Padres Beat Cubs 4-1 to Sweep Wild Card Series, Advance to NLDS Towards Brewers

The San Diego Padres are transferring on to the National League Division Series. San Diego beat the Chicago Cubs 4-1 Wednesday evening in entrance of 47,513 at Petco Park to complete a two-game sweep of the best-of-three NL Wild Card Series.

The Padres acquired to Cubs starter Kevin Gausman within the second inning. Xander Bogaerts singled to proper to attain Ty France, and Ethan Salas adopted with a sacrifice fly to middle that introduced in Jackson Merrill. According to The Associated Press and NBC San Diego, Salas, 20, grew to become the youngest participant to catch a postseason sport in main league historical past.

Chicago’s solely run got here within the fourth. Seiya Suzuki singled, Ian Happ walked and Nico Hoerner singled to middle to attain Suzuki, which ended Nick Pivetta’s evening. Pivetta allowed one run on three hits over 3⅓ innings, with 4 strikeouts. Bradgley Rodriguez got here in, hit Carson Kelly with a pitch to load the bases after which acquired Dansby Swanson to fly out.

San Diego answered within the backside half. Bogaerts doubled off Gausman, who was changed by Daniel Palencia. With two outs, pinch-hitter Gavin Sheets hit a two-run homer to proper for a 4-1 lead. Gausman was charged with three runs on 5 hits in 3⅓ innings and took the loss.

Four Padres relievers allowed two hits over the ultimate 5⅔ innings. Rodriguez threw 1⅔ hitless innings for the win. In the eighth, Adrian Morejon turned Suzuki’s comebacker into an inning-ending double play. In the ninth, Hoerner doubled with one out to carry the tying run to the plate, however Mason Miller struck out Michael Conforto and acquired Kelly to floor out for his first profession postseason save.

The Cubs led the majors with 850 runs throughout the common season. In the sequence they scored one run on eight hits over 18 innings, after Michael King and the Padres shut them out 8-0 in Game 1 on Tuesday.

The Padres will open the best-of-five NLDS towards the Milwaukee Brewers at American Family Field. Game 1 is Saturday at 8:30 p.m. ET and Game 2 is Sunday at 4 p.m. ET. The sequence then strikes to Petco Park for Game 3 on Tuesday.