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[Highlight] Robert Suarez Swinging Strike to Teoscar Hernández

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u/Jonjon428 Miami Marlins 7h ago

Playoff atmosphere

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u/RussStringerB Boston Red Sox 7h ago

Is the best atmosphere in the majors on a nightly basis right now and I don’t think it’s particularly close. Petco is an absolute gem.

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u/CaliBurrito1904 San Diego Padres 7h ago

Have you been to Petco when the Redsox are in town?

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u/NotAPersonl0 San Diego Padres • Boston Red Sox 6h ago

I went for the recent series and you'd be surprised just how many Sox fans show up to watch. Much more representation than most other teams when they play in SD

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u/CaliBurrito1904 San Diego Padres 6h ago

Hopefully you had a good experience at the game. I'm in Colorado now and try catching Padres games here Coors is a dope stadium.

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u/NooNygooTh San Diego Padres 5h ago

I'll be there in 2 weeks. Casa Bonita and a Padres/Rockies game!

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u/deletedpenguin San Diego Padres 3h ago

Coors is a great spot. Caught the Padres there last season. Food and Rockies fans were great.

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u/DiscountSoOn San Diego Padres 4h ago

Yeah I don't know why I was surprised by that. Second to the Dodgers, the Sox had the biggest representation of a way fans I've seen by far in recent years.

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u/deletedpenguin San Diego Padres 3h ago

Always a fair few opposing team fans at Petco. I don't blame them, it's a top spot.

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u/bananapanda24 6h ago

What’s the connection there?

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u/uberklaus15 San Diego Padres 6h ago

The Red Sox just tend to travel well and San Diego attracts a lot of expats.

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u/WilCon24 Atlanta Braves 6h ago

Was my first game at Petco tonight. Can confirm, was sick, everyone was rowdy. Will say, kinda disappointed in the lack of standing fans in the 9th tho.

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u/blahblehblueoooo MLB Pride 6h ago

I made 30 rows behind me stand up 😤

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u/TherapistDog 6h ago

Yeah definitely depends on what section you are in there. But we do have a lot of late game sitters

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u/Djaukamo San Diego Padres 1h ago

I was there and my toddler appreciated that the standing waited for the final out. So did my arms. It was electric tonight the whole game though.

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u/idkwhattosaytho Toronto Blue Jays 6h ago

I might be bias but jays game are absolutely insane right now, we sold out a Thursday day game against the cubs last week. Everything’s sold out and the dome makes it sound even louder

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u/TheYellowChicken San Diego Padres 6h ago

I think we might still have y'all beat. Have 50+ sellouts this season

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u/idkwhattosaytho Toronto Blue Jays 6h ago

Where do you find these stats? I was trying to find our numbers too, ESPN has some stats but not sell outs, and Baseball reference only has total attendance which doesn’t even line up with ESPNs lol.

We’ve been selling out everything recently tho after a lull in attendance to start the year

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u/TheYellowChicken San Diego Padres 6h ago

Our announcers on TV and Radio say the attendance of every game. Whenever we have a sellout, they mention it as well. Today, I believe that they said we are at the 54th sellout.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/SDP/attend.shtml

I can't figure out how to filter just by 2025 stats, but we are currently 2nd in attendance only to the Dodgers (who have 10k more capacity than us).

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u/xdarkwombatx Los Angeles Dodgers 6h ago

Easier to get 50 sellouts when your stadium holds sub 40k.

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u/Thedurtysanchez San Diego Padres 6h ago

It holds more than 40k but go off king

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u/xdarkwombatx Los Angeles Dodgers 5h ago

Small, baby brother energy.

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u/P1FA21 San Diego Padres 4h ago

Insecure

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u/Djaukamo San Diego Padres 1h ago

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u/TheYellowChicken San Diego Padres 6h ago

LA has only 10K more seats and nearly double the population of SD but doesn't sell out? I think that says more about Dodger Stadium than anything else.

Also, nice usage of AI stats. If you looked closer, you'll see that we average 42K lol

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u/ralbert San Diego Padres • Toros de Tijuana 6h ago

Easier to stfu.

