It’s loopy what a distinction 24 hours makes. Final evening we have been eager about how a lot of a must-win recreation tonight was going to be and now, some Padres followers are in all probability pondering ‘we’ve obtained this sequence’. And I don’t blame you for pondering that manner.
When you by some means missed it, the Padres smoked the Dodgers 10-2 tonight to degree the NLDS 1-1 because the sequence now shifts to Petco Park on Tuesday. Michael King, who went 7 shutout innings in Recreation 1 of the Wild Card Collection, begins Recreation 3 for the Friars with a recent bullpen and a offered out crowd behind him on Tuesday.
They’ll have a chance to ship the Dodgers house in 4 video games identical to they did of their final postseason matchup.
That is precisely what the Padres wished tonight (minus the embarrassing Dodger followers throwing stuff at their gamers).
They most significantly obtained the win
If it’s even attainable they’re even nearer as teammates after going via tonight
Their offense obtained going (and within the energy division)
Yu Darvish was phenomenal, which is big with Joe Musgrove out
The Dodgers and their followers poked the bear
As we’ve seen this 12 months, poking the bear hasn’t labored out nice for the opponent so hopefully that development continues the remainder of this sequence.
I can guarantee you the Padres received’t overlook about Shohei Ohtani throwing the bat in the direction of their dugout. Or Jack Flaherty cursing at Manny Machado. Or Dodger followers throwing baseballs at them.
“A hostile setting,” Mike Shildt mentioned postgame on tonight’s setting. “What I obtained out of it was a bunch of dudes that confirmed up in entrance of an enormous, hostile crowd with stuff being thrown at them and mentioned, ‘We’re going to speak with our play; we’re not going to again down; we’re going to raise our recreation; we’re going to be collectively; and we’re going to deal with enterprise.”
Handle enterprise is what they did. And extra enterprise is to be finished however issues have swung their manner because the sequence heads down the 5 to San Diego!
