On brand and on track for a dissapointing finish to the season, the Padres went and dropped their first game of one of their final home series of 2018. The bats stayed dull despite a few flashes of life.
Bryan Mitchell had a thoroughly below-average game, giving up 9 hits and 4 earned runs across 5 innings. Both Brandon Crawford and Evan Longoria smacked homers off Mitchell, and the 4 runs the Giants earned off him would prove to be too big a hill for the Padres’ offense to climb.