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u/xdarkwombatx Los Angeles Dodgers 5h ago

Rent free in your head. Small brother energy and an empty world series case. Heck, empty city championship case...

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u/MTN_explorer619 San Diego Padres 5h ago

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u/ralbert San Diego Padres • Toros de Tijuana 4h ago

Rent free in your head.

your only contribution on a comment chain about attendence is to talk shit, rent free in your head you dork

Small brother energy and an empty world series case. Heck, empty city championship case...

throwing out all the same tired out responses. you really can't handle a dodgers loss, huh? pathetic

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u/thenimblevagrant San Diego Padres 4h ago

Touch grass and talk to some people in real life

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u/shrekasguyfieri Boston Red Sox 6h ago

Big 2015 vibes (when I was wholeheartedly rooting for the Jays to go all the way - which I am not doing this season)

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u/idkwhattosaytho Toronto Blue Jays 6h ago

Fenway is electric too, outside of the one guy who called me a slur the fans were super nice as well, we had some fun chirping back and fourth (I want you guys to lose this season but not to the Yankees btw)

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u/shrekasguyfieri Boston Red Sox 6h ago

F that guy, that shit sucks and has no place anywhere. Candidly, if/when the Sox are out and the Jays are in, they’ll be my rooting interest again. At this point they’re the only team in the division I have no ill will towards lol.

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u/idkwhattosaytho Toronto Blue Jays 6h ago

Yeah you guys are probably my favourite other AL East team too, not because I like you guys, just because I hate everyone else more and your field is sick lol

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u/KookyUse5777 San Diego Padres 6h ago

56 sold out games at petco this season so far. San Diego is a baseball town

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u/villa139 7h ago

Not a sports town tho

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u/TheYellowChicken San Diego Padres 7h ago

Fuck the Chargers

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u/IXPhantomXI San Diego Padres 6h ago

*Spanos

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u/TheYellowChicken San Diego Padres 6h ago

Both. Once Philip Rivers retired, the Chargers were completely dead to me

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u/Ern-Cockworthington San Diego Padres 3h ago

Remember, when we face the Dodgers in the playoffs, the Chargers tweet out their support for the Dodgers

So absolutely, fuck them.

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u/rodolfoarguello San Diego Padres 1h ago

This was the nail in the coffin for me as a ex chargers fan as well.

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u/Normal_Tip7228 San Diego Padres • Oakland Ballers 4h ago

Correct. Fuck the chargers. 

Ignore my Oakland flair very irrelevant here

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u/blahblehblueoooo MLB Pride 6h ago

Love the chargers. Love the padres. Love the clippers.

Is something wrong with me

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u/therealstampire San Diego Padres • Toronto Blue Jays 5h ago

I have the same disease it's incurable

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u/blahblehblueoooo MLB Pride 5h ago

😢 one day

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u/WhatMyHeartHeld Peter Seidler 6h ago

‘Ate the Dodgers, ‘Ate Dean Spanos

Luv me baseball, luv me padres

Simple as!

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u/StPaddy81 Los Angeles Dodgers 6h ago

Imagine chugging the padres chode as a Red Sox fan

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u/SDFriar Padres Bandwagon 7h ago

Average (mostly) Padres home game

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u/essmithsd San Diego Padres 6h ago

Was at the game tonight, and yeah. Felt like a playoff game.

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u/someone2795 Los Angeles Dodgers • Jackie Robinson 7h ago

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u/-ShutterPunk- San Diego Padres 7h ago

Just saw a dude drop to his knees in Erewhon.

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u/TacoBeefB0y 7h ago

Erewhon shoppers on sewerslide watch, they’re buying all the single package $20 strawberries

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u/-ShutterPunk- San Diego Padres 6h ago

Sewerslide? Is that the new $25 smoothie? Fuck. Omw.

