Padres Skid Hits Seven, a School Supplies Drive, and a Hard Look at Housing Assumptions
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The San Diego Padres dropped Game 2 to the Los Angeles Dodgers 4–3 Friday night at Dodger Stadium — now referred to by Angelenos as UNIQLO Field — extending their losing streak to seven consecutive games. The game turned in the seventh inning when Teoscar Hernández hit a go-ahead grand slam off reliever Adrián Morejón. Jackson Merrill had given San Diego a two-run lead with a two-out solo home run in the fourth, but the Padres could not hold it. They are now 43–44, sitting third in the NL West.
The injury news complicates Saturday's Game 3 further. Starter Randy Vásquez was placed on the 15-day injured list on July 3rd after a Mookie Betts comebacker struck him in the ankle in Game 1; Vásquez then fainted while walking to get an X-ray after the game and was rushed to the emergency room, though he was discharged Friday morning with tests coming back negative. Manager Craig Stammen described him as 'definitely quite sore, limping a bit' but noted 'positive signs for Randy today.' Triple-A El Paso pitcher Alek Jacob was called up for bullpen depth. Catcher Freddy Fermín was also placed on the 10-day injured list. Game 3 at 7:10 p.m. Pacific sends Griffin Canning (1–5, 7.09 ERA) against Yoshinobu Yamamoto (8–5, 2.67 ERA).
On the community front, the SDCOE Stuff the Bus campaign — the 12th annual collaboration between the San Diego County Office of Education and San Diego County Credit Union — is collecting school supplies for students experiencing homelessness through July 31st, with donation locations available countywide. The County Board of Education also recently adopted a resolution honoring Amin Abdullah, Nadir Awad, and Mansour Kaziha, the three men killed in the May 18th attack on the Islamic Center of San Diego, and formally condemning Islamophobia and anti-Muslim violence across county schools.
The record $1.1 million detached median also invites a stress-test of its own confident framing. The strongest counterargument: what appears to be market strength may partly reflect a liquidity trap in which transactions are increasingly concentrated among existing equity holders rather than new entrants. The 2022 benchmark for 'highest June sales' is a low bar — that was the year mortgage rates spiked from three to seven percent and sales collapsed. Elevated local unemployment, contracting professional and business services employment, and a 15-year-high multi-family vacancy rate all point toward a narrowing future buyer pool.
The concrete indicator to watch is the absorption rate — currently about 50 percent, with 709 closings against 1,415 homes on market. If that figure drops below 40 percent for two consecutive months, analysts suggest it would be the clearest leading signal that the record median reflects a locked-in market rather than organic expansion. That data is available monthly through the San Diego Association of Realtors.