MILWAUKEE — Fernando Tatis Jr. laughed.

“We’ll see,” he said.

The question he was responding to was whether he thought a day off would help.

Implied in the chuckle was that nothing else has.

Tatis entered Saturday’s game (4:35 p.m. on FOX) against the Brewers batting .187 with a .595 OPS over his past 30 games. Both numbers are lowest among the team’s seven qualifying batters in that span and second-lowest over any 30-game stretch in Tatis’ career.

So Padres manager Mike Shildt decided to give Tatis his first (non-injury) day off this season.

“I think anybody that gets a day off after working a lot is beneficial for him, regardless of capacity,” Shildt said. “It’s hard not to take that pen and write Tatis in there. But we’ll give him a little bit of a break.”

Tatis said he didn’

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