Padres hold off off Braves' comeback, earn another date with rival Dodgers in NLDS

For the 3rd clip successful 5 years, the San Diego Padres are disconnected to the National League Division Series, and they volition spot an all-too-familiar foe.

The Padres volition quadrate disconnected with NL West rival Los Angeles Dodgers aft sweeping the Atlanta Braves successful the chaotic paper round.

San Diego earned a 5-4 triumph connected Wednesday nighttime implicit the Braves, whose comeback was excessively small but excessively late.

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San Diego Padres 3rd baseman Manny Machado (13) celebrates arsenic helium scores during the 2nd inning of crippled 2 successful the Wildcard circular for the 2024 MLB Playoffs against the Atlanta Braves astatine Petco Park. (Denis Poroy-Imagn Images)

Unlike the archetypal game, it was Atlanta who got the scoring started, arsenic Marcell Ozuna got a sacrifice alert to people Michael Harris II, who led the crippled disconnected with a double. But, San Diego lit up the scoreboard successful the second.

Max Fried retired the archetypal 2 batters of the inning, but a Kyle Higashioka homer tied the game. That was the archetypal of six consecutive two-out hits, with the second 2 being a two-run treble by Manny Machado, and a two-run triple by Jackson Merrill.

It was the lone inning that San Diego scored, but it worked retired conscionable fine.

Jorge Soler deed a solo homer successful the fifth, and Harris deed 1 implicit the halfway tract partition for a two-run changeable successful the eighth, but Robert Suarez retired the broadside successful bid successful the ninth to get the prevention and commencement the enactment successful San Diego. Upon the last retired being made, chants of "Beat LA" astir instantly rang out.

San Diego Padres outfielder Fernando Tatis Jr. (23) celebrates aft a tally during the 2nd inning of crippled 2 successful the Wildcard circular for the 2024 MLB Playoffs against the Atlanta Braves astatine Petco Park. (Denis Poroy-Imagn Images)

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Perhaps fatigue deed the Braves, who had to play successful a doubleheader connected Monday successful Atlanta to determine their postseason fate, past alert retired westbound to instrumentality connected 1 of the hottest teams successful baseball. It was pugnacious luck for Atlanta each twelvemonth long, again dealing with injuries (including different torn ACL to reigning NL MVP Ronald Acuna Jr.), and it seems similar it yet caught up to them.

Not lone bash the Padres and Dodgers look disconnected 13 times a twelvemonth (it utilized to beryllium astir 20 earlier MLB decided to person each squad look each different passim the season), but the Dodgers and Padres person caller October history.

The 2 teams faced disconnected successful some the 2020 and 2022 NLDS. The Dodgers swept an up-and-coming San Diego squad the archetypal time, en way to their World Series victory, but San Diego won successful 4 2 years ago.

If the regular play was immoderate benignant of foreshadowing, it's bully quality for San Diego, arsenic they won the play series, 8-5.

San Diego Padres outfielder Jackson Merrill (3) celebrates aft a two-RBI triple during the 2nd inning of crippled 2 successful the Wildcard circular for the 2024 MLB Playoffs against the Atlanta Braves astatine Petco Park. (Denis Poroy-Imagn Images)

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Game 1 volition beryllium Saturday astatine 8:38 p.m. ET astatine Dodger Stadium.

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