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The Padres have been playing much better baseball lately. They've won eight of their last eleven games and only sit five games off the pace in the NL West ...
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After losing the first game of the four game series at Wrigley Field against the Cubs on Monday night, the Padres managed to take two of the final three ga...
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The Padres were finally getting things going, winners of four straight games and coming off a three-game sweep of the San Francisco Giants. With the Rockie...
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The 2013 season is almost a month old. It's getting near the point where early season flukes are now becoming real trends for players and teams. While it's...
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Last Wednesday night, the Padres were probably feeling pretty good about themselves. They just finished sweeping a three game set against the rival Dodgers...
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Now. Oh you were looking for more than that? Cameron Maybin has been awful to start the season. Again.  He has a total of two hits in 24 at bats, four str...
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That week 1 probably wasn't how Bud Black drew it up prior to the season. After losing two of three in New York to start the year, the Padres got swept in ...
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The Padres started off the year losing two of three to the New York Mets at Citi Field. While they looked virtually uncompetitive in the first two games of...
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If you haven't noticed, in which case you probably wouldn't be reading this article, the Padres open the 2013 season tomorrow against the Mets at Citi Fiel...
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The MLB season is, of course, a marathon. Six months of a grueling schedule with few days off in between games, coupled with dozens of travel days and nigh...
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This past weekend, the Padres lost to the Mariners 1-3 on Friday and were out-slugged by the Rockies 4-10 on Saturday, but did manage to cap the weekend of...
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On Friday, the Padres split two split-squad games vs. the Dodgers, winning 8-7, and the Royals, losing 5-7. The Friars beat the Dbacks on Saturday 10-6, bu...
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Throughout the years that the Padres have been playing at Petco Park, which, by the way, is hard to believe it's already the 10<sup>th</sup> s...
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It was a little bit of a slow weekend around camp in Peoria. It was also a rough weekend for the Padres on the field, although spring training win/loss rec...
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On Thursday, news came out that Yankees iconic closer Mariano Rivera will be retiring after the 2013 season. No one will ever question the 43 year old's co...
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This past weekend, the Padres went 3-0, with a 7-5 win over the Dodgers on Friday, a 11-8 win over the Indians on Saturday, and a 4-0 win over the White So...
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<div> </div> <div></div> <div>The NL West is always competitive and seemingly up for grabs year after year. The difference on...
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For the second straight season, it appears as though Time Warner Cable customers in the San Diego area will be deprived of Padres baseball in 2013. In an i...
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Welcome to the Weekend Roundup! This is a new, weekly segment that will recap some of the highlights (and perhaps low-lights) of the past few days, recent...
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