The San Diego Padres are a Major League Baseball team based in San Diego, California. Founded in 1969, the Padres have won two NL pennants and reached the World Series twice, but lost both times. The team’s name, Spanish for ‘fathers’, refers to the Spanish Franciscan friars who founded San Diego in 1769. As of 2020, they have had 15 winning seasons in franchise history. On August 20, 2020, the team became the first team in MLB history to hit a grand slam in four consecutive games, in their August 17 to August 20 series against the Texas Rangers.
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The San Diego Padres are a Major League Baseball team based in San Diego, California. Founded in 1969, the Padres have won two NL pennants and reached the World Series twice, but lost both times. The Padres are the only MLB team which does not share its market with another franchise in the four major American professional sports leagues. The team’s name, Spanish for ‘fathers’, refers to the Spanish Franciscan friars who founded San Diego in 1769. As of 2020, they have had 15 winning seasons in franchise history. On August 20, 2020, the team became the first team in MLB history to hit a grand slam in four consecutive games, in their August 17 to August 20 series against the Texas Rangers. They are also the only franchise in MLB not to have a no-hitter, having gone 8,020 games without throwing one, a major league record. They have played their spring training games at the Peoria Sports Complex in Peoria, Arizona since 1994. They moved into their current stadium, Petco Park, in 2004. Their first logo in 1969 featured a Padres on the top while standing in a sun-like figure with San Diego on the exterior of it. Brown and gold were the Padres’ first uniforms for the home uniforms and a tan base for the road uniforms. Although the \”Swinging Friar\” is no longer the primary logo, it remains as the primary mascot of the team and is now utilized as an alternate alternate logo on the sleeve and on the alternate uniform. Their uniform combinations have depicted multiple logos, and color combinations have been depicted on the home and away uniforms.
They play in the National League West division of the MLB, which they joined in 1969. They share the stadium with the Seattle Mariners. The move from Yuma to Peoria was very controversial, but was defended by the team as a reflection on the low quality of facilities in Yuma and the long travel necessary to play against other spring training teams. The Athletics were originally from Philadelphia, and the Dodgers and Giants are originally from two New York City boroughs—Brooklyn and Manhattan, respectively. The San Diego Chargers moved to Los Angeles in 2017, and the Padres are one of two MLB teams in California to originate from the state; the other is the Oakland Athletics. The Oakland Athletics do not share their market with other teams based in the San Francisco Bay Area, though Oakland does share its Market Area with the Oakland Raiders and the Oakland A’s of Las Vegas, Nevada. The Padres’ main draw during the 1980s and 1990s was Tony Gwynn, who won eight league batting titles. They finished in last place in each of its first six seasons in the NL West, losing 100 games or more four times. Their fortunes gradually improved as they won five National LeagueWest titles and reach the World series twice, in 1984 and in 1998, butlost both times, but never won the title. They lost in the WorldSeries both years.
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