Losing two games to the San Diego Padres at home isn’t the end of the world. The Chicago Cubs did the same thing last weekend, and the two teams are tied for the most wins in the National League.
It does make this weekend’s series against Atlanta -- already a potentially very important one -- even more important. Atlanta comes into this series fairly hot, having won 7 of their past 10 games, pushing their way into the second wildcard position and now sitting just one game behind the Brewers (and one game behind the Phillies for the NL East lead).