Club loses Joe Musgrove to elbow tightness, holds on for tense 5-4 win over visiting Atlanta
In ways both exhilarating and worrisome, Wednesday night’s 5-4 victory that swept the Braves from the National League wild-card series, was emblematic of how the Padres have operated all season.
For the third time in five years, the Padres will play the Dodgers in the National League Division Series, this one beginning Saturday in Los Angeles. Musgrove had retired nine consecutive batters when, after throwing a 2-1 curveball to Matt Olson, catcher Kyle Higashioka immediately walked toward the mound with pitching coach Ruben Niebla starting from the dugout seconds later. Athletic trainer Ben Fraser and manager Mike Shildt followed.
Jeremiah Estrada began the sixth and allowed a single with one out and another with two. He departed with two outs and runners at the corners and left-handed batter Olson due up. What the Padres did to win Wednesday might have been surprising if they had not done something like it a fair amount over the past six months.On Wednesday, they failed to score in the first inning after having the bases loaded with no outs.In successive at-bats in the first inning, Manny Machado struck out and Jackson Merrill grounded into a fielder’s choice on a first-pitch sweeper that was barely above the ground.
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