Padres Daily: Tough Stretch; Cease’s Refined Focus; a Fine Debut

Padres Daily: Tough stretch; Cease’s refined focus; a fine debut

Good morning, After another terrible night. We’re going to let Jackson Merrill start things off as we seek perspective on what has become a bit of a quagmire for the Padres. “We do our job every day and we come and we play as hard as we can,” Merrill said last night. “Nobody’s out there lollygagging, nobody’s out there thinking we’re going to win every day by doing nothing. We’re coming to the field, the goal is to play hard and represent each o…

Padres rally to open grueling stretch with hard-fought series win

SAN DIEGO -- This weekend, the Padres began a stretch of 26 games in 27 days -- perhaps the most daunting portion of their 2025 calendar. The teeth of that stretch? The 2 1/2 weeks beginning Monday in San Francisco. San Diego plays 14 games against key division rivals in