Good morning,

The Padres last night took their worst beating at Petco Park since before last year’s All-Star break.

The 10-2 loss to the Red Sox was the Padres’ largest margin of defeat at home since July 7, 2024, and the third-largest losing margin this season.

You can read in Jeff Sanders’ game story ( here ) about how the loss went down. Jeff mostly focused on the struggles by Nick Pivetta, who had his roughest outing in a month-and-a-half and one of his four worst outings of the season.

Pivetta (three) and Sean Reynolds combined to walk eight batters, tying a season high by Padres pitchers in a game this season.

The Padres had six hits, just the seventh time in the 20 games since the All-Star break they have had fewer than nine.

They were facing Walker Buehler. So you could hav

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