The Latest Breaking News from Padres

After walking off the Padres, the Reds’ fireworks could be overheard at a nearby Taylor Swift concert.

CINCINNATI — The Padres scored nine runs between the sixth and seventh innings and emphatically halted their longest losing streak of the season at six games with a 12-5 victory over the Reds on Saturday.

PITTSBURGH — It may have been tough to see through the cloudy haze that enveloped Pittsburgh throughout the day on Wednesday and well into the night. But if you squinted hard enough, peering through the smoke, you saw that productive offense had returned to the North Shore.

PITTSBURGH — Pirates fans probably didn't need another reason to laugh or smile after Tuesday's 9-4 victory against the Padres at PNC Park, but Andrew McCutchen provided one anyway, cracking a joke in light of an absurd trade rumor from Monday that involved the franchise's most popular player in decades.

PITTSBURGH — When the San Diego Padres clustered five hits and scored three runs in the top of the second inning on Tuesday night, it felt like another disastrous night looming for the Pirates.

It's time to look at the big picture for the flailing, lost Padres. In a 162-game season, offensive slumps routinely amount to micro problems. They come. They go.

What will it take for the Padres to reach the playoffs?

Celebrate the return of the knuckleball to MLB with this amazing video.

“For those who say, ‘I cut the cord, I don’t have Fubo’ — which we are available on — ‘but I’d like to buy Marquee individually, just the channel, to see Cubs games,’ ’’ Crane Kenney said Saturday on The Score.