Tag: San Diego Padres
Grossmont High School alumnus Joe Musgrove is coming home to play professional baseball.
Musgrove, 28, was acquired by the San Diego Padres in a three-team trade with the New York Mets and Pittsburgh Pirates on Jan. 19 involving seven players. He joins a team he grew up rooting for as a teenager. His family held season tickets beyond right field.
Musgrove...
A total of 16 teams between the National League and the American League will qualify for Major League Baseball’s 2020 playoffs.
That’s significantly up from the 10 teams — five teams from each league — that have competed in postseason play since the 2012 season.
But in this season like no other, it appears to be the new normal.
And the Padres...
Major League Baseball has finally logged its first pitch and first home run of the 2020 season, though in much belated fashion.
After MLB owners and the MLB Players Association finally struck a deal for a shortened 60-game season, play officially resumed after spring training camps had been cancelled in mid-March due to the COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic.
The abbreviated season got...
