MEXICO CITY \u2014 The man buying the Padres is expected to watch his new team play Sunday afternoon.<\/p>\n
Jos\u00e9 E. Felicano will join Alfredo Harp Hel\u00fa, an original member of the ownership group that bought the team in 2012, in his box for the finale of the Padres\u2019 Mexico City Series against the Diamondbacks.<\/p>\n
Harp Hel\u00fa, whose 15% stake is the second-largest share held by any of the Padres\u2019 minority owners,\u00a0 has spoken with Feliciano via Zoom. Their meeting this weekend is expected to result in Harp Hel\u00fa remaining part of the ownership group.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are going to conserve what we bought,\u201d Harp Hel\u00fa said. \u201cWe won\u2019t sell our spot. It\u2019s very important because of the relationship with San Diego and Diablos Rojos is very important for baseball in Mexico.\u201d<\/p>\n
Feliciano and his wife, Kwanza Jones, are purchasing approximately 40% of the Padres in a deal that values the team at a record $3.9 billion. The sale, which is expected to be officially announced soon, is subject to approval by 75% of the 29 other team owners.<\/p>\n
Harp Hel\u00fa, who owns the Mexico City Red Devils Diablos Rojos and Oaxaca Guerreros of the Liga Mexicana de B\u00e9isbol, bought into the Padres at the invitation of Peter O\u2019Malley, the uncle of late Padres chairman Peter Seidler and current chairman John Seidler. Their friendship dates to the 1980s, when O\u2019Malley owned the Dodgers.<\/p>\n
Harp Hel\u00fa said he watches almost every Padres game on television.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Padres have a very good team, and maybe they can (win) the World Series,\u201d he said. \u201cThe Dodgers are terrible.\u201d<\/p>\n
Harp Hel\u00fa is serving as a de facto host this weekend for Padres executives and members of the ownership group.<\/p>\n
Among them were several members of the Seidler family, most of whom are retaining at least a portion of their ownership stakes.<\/p>\n
Miller time<\/p>\n
Mason Miller set the record it seemed was inevitable he would break, even if it is impossible to assume such a thing.<\/p>\n
With his 1-2-3 ninth inning Saturday, the Padres\u2019 closer pushed his scoreless streak to 34\u2154 scoreless innings, one more than Cla Meredith\u2019s franchise-record streak set 20 years ago.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think passing Randy (Jones, 30\u2154 innings in 1980) and getting to talk about him, and ultimately passing Cla too,\u201d Miller said, \u201cJust reflecting back on Padres history, now I\u2019m a part of that. I think that\u2019s pretty awesome.\u201d<\/p>\n
Miller also expressed some relief, if only because he is weary of addressing the matter almost every day.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s a big load off, for sure,\u201d he said. \u201cI think we can stop talking about it now and just keep pitching and see how long we can go.\u201d<\/p>\n
Miller\u2019s streak is the longest in the major leagues since Zac Gallen went 44\u2153 innings in 2022 and the longest by a relief pitcher since Josh Hader went 38 innings from Aug. 1, 2021, to June 5, 2022.<\/p>\n
The streak is the eighth-longest by a reliever in the Expansion Era (1961).<\/p>\n
But going back to the Aug. 5, 2025, appearance in which he last allowed a run, his first out Saturday gave him 34 innings without allowing a run. And in that time, he struck out 70 batters and allowed seven hits. He is the only pitcher in the Expansion Era to record at least 34 scoreless innings while striking out at least 70 batters, and the only one to go that long without allowing a run while allowing fewer than 10 hits.<\/p>\n
\u201cBig-league hitters, he makes them look funny,\u201d Padres shortstop Xander Bogaerts said. \u201cI mean, you can look funny on one pitch, but sometimes he makes them look funny on all three. Yeah, he\u2019s special.\u201d<\/p>\n
Song arrives<\/p>\n
The Padres called up infielder Sung-Mun Song to fill the extra spot on their roster allowed when playing outside the United States.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is a dream for me,\u201d Song said through interpreter Juneseo Yi. \u201cIt might be two days for this series, but I will do whatever I can to help the team. \u2026 It\u2019s really cool for me to debut in Mexico. And hopefully we go back to Petco and play games at the big-league field too.\u201d<\/p>\n
Song is expected to serve as a left-handed bat off the bench while in Mexico. It is not clear what the immediate plan will be for Song when the Padres leave here. Nick Castellanos has one hit in his past 25 at-bats, and his time with the Padres could be coming to an end.<\/p>\n
Song, signed in December out of South Korea, seemed to be on track to possibly join the Padres when he aggravated an oblique injury in early March and was shut down for nearly three weeks. He began the season on the injured list and was optioned to Triple-A when his rehab assignment was finished.<\/p>\n
The Padres have used the time to allow Song to play shortstop, which he never did in the KBO, and to adjust to the higher velocity and quicker speed of the game in the United States, even at Triple-A.<\/p>\n
Song hit .333 (12-for-36) over his past nine games at Triple-A, including a 6-for-13 run in his final three games.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was struggling last week in Triple-A,\u201d he said. \u201cBut a couple days before coming to Mexico, I was getting into the rhythm, getting quality at-bats. So I\u2019m pretty confident.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MEXICO CITY \u2014 The man buying the Padres is expected to watch his new team play Sunday afternoon.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":682947,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2407],"tags":[5,853,4,43,137,18,4339,4338,185,3546],"class_list":{"0":"post-682946","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-diego-padres","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-latest-headlines","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-padres","12":"tag-san-diego","13":"tag-san-diego-padres","14":"tag-sandiego","15":"tag-sandiegopadres","16":"tag-sports","17":"tag-top-stories-sdut"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116468743106420231","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=682946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682946\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/682947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=682946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=682946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=682946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}