The second place in the West National League – and perhaps the first place at the end of the series – will be at stake when the Gadres de San Diego and the host of San Francisco Giants will open a force of four games on Monday evening.
The right-handers Stephen Kolek (3-1, 4.11 ERA) of the Padres and Logan Webb (5-5, 2.82) of the Giants are planned for the ball to start a series with San Diego holding an advantage of a match in the classification.
The Dodgers at the head of the division will start the week at only two games in front of the Padres.
The difference between San Diego and San Francisco in the ranking is the direct result of a two -game home scanning by the Padres in April.
Webb also opened this series and was agitated for five points and nine strokes in five rounds during a 7-4 defeat. Xander Bogaerts and Jose Iglesias have delivered two consecutive two -strokes that produced three first -round races and put webb and the giants in an immediate hole.
The AS of San Francisco has just released a May 2-3 during which it served 17 strokes and nine points (six deserved) in just 10 rounds in its last two departures.
The Giants lost 8-4 games (against Kansas City) and 3-1 (in Detroit) as part of a section of 14 games in the course of four points or less.
San Francisco made four points-three on a Home Run by Luis Matos-defending a 4-2 victory in Miami on Sunday, capping a 4-5 trip which reserved a scan of three games in Detroit with 2-1 series victories against the Nationals and Marlins of Washington.
“The way we scored races, it looked like a 20 -point home run at the time,” said Giants manager Bob Melvin. “We are going to take it. It would be very offensive to get some out and put a little distance in some of these matches.”
Webb, 28, faced the paadres 15 times, including 14 departures, going 4-4 with an MPM of 3.26 in 85 2/3 sleeves.
Kolek did not face the Giants in the previous series, but he saw them four times in relief last season. He went 0-0 with an MPM of 6.00 in three total rounds.
The 28 -year -old laundered the Rockies of Pittsburgh Pirates and Colorado in 14 1/3 of sleeves during his first two big league departures in May. He has had trouble since, abandoning 15 points (14 deserved) in 16 1/3 innings against the Mariners of Seattle, Toronto Blue Jays and Marlins.
Following a sequence of six consecutive defeats, the Padres won three consecutive series – all 2-1 – on the Braves of Atlanta, the Marlins and the Pirates.
Sunday’s home victory on Sunday, 6-4 against the pirates, included a scary moment when Gavin Sheets ran a face to face in the fence of the left field while pursuing a home run by Adam Frazier.
Sheets was able to leave the field under his own power, but later, he was diagnosed with a head bruise, a painful hip and a blocked wrist.
It could have been worse, said Padres director Mike Shildt, said later.
“I think the fence is OK,” reported Shildt. “I think the field guard will check it.”
Shildt indicated that Sheets, who heads the team with 34 products produced and ranks second in Home Runs with 11, would be considered questionable for the opening in San Francisco.
– field level media