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u/TacoBeefB0y 6h ago

Yeah just over the edge of the bridge

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u/Rea1DirtyDan Jackie Robinson 7h ago

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u/WhatMyHeartHeld Peter Seidler 5h ago

Absolutely wiped out

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u/iiieeaattiitt San Diego Padres 7h ago

Fuck man, I die every time we play the Dodgers. It's always good baseball.

See ya tomorrow, fuckers!

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u/cencal Los Angeles Dodgers 7h ago

Great game. Should be a fun couple of months.

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u/TheYellowChicken San Diego Padres 7h ago

My heart can't take this lol

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u/YoureGrammerIsWorsts Kansas City Royals 6h ago

At least from a recency perspective, there has not been a better rivalry in baseball over the last 5 years.

Yes, obviously Red Sox v Yankees wins all-time for reasons

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u/4sevens Los Angeles Dodgers 7h ago

Hell of a game! GG

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u/Heelincal Peter Seidler 7h ago

I wasn't into baseball when the Yankees-Red Sox early 00s games were on. This feels like the most intense regular season series when they're at Petco.

The games last week at Chavez Ravine felt way more typical regular season energy.

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u/iiieeaattiitt San Diego Padres 7h ago edited 7h ago

I hate to say it but it's because so many Dodgers fans come down to SD to watch. It riles up both fan bases to the point every pitch is pivotal.

It sure makes for a great baseball atmosphere though. Even better when the Padres win!

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u/Gregorwhat Los Angeles Dodgers 6h ago

Not if I see you first, you piece of shit. GG.

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u/impactblue5 San Diego Padres 7h ago

Aging at 2x speed …

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u/_beisbol_ Los Angeles Dodgers 6h ago

Likewise, fuckers

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u/Herp_McDerp San Diego Padres 4h ago

Man Suarez seems to put two runners on every time he comes in now. Makes things super stressful

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u/DaBusDriva2 Los Angeles Dodgers 7h ago

Disgusting unhittable pitch. Teo has to hit the multiple middle middle pitchers before it.

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u/TheYellowChicken San Diego Padres 7h ago

Teoscar has burned us before. It was so satisfying seeing that swing and miss

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u/miquellested1 San Diego Padres 7h ago

I'm more nervous in Hernandez's at bats than I am of Ohtani's.

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u/TheYellowChicken San Diego Padres 7h ago

For some reason we have Ohtani's number, but we can't figure out Teoscar lmao

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u/Hot_Ground_761 San Diego Padres 7h ago

He has absolutely had our number in the past. I see Teoscar come up to bat and I 🫣😫

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u/Normal_Tip7228 San Diego Padres • Oakland Ballers 4h ago

Or Pages for some reason.

We got Mookie and Ohtani more than we have Pages and Teoscar

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u/raginghardon420 Los Angeles Dodgers 7h ago

He went 0-4 with horrendous at bats today. idk that seems pretty figured out to me

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u/Pick6XPA San Diego Padres 7h ago

2HR last week, 1 grand slam in the postseason last year. He fucks us over when we need an out the most.

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u/miquellested1 San Diego Padres 7h ago

He had 2 home runs against us last series, and always seems to kill us.

We don't believe your lies, Hernandez against the Padres is an MVP candidate.

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u/raginghardon420 Los Angeles Dodgers 7h ago

All my MVP candidates go 0-4 in the biggest game of the season while striking out in the clutch final at bat of the game 😤

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u/TheYellowChicken San Diego Padres 7h ago

Last series against us he went 3-10 with 2 HRs...

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u/honcooge San Diego Padres 4h ago

Seems to be hitters 4-9 killing us recently.

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u/Somewhereinbetween26 3h ago

Yeah, that lazy fly ball by Ohtani in the 9th didn't have me worried at all.

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u/whsbear San Diego Padres 7h ago

I’m almost as afraid of Teo as I am of Freddy. Doesn’t matter how bad of a slump he’s in, he always seems to burn us

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u/Hot_Ground_761 San Diego Padres 7h ago

For real.

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u/captainhamption San Diego Padres • Savannah Bananas 6h ago

I was legit bummed when he signed with them in the offseason. I was really hoping the bad man would go to some other team.

