SAN DIEGO (AP) — Kyle Hart earned his first big league win, Gavin Sheets had a pair of two-run doubles among his three hits and the San Diego Padres beat the Cleveland Guardians 7-2 Monday night to start 5-0 for the first time in their 57-season history.
The Padres' previous best start was 4-0 in 1984, when they went to their first World Series.
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San Diego Padres starting pitcher Kyle Hart (68) throws against a Cleveland Guardians batter in the first inning of a baseball game Monday, March 31, 2025, in San Diego. (AP Photo/Tony Ding)
San Diego Padres' Gavin Sheets (30) hits an RBI double in the second inning of a baseball game against the Cleveland Guardians, Monday, March 31, 2025, in San Diego. (AP Photo/Tony Ding)
Cleveland Guardians third baseman Jose Ramirez (11) celebrates his home run as he rounds third base in the first inning of a baseball game against the San Diego Padres, Monday, March 31, 2025, in San Diego. (AP Photo/Tony Ding)
San Diego Padres relief pitcher Wandy Peralta (58) fields to first for the final out and win in a baseball game against the Cleveland Guardians, Monday, March 31, 2025, in San Diego. (AP Photo/Tony Ding)
Cleveland Guardians relief pitcher Triston McKenzie (24) throws in the seventh inning of a baseball game against a San Diego Padres batter, Monday, March 31, 2025, in San Diego. (AP Photo/Tony Ding)
San Diego Padres relief pitcher Yuki Matsui (1) throws against a Cleveland Guardians batter in the seventh inning of a baseball game Monday, March 31, 2025, in San Diego. (AP Photo/Tony Ding)
Cleveland Guardians' Jose Ramirez runs toward third base in the sixth inning of a baseball game against the San Diego Padres, Monday, March 31, 2025, in San Diego. (AP Photo/Tony Ding)
San Diego Padres' Gavin Sheets, left, looks from the dugout after scoring in the fifth inning of a baseball game against the Cleveland Guardians, Monday, March 31, 2025, in San Diego. (AP Photo/Tony Ding)
San Diego Padres starting pitcher Kyle Hart (68) throws against a Cleveland Guardians batter in the first inning of a baseball game Monday, March 31, 2025, in San Diego. (AP Photo/Tony Ding)
Hart (1-0) returned to the big leagues five seasons after his only other stint, when he made four appearances and three starts for Boston during the pandemic-shortened 2020 season, going 0-1 with a 15.55 ERA. He spent 2024 with the NC Dinos, where he led the Korean Baseball Organization with 182 strikeouts and won the Choi Dong-won Award as its top starter.
The 32-year-old left-hander allowed two runs and five hits in five innings, including home runs by José Ramírez with one out in the first and Austin Hedges leading off the third. They were the first for both players. Hart struck out four and walked one.
The Padres roughed up Luis Ortiz (0-1) in his Guardians debut after he was obtained in an offseason trade with Pittsburgh. He allowed seven runs and nine hits in 4 2/3 innings.
Sheets hit a two-run double in both the four-run second and three-run fifth. Jason Heyward drove in runs with a sacrifice fly in the second and a double in the fifth.
Hart got his first big league strikeout in five seasons, fanning Guardians leadoff batter Steven Kwan on an 80-mph sweeper. Ramírez homered in the next at-bat, but Hart came back and struck out Lane Thomas.
Reigning NL batting champ Luis Arraez of the Padres snapped a season-opening, 0-for-16 slump with a single in the sixth, but was thrown out by right fielder Jhonkensy Noel trying to stretch it into a double.
Guardians LHP Logan Allen and Padres RHP Michael King are scheduled to start Tuesday.
