Manny Machado believes his teammates acquired at the trade deadline deserve credit for contributing to the San Diego Padres' climb up the NL West standings.

Dylan Cease had a terrible outing, walking 6 in a loss to the Dodgers that dropped the Padres out of 1st place in the National League West.

After the dust settled, Bob Nightengale of USA Today shared that Padres' third baseman Manny Machado cracked a joke with reporters about the Padres' aggressive trade deadline shopping spree. "Welcome to the San Diego Padres deadline," Machado said. "I'm never shocked about anything we do at the deadline, let's be honest."

Manny Machado almost pulled a fast one on the Boston Red Sox on Saturday night. In the third inning, the San Diego Padres third baseman attempted the hidden ball trick on Jarren Duran at third base, but because pitcher Wandy Peralta was standing on the rubber without the ball,

On the day of the trade deadline, he filled the team’s holes in left field (Ramón Laureano) and behind the plate (Freddy Fermin), added an extra bat (Ryan O’Hearn) and two starting pitchers (Nestor Cortes and JP Sears) and deepened what was by some measures already MLB’s best bullpen by adding an extra closer (Mason Miller).

At the outset of play July 4, the San Diego Padres were coming off a 2-4 trip through Cincinnati and Philadelphia and trailed the Los Angeles Dodgers by nine games in the NL West.

Manny Machado reacts quickly to a passed ball and scampers home, putting the Padres up 7-0 in the top of the 2nd inning

Both were thrown out trying to steal during the ensuing at-bats by catcher Will Smith. The first might have cost the Padres a run as Luis Arraez followed with a ground rule double. Manny Machado followed with a walk, and he too was thrown out trying to take second on the back end of a double steal.

The benches cleared in a Cardinals-Padres game for the second straight night Saturday as St. Louis’ Willson Contreras and San Diego’s Manny Machado each got hit twice by pitches