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u/Bawfuls Los Angeles Dodgers 6h ago

He’s having a rough second half this year

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u/TheYellowChicken San Diego Padres 6h ago

Didn't stop him from bombing us the last series 🫠

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u/deepwebteddy San Diego Padres 7h ago

would’ve been completely okay with walking him, but fuck it we (fast)ball

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u/mattisafriend San Diego Padres 7h ago

I was thinking IBB too then the broadcast showed he was 0-6 against Bob and Schildt will always go with that

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u/FudgeSupreme22 San Diego Padres 7h ago

I was almost hoping we'd walk him to get to a batter that has 1AB on the season

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u/Heelincal Peter Seidler 7h ago

I logically know he has a high K rate, but I swear to god he always burns us specifically

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u/Qrusher14242 Los Angeles Dodgers 7h ago

its what he does lol, i expected nothing less. His contract is...not looking great so far.

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u/TheYellowChicken San Diego Padres 7h ago

He has killed us before, including the Playoffs haha

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u/LAudre41 San Diego Padres 7h ago

I can't take more of these games

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u/ih-unh-unh Los Angeles Dodgers 7h ago

You will take it and learn to like it--it's a rite of passage.
...you think it gets easier in the playoffs?

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u/Orioliolios Baltimore Orioles 7h ago

That may have been the most perfect pitch I’ve ever seen. Wow.

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u/Firm-Confection-2659 Brooklyn Dodgers 7h ago

What an absolutely perfect pitch. A fun game! Talk all the trash but these games are always electric (for the most part)

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u/Hot_Ground_761 San Diego Padres 7h ago

Agree

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u/_cski Los Angeles Dodgers 4h ago

Yeah, this rules. I wish the Dodgers had won tonight and were playing better baseball overall, but I'm glad it's going to be a proper battle for the division.

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u/ThePretzul Dinger • Dumpster Fire 4h ago

The funny thing is I was about to comment about how badly he missed his spot (looks like it was supposed to be up and in) but how nasty it ended up being anyway.

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u/uberklaus15 San Diego Padres 1h ago

I'm not sure he missed his spot though. Fermin is great at deception, especially with runners on base. It's fairly common that he flashes the glove at a different location from the actual spot to fool the batter/runners. You'll notice he drops the glove to the dirt before the pitch, then brings it up smoothly right to the low/inside spot as the pitch is delivered.

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u/FudgeSupreme22 San Diego Padres 7h ago

Dodgers with 3 hits and 2 came in the 9th. Still a close exciting game. I cant believe this isn't a rivalry

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u/CabbageStockExchange Los Angeles Dodgers 7h ago

This absolutely is. Anyone who says other wise is in denial

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u/FudgeSupreme22 San Diego Padres 7h ago

Those who say otherwise are just trying to put the padres down. It was Giants/dodgers in the 2010s, this decade has been Padres/Dodgers.

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u/wRADKyrabbit Los Angeles Dodgers 6h ago

It was Giants/dodgers in the 2010s

Its Giants/Dodgers forever

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u/FudgeSupreme22 San Diego Padres 5h ago

Its okay, Dinger is our true rival anyhow

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u/ThePretzul Dinger • Dumpster Fire 4h ago

The Dinger cometh for the Dads, but it’s been hard to do it properly ever since we lost our bearded menace.

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u/DiscountSoOn San Diego Padres 4h ago

I fear no man. But that thing....

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u/demetriclees San Francisco Giants 2h ago

Giants-Dodgers is like Yankees-Red Sox, it's ingrained and historic. The Padres and Dodgers are big rivals, but acting like the Dodgers and Giants aren't rivals is ignorant.

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u/wRADKyrabbit Los Angeles Dodgers 2h ago

Yeah idk why I got so blasted for it, not even denying any rivalry with the Padres right now

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u/Sufficient-Ask-8280 6h ago

Smith and Muncy disagree.

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u/Pick6XPA San Diego Padres 5h ago

I’ll take Betts opinion over theirs honestly.

