Xander Bogaerts has amassed more than 6,600 plate appearances en route to collecting five Silver Slugger awards. Along the way, the 32-year-old shortstop has noticed something about the hottest ...

After staking claim atop the MLB mountain with first-place league bragging rights, the San Diego Padres have stumbled down a six-game skid.

For the first time this season, the Padres are scuffling. They've lost three straight series, including their first home ...

Rookie Chandler Simpson raced home to score the go-ahead run on a wild pitch in the fifth inning and had his first three-hit ...

The series finale on Sunday between the visiting Tampa Bay Rays and San Diego Padres could be seen by a true cynic as a movable force against a resistible object.

Chandler Simpson knew Manny Machado put his barrel on the ball to lead off the bottom of the seventh inning. He knew the ball ...

The Rays lost five of six before heading west, then dropped the opener at Arizona to fall a season-high five games under .500 ...

Ryan Pepiot allowed just 3 hits in 6 innings and Brandon Lowe homered for the Rays in their 4-1 victory at the Padres.

The National League West was expected to challenge the Arizona Diamondbacks. The early indications are that it might be even ...

Jared Diamond is a sports reporter for The Wall Street Journal based in New York. He joined the Journal's sports department ...

Los Angeles Dodgers outfielder Teoscar Hernandez said that the team to watch out for in MLB is their NL West rival San Diego ...