The San Francisco Giants played one of their ugliest games of the year in a blowout loss to the San Diego Padres on Wednesday at Oracle Park.

Jose Iglesias hit a two-run homer in the second inning, Jackson Merrill connected in the eighth for insurance, and the San Diego Padres beat the struggling San Francisco Giants 5-1.

After being decimated by their in-state rivals 11-1, on Wednesday, are Bob Melvin and the Giants ready to start looking toward 2026?

Nick Pivetta allowed one run in 6 2/3 innings and Ramón Laureano had three of the Padres' 14 hits as San Diego completed a three-game sweep of the San Francisco Giants with an 11-1 rout.

Mired in a three-game losing skid and trailing by a trio of runs, the Giants just needed one hit, one player ,to create a spark against the Padres. Instead, as they have often done during a miserable post-All Star break stretch, the bats came up empty when it counted. Patrick Bailey and Heliot Ramos each popped up to end the threat.

Sheets has a .656 OPS against lefties this year, while O’Hearn has a .752 OPS against lefties that’s better than the lefties — Cronenworth (.733), Merrill (.667) and Arraez (.666) — in Tuesday’s lineup.

Los Angeles Dodgers third baseman Max Muncy spoke about the contrast in styles of play between his team and the San Diego Padres. “It’s just two contrasting sty