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Padres ride strength of strong pitching into rematch vs. slumping Braves
After a 4-5 road trip marked by improved hitting and sketchy starting pitching, San Diego Padres manager Craig Stammen expressed his continued belief that the starters would come around.,For one night, he was proved right. The team's top starter, Michael King, threw seven scoreless innings Monday as...

Manny Machado homers for game's only run as Padres top Braves
Manny Machado homered Monday night and Michael King fired seven scoreless innings as the San Diego Padres blanked the visiting Atlanta Braves 1-0.,King (5-6) allowed six hits and walked none while fanning five in his first win since May 18, when he earned a 1-0 decision over the Los Angeles Dodgers....

Manny Machado homers for game's only run as Padres top Braves, 1-0
Manny Machado homered Monday night and Michael King fired seven scoreless innings as the San Diego Padres blanked the visiting Atlanta Braves 1-0.,King (5-6) allowed six hits and walked none while fanning five in his first win since May 18, when he earned a 1-0 decision over the Los Angeles Dodgers....

Mammoth sign coach Andre Tourigny to new contract
The Utah Mammoth signed head coach Andre Tourigny and assistant coach Blaine Forsythe to new multi-year contracts on Monday.,The club also signed two-time Stanley Cup-winning defenseman Adam Foote to a multi-year contract to join Tourigny's staff as an assistant coach. Financial terms of the deals w...

Padres begin tough six-game homestand with clash against Braves
The good news for the San Diego Padres: They will start a six-game homestand on Monday night after finishing a 4-5 road trip Sunday with a 4-3 loss against the Texas Rangers.,The bad news: Beginning with the series opener against the Atlanta Braves on Monday, the Padres will be facing the top two te...

Wyatt Langford's 3-run homer helps Rangers hold off Padres
Wyatt Langford hit a three-run homer and the host Texas Rangers held on for a 4-3 win over the San Diego Padres on Sunday afternoon.,The Rangers, who won for only the second time in six games, took two of three in the series. Langford went 2-for-4, and Josh Jung's RBI single in the fourth broke a ti...

Padres bring suddenly loud bats into series finale vs. Rangers
The San Diego Padres have spent the majority of the regular season scuffling at the plate. ,As they search for a series win over the host Texas Rangers on Sunday afternoon in Arlington, Texas, the Padres hope their recent offensive success becomes a trend.,San Diego is tied for scoring the fewest ru...

Manny Machado's 10th inning homer lifts Padres over Rangers
Manny Machado hit a tie-breaking three-run home run in the tenth inning to lift the visiting San Diego Padres to a 6-4 victory over the Texas Rangers on Saturday.,Joe Ross (0-1) threw the tenth for Texas, walking Samad Taylor to place runners on first and second. Machado then crushed a 408-foot blas...

Rangers ride positive response into rematch vs. Padres
After posting their largest comeback win of the season, the Texas Rangers will look to carry that momentum into the second contest of a three-game set with the San Diego Padres on Saturday afternoon in Arlington, Texas.,Texas, which had dropped five of its last six games, trailed 5-0 in the first in...

Rangers keep responding, defeat Padres in high-scoring affair
Wyatt Langford went 3-for-5 with a home run and two RBIs as the Texas Rangers rallied from a five-run deficit to earn a 9-7 victory over the visiting San Diego Padres on Friday.,Alejandro Osuna and Jake Burger each drove in two runs, while Jacob deGrom (6-4) threw six innings of six-hit, six-run bal...

Padres optimistic offensive resurgence will continue against Rangers
Fernando Tatis Jr. and Jackson Merrill have endured up-and-down seasons at the plate.,The San Diego Padres' most recent game showed a glimpse of what the team's offense can look like if both players are swinging hot bats.,The Padres will look for more good things from Tatis and Merrill when they ope...

Padres find some offense, knock off Cardinals 6-2
Fernando Tatis Jr. and Jackson Merrill each went 3-for-5 with two RBIs as the visiting San Diego Padres earned a 6-2 victory over the St. Louis Cardinals on Wednesday to avoid a series sweep.,After collecting just five combined hits over the first two games, the Padres matched their season high with...

Cardinals seek sweep against scuffling Padres
Dominant pitching and offensive production from rookies have been the story through two games of a three-game set between the St. Louis Cardinals and the visiting San Diego Padres. ,St. Louis will look to continue those trends on Wednesday afternoon as it searches for a mid-week sweep against the Pa...

Cardinals edge Padres behind Andre Pallante's stellar start
Andre Pallante threw seven stellar innings, Blaze Jordan and Nathan Church each had RBI base hits and the St. Louis Cardinals earned a 3-2 victory over the visiting San Diego Padres on Tuesday.,Pallante (8-4) allowed just two runs on four hits, striking out six for the Cardinals, who have won three ...

Padres' search for offense continues against Cardinals, Andre Pallante
The host St. Louis Cardinals will look to continue to take advantage of the San Diego Padres' offensive futility in the middle contest of a three-game set on Tuesday.,The Padres own the worst batting average in the major leagues by a wide margin, and their mark declined further in the series opener....

Dustin May pitches one-hit, complete game as Cardinals blank Padres
Dustin May threw a one-hit complete game shutout on Monday to help the St. Louis Cardinals earn a 3-0 victory over the visiting San Diego Padres.,May (5-6) threw six perfect innings before Fernando Tatis Jr. walked in the seventh. The St. Louis starter struck out nine and walked one in the first com...

MLB suspends Padres RHP Ron Marinaccio 3 games for intentional HBP
San Diego Padres right-hander Ron Marinaccio was suspended three games and fined an undisclosed amount on Monday for what Major League Baseball called intentionally hitting the Baltimore Orioles' Gunnar Henderson with a pitch.,Marinaccio filed an appeal on the suspension, which would have started wi...

Dustin May, Cardinals host offensively struggling Padres
A pair of current National League wild-card teams will meet in a potential postseason preview on Monday as the St. Louis Cardinals host the San Diego Padres in the opener of a three-game set.,Nearing the halfway point of the regular season, St. Louis enters the matchup in the top wild-card slot, 1 1...

Rodolfo Duran's big day propels Padres to series win vs. O's
Rodolfo Duran homered and doubled to drive in three runs and the visiting San Diego Padres beat the Baltimore Orioles 5-2 in Sunday afternoon's series finale.,Walker Buehler (4-3) worked five innings of one-run ball, Fernando Tatis Jr. added two hits and two RBIs and Jackson Merrill posted two hits ...

Padres place C Freddy Fermin on concussion IL
The San Diego Padres placed catcher Freddy Fermin on the seven-day concussion injured list and selected the contract of catcher Blake Hunt from Triple-A El Paso on Sunday.,To open a spot on the 40-man roster for Hunt, right-hander Ty Adcock was designated for assignment.,Fremin left Saturday's game ...