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It was as much the glove work of shortstop Dansby Swanson as Cubs pitching that turned back the Padres Tuesday mid-day in the first wildcard game at Wrigley Area.
Two times, in the second and 4th, Swanson made defensive treasures on Ryan O’Hearn to reject the Padres’ assigned player RBI singles that can have caused bigger innings in the Padres’ 3– 1 loss.
In the 2nd, it was a diving come by Swanson that denied O’Hearn a hit with Xander Bogaerts on 3rd adhering to a RBI double by the Padres’ shortstop that would have offered San Diego a 2– 0 lead. 2 innings later on, Swanson made a back-to-the-plate, over-the-head catch of an O’Hearn mistake to short center that robbed the Padres with runners at first-and-third with one out.
“That was possibly the play of the video game,” Padres’ manager Mike Shildt said throughout his postgame press conference. “I assumed it was mosting likely to fall in there, however Dansby obtained a wonderful drop and went out and made what ended up being the play of the game.”
PAD LITTLE BITS:
— Bogaerts was 2 -for- 4 Tuesday with an RBI double. In six video games considering that returning from the injured checklist, Bogaerts is 7 -for- 22 with 2 increases, a crowning achievement and 5 RBIs. Bogaerts had missed out on 23 games from Aug. 28 through Sept. 23 with a fractured bone in his foot.
— RHP Mason Miller started out the side in the 7th inning Tuesday after being called the National League’s Reducer of the Month for September. In 12 1/ 3 innings during the month over 11 appearances, Miller allowed no runs on 1 hit and 5 strolls with 26 strikeouts for a 0. 00 gained run average, a 0. 486 WHIP, a. 027 challengers’ batting standard (1 -for- 37 and a. 170 challengers’ OPS. He had a save and 5 holds and balanced 19 strikeouts per nine innings.
PADRES HISTORY:
Oct. 1, 1989– Tony Gwynn started the period finale. 001 behind the Giants Will Clark in the National Organization batting race. But Gwynn goes 3 -for- 4 to win the batting crown with a. 336 typical to Clark’s. 333 It is Gwynn’s 3rd straight batting title and 4th of his profession.
Oct. 1, 2007– Colorado’s Matt Holliday is ruled risk-free on a 13 th inning sacrifice fly by Jamey Carroll to offer the Rockies a 9– 8 come-from-behind triumph over the Padres at Coors Area in a championship game to determine the National Organization wildcard team. Replays revealed Holliday never touched home and needs to have been called out. But that was practically 20 years prior to replay. The game continues to be one of both most heart-wrenching losses in Padres’ history.