Through four games of the 2026 season, the San Diego Padres have managed a grand total of nine runs scored, while allowing 16 runs to the Detroit Tigers and the San Francisco Giants. The Padres dropped the series opener to the Giants at Petco Park on Monday 3-2, but the score makes the game appear much closer than it was. San Diego did not have an answer for San Francisco starter Landon Roupp who recorded seven strikeouts over six innings while allowing just two hits. The runs scored by the Padres came off Giants reliever Ryan Walker. Jackson Merrill hit a two-out, two-run home run with two outs in the bottom of the ninth inning. San Diego was one pitch away from being shutout for the first time this season by a division rival who was looking for and got its first win of the season. Padres manager Craig Stammen has been shuffling his lineup looking for something that works and it appears that will continue until the San Diego lineup can provide some signs of life. Perhaps the home run by Merrill will carry over to the second game of the series with San Francisco when the teams reconvene at Petco Park at 6:40 p.m.
