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Somehow, Shohei Ohtani is still capable of surprising us. The most uniquely gifted player in the history of baseball achieved ...

There were four-plus weeks of NFL football between the start of Arraez's streak and the end. The last games from Week 1 of ...

Many of our greatest baseball players never won a World Series. Ted Williams never won one. Neither did Ken Griffey Jr., Ty ...

What Luis Arraez is doing should be impossible in baseball today. He has now gone over a full calendar month without striking ...

Yu Darvish had his best outing since being sidelined for more than three months, and rookie Jackson Merrill and Jurickson ...

Rookie Kyle Manzardo hit a two-run, go-ahead homer in the eighth inning and Emmanuel Clase recorded his 46th save as the ...

It tied Padres Hall of Famer Tony Gwynn for the fifth-longest streak in the last 40 seasons ... who added that Arraez told him before his at-bat in the seventh, “`I can hit.'” Darvish (6-3) allowed ...

In the 2020s, .300 is starting to feel like the new .400. Why are batting averages going down across baseball and is there ...

Luis Arraez will continue his pursuit of one of the legendary Tony Gwynn's team records when the San Diego Padres ... getting ...

Luis Arraez has now gone 135 consecutive plate appearances without recording a single strikeout, placing the Padres All-Star ...

Pink and Sheryl Crow head the lineup for Wednesday’s Petco Park concert. Here’s everything you should know before you go to ...