{"id":25152,"date":"2025-06-29T18:35:16","date_gmt":"2025-06-29T18:35:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/25152\/"},"modified":"2025-06-29T18:35:16","modified_gmt":"2025-06-29T18:35:16","slug":"matt-waldron-to-start-for-padres-on-monday-against-phillies-san-diego-union-tribune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/25152\/","title":{"rendered":"Matt Waldron to start for Padres on Monday against Phillies \u2013 San Diego Union-Tribune"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CINCINNATI \u2014 Matt Waldron will make his 2025 debut at the site of one of his finest starts.<\/p>\n<p>The knuckleballer will join the Padres in Philadelphia and start Monday\u2019s game against the Phillies.<\/p>\n<p>Waldron, who last June 19 held the powerful Phillies to one run over seven innings to help the Padres avoid a sweep, has spent the entire season on the injured list after suffering a left oblique strain late in spring training.<\/p>\n<p>He takes the rotation spot of Ryan Bergert, who went on the 15-day injured list after being hit in the right (throwing) forearm by a 103 mph line drive.<\/p>\n<p>The 28-year-old Waldron had a 4.91 ERA in 27 starts last season, his second in the major leagues.<\/p>\n<p>His ERA was 3.64 through his first 21 starts in 2024, and the start in Philadelphia was part of a run of 14 starts in which he posted a 2.76 ERA.<\/p>\n<p>Originally Published: June 29, 2025 at 10:09 AM PDT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CINCINNATI \u2014 Matt Waldron will make his 2025 debut at the site of one of his finest starts.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":25153,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5134],"tags":[5229,1582,276,1370,1266,3549,1306,7264,62,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-25152","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-diego","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-california","11":"tag-latest-headlines","12":"tag-mlb","13":"tag-san-diego","14":"tag-san-diego-padres","15":"tag-sandiego","16":"tag-sports","17":"tag-united-states","18":"tag-united-states-of-america","19":"tag-unitedstates","20":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","21":"tag-us","22":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114768099610720140","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25152\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}