Padres Hope to End Skid, Face Mets with Musgrove Pitching

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00:06Today, though the Padres back to a home favorite minus 134

00:11Joe Musgrove back on the bump. Total is seven and a half in

00:15Southern California. The Padres on a small two-game slide, but

00:20they haven't lost many games in a row here since the All-Star

00:24break. Will that small skid come to a close? It should. It

00:27should have came to us with that small skid yesterday for

00:29close, but Dylan sees who had a good outing that bullpen really

00:32imploded in the eighth and excuse me in the ninth inning.

00:34Let's take a look at Joe Musgrove after the extended

00:36streak here on the IL 34 batters. He's faced very clean

00:39through those 34 batters. And if you take a look at the New York

00:42Mets, they do hit right-handed pitching quite well,

00:44particularly over the past 30 days, but Paul Blackburn will be

00:48on the mound here for the New York Mets average at best

00:51against lefties dominated up against righties here. You're

00:54looking at that very good lineup for the San Diego Padres. I

00:57expect a bounce-back performance from them tonight, but

01:00boy, if the Mets can get by and beat the Padres again to give

01:03them a three-game losing streak here, that says something

01:06about how well the Mets are playing. And also, is there

01:08going to be an issue here with that Padres team finally

01:11cooling off? I think they get the W tonight. I'll stick with

01:14that end of it. Yeah, Donnie. It's not a bad look. By the way,

01:18I mentioned that San Diego hasn't lost many games consecutively

01:21since the All-Star break. In fact, this two-game skid after

01:24losing the opener to the Amazons last night is the only

01:28losing streak, so of more than a game, since the All-Star

01:33break. San Diego is 22-8 since the All-Star break, now 13-6

01:39in the month of August. Again, this is the only time since the

01:43All-Star break the Padres have lost multiple games in a row.

01:48So, the Mets are looking up by a game and a half at the

01:51Atlanta Braves after Atlanta won the rubber match and the

01:54midweek set against Philadelphia. The Mets were hoping

01:58their divisional rivals in the fields would give them some

02:01love.