Padres have no margin for error, does schedule favor Padres or DBacks?

Darren, if it weren't for Luis Campusano, they would be buried right now in the wild card race.

And it might be, might be s- crazy to say buried when you're like two and a half games back, but there's no margin f- there's no margin for error, um, for these Padres.

He had the walk-off grand slam against the Yankees, and then even in a game where the Padres let off against Gerrit Cole of all people with three consecutive home runs, a feat that hasn't happened since 1987, it was Luis Campusano that ultimately delivered the game-winning home run.

Yesterday, the P- this Padres offense was absolutely flat against a terrible Nationals pitching staff, right? Every pitcher in, in the game had an ERA over five, but Luis Campusano delivers the game-winning hit in a broken bat single.

The Padres are nowhere [laughs] with-without Luis Campusano.

We are talking about something completely different.

You know, during that time I was, I was, um, I was looking over at my seatmate, you know, AJ Castivel on B.com, the Padres beat reporter, because he had the Royals, he had the Royals and the D-backs on his, on his iPad.

And almost simultaneously-

Yeah.

AJ's scoreboard watching

...

it, we're all scoreboard watching.

We are all-

Oh, yeah

... we are, we are all scoreboard watching, right? Because it was like the same time as Casey my- uh, whenever Ra- Randy Vasquez comes in the game allows what, you know, two runs to score.

Almost simultaneously, the D-backs are putting up three runs.

And so I looked at AJ, I'm like, "You know what? If the Padres lose this game, it's over.

They're, they're done." [laughs] I said that.

Yeah.

Now, maybe not.

Again, we've all talked about the, the, the final series in San Diego.

That's gonna be, that's gonna decide things.

But man, you can't get...

You cannot afford to lose any more behind the dive- the D-backs in the standings.

They're winning.