With the trade deadline and an off day looming on Thursday, the Mets gave an empty effort and were swept by the Padres at Petco Park.

Now Yu did it. The streaking Padres got another big lift Wednesday afternoon in their final game in July and the last full day before the MLB trade deadline. Yu Darvish, who had largely struggled through his first four starts of the season,

SAN DIEGO, Calif. — The New York Mets acquired a ground-ball reliever just as their ground-ball reliever-turned-starter took the mound for his Wednesday afternoon outing against the San Diego Padres at Petco Park. Maybe the solution to the bullpen was there all along.