There sit the San Diego Padres, seven games below .500, fourthplace in the National League West, eight games behind thefirst-place Giants . A casual observer outsidethe Pacific time zone thinks, "Eh, they're playing out the string,"but the Padres think otherwise. They have to believe they can come back and win the West,because last year the Giants did it to them, and theirbelief must be stronger after they rode into San Francisco and beattwo All-Star pitchers.