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SAN DIEGO — The Padres can be a hard, frustrating follow. Far too often, I feel as though I'm binge-watching C-SPAN with pink eye.

PHOENIX — The Padres worked and worked before it ultimately worked for them.

We are three weeks away from the start of the playoffs, with the first game of all four wild-card series scheduled back-to-back-to-back. You can be sure that MLB will market the event as baseball’s version of the first day of March Madness. (Fall Frenzy, anyone?) But regardless of how well…

PHOENIX — Sean Manaea was back and better.

SEATTLE — What is the best way to bounce back from being held scoreless for the first time in 72 games?

LOS ANGELES — Among the salty pearls of wisdom bequeathed to us by the late, great Tommy Lasorda: "This [bleeping] job is not that [bleeping] easy."

Yu Darvish did all he could to make the pittance the Padres' hitters managed stand up.

SEATTLE — Yu Darvish turned 36 a month ago, and if not for the cake the Padres gave him before a game in Miami, we might have missed it.

SAN DIEGO — The Dodgers are not officially playoff-bound, after all.

The field narrows as some teams fall out of the playoff race, while the Dodgers move toward a triple digit win count and the Yankees extend their division lead.

Their postseason hopes look pretty bleak, but they have a knack for rising to the occasion.