Outside the Confines: Fighting with the Friars

Photo by Jeff Curry/Getty Images We’re down to the final two weeks of the season. The one thing the Cubs have to play for is keeping the Cardinals out of the playoffs.

The Padres season has gone downhill fast of late and emotions boiled over as Manny Machado and Fernando Tatis Jr. got into a shouting match in the dugout during Saturday’s game.

Ken Rosenthal, Dennis Lin and Britt Ghiroli have some background on what happened between the two Friars stars. (The Athletic sub. req.) The authors seem to think that there’s a leadership problem in San Diego, and that road leads straight to manager Jayce Tingler’s office.

This article was written before the dustup, but several Padres players tell Kevin…