Padres Notes: The Bats are Back, Hader Wants to Stay, Padres Make a Splash

The Padres won their first game after the All-Star break.

The Padres started the second half of the season with a bang, defeating the Phillies 8-3 Friday night. Fernando Tatis Jr., Juan Soto, Manny Machado and Gary Sanchez all homered and the Padres bats looked hot with 11 total hits.

In other news, the Padres made a deal for outfielder Ben Gamel of the Tampa Bay Rays, Josh Hader spoke to the media on the prospect of being traded at the deadline, and recently-released Jake Marisnick signed with the Dodgers.

Here is your required reading after the first day of games after the All-Star break.

Exec Avoids Blaming Any One Player for Friar's First Half Struggles

Josh Hader Hopes to Avoid Being Traded This Deadline

Former Padres Outfielder Inks Major League Deal with LA Dodgers

Juan Soto Feels Friars Already Have Everything They Need to Win the World Series

Friars Swing Trade with Rays for Veteran Outfielder

Padres vs. Phillies: 7 Facts to Know About the First Series Out of the All-Star Break

Our Favorite Padres Tweets Today

I think even Tati was impressed with how far that went 😂#padres pic.twitter.com/7FgnehMnIl

— Allison Edmonds (@aedmondstv) July 14, 2023

Picking up where we left off! #PadresWin | #BringTheGold pic.twitter.com/Ef2iUplGt0

— San Diego Padres (@Padres) July 15, 2023

Juan Soto hits the fourth home run of the night for the Padres! pic.twitter.com/btFc8rxLQz

— Talkin’ Baseball (@TalkinBaseball_) July 15, 2023