Padres News: Season Almost Mathematically Over as Team Needs Miracle to Get to Postseason
Things haven’t gone quite the way that anyone in the San Diego Padres clubhouse would have hoped for this season. They entered the season with high hopes of competing for a World Series, but with just a few weeks left in the year, their playoff chances look pretty bleak.
Their offense has been incredibly inconsistent, and it has cost them. They just haven’t been able to put together any sort of stable play all year long. San Diego has underwhelmed this year, and things may have finally caught up with them.
While they are still technically alive for a wild-card spot in the postseason, it would take a historic comeback to happen. They would need to put together a solid few weeks of baseball, while also having multiple teams that are in front of them in the standings help them out.
“Put it this way: If the Padres go undefeated the rest of the way, they would still need the Diamondbacks to do no better than split their final 18 games and also need the Marlins, Reds and Giants to not do too much better than .500. (For the record, the best the Padres have fared over any 18-game stretch this season was the three different times they went 11-7.)”
Things aren’t looking great for this Friars team, but they won’t just quit. But they may let the younger players on the team give it a go. In fact, they should probably do so, in order to see what they may have for the future.
They find themselves eight games back of the final wild-card spot with 18 games to play. The chances don't look great for them.
“A team that far back with that little time remaining is technically “alive” in the playoff race in the way a plane that lands as scheduled but sits on the tarmac for a half-hour waiting for a gate to open is technically “on time.”
Star third baseman Manny Machado could get shut down, as he deals with a nagging elbow injury as well. The team may as well avoid any further injury on their infielder, who signed a massive contract extension before the season.
The clock is ticking on their season. But yet, it seems that it has been over for a long time.
