Xander Bogaerts Sounds off on Padres’ Struggles After Dropping Series vs. Nationals
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San Diego Padres megastar Xander Bogaerts defended the team’s effort level nonetheless lamented a series loss to the Washington Nationals that dropped the Padres to 37-41.
“Lack of fight—I manufacture no longer even in actuality feel any of that. You admire?” the worn shortstop instantaneous reporters Sunday. “But perchance seeking to enact too critical would perchance well well be one.
“C’mon, man. We’re taking part in the Nationals. … I manufacture no longer reflect they’ve playoff aspirations. I mean, they obviously delight in a young team and in inform that they fight. They enact fight. But I’d no longer insist anybody picked the Nationals to be in the playoffs. So you’ve gotten to beat the teams that you have got gotten to beat.”
Bogaerts expressed hope San Diego would perchance well also procure 10 of its final 15 video games heading into the All-Well-known particular person spoil:
“Obviously, we’re already two losses in, so that’s no longer a exact begin. But, what, or no longer it’s no longer how you begin. It be how you enact. So we unruffled delight in a probability to flip that spherical and … end on a extraordinarily solid show. But we delight in now to begin. We now delight in to. There’s no longer plenty of tomorrows left, . The season is coming to an end—I mean, no longer soon, nonetheless it is. If we take care of tacking on losses, or no longer it’s gonna gain immediate.”
Closing week became as soon as a ideal microcosm of the Padres’ season, one which they’ve did no longer place any form of consistency.
San Diego mustered nine mixed runs over three straight defeats to the San Francisco Giants before blitzing the Giants for 10 runs closing Thursday to handbook obvious of a sweep.
Bob Melvin’s squad adopted up by beating the Nationals 13-3, raising the hopes of followers that the team became as soon as in the end turning a corner. Then Washington took the next two matchups to yell the series.
The Padres are in actuality 9.5 video games aid of the most major-region Arizona Diamondbacks in the Nationwide League West and 6.5 video games off the tempo for the closing wild-card yell. FanGraphs provides them a 41.4 percent likelihood of reaching the playoffs.
The tip end capability on San Diego’s roster is so exact you’d test the implications to present a snatch to at some level. But it completely’s attempting extra and extra be pleased this simply would perchance well also no longer be the Friars’ year.