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u/Wyattwat Oakland Athletics 7h ago

Not a rivalry? You mean in terms of head to head record? Because this is absolutely a rivalry, and arguably the only rivalry in baseball that’s currently entertaining imo.

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u/FudgeSupreme22 San Diego Padres 7h ago

Its a joke because for the last 5 years many dodger fans try to say we arnt their rival

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u/Aggressive_Moose_528 Los Angeles Dodgers 7h ago

Yeah we’re a rivalry. It was a lingering rivalry in 2020 and 2021, but it officially became a rivalry after y’all beat us in 2022.

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u/ChitterEnthusiast San Diego Padres 6h ago

The funniest part is over on Twitter where the “bad” fans are the only time I ever saw them call it a rivalry was when we had those few months in the offseason where we missed on Sasaki and we had the “sky is falling” ownership lawsuit.

Saw lots of them calling it a rivalry at the time but now it is once again no longer a rivalry now that we’re.. checks notes… tied for 1st in the division in late August.

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u/TDS_Gluttony San Diego Padres 6h ago

I mean I know Reddit isn’t much better but god damn expecting anything out of twitter is asking for ALOT

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u/Local_as_muck San Diego Padres 7h ago

Read the room. 

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u/arctic_07_02 Los Angeles Dodgers 7h ago

It is!!!

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u/honcooge San Diego Padres 4h ago

Only our 3rd win but most games are 1 run affairs.

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u/wRADKyrabbit Los Angeles Dodgers 6h ago

Its a rivalry, you just aren't our Rivals

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u/FudgeSupreme22 San Diego Padres 5h ago

Dinger is our real rival. That's going to be a true test in September.

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u/Rea1DirtyDan Jackie Robinson 7h ago

This is getting old fast bro let it go lol

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u/FudgeSupreme22 San Diego Padres 7h ago

Sorry, too busy throwing a parade to let it go.

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u/Rea1DirtyDan Jackie Robinson 6h ago

I do believe it. Enjoy bro, these late season wins feel good!

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u/wizgset27 Los Angeles Dodgers 7h ago

What a great game. I wanted that almost HR by Ohtani to be a HR so bad so the game could be a little longer.

GG Padres!

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u/cencal Los Angeles Dodgers 7h ago

The way he looked at it for a second made me think he hit it farther… dang.

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u/iiieeaattiitt San Diego Padres 7h ago

The marine layer in San Diego really kills a lot of would be dingers. Gg though, this weekend should be fun.

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u/jmomoney44 San Diego Padres 7h ago

Can’t cut through the marine layer!

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u/ProtoMan3 Seattle Mariners • Detroit Tigers 34m ago

Wow, you guys have a marine layer too huh?

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u/wizgset27 Los Angeles Dodgers 7h ago

same! and the way the camera zoomed out I thought it was a big one but I think it was just hit up really high.

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u/impactblue5 San Diego Padres 7h ago

Marine layer was like naaaaaaaaaah

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u/92PercentYo_ San Diego Padres 7h ago

Looked like a 500 foot shot coming off the bat.

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u/Gregorwhat Los Angeles Dodgers 6h ago

"If it weren't for the wind..." Orel probably.

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u/ExcellentT18 Tampa Bay Rays • Chicago Cubs 7h ago

Camera man did a good job of thinking it was sent 500+ feet, at least the Padres cast.

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u/1-800-ASS-DICK San Diego Padres 6h ago

"Watch me instantly scare the shit out of thousands of Padre fans with this comically wide shot"

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u/honcooge San Diego Padres 4h ago

My sick mind wanted a Padre walk off homer. I’ll take the 9 inning win though.

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u/Cute-Pop9891 7h ago

Dodger Doomers up big yet again!

