The San Diego Padres are scrambling. They couldn’t have picked a worse time to do so. With their loss (and sweep) to the Tampa Bay Rays on Sunday, the club fell a half game outside of the final Wild Card spot, with the Arizona Diamondbacks having split their series against the San Francisco Giants. San Diego has lost five of their last six games in a truly disheartening slump.
It felt like Sunday was the nail in the coffin. The Friars were up 3-1 with Mason Miller pitching the ninth inning. Miller induced a deep fly ball into left field where Samad Taylor made the catch … until he didn’t. Taylor banged into the wall and dropped it over for a…
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