Padres News: Manny Machado and Luis Arráez highlight week with 1,000-hit milestones

We had a pair of Padres reach some pretty impressive feats over the past few days, as third baseman Manny Machado and first baseman Luis Arráez reached personal milestones.

Machado collected his 1,000th hit as a member of the Padres organization, reaching the mark during Saturday’s road game against the Minnesota Twins, in which they won 12–3. The milestone was reached in the sixth inning when Machado laced a base hit that got past the glove of a diving Brooks Lee at shortstop and into left field. He joined Tony Gwynn, Garry Templeton, and Dave Winfield as the only Padres to record 1,000 hits with the club.

Now in his seventh year of the eleven-year deal he signed back in 2019, Machado has not slowed down one bit, as he earned his seventh All-Star selection and his third with the Padres. At 33 years old, he has strung together another quality season offensively, slashing .284/.346/.462 with 21 home runs, and leading the team in RBIs.

Machado has been an absolute workhorse in 2025, starting in every game, and has been arguably the best offensive player on the team. He is a huge reason why this team is poised to make a playoff run come October.

As for Luis Arráez, he posted career hit No. 1,000 on Monday against the Baltimore Orioles, achieving the feat in front of a sold-out crowd at Petco Park. On a hard-hit ball on the ground that squeaked through the gap between the shortstop and second baseman in the seventh inning. However, the Padres would go on to lose that game, 4–3. 

The 28-year-old continues to be among the league’s elite bat-to-ball contact hitters, ranking in the top 1% in strikeout rate, whiff rate, and squared-up rate.

Everyone glorifies the players who hit for power, like Kyle Schwarber, for instance. But playing small ball the same way Arráez does at the top of the order can do the trick, as a leadoff baserunner can be easily driven in by the power hitters in the middle of the order.

It is great to see both franchise cornerstones reach significant milestones in their careers, but we can all agree that this team is chasing something even bigger. It will be exciting to see how this offensive firepower carries on as we enter the final month of the season.