Padres stymied by Phillies pitching, drop NLCS nature

The Padres excluded the Dodgers at Petco Park over the weekend, transferring San Diego into a commodity of a megacity-wide party.

That was, after all, the chain they'd been staying to clear for the last decade. • NLCS Game 2, presented by loanDepot Wednesday, 430p.m. ET 130 PT on FOX/ FS1

But their price for beatingL.A. was a date with Philadelphia in the National League Championship Series-- a particularly dangerous proposition.

The Phillies, like the Padres, entered the NLCS red-hot, having subdued a rival and having set their gyration.

• Postseason ticket information  In Game 1 of the NLCS on Tuesday night, the Padres simply could not break Zack Wheeler in an unmanning 2- 0 loss at Petco Park. Suddenly, t

the Padres find themselves where they have spent the utmost of the season in a fight for their playoff lives.  SAN DIEGO-- Back to reality.

The Padres excluded the Dodgers at Petco Park over the weekend, transferring San Diego into a commodity of a megacity-wide party.

That was, after all, the chain they'd been staying to clear for the last decade.  • NLCS Game 2, presented by loanDepot Wednesday, 430p.m. ET 130 PT on FOX/ FS1

But their price for beatingL.A. was a date with Philadelphia in the National League Championship Series-- a particularly dangerous proposition.

The Phillies, like the Padres, entered the NLCS red-hot, having subdued a rival and having set their gyration.

• Postseason ticket information  In Game 1 of the NLCS on Tuesday night, the Padres simply could not break Zack Wheeler in an unmanning 2- 0 loss at Petco Park.

Suddenly, the Padres find themselves where they have spent the utmost of the season in a fight for their playoff lives.

“ It’s just about the intelligence coming into the coming day, ” said alternate baseman Jake Cronenworth.

“ It’s a game we need to win. You want to go down 2- 0 in a series. But I can tell you everybody in this club is going to be ready to go hereafter. ”

The Padres had to fight their way into the postseason, securing a situation on the final Sunday of the season. They went the distance in a Wild Card Series against the Mets.

They dropped the series against the Dodgers, also winning three straight.  Little has come readily for the Padres this time.

Sure enough, if they are going to beat the Phillies to reach the ballot’s third World Series, they ’ll have to come from before in this series to do it.