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ATLANTA — Michael Wacha and three relievers were good enough Saturday night that the Padres didn’t need the run Rougned Odor didn’t score nor the one that he did score.

ATLANTA — It was another three hours of lead changes and walks and big hits and big outs and an October night’s worth of tension in early-April game.

SAN DIEGO — The Padres have a solution at first base. Just slide the kid over there.

"Keep the Faith" has been a Padres slogan that dates back virtually to the franchise's 1969 major league debut, when fans watched the first ballclub finish 41 games out of first place.

PHILADELPHIA — The San Diego Padres took advantage of what the Philadelphia Phillies handed them but managed nothing else in Game 3 of the National League Championship Series.

Things looked bleak in San Diego during the top of the second inning in yesterday’s NLCS Game 2 between the Padres and Phillies. San Diego had Blake Snell on the mound facing a Philadelphia lineup that was soft-contacting its way to a 2–0 series lead. Even the sun gods were…

He hasn’t quite found his groove with the Padres. That’s about to change.

As Los Angeles stuck to a script that got it in trouble, San Diego hardly looked like the underdog in defeating its division rival in the NLDS.

SAN DIEGO — The temptation will be to blame Dave Roberts for what happened to the Dodgers on Saturday night.