Irremovable space above category span

Hi there,
I’m in the final stages of putting together a custom theme for a Doctor Who podcast site, and there’s one thing I can’t figure out how to fix.

There is an empty space between the post excerpt and the Category/Tags (here bundled together as “Tagged”). I’ve made all margins and paddings 0px and they’re all within a padded div, but the category and tags are all showing up at the very bottom of the div (inside the padding). Weirdly, I made a static version of the design with the exact same CSS and it looks just fine there:

<b>The WordPress version:</b>
https://whobackwhen.com/

<b>The static version:</b>
https://www.lionloungemedia.com/web_projects/who/

Do the_category and the_tags add some sort of padding above, and if so how can I remove it? Or have I missed out something else?

Here’s what I’ve got in the WP version (pasting the whole section’s worth here, just in case):

[no need to post code here – it’s all visible on your site]

Any help would be hugely appreciated! Thanks in advance.