The Latest Breaking News from HaSeong Kim

SAN DIEGO — The San Diego Padres limped home Thursday night with the goal of simply not stumbling into the All-Star break.

Chuck got Nazty, and the Padres paid the price.

SAN DIEGO — Look good, play good?

SAN DIEGO — The Padres are placing Jurickson Profar on the seven-day concussion list and calling up Brent Rooker from Triple-A El Paso for his third stint with the big league team.

SAN DIEGO — Sean Manaea has been a good pitcher for the Padres.

LOS ANGELES — The Dodgers didn’t hit a home run and were the ones with lots of base runners and not much to show for it this time.

The Padres’ everyday shortstop still has not been cleared to swing a bat. Their third baseman spent Monday on the training table hoping his sprained left ankle would not send him to the injured list. The guys left in the lineup spent a good chunk of the afternoon explaining how…

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.

ST. LOUIS — Dakota Hudson had been waiting for the day he would still be pitching in the seventh inning for the Cardinals. He hadn’t made it past the fifth in his previous four starts.

ST. LOUIS — As Cardinals linchpins Adam Wainwright and Yadier Molina march inexorably toward the all-time record for starts made by one major league battery, Paul Goldschmidt marches to. . . . well, we don’t exactly know yet.

In manager Oliver Marmol’s perfect world, left-hander Packy Naughton and Andre Pallante, the relievers who were the first two hurlers for the Cardinals in Monday afternoon’s “bullpen game,” would have pitched the first six innings. The final three would belong to late-inning stalwarts Giovanny Gallegos, Genesis Cabrera and Ryan Helsley.