The Cubs’ West Coast excursion heads down the coast to San Diego for the weekend. To give us an update on the Padres, here’s Roy Thomasson of our SB Nation Padres site Gaslamp Ball:
After playing 23 of their previous 28 games on the road, the Padres finally have back-to-back home series for the first time in over a month. In that 28-game stretch, the team only won 10 games, but the schedule should be only partly to blame. The offense has struggled to come together and the starting pitching has been held together by duct tape.