Padres Lock In Home-Field Advantage for Wild Card Series Against the Cubs
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San Diego closed its regular season Sunday with a nine-to-four win over the Arizona Diamondbacks, finishing at ninety-one wins and seventy-one losses — good for second in the NL West and the number four seed in the National League playoff bracket. Austin Hays went two-for-four with two RBIs and two runs scored, Freddy Fermin contributed two hits including a double and drove in three, Gavin Sheets hit a solo home run, and Randy Vásquez delivered six innings of one-run ball on three hits.
The Padres' opponent in the best-of-three Wild Card Series is the number five Chicago Cubs, who finished eighty-nine and seventy-three. As the higher seed, San Diego hosts every potential game of the series at Petco Park. Game 1 is Tuesday, September 29, at seven p.m. PT, with Game 2 scheduled for Wednesday the thirtieth at the same time. A deciding Game 3, if necessary, would be played Thursday, October 1. Both Games 1 and 2 air on Peacock and NBCSN.
Should the Padres advance, they would open the National League Division Series in Milwaukee — making the next four to five days potentially among the most consequential in the franchise's recent history.