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Los Angeles Dodgers at San Diego Padres: May 18-20
#1 · May 17, 2026, 10:02 pm
29-18 
28-18
Monday, May 18 - 6:40pm
RHP Yoshinobu Yamamoto (3-3, 3.60 ERA, 48 K, .219 BAA) vs RHP Michael King(3-2, 2.63 ERA, 50 K, .192 BAA)
Tuesday, May 19 - 6:40pm
RHP Emmet Sheehan (3-1, 4.54 ERA, 49 K, .250 BAA) vs RHP Griffin Canning (0-2, 10.64 ERA, 14 K, .326 BAA)
Wednesday, May 20 - 5:40pm
RHP Shohei Ohtani (3-2, 0.82 ERA, 50 K, .161 BAA) vs RHP Randy Vasquez(5-1, 2.68 ERA, 45 K, .234 BAA)
The Padres open a 9-game homestand with a long awaited showdown with the Dodgers, followed by the A's and then the Phillies. The Padres and Dodgers have been in a heated rivalry in recent years. The Dodgers are coming into this series with a 5-game win streak and a sweep of the Angels. The Padres are coming into this series with a 3-game sweep and a season series sweep of the Mariners. The Padres are only a 1/2 back.
The Padres will have their two best pitchers in this series-King and Vasquez. The Dodgers will have their two best pitchers-Yamamoto and Ohtani in this series. The Dodgers originally had Ohtani going in game 2. Now. he is pitching in game 3 and Sheehan in Game 2. That makes me fell a little better that Canning will not be going up against Ohtani. The Padres will have two marquee matchups in the game: King vs Yamamoto and Vasquez vs Ohtani.
Sheets has been outstanding raising his BA to .262 avg and leading the club with 9 HR and 2nd in RBI with 21. France raised his BA to .280 avg. He has turned out to be a good first baseman and great pickup. Andujar leads the club in BA with a .292 avg, Campy 2nd with .288 avg, and Ty France is 3rd with .280 avg. Padres need to keep Andujar, Sheets and France out there. Unfortunately Campy is in the IL. I am eagerly awaiting for his return.
NL West Matchups
Giants(20-27) at Dbacks(22-23)
Rockies(18-29) host Rangers(22-24)
BEAT L.A.! BEAT L.A.! BEAT L.A.!
GO PADRES!
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#2 · May 18, 2026, 2:54 am
Huge 9 game homestand! The Pads have played better on the road, 15-8, than at Petco, 13-10. Also, facing good competition, the Dogers, who are 29-18, the A's, while only 23-23, they do lead the AL West and can hit, plus the red-hot Phils, who have bounced back from a slow start after replacing Thompson as manager with Donnie Baseball.
Let's hope the bats continue to rise, as we saw in Seattle and the Big 3 of Machado, Merrill and Tatis start to hit. Would love to see Nando go off this homestand. Need Sheets, Andujar, Bogey, France and Castellanos to stay hot. Regardless, this will be a challenging homestand. Go Pads!
#3 · May 18, 2026, 6:52 am
It surely will be a battle! All 3 teams coming into PETCO and the Padres having losing records when playing teams with winning records. All three teams have a winning record on the road while the Padres have a winning record at home. All three visiting teams are in the top 10 in MLB in Slugging Average, however, the Padres have the advantage in pitching (WHIP) over Philly and the A's. Dodgers and Padres sending out their best pitchers - momentum may come from whoever takes the first game. Hope the Padres can get to Yamamoto like they did earlier in his career.
Going to need even louder fan support to drown out those Dodgers fans who bought up a lot of the available tickets to see this series. LET'S GO PADRES!!!
#4 · May 18, 2026, 9:25 am
The Dodgers, Padres, Athletics and Phillies all have losing records against teams over .500.
#5 · May 18, 2026, 3:41 pm
Game 1 Lineup
1. Tatis 2B
2. Andujar DH
3. Sheets 1B
4. Machado 3B
5. Bogaerts SS
6. Merrill CF
7. Castellanos RF
8. Laureano LF
9. Duran C
King P
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#6 · May 18, 2026, 9:03 pm
The Padres win and retake first place.
King was outstanding and awesome going 7 innings and only needed 2 RPs giving the remaining RPs much needed rest.
Kudos to Andujar on what turned out to be the game winning HR.
GO PADRES!
#7 · May 19, 2026, 1:41 am
Adam and Miller got the job done ... but kept me on the edge of my seat for those last two innings ... makes the win all that much more sweeter dealing with all that tension.
Padres now have the 3rd best record in MLB (winning %) ... and without much from Tatis, Machado, or Merrill and a mishmash of SP behind King and Vasquez.
#8 · May 19, 2026, 5:10 am
Tatis's arm may have won us the game last night.
Dino Ibel,the dodgers 3rd base coach, held Kim up at 3b after the bad throw to first in the 6th likely because he feared Fernandos' arm.....turns out it may have cost them the game.
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#9 · May 19, 2026, 6:09 am
Michael King is the best pitcher in California, not named Shohei Ohtani- agree or disagree?
Snell is AWESOME...but only when HE wants to be.
Yomimoto is equally as excellent but can't beat us!
Who else you got? Giants? A's? Angels? Anyone worthy of top billing?
#10 · May 19, 2026, 6:15 am
Quote from fenn68 on May 19, 2026, 1:41 amAdam and Miller got the job done ... but kept me on the edge of my seat for those last two innings ... makes the win all that much more sweeter dealing with all that tension.
Padres now have the 3rd best record in MLB (winning %) ... and without much from Tatis, Machado, or Merrill and a mishmash of SP behind King and Vasquez.
I keep saying Stammen is a magician!
Literally, every night the guy seems to pull the right strings to get us over the finish line. Other than not using Miller against the Giants in the 8th early on, can you think of any egregious mistakes?