But just at the end of the day, it’s just not happening right now.” Everybody’s been coming to this clubhouse, been working so hard. ![]() “Just as a group coming together, as a group just talking, seeing what’s going on and just giving some honest feedback each one to each other, as a group together,” Tatis said. The Padres kept the clubhouse closed for several minutes afterward. “We feel like we took good at-bats as an offense today and we keep the line moving, but we just couldn’t execute at the end,” Tatis said. That blunder came one day after the Padres made two critical outs on the bases late in a 5-4 loss. The Padres loaded the bases with one out in the seventh against Aroldis Chapman, but Trent Grisham struck out for the fourth straight time and then a wild pitch by Chapman caromed off the backstop right back to catcher Salvador Perez, who easily tagged out Juan Soto trying to score, ending the inning. The Padres scored twice in the sixth to pull to 4-3 but Tatis, moved down to third in the lineup, popped out weakly with the bases loaded to end the inning. San Diego's offensive woes continued despite Kansas City needing a bullpen day. The Padres went 2 for 9 with runners in scoring position and stranded 12 overall. His homer to right field, his eighth, and Maikel Garcia's RBI double gave Kansas City a 4-1 lead in the sixth inning. Vinnie Pasquantino hit a tiebreaking two-run homer off Yu Darvish for the Royals. Now there's an ugly skid that includes five losses in six games to the Dodgers, beaten by San Diego in four games during their Division Series last October. The season opened with World Series aspirations after the Padres made a stirring run to the NL Championship Series last fall. Things really aren’t really rolling our way right now, at all.” I think collectively as a group we’ve got to go out there and be better as a group. "There’s an expectation that we had coming into the season and they expect us to go out there and win every single game. We’re not playing well right now," said Machado, who was hurt when he was hit by a pitch Monday night and doesn't know if he'll need to go on the injured list. Machado, sidelined indefinitely after finding out he has a fractured bone in his left hand, agreed. The way that we finished the game, I would boo ourselves, too," Tatis said. Yet they dropped two of three to the Royals, who are last in the AL Central, and have lost nine of 11 overall to tumble to fourth place in the NL West, eight games behind the rival Los Angeles Dodgers and four games under. The Padres were supposed to be so much better this year, with baseball's third-highest payroll and a quartet of superstars in Manny Machado, Fernando Tatis Jr., Xander Bogaerts and Juan Soto. It wasn't the first time Wednesday frustrated fans let the high-priced Padres have it as they continued to flounder with runners in scoring position and make baserunning blunders. ![]() SAN DIEGO (AP) What was left of the crowd of 32,416 at Petco Park on a gloomy afternoon loudly booed the San Diego Padres after Ha-Seong Kim made the last out of a dismal 4-3 loss to the lowly Kansas City Royals.
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