Something we haven’t done all year.” The Sanders Show But … everyone’s clicking at the right time. Not like we weren’t trying to in the beginning. We were expecting to be better, but it’s not. “Everyone wants to finish on a good note, on the right side and keep playing. “We want to finish strong,” Bogaerts said. In September, they have scored an MLB-leading 6.5 runs per game, have the third-highest batting average (.272) and slugging percentage (.484) and the highest on-base percentage (.351) of any team. “We just picked the wrong time to start over. They know they’re done, even though they are talking and playing like they don’t know - or at least that it doesn’t matter. 500 and 5½ games out of the NL’s final playoff spot with 11 games remaining. 500 and ended up advancing to the National League Championship Series.Īs noted in my game story ( here) from last night’s 11-9 victory over the Rockies, the Padres are five games below. That means a victory tonight would given them a longer winning streak than any they had last season, when they finished 16 games over.

The Padres five-game winning streak is their longest since they won eight straight in June 2021. Before that, they had not finished higher than 13th since ranking ninth in 2004. The Padres finished fifth in attendance in 2022 and third in ’21. The average of 40,372 is third highest in the major leagues this season. The Padres’ total official attendance is 3,068,253, including the two “home” games in Mexico City in April. Like I said, they’ve kind of been the MVP this year. … The sellouts, everything, it couldn’t be better. Said Melvin: “It’s just been constant the entire year. They’ve supported us through the thick and thin.” We let this organization down in a way where we didn’t win the division, which the expectation was that. “For me, that’s what hurts the most,” Manny Machado said. And much of that number was based on preseason expectations built by last year’s run to the National League Championship Series and MLB’s third-highest payroll.īut the fans kept coming even as the team disappointed.

The Padres’ franchise-record season ticket base of more than 24,000 this year virtually assured they would surpass 30,000 tickets distributed per game. Some cities during the week it can be a little tough middle of the week. It reminded me a lot of Boston on Mondays. You look up on a Monday against the Royals or Wednesday against Washington, and it is still packed. And for some reason, every night it felt like it was packed. Here, everything is like more open, so it’s really tough to be able to see when it’s packed. “Fenway Park is obviously pretty special,” said Bogaerts, who is finishing his first season with the Padres. Xander Bogaerts spent 10 seasons with the Red Sox, playing in one of baseball’s most hallowed ballparks and in front of one of its most passionate fanbases.

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