The San Diego Padres will host the Minnesota Twins starting on Tuesday with a night game and then ending the two game series with a day game on Wednesday.

The Padres enter the series with a record of 47-58 and the Twins are 50-53. The Padres won four in a row before before losing to Pittsburgh on Sunday while Minnesota got swept by Los Angeles and lost the series over the weekend in Oakland.

In Game One, Jose Berrios will pitch for the Twins and Jhoulys Chacin will go for the Padres. Berrios is 9-4 on the year with a 3.76 ERA. Chacin is 10-7 while posting a 4.22 ERA. Game One starts at 7:10 p.m.

In the getaway game on Wednesday afternoon, Ervin Santana and Luis Perdomo will pitch for Minnesota and San Diego respectively. Santana is 11-7 with a 3.37 ERA and Perdomo is 5-5 with a 4.76 ERA. Game Two starts at 12:40 p.m.

Let's start with the visiting Minnesota Twins. About a week and a half ago the Twins were buyers as they acquired Jaime Garcia from the Braves and Minnesota fans thought they would chase a wild card spot. Then, Minnesota gets swept by the Dodgers and loses the series to the Athletics while the Indians and Royals both had nine game winning streaks at one point. The Twins in a matter of ten days went from buyers to sellers as they traded away the newly acquired Jaime Garcia to New York and traded their former closer Brandon Kintzler to Washington.

Miguel Sano is one of the hotter hitters right now even though they are struggling. He leads the club in home runs with 24 and runs batted in with 70.

The hottest hitter though in the month of July is the part time shortstop, Adrianza. In July, he is 11-31 scoring four runs driving in six runs, and has a batting average of .355.

Minnesota expects to get back speedster Byron Buxton on Tuesday in San Diego with Zach Granite will probably go to the bench to be a late game pinch hitter.

Let's go over to the San Diego side. Even with the worse record, San Diego is doing better right now winning four in a row, winning the final two vs the Mets and the first two with the Pirates.

Many people believed that Brad Hand would get traded, but many also believed that the Padres may have been "reaching too far" for top tier prospects. That may have been the case because obviously Preller liked Dodgers' Alex Verdugo or the Yankees' Gleybar Torres. It was a bad and a good move at the same time because obviously they don't get prospects back, but at the same time they have their closer for at least a couple more seasons.

So, Andy Green rested Wil Myers on Saturday and Sunday with a team off day on Monday to clear his mind and get back at it on Tuesday. Even with the three days off in a row for Myers he leads the team in home runs with 20.

The hottest player by far right now is outfielder Manuel Margot. In the month of July, Margot is 27-87 with eight RBI's, four home runs, and has a .310 batting average. In fact he was the hottest player on the National League winning the NL Player of the Week yesterday.

San Diego just got back starting catcher Austin Hedges and infielder Yangervis Solarte who can play anywhere in the infield.

Tune in tonight and tomorrow afternoon for the interleague series between the Padres and the Twins.