The San Diego Padres swept the NL West divisional rival San Francisco Giants on Wednesday afternoon at Oracle Park

How “sweep” it is!

The month of August could not be more kind to the San Diego Padres. In an afternoon contest in The Bay, the Friars dominated their way to a series sweep against the Giants. As of right now, the Padres are in first place in the NL West division, 0.5 games ahead of the Los Angeles Dodgers. The Dodgers will take on the Los Angeles Angels at 6:40 pm for a chance to get back even with SD.

“We feel good, we always feel good regardless of who we play,” Manager Mike Shildt said postgame on feeling better about facing LA. “We’re excited to go and compete and play good, clean, fundamental Padres baseball.”

Wednesday’s contest went San Diego’s way from the start. The Padres batted around in the second inning, scoring seven runs and jumping out to a 7-0 lead with Nick Pivetta on the mound.

Kai-Wei Teng toed the slab for the third time this season. He entered with a 1-1 record, 5.40 ERA, 1.32 WHIP in 8.1 innings. After allowing six earned runs against the Padres, his ERA jumped to 9.90 as he walked four and allowed four hits in 53 pitches. Teng could not get out of the second inning as Spencer Bivens replaced him.

Jake Cronenworth singled off the second base bag to score the first two runs of the game. That hit off the bag for the Giants began a series of unfortunate events. That could have been a double play to end the inning, instead, the Padres batted around. Fernando Tatis Jr. singled to score two runs, followed by a sac-fly from Luis Arraez. Manny Machado wanted in on the fun with a double off the left field wall and then left fielder Heliot Ramos lost his grip on the ball and it allowed Tatis to score. Then, catcher Patrick Bailey misread a pitch, and the ball went to the backstop, scoring Machado.

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Sometimes, one mistake can lead to many more, and things can escalate quickly. The Padres capitalized on those errors, and the game was essentially over before the third inning began.

Jake Cronenworth was asked postgame by Mark Grant on if the 7-8-9 hitters take pride in their at-bats with a deep lineup.

“100 percent,” Cronenworth responded. “How deep our lineup is, adding those additions down there, just getting on base for those guys at the top and rolling the lineup over four or five times is huge.”

Cronenworth now has an 18-game on-base streak after going 2-3 on Wednesday, along with two walks.

The Friars were not finished racking up hits. In the fifth inning, Ryan O’Hearn lined a double to score Xander Bogaerts. The following at-bat, Ramón Laureano stayed hot with another home run, scoring O’Hearn and giving San Diego a 10-0 advantage. Laureano has been flaming hot since joining the Padres, now with 16 hits since joining the team on August 1.

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Laureano finished 3-4 with a walk on Wednesday and is now tied with Machado with a team-leading .296 batting average (not including Bryce Johnson‘s .313 average). The last run for the Friars came on a Tatis Jr. single, scoring Laureano to give the Padres an 11-0 lead.

The Giants did score a run in this game. They would not get shut out. In the 7th inning, Pivetta allowed a sacrifice fly from Christian Koss to score Jung Hoo Lee after Lee tripled. After that, Wandy Peralta came in to replace Pivetta after the starter pitched yet another gem.

Pivetta allowed just four hits, one run, walked one, and struck out five on 101 pitches. He will not face the Dodgers in the next series but will face the Giants again at Petco Park in the middle of next week. He could be lined up to face the Dodgers in the series finale on August 24. It’s safe to say that Pivetta has been an MVP-like player for the Padres this season. A potential CY Young candidate nomination is not out of the picture either.

“Pivetta was good today, too,” Shildt said postgame. “That was really good. And Yuki (Matsui) did a nice job; it was clean and quick.”

Shildt and the Padres have an off day tomorrow before one of the biggest series of the season at Chavez Ravine. Padres and Dodgers meet for Game 1 on Friday ni7:10 7:10 pm on MLB Network. Michael King will start for SD, and Clayton Kershaw will be on the bump for LA.

Chris Spiering

Chris is a graduate of the University of San Diego. He is the former Sports Editor for the USDVista newspaper. Chris has covered the San Diego Loyal, and now covers San Diego State Men’s Basketball. He also contributes regularly about the Padres. Chris is an athlete and is a huge fan of San Diego sports.