Fernando Tatis Jr. will serve as the DH on Saturday against the Diamondbacks
With playoff odds as high as 57.5 percent at Baseball Prospectus and just under 35 percent at Fangraphs, the Padres have a long road ahead of them.The Padres added to Arizona’s misery on Friday, extending the Diamondbacks’ skid to nine games, and can leapfrog them in the NL wild-card race on Saturday .Both teams would have identical 57-60 records with the Padres’ head-to-head record against Arizona — 5-2 and counting — awarding them the tiebreaker.
That would still leave four teams ahead of them in the race for the NL’s wild-card spot, but it’s a start.will serve as the DH on Saturday, his first time not in right field since July 19 in Toronto.Tatis went 3-for-5 with an RBI double and two strikeouts on Friday, but he is hitting .185/.235/.324 since the All-Star break., José Azocar will start in right field and bat eighth in his first start since he was recalled from Triple-A El Paso this week.
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