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DENVER — The San Diego Padres climbed to the top of the National League West the way most winning teams build their records: They beat the teams they should beat far more often than not.

CHICAGO — The Padres weathered their first real pitching predicament of the season Wednesday night.

CHICAGO — The Padres did something new Tuesday night, and yet it rang with the familiar.

SAN DIEGO, Calif — Manny Machado provided an illustration of how wildly wonderful baseball can be when his “instincts” worked out for the Padres in the first game of Saturday’s doubleheader.

"You go ahead. No, you go ahead. No, YOU!" Machado and Iglesias, probably.

Yesterday, in the Dodgers’ 11–9 win over the White Sox, Chicago manager Tony La Russa made the puzzling decision to intentionally walk Trea Turner on a 1–2 count to face Max Muncy. Many of you probably know what happened, but let’s briefly run through the situation just in case before…

The Padres’ third baseman is better than ever and done playing the villain.

The Mets looked unbeatable. The Padres were kind of a mess.

BALTIMORE — The consistent fall of rain in Baltimore perhaps offered some cover, but the first pitch of Tuesday night’s Orioles game and six others that followed made it clear: Summer has arrived early at Camden Yards.

MILWAUKEE — Joe Musgrove warmed up as the ballpark full of Midwesterners sang “Take Me Out to the Ballgame” and then the “Beer Barrel Polka” in the middle of the seventh inning Friday night at American Family Field.

There's no secret sauce to the type of defense Padres shortstop Ha-Seong Kim has played while plugging the $340 million gap created by wrist-rehabbing star Fernando Tatis Jr.