SAN DIEGO -- The Padres 1984 World Series team never did it. Neither did the 1998 team.
The 2025 Padres continued their torrid start, improving to a league-leading 13-3 record following their 6-0 win over the Colorado Rockies. It was their franchise-best 14th straight win at home dating back to 2024, their 10th home win of 2025 and MLB-best sixth shutout of the season.
Michael King threw a complete game two-hit shutout, striking out eight and became the third straight Padres starting pitcher to shut out the woeful Colorado Rockies. It was the first complete game of King's career and his first career-decision versus Colorado.
"We had a good game plan going in and executed it," said King. "It felt good. I told Diaz today the goal was no walks so I didn't achieve my goal today."
"Obviously a win's a win. It's a lot easier when you get out to a four- run lead in the first inning and then you can really attack the zone and go from there. I think complete games happen when offense gets out early and now I don't have to worry about keeping it a tight game, I can just attack the zone."
"You can't be much better than that," said manager Mike Shildt. "Top of the line, grade A, ace stuff. In command the whole way, not a stress inning. Not even a deeper inning from a pitch count standpoint, pretty disperse. He was fantastic, fastball life, throwing where he wanted, sweeper was good, changeup was ridiculous. It was fantastic, it's a heck of an accomplishment, a complete game shutout win in the big leagues."
On this sun-splashed Sunday, it didn't require the homerun theatrics of Fernando Tatís to jump start the Friars' offense, rather it was the unlikely trio of late minor-league free agent signings that provided all the spark the Padres would need.
Oscar Gonzalez, whom the Padres recalled last week to replace the injured Jackson Merrill, drove in the first run of the game in the first inning, Yuli Gurriel added an RBI single and then Jose Iglesias, capped off a four-run inning with a two-run double.
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The Padres grit squad, indeed. And they're being tested early and often after outfielder Brandon Lockridge exited the game in the seventh inning while trying to beat out a double play. Shildt said Lockridge, who has replaced Jackson Merrill in center field as he recovers from a hamstring injury, suffered a low-grade hamstring injury.
"Any time you deal with a hamstring, we'll see how he recovers," Shildt said. "Those things typically take a little bit of time but at least preliminarily, there's concern that something clearly happened but low grade to right now and the best case scenario."
Notable: Dylan Cease starts Monday versus the Chicago Cubs, his first start since allowing a career-high nine runs versus the Sacramento A's...Jose Iglesias has hit safely in five of the seven games he's started and has two multi-hit and RBI games...Padres had their eighth sellout of the season.