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San Diego Padres starting pitcher Kyle Hart (68) throws against a Cleveland Guardians batter in the first inning of a baseball game Monday, March 31, 2025, in San Diego. (AP Photo/Tony Ding)
San Diego Padres' Gavin Sheets (30) hits an RBI double in the second inning of a baseball game against the Cleveland Guardians, Monday, March 31, 2025, in San Diego. (AP Photo/Tony Ding)
Cleveland Guardians third baseman Jose Ramirez (11) celebrates his home run as he rounds third base in the first inning of a baseball game against the San Diego Padres, Monday, March 31, 2025, in San Diego. (AP Photo/Tony Ding)
San Diego Padres relief pitcher Wandy Peralta (58) fields to first for the final out and win in a baseball game against the Cleveland Guardians, Monday, March 31, 2025, in San Diego. (AP Photo/Tony Ding)
Cleveland Guardians relief pitcher Triston McKenzie (24) throws in the seventh inning of a baseball game against a San Diego Padres batter, Monday, March 31, 2025, in San Diego. (AP Photo/Tony Ding)
San Diego Padres relief pitcher Yuki Matsui (1) throws against a Cleveland Guardians batter in the seventh inning of a baseball game Monday, March 31, 2025, in San Diego. (AP Photo/Tony Ding)
Cleveland Guardians' Jose Ramirez runs toward third base in the sixth inning of a baseball game against the San Diego Padres, Monday, March 31, 2025, in San Diego. (AP Photo/Tony Ding)
San Diego Padres' Gavin Sheets, left, looks from the dugout after scoring in the fifth inning of a baseball game against the Cleveland Guardians, Monday, March 31, 2025, in San Diego. (AP Photo/Tony Ding)
San Diego Padres starting pitcher Kyle Hart (68) throws against a Cleveland Guardians batter in the first inning of a baseball game Monday, March 31, 2025, in San Diego. (AP Photo/Tony Ding)
BANGKOK (AP) — Sweeping new tariffs announced Wednesday by U.S. President Donald Trump provoked dismay, threats of countermeasures and calls for further negotiations to make trade rules fairer.
But responses were measured, highlighting a lack of appetite among key trading partners for an outright trade war with the world's biggest economy.
Trump said the import taxes, ranging from 10% to 49%, would do to U.S. trading partners what they have long done to the U.S. He maintains they will draw factories and jobs back to the United States.
“Taxpayers have been ripped off for more than 50 years,” he said. “But it is not going to happen anymore.”
Trump's announcement of a new 20% tariff on the European Union drew a sharp rebuke from European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, who said it was a “major blow to the world economy.”
“The consequences will be dire for millions of people around the globe,” von der Leyen said. Groceries, transport and medicines will cost more, she said while visiting Uzbekistan, “And this is hurting, in particular, the most vulnerable citizens.”
Von der Leyen acknowledged that the world trading system has “serious deficiencies” and said the EU was ready to negotiate with the U.S. but also was prepared to respond with countermeasures.
British Prime Minister Kier Starmer said the U.K. government would react with “cool and calm heads.”
“Clearly, there will be an economic impact,” he said, telling business leaders in London that he hopes to get the tariffs lifted with a trade deal with Washington.
“Nobody wins in a trade war, that is not in our national interest,” Starmer said.
Japan, America's closest ally in Asia, plans to closely analyze the U.S. tariffs and their impact, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi said, while refraining from talk of retaliation. But he said the moves would have a big impact on relations with the U.S.
Italy’s conservative Premier Giorgia Meloni said the higher tariffs would benefit neither side.
“We will do everything we can to work towards an agreement with the United States, with the aim of avoiding a trade war that would inevitably weaken the West in favor of other global players,” Meloni said in a Facebook post.
Brazil, hit with a 10% tariff, said it was considering appealing to the World Trade Organization. Its congress unanimously passed a bill to allow retaliation for any tariffs on Brazilian goods.
Financial markets were jolted, with U.S. stock futures down by as much as 3% early Thursday and a 2.8% drop in Tokyo’s benchmark leading losses in Asia. Oil prices sank more than $2 a barrel.
“The magnitude of the rollout — both in scale and speed — wasn’t just aggressive; it was a full-throttle macro disruption,” Stephen Innes of SPI Asset Management said in a commentary.
While the longer-term ramifications could encompass a dismantling of supply chains built up over decades, a more immediate concern is the higher risk of recession.
“The (average) U.S. tariff rate on all imports is now around 22%, from 2.5% in 2024. That rate was last seen around 1910," Olu Sonola, Fitch Ratings’ head of U.S. Economic Research, said in a report.
"This is a game changer, not only for the U.S. economy but for the global economy. Many countries will likely end up in a recession. You can throw most forecasts out the door, if this tariff rate stays on for an extended period of time,” Sonola said.
The burden falls heaviest on Asia-Pacific nations, with the highest tariffs for impoverished, financially precarious countries like Laos at a 48% tariff, Cambodia at 49% and Myanmar at 44%.
