It is the middle of the 2025 MLB season and the San Diego Padres have a 4-2 record in their latest home stand with an overall record of 44-36, 8 games over .500 and a half game back of the San Francisco Giants for the final Wild Card spot.
They have completed their 26 games in 27 days stretch leading up to the half-way point and played .500 over those games. It hasn’t always been pretty but they seem to be earning their nickname “Grit Squad” with some hard fought wins and some really disappointing losses. For this stretch there were three teams with under .