After losing the first two games of the National League Division Series in brutal fashion, two one-run late game defeats, the Padres returned to Petco Park needing a win in Game 3 of the National League Division Series to prolong their season.<\/p>\n
At the end of a nail-biting game, the Padres beat the Brewers 4-3.<\/p>\n
In a game of such importance and a game with so many momentum swings, the drama came early at Petco Park.<\/p>\n
The first batter of the game, Brewers star Jackson Chourio launched a line-drive to left-center field, that Padres outfielder Jackson Merrill tracked down with a sliding catch at the warning track. Merrill added an even better catch in the 3rd inning to thwart the Brewers of extra bases.<\/p>\n
In the 3rd inning, Samad Taylor singled to lead-off the inning, then stole 2nd base, before advancing to 3rd on a sacrifice bunt. Taylor then scored the first run of the game on a ground out by Fernando Tatis Jr.<\/p>\n
The Padres added on later in the 3rd on a Manny Machado single that scored Jackson Merrill for a 2-0 Padres lead.<\/p>\n
It was the 3rd straight game in this series that the Padres have lead 2-0.<\/p>\n
The Brewers got one run back in the 4th inning on a William Conteras solo home run to left.<\/p>\n
Milwaukee added another run on a Chourio RBI sac-fly in the 5th that tied the game at 2. The sac-fly came off relief pitcher Jason Adam after Pivetta allowed 2 singles to start the inning.<\/p>\n
Padres starting pitcher Nick Pivetta went 4.1 innings, allowing 2 runs and striking out 4.<\/p>\n
The Padres regained the lead in the bottom of the 5th, when Jake Cronenworth sent the Friar Faithful into a frenzy with a first pitch lead-off home run. Cronenworth’s 368 foot liner to right had just enough to clear the wall.<\/p>\n
The Padres added to their lead in the 6th inning thanks to some poor Brewer defense. A Miguel Andujar broken bat bouncer lead to a throwing error by Brewer shortstop Cooper Pratt allowing Xander Bogaerts to score from 2nd base, making it a 2-run Padre lead.<\/p>\n
In the 7th, Milwaukee threatened with two 2-out hits placing runners at the corners. A Christian Yelich liner to left-center trimmed the Padres lead to 4-3.<\/p>\n
With Mason Miller and Miguel Andujar unavailable, Game 2 starter Michael King recorded the final six outs to secure the win.<\/p>\n
Game 4 between the Padres and Brewers is Wednesday at 7 p.m. at Petco Park, with San Diego once again needing a win to keep its season alive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After losing the first two games of the National League Division Series in brutal fashion, two one-run late…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":823504,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2288],"tags":[5,2328,2304,4,2305,2303,43,18],"class_list":["post-823503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb-postseason","tag-baseball","tag-major-league-baseball-playoffs","tag-major-league-baseball-postseason","tag-mlb","tag-mlb-playoffs","tag-mlb-postseason","tag-padres","tag-san-diego-padres"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/117397987262692770","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/823503","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=823503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/823503\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/823504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=823503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=823503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=823503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}