Good morning,

The Padres need to play better.

That is what September is for.

They ended August poorly, losing two of three to a lousy team over the weekend to wrap up a 2-4 road trip.

The lamentable part about the series against the Twins was that they did not play well in Friday’s loss.

The Padres were simply bested yesterday by a good pitcher and undone by one of their own pitchers serving up a thigh-high changeup to the only hitter in the Twins lineup that could do real damage.

After Kyle Hart gave Byron Buxton that gift and Jeremiah Estrada and Wandy Peralta could not hold the deficit where it was, the plan for a bullpen day unraveled in a 7-2 loss.

You can read about all that in my game story ( here ).

Sunday ended a somewhat confounding first month post-trade deadline for t

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