game 3: The good news is the Padres haven’t been swept in their first two series. The bad news is it took them until the final game of each set to get their lone win. But this one showed promise as Nick Pivetta bounced back from a rough Opening Day, allowing one hit in five shutout innings as the Padres won 7-1. Pivetta struck out eight and walked two while throwing 82 pitches, 54 for strikes. After scoring nine runs in their first five games and no more than three in any one game, the bats came alive for at least one day and scored seven times. Ramon Laureano hit a two-run homer to highlight the 10-hit attack. Gavin Sheets, who had snapped an 0-for-13 start with a bloop single in his last at-bat Tuesday, also had two hits in three at-bats, doubling home a run and scoring twice. The Padres had a 3-0 lead when they broke it open with a four-run eighth that included Laureano’s blast, his second homer of the season, with Tatis also driving in a run with a single. Mason Miller earned his second save, coming in when it was still 3-0 and staying in with the six-run lead, getting four outs.
Red Sox series
Game 1: In their first road game of 2026, the Padres got another good start from right-hander Michael King, but were doomed by a pair of homers in a 5-2 loss to the Boston Red Sox, who snapped a five-game losing streak after winning Opening Day. King followed up a strong season debut by pitching into the sixth inning, but that is when he gave up a one-out solo homer to Willson Contreras that tied the game 2-2. After a single and a strikeout, left-hander Wandy Peralta came on to face lefty-hitting Marcelo Mayer, a product of Eastlake High School in Chula Vista. Mayer spoiled the strategy by hitting a first-pitch sinker for his first career homer against a lefty pitcher, a two-run shot that made it 5-2. Offensively, Sheets had his second straight two-hit game, but that was half of the Padres’ output. Miguel Andujar had a sun-aided triple in the fifth, which set up both of the Friars’ runs. All four Padres hits came against Red Sox right-handed starter Sonny Gray, who allowed two runs and struck out three in six innings. Boston’s bullpen retired nine of the 10 batters it faced.
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Game 2: The Friars notched their first snatch-back victory of the season with a 3-2 win over the Red Sox. After a fielding gaffe led to the Red Sox tying the game in the bottom of the eighth, Tatis atoned for a four-strikeout day by lacing a double off closer Aroldis Chapman and over the head of center fielder Ceddanne Rafaela with two outs in the top of the ninth. That brought up Laureano, moved up to the No. 2 spot in the lineup for the first time this year, and he lined a 1-2 pitch to left for a single that Tatis raced home on for a 3-2 lead. Miller needed just 11 pitches to strike out the side in the bottom of the ninth for his third save in as many chances. Whether Miller would have gotten a save opportunity was in doubt after Jake Cronenworth dropped left-handed reliever Adrian Morejon‘s throw to second base following pinch-hitter Andruw Monasterio‘s potential inning-ending comebacker. Cronenworth recovered in time to get the out at second, but his throw to first was late, allowing Rafaela to score from third. Morejon had given up back-to-back singles to Rafaela and Roman Anthony before striking out Trevor Story. The win was the first that didn’t come in a series finale.
Game 3: With a shot at their first series win, the Padres turned in their best offensive day of the young season in an 8-6 triumph. Machado and Merrill went deep for the Padres’ first multi-homer game, and their eight runs and 12 hits were each a single-game best thus far. Merrill provided the go-ahead blast when he led off the eighth inning and took right-hander Tyler Uberstine, making his MLB debut, out to left-center field over the Green Monster for a 7-6 lead. It was Merrill’s second homer of the season. Machado’s three-run blast, his first of the year, turned a 4-3 deficit into a 6-4 lead in the fifth inning. The Friars added an insurance run in the ninth on Sheets’ leadoff double and Tatis’ sacrifice fly. Then it was Miller time. The closer, pitching on back-to-back days for the first time this year, faced the Red Sox’s 2-3-4 hitters and struck out the side for the second game in a row to get his fourth save. Merrill and Bogaerts, the two-time World Series champ with the Red Sox playing at Fenway Park for the first time since leaving Boston, each had three hits, while Machado had two. Nick Castellanos had his biggest hit in a Padres uniform with a two-run single in a three-run fourth inning to pull the Friars within 4-3. Buehler, who pitched for the Red Sox last year before being released, lasted just 2â…” innings in his second start of the season, allowing four runs on three hits and three walks.
Random Stats
For the first time in club history, the Padres sold out their first six home games, ranging from the Opening Day crowd of 45,673 to the homestand finale of 41,891.
Nick Castellanos’ first double of the season, a double in the seventh inning on Tuesday, was the 400th of his career. Castellanos is one of three active players with 400 doubles, 40 triples, and 250 homers, joining Jose Ramirez and Andrew McCutchen.
Right-handed reliever David Morgan extended his streak of not allowing an earned run to 16 consecutive appearances at Petco Park. That streak, which covers 17⅔ innings, was a shutout streak until he allowed an unearned run Tuesday. The run dates back to July 12.
German Marquez made his first start for the Padres at Petco Park, the same venue he made his MLB debut as a Colorado Rockies reliever on Sept. 21, 2016.
Luis Campusano‘s double off the Green Monster on Friday was his first hit in the majors since 2024, snapping a 0-for-35 streak, the longest active streak in MLB.
Mason Miller has not allowed a run in his last 25â…” innings, the longest active streak in MLB. Miller has struck out 11 of the 15 batters he has faced this year.
Transactions
None. The Padres have not made an in-season move affecting the MLB roster since setting their Opening Day roster.
Website Highlights
Laureano’s scorching-hot start puts pressure on other Padres stars — Andy Johnson
The Padres and ABS: How has San Diego done in the early stages of the new system? — Steve Drumwright
Vasquez’s 2026 debut laid the foundation for a much-needed breakout — Randy Holt
One takeaway from each game during the Padres’ slow start on offense — Tom Gatto
Buehler’s 2026 Padres debut looked concerningly like 2025 — Brandon Glick
The science of Mr. Padre: The impossible standard of Tony Gwynn — Ben Walker
Looking Ahead
Monday: Padres (German Marquez) at Pirates (Bubba Chandler), 3:40 p.m.
Tuesday: Padres (Nick Pivetta) at Pirates (Paul Skenes), 3:40 p.m.
Wednesday: Padres (Michael King) at Pirates (Mitch Keller), 9:35 a.m.
Thursday: Rockies at Padres (Randy Vasquez), 6:40 p.m.
Friday: Rockies at Padres (Walker Buehler), 6:40 p.m.
Saturday: Rockies at Padres (German Marquez), 5:40 p.m.
Sunday: Rockies at Padres (Nick Pivetta), 1:10 p.m.
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