Asian countries that are among the biggest exporters to the U.S. pledged to act fast to support automakers and other businesses likely to be affected.
South Korean Prime Minister Han Duck-soo told officials to work with business groups to analyze the impact of the new 25% tariff to “minimize damage,” the trade ministry said.
China's commerce ministry said Beijing would “resolutely take countermeasures to safeguard its own rights and interests,” without saying exactly what it might do. With earlier rounds of tariffs China reacted by imposing higher duties on U.S. exports of farm products, while limiting exports of minerals used for high-tech industries such as electric vehicles.
“China urges the United States to immediately cancel its unilateral tariff measures and properly resolve differences with its trading partners through equal dialogue,” it said.
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said she would wait to see how Trump’s announcement will affect Mexico, which like Canada was spared for goods already qualified under their free trade agreement with the United States, though previously announced 25% tariffs on auto imports took effect Thursday.
“It’s not a question of if you impose tariffs on me, I’m going to impose tariffs on you,” she said Wednesday morning. “Our interest is in strengthening the Mexican economy.”
Canada had imposed retaliatory tariffs in response to the 25% tariffs that Trump tied to the trafficking of fentanyl. The European Union, in response to the steel and aluminum tariffs, has imposed taxes on 26 billion euros’ worth ($28 billion) of U.S. goods, including bourbon, prompting Trump to threaten a 200% tariff on European alcohol.
Some countries took issue with the White House's calculations.
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said the tariffs were totally unwarranted, but Australia will not retaliate.
“President Trump referred to reciprocal tariffs. A reciprocal tariff would be zero, not 10%,” said Albanese. The U.S. and Australia have a free trade agreement and the U.S. has a $2-to-$1 trade surplus with Australia. “This is not the act of a friend.”
Trump said the United States bought $3 billion of Australian beef last year, but Australia would not accept U.S. beef imports. Albanese said the ban on raw U.S. beef was for biosecurity reasons.
A 29% tariff imposed on the tiny South Pacific outpost of Norfolk Island came as a shock. The Australian territory has a population of around 2,000 people and the economy revolves around tourism.
“To my knowledge, we do not export anything to the United States,” Norfolk Island Administrator George Plant, the Australian government’s representative on the island, told the AP Thursday. “We don’t charge tariffs on anything. I can’t think of any non-tariff barriers that would be in place either, so we’re scratching our heads here.”
“We don’t have a 20% tariff rate,” said New Zealand's Trade Minister Todd McClay. But he said New Zealand did not intend to retaliate. "That would put up prices on New Zealand consumers and it would be inflationary,” he said.
As Trump read the list of countries that would be targeted, he repeatedly said he didn’t blame them for the trade barriers they imposed to protect their own nations’ businesses. “But we’re doing the same thing right now,” he said.
“In the face of unrelenting economic warfare, the United States can no longer continue with a policy of unilateral economic surrender,” Trump said.
Speaking from a business forum in India, Chilean President Gabriel Boric warned that such measures challenge “principles that govern international trade.”
Colombian President Gustavo Petro, who has clashed with Trump before, said via X that the tariffs marked a milestone: “Today the neoliberalism that proclaimed free-trade policies all over the world has died.”
Analysts say there’s little to be gained from an all-out trade war, for the United States or other countries.
“If Trump really imposes high tariffs, Europe will have to respond, but the paradox is that the EU would be better off doing nothing,” said Matteo Villa, a senior analyst at Italy’s Institute for International Political Studies.
“On the other hand, Trump seems to understand only the language of force, and this indicates the need for a strong and immediate response,” Villa said. “Probably the hope, in Brussels, is that the response will be strong enough to induce Trump to negotiate and, soon, to backtrack.”
AP journalists around the world contributed to this story.
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President Donald Trump speaks during an event to announce new tariffs in the Rose Garden at the White House, Wednesday, April 2, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)
President Donald Trump speaks during an event to announce new tariffs in the Rose Garden of the White House, Wednesday, April 2, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
President Donald Trump holds a signed executive order during an event to announce new tariffs in the Rose Garden of the White House, Wednesday, April 2, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
President Donald Trump speaks during an event to announce new tariffs in the Rose Garden at the White House, Wednesday, April 2, 2025, in Washington, as Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick listens. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)
