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Series Preview: Miami Marlins vs San Diego Padres

By Matt Melton|
WASHINGTON, DC - JULY 21: Lewis Brinson #25, Starling Marte #6 and Adam Duvall #14 of the Miami Marlins celebrate after a 3-1 victory against the Washington Nationals at Nationals Park on July 21, 2021 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Greg Fiume/Getty Images)
WASHINGTON, DC - JULY 21: Lewis Brinson #25, Starling Marte #6 and Adam Duvall #14 of the Miami Marlins celebrate after a 3-1 victory against the Washington Nationals at Nationals Park on July 21, 2021 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Greg Fiume/Getty Images)

The Miami Marlins picked up a much-needed win Wednesday night in Washington to snap a four-game losing streak. After a 2-5 start to the second half of the 2021 MLB season, the Marlins now return home for a four-game weekend series against one of the best teams in the National League, the San Diego Padres.

The Padres are coming off a series in Atlanta where they only played two of four scheduled games (one PPD, one SUSP). San Diego sports an exact-.500 record on the road (23-23), and are the second-highest run scoring team in the NL at 473 total runs scored, along with a +96 run differential.

Miami Marlins (41-55, 5th in NL East) vs San Diego Padres (56-42, 3rd in NL West)

  • Thursday, July 22 – 7:10 pm ET – TBD vs TBD
  • Friday, July 23 – 7:10 pm ET – TBD vs TBD
  • Saturday, July 24 – 6:10 pm ET – TBD vs TBD
  • Sunday, July 25 – 1:10 pm ET – TBD vs TBD

While Miami is without multiple prominent players at the moment, the Marlins have gotten excellent production recently from shortstop Miguel Rojas. Going into Wednesday’s series-finale against the Nationals, Rojas entered play with an eight-game hitting streak, along with a .344/.364/.469 slash line during the month of July.

Meanwhile, the Padres have been an offensive juggernaut aside from one game since returning from the All-Star Break led by their superstar shortstop Fernando Tatis Jr and third baseman Manny Machado. Aside from those two however, one player to watch for is 2021 NL All-Star infielder Jake Cronenworth, who is second among Padres’ positional players in WAR at 4.0, as well as the team-leader in hits.

Miami is struggling and short-handed at the moment, and despite getting a much-needed win on Wednesday, that does not bode-well for the Fish with one of the best teams in baseball coming to town for four games. This will not be an easy series for the Marlins over the weekend, but Miami took three-of-four over a similarly-good Dodgers team earlier this month at home. Could they do it against the Padres as well?

Series Prediction: Padres 3-1

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