Matthew Batten News Today

You can always look to it though.

Particularly in the outfield, the Padres remain incomplete. Here’s our first guess at how the roster might shake out.

A trade involving San Diego’s prospect depth outside of its best young talents has become increasingly likely.

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Kyle Hurt began the 2023 season in Double-A, and made his major league debut with a scintillating performance against the Padres, striking out three in two perfect innings, including getting through the heart of San Diego’s lineup in short order.

But five innings of one-run ball from Cease could only do so much to brighten a 3-2 loss to the Padres on Friday.

Seth Lugo allowed three hits and came within an out of his first career complete game, Juan Soto homered twice and the San Diego Padres stayed alive in the NL wild-card race, beating the San Francisco Giants 4-0 on Tuesday night. The teams are tied at 78-80, 4 1/2 games behind the Chicago Cubs for the final NL wild-card spot. Lugo, who beat San Francisco behind six scoreless innings at Petco Park on Sept. 3, was just as crisp at Oracle Park.