Padres score in first inning for third time in four games, increase wild card lead to four games over Brewers
If this series is a playoff preview, the Cardinals are seeing a Padres team that might actually be ready.
It had seemed for some time that if the Padres qualified for the playoffs they were destined to play in St Louis in their opening series, as the Cardinals are on track to host the sixth seed in the wild card round. The Padres were again ready to go at the start, taking a 2-0 lead in the first inning for the third time in four games.
This is a change for the Padres, one that began after their 4-0 loss Thursday in Arizona. Among the things that came out of Friday’s team meeting and subsequent conversations following that loss was that they needed more urgency from the start of games. It was decided they would all make every effort to finish their pregame preparations and be on the field for the national anthem.
In the middle game of a three-game sweep in St. Louis, Wainwright threw seven scoreless innings against the Padres on May 31, with the since-traded Luke Voit getting the only two hits against him that day.Wainwright retired nine of the 10 batters had faced following Cronenworth’s RBI single, with Machado’s single in the third inning being all the interrupted the 41-year-old right-hander’s run.
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