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One hundred games into a 162-game season, the San Diego Padres were 50-50. They were getting ready to burp away another year of the primes of Fernando Tatis Jr. and Manny Machado, not to mention the outlier season of Jurickson Profar’s career.
On Saturday night, they blanked Arizona 5-0 in Phoenix to improve to 43-18 since falling to .500 on a July evening in Cleveland. They did so with half the starting lineup taking a night off and a…