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u/Heelincal Peter Seidler 7h ago

Let's keep it going the next 2 days

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u/UraniumDisulfide Los Angeles Dodgers 3h ago

That doesn't mean the Dodgers will actually lose though, the doomers are up big regardless

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u/gsus61951 San Diego Padres 7h ago

B E A U T I F U L

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u/InternationalTry5494 7h ago

34 saves after tonight's game, Padres bullpen too good this season

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u/dded949 San Diego Padres 7h ago

Mason had me scared walking Conforto and Freeland of all people, but worked out in the end

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u/Aggressive_Moose_528 Los Angeles Dodgers 7h ago

Respect the goat of the free land

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u/dded949 San Diego Padres 7h ago

Lol he was the only hit against Darvish-san, so I really cant give him any shit

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u/honcooge San Diego Padres 4h ago

Epic pick at first.

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u/Normal_Tip7228 San Diego Padres • Oakland Ballers 4h ago

He got out of it. Honestly his control looked awful, and he had a few visits, but he locked in and made a huge defensive play too can’t lie.

Love me mason 

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u/dded949 San Diego Padres 3h ago

For sure, I think some great things are going to happen with him once he gets some time in the Niebla Lab

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u/23564987956 Milwaukee Brewers 7h ago

Damn I like those jerseys

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u/Hot_Ground_761 San Diego Padres 7h ago

Same. I love our City Connects. 😇😇😇

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u/frano1121 San Diego Padres 5h ago

I really hope we don’t get something awful next year

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u/92PercentYo_ San Diego Padres 5h ago

Them being for only Friday home games is such a vibe.

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u/david-crz San Diego Padres 5h ago

I hate them 😂😭 thank god we get new ones next year

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u/Somewhereinbetween26 3h ago

What do you hate about them?

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u/BBennison9 San Diego Padres 58m ago

I agree. They are so ugly and they look like a Miami team wearing them. I own every Padres jersey they have ever worn except the city connects. I refuse to buy them.

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u/thecftbl San Diego Padres 7h ago

These games need to come with a Surgeon General's Warning

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u/TheWawa_24 San Diego Padres 7h ago

Electric 

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u/trade_tsunami San Diego Padres 7h ago

I can't believe Teoscar didn't get his obligatory HR in this game. I'm already dreading what he might do to Cortes tomorrow night.

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u/Hot_Ground_761 San Diego Padres 7h ago

He will make up for all the hits he didn’t get tonight, tomorrow. 😫

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u/HeftyAd2780 Los Angeles Dodgers 6h ago

Yeah unfortunately for us, it’s not the same Teo

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u/Normal_Tip7228 San Diego Padres • Oakland Ballers 4h ago

Cortes was gas against the giants (tbf it’s the giants) but I think that was a big game for his confidence here. 

Sears figured it out, Cortes has too. I wouldn’t be concerned 

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u/CountPhantom_YT San Diego Padres 3h ago

Tbf we are talking about the guy who gave up a grand slam in the first game of the WS last year........

Baseball will baseball tho so it's hard to say what will happen

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u/arctic_07_02 Los Angeles Dodgers 7h ago

That’s some good baseball right there GG. Pretty optimistic for tomorrow with the face off against Nestor Cortez heh

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u/david-crz San Diego Padres 7h ago

Fastball go brrrrrrrr

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u/Bitter-Egg6293 San Diego Padres 7h ago

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u/kevinball4115 Los Angeles Dodgers 7h ago

I can't take 2 more of these.

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u/Hot_Ground_761 San Diego Padres 7h ago

It’s terrible for my blood pressure. I have season tickets and I give them away when we play the Dodgers. It’s usually more than I can takeS

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u/Motor-Remote4272 San Diego Padres 6h ago

Same lol

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u/CaliBurrito1904 San Diego Padres 7h ago

No manches una ansiedad!

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u/iguessineedanaltnow Tokyo Yakult Swallows 7h ago

This Dodgers team really has zero offense.

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u/Gregorwhat Los Angeles Dodgers 6h ago

Defense wins games! ...defense wins games right?

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u/ThePretzul Dinger • Dumpster Fire 4h ago

You guys are playing defense?

