The Padres de San Diego would love to finish the regular season with a blow and stay at home to open the national league playoffs. The Arizona Diamondbacks would love a chance to play in the playoffs.
Neither of the two teams is good to do what she really wants, but for one to succeed, it would be necessary to go through the other in the last series of the regular season, which begins Friday evening in San Diego.
The Padres (87-72) sit two games behind the Chicago Cubs (89-70) for an advantage on the Channel of the Joker with three games to play. The teams are guaranteed to cope in a series of three best, which will start on Tuesday.
Chicago launched a rescue line in San Diego by losing 8-5 against New York Mets on Thursday, but Cubs should lose at least twice this weekend when they welcome the Cardinals of St. Louis so that San Diego has the chance to stay at home for the Wild-Card series.
Meanwhile, Arizona (80-79) lost 8-0 against Los Angeles Dodgers on Thursday, falling two behind the food (82-77) for the final Wild Card NL with three games to play. The Diamondbacks also drag the Cincinnati Reds (81-78) of a match.
Arizona has the equality break against New York, but the Reds have the edge of the equality on the diamondbacks.
“Padres are a good team,” said Arizona manager Torey Lovullo after Thursday’s defeat. “I could sit here and tell you that we have to go out and sweep them away. We do it. This is the mentality. We have to win every match we can. There are three of us.”
In the first, the Diamondbacks will go with Zac Gallen (13-14, 4.70 ERA). He won a 4-3 victory on Saturday evening against the Philadelphia Phillies who saw him a nine-sleeved fan in more than seven heats, granting four strokes, three points and two steps. He has a 4-1 file with a 2.56 MPM in his last five outings.
Gallen has a 5-3 file with an MPM of 3.12 in 14 career starts against San Diego, including 1-0 with an MPM of 2.92 in two departures this year.
The DiamondBacks won seven games out of nine before a defeat of 5-4 and 11 rounds against the Dodgers on Wednesday, then the reverse Thursday put them to the elimination.
“We supported ourselves in a corner,” said Lovullo. “We know where we are.”
The same goes for the Padres, who had the chance to make things more difficult on the cubs but fell 3-1 against the Brewers of Milwaukee in the final of the series on Wednesday. In addition to defeat, San Diego suffered a loss when Ramon Laureano voltiseur, a clever Baltimore addition to the negotiation deadline, underwent a straight index fractured during the second round.
Manager Mike Shildt confirmed after the match that Laureano left the Joker at least, at least. The team fears that Laureano, who has taken 24 circuits between the Orioles and the Padres this year, could not return before 2026.
“This is one of these seasons that we have rarely had our whole programming in one piece,” said Shildt. “So we are used to it, and we understood it, and we went so far, and we will go much further with.”
Yu Darvish (4-5, 5.51 ERA) will start San Diego on Friday. The right -hander has just managed against the White Sox of Chicago on Saturday, when he authorized six strokes and two points in 4 2/3 rounds without walking and four withdrawals in the stick.
Darvish has a 9-5 file with an MPM of 3.78 in 21 career starts against the Diamondbacks. In two outings against Arizona this year, it is 0-1 with an MPM of 5.87.
The teams divided 10 meetings this season, including a split in the 2-2 series in San Diego in July.
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