{"id":818042,"date":"2026-09-30T12:45:22","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T12:45:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/818042\/"},"modified":"2026-09-30T12:45:22","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T12:45:22","slug":"padres-owner-kwanza-jones-welcomes-bandwagon-fans-for-mlb-playoffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/818042\/","title":{"rendered":"Padres owner Kwanza Jones welcomes bandwagon fans for MLB Playoffs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Opening night of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebiglead.com\/category\/mlb\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">2026 MLB Playoffs<\/a> ended with one of baseball\u2019s hottest teams, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebiglead.com\/tag\/san-diego-padres\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">San Diego Padres<\/a>, putting on a dominant performance against the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebiglead.com\/tag\/chicago-cubs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Chicago Cubs<\/a> to take a 1-0 Wild Card Series lead. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fernando Tatis Jr., Manny Machado, and Xander Bogaerts all homered in the team\u2019s 8-0 win, and the momentum continues with confidence at an all-time high. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Since taking over as primary owner of the team, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebiglead.com\/tag\/kwanza-jones\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Padres owner Kwanza Jones<\/a> has been keeping the vibes immaculate, and that continued on Tuesday night ahead of the team\u2019s first game of the postseason. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While hyping up the upcoming series and start of the postseason, she brought her trademark high energy and welcomed any fan onto the Padres bandwagon for the upcoming playoff run. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">MORE: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebiglead.com\/2026-mlb-wild-card-announcer-schedule-pairings\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">2026 MLB Wild Card Series announcer schedule &amp; pairings<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Kwanza Jones Welcomes All Bandwagon Fans For Postseason Run<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cLa Madre says: if you need a playoff team to root for, Padres is for you,\u201d Jones wrote on Instagram. \u201cWe\u2019re welcoming. We\u2019re passionate. We\u2019re inclusive. We\u2019re ALL IN.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cYou can go back to your usual team later. For now, don\u2019t be left out. You\u2019ve got a playoff team. It\u2019s us. And if you\u2019re already with us\u2026 sharing is caring. Tell a friend. San Diego to Baja and beyond. Come on over. We all in.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">How can you not want to rock with that energy? And if you\u2019re looking for some excitement, you know that the Padres are going to bring it. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Padres caught fire near the end of the regular season and were leading the league in scoring down the final stretch of the season. In the final seven regular season games, San Diego recorded a whopping 50 runs. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kicking off the postseason with an 8-0 win keeps that momentum rolling, and shows that no matter how long the Padres are in the playoffs, it\u2019s going to be a good time. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Padres will look to close out the Wild Card Series on Wednesday night when the Cubs return to Petco Park for Game 2. The first pitch is set for 10:00 p.m. ET on Peacock and NBCSN. Get your popcorn ready. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebiglead.com\/subscribe\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Enjoy free coverage of the top news &amp; trending stories with The Big Lead Newsletter<\/a> \u2014<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Opening night of the 2026 MLB Playoffs ended with one of baseball\u2019s hottest teams, the San Diego Padres,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":818043,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2407],"tags":[16151,5,85885,4,2305,43,137,18,99544,4339,4338],"class_list":["post-818042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego-padres","tag-alert","tag-baseball","tag-kwanza-jones","tag-mlb","tag-mlb-playoffs","tag-padres","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-padres","tag-san-diego-padress","tag-sandiego","tag-sandiegopadres"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/117360061566421911","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=818042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818042\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/818043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=818042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=818042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=818042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}