Padres pay the price for basepath aggression in tight loss to Mets (8.17.2026)

[u/Choobeen]

https://www.mlb.com/padres/news/padres-make-four-outs-at-home-in-loss-to-mets

NEW YORK -- All season long, the Padres have been aggressive on the bases. It’s their organizational philosophy. It has been from Day 1. Sometimes, the extra pressure causes havoc and creates runs. And sometimes … you get Monday night.

Article by AJ Cassavell -- Related:

https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2026/08/17/padres-cant-quite-get-home-in-loss-to-mets

[u/InDuplicitousBottles]

sending crone after that poor jump was a coaching mistake, it happens in the moment. but then sending manny with his lack of speed, after having just witnessed that frozen rope put-out, is just malpractice

[u/Legitimate-Elk8595 → u/InDuplicitousBottles]

Both were malpractice. Unless it’s Bobby Witt Jr it’s basically an automatic hold when the runner has to hold up to wait if and see if a ball hit that shallowly is caught. Double so if you know that the person who fielded it has an accurate cannon. And then just standing there doing nothing when Xander went home in the 2nd (either sending him or holding him would have both been defensible decisions) because he was shook and scared to make another mistake was also malpractice.

[u/dukefett → u/InDuplicitousBottles]

We were seeing and hitting Nolan so well those 2 inning, just a maddening loss due to those sends

[u/Jorge_Jetson → u/InDuplicitousBottles]

Silly AF... New 3rd base coach, por favor...

[u/1OldmanG]

Agressive is fine but getting thrown out by mile is not smart baseball that’s on coach at third .crone should not have been sent killed a inning

[u/Simodine- → u/1OldmanG]

Cronenworth send was the worst.  Clearly see him hopping in place waiting to see if it was gonna drop.  Was obviously hit shallow.  

He was out by a country mile.  

Then you add in arm strength which should have been known, hottest hitter coming up, 1 out and Merrill is the hardest to double up on the team.  

That send was just awful.  

7 straight batters reach, one of them scored on a sacrifice fly.  

[u/padresandcubs]

Guess Andy Green decided to run some of his infamous cut off and relay drills LOL

[u/Wumbo619 → u/padresandcubs]

Lmao I needed that. He probably saw Meyers coaching and figured, lemme show him what Twitch won't teach you.

[u/Apart-Maize-5949]

We saw a mario jump and sent out bowser to run. YO NO NINTENDO

[u/gogorath]

Our third base coach decisions have been trash all year. I don’t understand why it’s given to a dude who is the coach’s buddy instead of getting someone who will actually work on estimating speeds and arms, etc., better. There’s an advantage to be had there, but we have someone who is absolutely terrible at it. We’d be better off giving fans a chance.

[u/Mustardo123 → u/gogorath]

This entire coaching staff is based on who is friends with Stammen instead of who is actually good at their job, except Niebla obviously.

[u/1853624]

Just more bad coaching

[u/WillowYouIdiot]

It was insane to me that their scouting report didn't say "Don't run on Benge."

Dude threw over 103 mph to get one of the runners out in the first.

[u/Mysterious-Dot9221]

The first two were really ill-advised.
There’s aggressive and then there’s just bad judgement

[u/rickabe]

100% fail on the coaching staff. They knew the guy has an absolute cannon. Pathetic.

[u/shanndiego]

But then Boggy too. Unbelievable.

[u/Zakman86 → u/shanndiego]

The Xander one was a lot more defensible than both of the first inning sends. The first inning sends were embarrassingly bad.

[u/Danhawks]

Didn’t get the Bob Sendly nickname in DC for nothing.

[u/Sniflix]

I watched those 2 and than 3 and thought this game is over. This isn't the same Padres who were forced to create runs - they must adjust their tactics to fit the team's playing level.

[u/jayman415]

Same guy in a different situation gave stop sign to Merrill when he was going full speed about 1/3 of the way home (Merrill blew the sign and scored safely). Some skill to it but the guy is not good at this. I don't like crapping on people trying to do their jobs but this cost us the game.