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Craig Stammen spent his first playoff series as a manager making the postseason look remarkably simple. He picked the right players and anticipated the right mo ...

The San Diego Padres brought plenty of fireworks into the postseason. Fernando Tatis Jr. and Manny Machado erupted the city with two early home runs in Game 1 o ...

The lights went out at Petco Park. The heavy guitar blared over the loudspeakers. The San Diego Padres fans went ballistic as Mason Miller trotted out from the ...

Revenge got the champagne flowing last night. The Padres had every right to enjoy sending the Cubs home one year after Chicago ended their season at Wrigley Fie ...

Nick Pivetta didn't give the San Diego Padres another Michael King masterpiece. But he did give them two clean innings and a pressure escape for Game 2. He held ...

Two plate appearances is the entire gap between Ty France's career year and a place among MLB's qualified hitters. Baseball math can be particularly weird. Fran ...

Matthew Boyd gave the Padres three changeups they could drive Tuesday night. They sent all three over the wall. That's one of the cleanest explanations for how ...

There's a long history between these two.

Nick Pivetta already gave the Padres one worthy postseason start against the Cubs. That was last season. What's even more unfortunate is that he never had the c ...

The Padres aren't going to get bonus runs in October for developing their own players. A.J. Preller's job is to build a winner, and San Diego just reached the p ...