Quote from brent wolff on October 1, 2025, 4:44 pm

We got the good Dylan Cease today, and we needed it.  Need a great effort by Yu tomorrow.  I believe he will be on a short lease with King being ready to provide bulk if necessary.

Taillon is at least a RHP, allowing the 3 lefties (O'Hearn, Sheets & Croney) to start again.

Can Morejon and Miller go a 3rd day in a row?  All hands have to be on deck in a win or go home game.  Go Pads!  Beat the Cubbies!

Quote from MrPadre19 on October 1, 2025, 6:05 pm

If King pitches tomorrow who starts Saturday?

Vasquez?

Yes I know we have to win tomorrow first….but if King pitches at all he isn’t starting Game 1 of the Division Series against the Brewers.

So it’s Vasquez or Pivetta on 3 days rest.

 

 

Quote from fenn68 on October 1, 2025, 6:53 pm

Doubt the use King tomorrow unless the game situation makes that the last /  best option. Likely will not see either Morejon or Miller ... again unless a special situation and maybe for only one hitter. Both pitched back to back days and threw a lot of "stress pitches". Not sure even if they would be effective again after that workload.

Darvish - Vasquez - Morgan - Rodriguez - Peralta - Estrada - Suarez?

Best plan is to score a lot of runs and not make it close.

Quote from ultratvfan on October 1, 2025, 9:52 pm

Dodgers beat Reds and advance.

 

Quote from Jeremy Hill on October 1, 2025, 10:15 pm

This is what they've been trying to have Darvish ready for. I saw some comments he made at the end of the regular season that basically said that there would be no more holding back in the playoffs. He's going to go all out and hope his arm holds up. Hopefully that translates into a strong effort tomorrow. It's win or go home. That should mean it's all hands on deck and normal workload concerns do not apply. You can worry about game 1 after you win game 3. I expect Miller and Morejon to be available and King to be ready too.

Quote from Randy Manese on October 1, 2025, 11:13 pm

They'll be no one as mentally prepared for this game than Darvish; hopefully, Yu can execute as well as he is prepared.  Just give him a couple of runs early and we can play October baseball in San Diego.

 

GO PADRES!

Quote from brent wolff on October 2, 2025, 7:00 am

Interesting statistical tidbits from Acee today:

• Machado’s home run was his eighth in the postseason with the Padres, extending his franchise record. Tatis is second with six.
• Machado’s 15 postseason RBIs are also most in Padres postseason history.
• Morejón’s nine postseason appearances are third most in team history behind Suarez (11) and Trevor Hoffman (12).
• Morejón might never make a better play than this kick save in the sixth inning. And in case you were wondering, he said, “I had no intention to have the result the way that it did.”
• Tatis, whose 12 steals of third base this season were one fewer than major league leader Jose Caballero, became the third player in Padres history to steal third in the postseason. The others were Tommy Pham (2020) and Tony Gwynn 1996).  I would have never guessed Pham had done this, if I was trying to ask this as a trivia question.

Go Pads, beat the Cubbies!

Quote from MrPadre19 on October 2, 2025, 7:21 am

And that 104 MPH called strike on the paint may be the best pitch in MLB Post Season history.

No one has ever thrown one harder and it's not possible to place it any better so it pretty much has to be.

Imagine if we have a 1 run lead in the 7th or 8th and the Cubs get a couple guys on and Miller "does" come back in and strikes out the side....again....after what he's done the last two games.

Would be a Post Season memory for the ages.

That being said....we need to score early and score often to rest those guys!

 

Quote from brent wolff on October 2, 2025, 9:16 am

For the year, Pads and Cubs are 4-4 and the total runs scored differential is +1 for the Pads.  I'm expecting another low scoring battle today.  Cubs are 2-7 at Wrigley in their last 9 playoff games.

With RISP (at bats with runners in scoring position), the Pads are 3-18 in the series, while the Cubs are 0-6.

In this newer era of playoff (tournament) baseball, starting pitchers are now covering less than 50% of the innings (48.something percent).

For the 2025 season, the Pads have one of the lowest slugging percentage vs. breaking pitches, only .322.  Of course, Manny hit a breaking pitch/splitter for a homer in Game 2.

Welcome to the new normal in playoff (tournament) baseball.  It is crazy and so stressful now.  It keeps us fans on the edge of our seats.

Go Pads!  Beat the Cubbies!