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The Padres have now bracketed the 14-3 run that briefly got them into first place in the National League West with a pair of four-game losing streaks.

They lost two in Miami and two in St. Louis last month before losing just three times in their next 17 games. Now, Monday’s 4-3 loss to the Giants came after three defeats in Los Angeles over the weekend.

You can read in my game story ( here ) how Nestor Cortes surrendered three home runs in the first inning, the Padres had a home run taken away in the second and Ryan O’Hearn made that matter with a two-run homer in the seventh.

Last night was the third consecutive game in which the Padres could not catch up after going down big in the first inning.

There is plenty of time for this stretch to end up being a blip, hardly

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