Giants vs. Padres on Apple TV: How to Watch, Deadline Buzz

Luis Arraez leads off for the Giants on Friday night at Petco Park. It may be the last time he does it in that uniform.

San Francisco is 47-62 and openly selling, three days from the deadline. San Diego is 55-54 and cannot decide what it is. Apple TV has the game.

How to watch Giants vs. Padres

• Matchup: San Francisco Giants (47-62) at San Diego Padres (55-54)
• First pitch: 9:45 p.m. ET / 6:45 p.m. PT, Friday, July 31
• Venue: Petco Park, San Diego
• TV: Apple TV (national exclusive — no local broadcast)
• Padres radio: KWFN 97.3, XEMO 860
• Giants radio: KNBR 680, KSFN 1510 AM
• Giants starter: Carson Whisenhunt, LHP (2-1, 4.60)
• Padres opener: Bradgley Rodriguez, RHP (2-2, 2.33, 47 K)

Apple TV’s Friday games are national exclusives, so there is no NBC Sports Bay Area and no Padres.TV. You need the Apple TV app, available on smart TVs, Roku, Fire TV, iPhone, iPad, Mac and at tv.apple.com.

This is game two of four. San Francisco took Thursday’s opener 4-1 behind Robbie Ray, in what was almost certainly his final appearance as a Giant.

The Giants are selling, and Arraez is the piece

San Francisco is all but certain to move Arraez, Ray and Tyler Mahle before Monday, all three impending free agents. Reliever JT Brubaker is available if anyone bites.

Arraez is the prize. He is hitting .328 with a 4.4 percent strikeout rate — the lowest among regulars in baseball, a number that stopped existing decades ago — with 10 steals in 10 attempts and an .811 OPS. He has been traded at a deadline before. He may be tonight’s leadoff hitter and next week’s somebody else.

Ray is complicated by money: roughly $8 million left on a $25 million salary, dropping to about $7.4 million after Monday. Jeff Passan reported the Giants have told teams they will eat some of it. Ray has a 3.16 ERA over 116.2 innings and a 1.67 mark across his last nine outings, though his strikeout and whiff rates are the lowest in a decade.

Passan also reported the Giants expect to keep Jung Hoo Lee, who is signed for three more years at $63 million with an opt-out after 2027, but could listen on Heliot Ramos.

The Bader situation

The Giants announced Friday evening they are suspending payments to Harrison Bader after he reinjured his left foot in a scooter accident over the weekend.

“Over the weekend, Harrison Bader was involved in an accident that has delayed Harrison’s prior treatment timeline for plantar fasciitis and, unfortunately, his return to the field,” president of baseball operations Buster Posey said in a release. “We are still investigating the circumstances of the accident, but will be suspending payment to Harrison until he is able to resume performing services for the club.”

Bader had been on the injured list since late May, and manager Tony Vitello had already ruled him out for the season. He is in year one of a two-year, $20.5 million deal and hit .170 in 30 games. Neither Bader nor the MLB Players Association had commented as of Friday night. Grant McCray, who starts in center tonight, has been platooning there with Drew Gilbert — the outfielder pictured above alongside Bader in May.

San Diego cannot decide what it is

The Padres are one game over .500 with 53 to play and 20.6 percent postseason odds per Baseball Reference — fifth in line for three National League wild cards, behind Arizona at 54.7 percent, Philadelphia at 41.0, Washington at 26.7 and Pittsburgh at 22.2. Their projection is 81-81.

A.J. Preller has never been a seller by temperament, and the roster is close enough that tearing down looks premature. But the farm system is empty — Baseball America, FanGraphs, MLB Pipeline and ESPN have all ranked it last in baseball — which leaves the major league bullpen as the only real trade currency.

That bullpen is the best asset in the building. Mason Miller has a 0.79 ERA over 45.2 innings with 85 strikeouts, a 49.4 percent strikeout rate, and opponents hitting .136 against him. The only extra-base hit he has allowed all season was a double on July 17. He is making $4 million and controlled for three more years.

Multiple reports Friday indicated a trade is unlikely at Preller’s asking price. Passan said Preller wants essentially every prospect in an interested club’s system in play. Alden Gonzalez reported teams would be shocked to see Miller move. Jim Bowden compared the ask to the Juan Soto return. Milwaukee has shown interest, but that would reportedly require Jesus Made, the No. 1 prospect in baseball.

Adrián Morejón is more gettable and still expensive — Passan reported the Padres want multiple top-10 prospects. Morejón has a 2.64 ERA over 194.2 innings since 2024, with a sinker that has climbed above 99 mph this year.

Baseball without borders

Miller is not only the best reliever in baseball. He is a World Baseball Classic arm, one of the pitchers the United States leaned on in March.

He is not the only one on this field with a flag behind him. Jung Hoo Lee bats fifth for the Giants tonight, and no player on either roster carries a better story.

Lee was born in Nagoya, Japan, in 1998, while his father Lee Jong-beom was playing for the Chunichi Dragons. Jong-beom was a KBO legend known as the Son of the Wind, which made his boy the Grandson of the Wind. The father initially resisted his son playing baseball at all and relented only on the condition that he hit left-handed despite being naturally right-handed. That quirk led Lee to Ichiro Suzuki — the same right-throw, left-hit profile — and to No. 51, which he still wears. Last season he tied Ichiro’s record for triples by an Asian player in a single season.

Lee captained South Korea at the 2026 World Baseball Classic and took them to the quarterfinals for the first time in 17 years. He won KBO Rookie of the Year in 2017, KBO MVP in 2022, and five straight Golden Gloves.

The rest of the card travels too. Arraez was born in San Felipe, Venezuela. Rafael Devers, of Sanchez in the Dominican Republic, hits cleanup. San Diego counters with Fernando Tatis Jr. of San Pedro de Macorís, Luis Rengifo of Venezuela, and Xander Bogaerts, the Aruban, at shortstop, with Yuki Matsui and Morejón in a bullpen spanning Japan, Cuba and Venezuela.

Petco itself has leaned into it this summer.

Stats to know

• Tatis Jr.: .285/.353/.401, eight home runs, 49 RBI, 25 steals in 36 attempts
• Manny Machado: .214/.298/.435, 23 home runs (13th in MLB), 64 RBI
• Arraez: .328/.364/.447, 10 steals in 10 attempts, 4.4 percent strikeout rate
• Lee: .302/.338/.436, six home runs, 40 RBI, six steals in six attempts

Whisenhunt has been up and down between Sacramento and San Francisco all season and was recalled on July 26. Rodriguez, controlled through 2031, has been one of the quieter reasons San Diego’s bullpen ranks among the top six in baseball by ERA.