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NEW YORK — With Jeff McNeil leading the National League and the entire league with a .326 average, the Mets opted not to play their infielder/outfielder, instead letting him rest ahead of the postseason matchup against the San Diego Padres. As it turns out, he won the batting title anyway.

Absent a pennant race, a division sprint or wild card wackiness, the Giants wrapped their slog to the finish line of a disappointing season on a bright note Wednesday, in an 8-1 win over the San Diego Padres.

The Arizona Diamondbacks will meet the San Diego Padres in the final game of their three-game series on Wednesday night at Petco Park.

LOS ANGELES — The path of a pitcher returning from Tommy John surgery is rarely straight and pointing north. It usually zigs and zags, lunges forward and lurches back, with encouraging stretches of dominance offset by shaky moments of self-doubt.

Football is back.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The Kansas City Royals scored eight total runs in the first two games of their series against the San Diego Padres, but they tallied that many runs in a pair of big innings against the Padres on Sunday ... and they weren’t even through scoring.

Paul has been in Miami to watch the Miami Marlins take on the San Diego Padres, where he attempted to try his hand at baseball but jokingly claimed the footage was edited after missing his pitches

MIAMI — Sandy Alcantara took the mound Monday with the Miami Marlins tumbling through their worst stretch of the season, to face the always-daunting San Diego Padres and their own All-Star ace. There is seldom much margin for error for Alcantara and it was even more so the case this…

Tatis won't play this season. MLB said he tested positive for clostebol, an anabolic steroid. Tatis said he accidentally took a medication to treat ringworm that contained the banned substance.