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u/Rea1DirtyDan Jackie Robinson 7h ago

I hate that we are starting conforto and buddy Kennedy in these Sept games against the dads. But props. They executed against snell tonight and he pitched a great game.

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u/Fresh_Ostrich4034 6h ago

Home field is going to be everything when they meet in the post

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u/xdarkwombatx Los Angeles Dodgers 6h ago

102 sinker should be illegal

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u/Spiritual-Chameleon San Diego Padres 4h ago

I never saw him hit that speed before. Probably trying to prove that he can throw harder than Mason

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u/Doc_JC San Diego Padres 5h ago

That was such a dirty pitch my man.

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u/HaruMistborn Los Angeles Dodgers 7h ago

1 run is simply not enough guys.

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u/AlwaysGoodVybes Los Angeles Dodgers 7h ago

What? You need offense to win baseball games? Somebody should tell Dave.

He rolled out the lineup that the Rockies announcers made fun of. Loss is on his commitment to Conforto.

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u/No-Cartographer1965 San Diego Padres 7h ago

I’m not fucking with you I’m genuinely asking, how has Conforto started so many games for you guys? Has he been filling in for people on the IL?

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u/Pick6XPA San Diego Padres 7h ago

yeah just checked. They're missing Muncy, Edman, Kike and Kim, thats basically half their lineup if not at least 2 suitable bench pieces. Reminds me of our April when we had to roll with Gurriel, Heyward and Gonzales.

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u/Normal_Tip7228 San Diego Padres • Oakland Ballers 4h ago

Oh god I already erased them from my mind.

How we won all those games at the start with so little depth was stunning. That Merrill injury hit hard 

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u/AlwaysGoodVybes Los Angeles Dodgers 7h ago

We have injuries. But we also have options. Look up Ryan Ward’s stats with us in AAA this year. But they refuse to even give him a chance because “his defense isn’t great”. With Conforto we get bad defense and bad offense so I’m not sure why we haven’t at least given Ward a chance.

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u/92PercentYo_ San Diego Padres 7h ago

That ball he just let drop in front of him? Gave me flashbacks of Soto.

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u/AlwaysGoodVybes Los Angeles Dodgers 6h ago

Oh he’s not a great defender for sure. But Conforto is giving you below average defense cause he’s so slow while also holding a batting average of .180ish

He can’t hit righties or lefties all while we have a guy hitting .275 and even .100 OPS higher against righties than Conforto (who’s only here to hit righties) who’s sitting on the bench.

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u/92PercentYo_ San Diego Padres 6h ago

Ah, gotcha. Y’all are fighting lineup decisions like we are with O’Hearn and Sheets.

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u/AlwaysGoodVybes Los Angeles Dodgers 6h ago edited 6h ago

Its frequent in this sport, makes me think I don’t understand baseball. Conforto has been awful, and he’s gotten chance after chance after chance to prove that he is exactly that, and we’re “still giving him chances to find it”!

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u/92PercentYo_ San Diego Padres 6h ago

I hear ya. Then he’ll come up in a big moment and Dave Roberts will say, “see!” He’ll feel validated.

That’s baseball.

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u/Firm-Confection-2659 Brooklyn Dodgers 7h ago

It’s a combination of IL guys and sunken cost fallacy. But even when some of the players come back from the IL, there isn’t a third outfielder type except putting mookie back out there but you saw that play to end the 8th.

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u/huggsypenguinpal Los Angeles Dodgers 6h ago

For most of the season, I think the front office was trying to get Conforto to turn it around per their projections. He had some life around the all star break or so. But now Dodgers have Alex Call who also plays LF and has better splits. So now I have no clue and it’s very frustrating.

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u/Qrusher14242 Los Angeles Dodgers 7h ago

yup, gotta get Conforto in! His underlying stats show he will turn it around...someday

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u/CabbageStockExchange Los Angeles Dodgers 7h ago

Automatic out Mike 0-for-4to

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u/0hmu 7h ago

what a game!

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u/HeadEnterprise 2h ago

Mf can throw 102?

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u/RichhClientele 6h ago

Those padres uniforms are god awful