The San Diego Padres misplaced one other sequence on Thursday, and supervisor Bob Melvin has seen sufficient.
Melvin referred to as out his crew publicly after Thursday’s 5-3 loss to the Minnesota Twins. The defeat dropped the Padres to 19-19, and marked their fourth loss within the final 5 video games.
“We gotta carry out higher is what we have now to do,” Melvin advised reporters. “Yeah, we hit some balls laborious as we speak, however we put method an excessive amount of stress on our pitching late within the sport. Now we have guys that may carry out higher, and we’re going to, however it’s time to give up simply speaking about it. It’s time to go on the market and do it. One other irritating sport for us. Underperforming.
“I don’t suppose there’s sufficient tenacity all through the course of the sport. We present indicators of it, we present spurts of it, we come out like we should always, after which we don’t maintain it for your complete sport. That’s the issue.”
When a supervisor is keen to be this blunt to the media, it’s a reasonably clear message to gamers. For Melvin, it’s definitely a justified one. The Padres spent massive within the offseason and anticipated to be World Collection contenders. To be 19-19 at this level is, as Melvin stated, main underperformance.
One might argue that some issues would possibly nonetheless be hanging over the crew from final season, whether or not they wish to admit it or not.
