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Post by aztecmusician on Sept 11, 2021 3:13:48 GMT -8
As of right now, 9/11/21, the Padres are 74-66, with 21 games left on the schedule plus a possible make up game vs Atlanta. That means the Padres are going to likely finish with 82-90 wins this season. Assuming the Reds or the Phillies/Cardinals don’t get hot and make a late season push (actually this is very possible) 88 wins should get the Padres that final Wild Card spot. Obviously another streak of losing 8 of 10 is not desirable.
The lineup is going to need to find a way of producing vs the Dodgers powerful starting pitching, Urias dominated the Pads tonight! Also, there are 10 games left vs the 1st place Giants, including 7 of those in San Francisco, that’s a tall order for a team that doesn’t play that well on the road.
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Post by junior on Sept 11, 2021 7:01:18 GMT -8
Well, with Cronenworth out for awhile with the fractured finger, winning just got harder. Maybe Mookie or one of the other fine Dodger yoots won’t be able to get out of the way of a pitch tonight…that might help…
Padres will be playing outside the Crone Zone for awhile at least, and losing an all-star player right now - on an already offensively challenged team - is going to either be a spark that ignites the rest of them to pull it together or it will mark the end of a very frustrating season…
On the bright side, this might well force the Padres to move Tatis, Jr back to SS…that’ll make him happy and maybe that provides the needed spark.
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Post by aztecmusician on Sept 12, 2021 14:28:14 GMT -8
Dodgers looking for the sweep. Up 6-0 in the bottom of the 7th.
Snell, out in the 1st inning with leg trouble. Bats helpless vs Scherzer. Bullpen shelled. Not a satisfactory series of events.
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Post by junior on Sept 12, 2021 16:11:26 GMT -8
While a handful of games remain on the schedule, today might've been the final bell. This team just plain sucks since the All-Star break. Dodgers absolutely dominated them this weekend. If there ever was a rivalry, it was only in the mind of the hopeful.
Given the results of the last two LA series, the Padres really aren't in the same league. Not even close.
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Post by aardvark on Sept 12, 2021 16:38:36 GMT -8
Padres now 25-35 since July 1st.
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Post by aztecmusician on Sept 12, 2021 18:56:24 GMT -8
While a handful of games remain on the schedule, today might've been the final bell. This team just plain sucks since the All-Star break. Dodgers absolutely dominated them this weekend. If there ever was a rivalry, it was only in the mind of the hopeful. Given the results of the last two LA series, the Padres really aren't in the same league. Not even close. You could be right, EXCEPT nobody else currently in the race is winning either. Getting absolutely shut down by Dodgers pitchers is disquieting, the Scherzer deal getting flipped at the trade deadline may have been the difference. |
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Post by junior on Sept 13, 2021 7:41:04 GMT -8
Dodgers pitching isn’t the only pitching that the Padres can’t handle… they’re equal opportunity in that respect. The whole team and almost all aspects of play have gone right into the crapper. It’s amazing to me that they are still even in the running for WC.
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Post by aztecnails on Sept 19, 2021 13:29:36 GMT -8
The last games are brutal, schedule wise, 3 Atlanta, 3 dodgers 6 games against the Giants
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Post by junior on Sept 20, 2021 8:37:44 GMT -8
Padres are irrelevant in the race at this point… it would be better and more productive to think about what got them to this place and how they can begin to fix it this winter…
They’re toast in 2021. Done. Forksville.
Sure they could always go 10-0 to end the season… and monkeys …
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Post by oldie on Sept 20, 2021 14:40:21 GMT -8
no more than 3 wins the rest of the season. (Sept 20)
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Post by junior on Sept 20, 2021 15:00:40 GMT -8
Sad that it’s come to this ending. There were so many other, better ones…
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