Padres' Fernando Tatis Jr sends crowd into frenzy with home run, lifts team to Game 1 win

The San Diego Padres received an all-around show connected their mode to a Game 1 triumph successful the National League wild-card series implicit the Atlanta Braves, 4-0.

Fernando Tatis Jr. electrified the assemblage astatine Petco Park with his 415-foot location tally successful the archetypal inning. He knew it was gone arsenic soon arsenic helium deed it and the assemblage did arsenic well. Tatis flipped his bat and played to fans arsenic helium began his location tally trot.

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Padres' Fernando Tatis Jr. celebrates aft hitting a two-run homer successful the NL wild-card bid crippled against the Atlanta Braves, Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2024, successful San Diego. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)

"It’s beauteous energy. I emotion this benignant of situation," Tatis said. "It decidedly brings the champion retired of me. And conscionable looking guardant to mode much experiences similar this."

Tatis said helium was looking for a fastball from rookie AJ Smith-Shawver and got it.

"I was going for it astir apt earlier helium released the pitch. But looking for my fastball, helium near it implicit the plate, and had decidedly large results," Tatis said. "I knew it was going to spell out. I didn’t cognize it was going to onshore successful the 2nd platform conscionable due to the fact that however precocious it was."

Piggybacking disconnected of Tatis, starting pitcher Michael King gave San Diego a top-notch performance.

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Padres starting pitcher Michael King throws against the Atlanta Braves during the wild-card bid crippled Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2024, successful San Diego. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)

King became the archetypal pitcher to person 12 strikeouts with nary runs oregon walks allowed successful his archetypal vocation postseason start. He joined erstwhile Padres stars Kevin Brown and Sterling Hitchcock arsenic the lone pitchers to person double-digit strikeouts successful a playoff game.

""I deliberation I dreamed of a cleanable crippled alternatively of a fewer hits that I gave up," King said afterward. "But I mean, to get up 1-0 successful a three-game bid is huge. That was the extremity and we accomplished that. We've got our equine Joe (Musgrove) tomorrow, and I’ve got a batch of assurance successful us."

San Diego acquired King successful a blockbuster woody with the New York Yankees that sent Juan Soto to the Bronx Bombers.

Atlanta Braves near fielder Ramón Laureano watches a location tally from the Padres' Kyle Higashioka spell implicit the partition connected Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2024, successful San Diego. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)

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Game 2 is acceptable for Wednesday astatine 8:30 p.m. ET. A Padres triumph sends them into the National League Division Series.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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