San Diego Padres provides feats that are rare in MLB history.
Six endings in the team’s first 16 matches, with all the zeros coming home. Allows only 11 runs in their first ten home games, everyone wins. And in addition, a 13-3 match starts the best in franchise history.
Next up: The beginning of what should be a good series and the biggest challenge San Diego has met at home when Chicago Cubs comes to town Monday evening to open a three-game series in a Battle of Division leader.
Padres became the first team since Cleveland’s squad 2017 that swept a series of three games and did not allow a run. Michael King ended the weekend with the first suspension of his career, a 6-0 two-hitter against Colorado who gave San Diego 10 straight home victories to open in 2025.
Padre’s manager Mike Shildt said his team has a huge home field advantage due to audience support. They have sold out eight times in ten home games.
“It’s a playoff-like atmosphere almost every game,” he said.
Padres pitching has been second worldly. San Diego is the first team since Cleveland in 1966 that scored six endings in the first 16 matches.
The right-hander Dylan Cease (1-1, 7.98 era) will have a fairly bar to clear when he takes the Haugen for the series opener on Monday. He may come the worst of his 159 MLB starts, which allows nine runs in four rounds on Tuesday evening during a 10-4 loss to athletics in West Sacramento, Calif.
Cease is 4-2 with a 2.38 era in seven career starts against the kids and beats them twice last year.
At the same time, Chicago arrives in the city of Fresh Off and takes two out of three from Los Angeles Dodgers. Sunday night’s bus ride down Interstate-5 was a happy for Cubs after a 4-2 victory in the series finale who saw Pete Crow-Armstrong met two solo homers.
It was a positive end to a tough day for Chicago, who revealed that left -hander Justin Steele will undergo a reconstructive elbow operation on Friday and miss the rest of the season. Steele was 3-1 with a 4.76 era in four starts this year and worked seven shut-off rounds last Monday evening in a 7-0 victory over Texas.
“You don’t just replace Justin Steele,” said Cub’s Starter Jameson Taillon. “You do your best to limit the damage and hopefully keep our team in play. But yes, you don’t just go and replace such a guy. It’s a great world, and the game doesn’t know if you put in the work or not.”
The right-wing trader Jameson Taillon (1-1, 6.06 era) begins for Chicago on Monday night. His last outing was Tuesday, when he made a decision without a decision after giving three runs and five hits in six rounds on a 10-6 victory over Texas. Taillon, who went one and knocked out six, is 2-0 with a 2.19 era in four career starts
Against Padres.
Cubs took two out of three from San Diego at Wrigley Field earlier this month.
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