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Associated Press
SAN DIEGO -- Jake Cronenworth deed a tiebreaking, two-run azygous with 2 outs successful the seventh inning and the San Diego Padres rallied past the Los Angeles Dodgers 5-3 Saturday nighttime to beforehand to the NL Championship Series for the archetypal clip since 1998.
The Padres stunned the 111-win Dodgers with a five-run seventh to triumph the best-of-five NL Division Series 3-1 successful beforehand of a raucous sellout assemblage of 45,139 astatine Petco Park.
"It's astir to beryllium a enactment retired present tonight," said starting pitcher Joe Musgrove, who grew up a Padres instrumentality successful the San Diego suburbs. "I mean, since I was a small kid we've been getting bushed up by the Dodgers."
San Diego volition big the Philadelphia Phillies successful Games 1 and 2 of an all-wild paper NLCS connected Tuesday and Wednesday. The Phillies bushed the defending World Series champion Atlanta Braves 8-3 earlier successful the time to triumph their NLDS successful 4 games.
The assemblage roared erstwhile Josh Hader, obtained from Milwaukee connected Aug. 1, struck retired Freddie Freeman to extremity it. Padres players celebrated wildly connected the infield and fireworks went disconnected supra the downtown ballpark. Manny Machado and Juan Soto exhorted the fans for more.
The Padres past reached the NLCS 24 years agone erstwhile they bushed Atlanta successful six games and were past swept by the New York Yankees successful the World Series. A fistful of players from that squad watched from a luxury suite, including Hall of Fame person Trevor Hoffman and halfway fielder Steve Finley.
The crippled was delayed 31 minutes astatine the commencement by rain, which returned successful the eighth inning and prompted a abbreviated hold portion the grounds unit worked connected the mound.
After left-hander Tyler Anderson stymied the Padres done 5 scoreless innings, San Diego broke done against the Dodgers' bullpen successful the seventh.
Jurickson Profar drew a leadoff locomotion against Tommy Kahnle, took 3rd connected Trent Grisham's azygous and scored erstwhile Austin Nola's infield azygous glanced disconnected Freeman's mitt astatine archetypal base. Yency Almonte, who took the loss, came connected and was greeted by Kim Ha-seong's RBI treble wrong the 3rd basal line, followed by Soto's tying azygous to right.
With 2 outs and the assemblage connected its feet, Cronenworth singled to halfway disconnected section merchandise Alex Vesia to springiness the Padres the lead, raising his arms successful solemnisation arsenic helium rounded archetypal and past punching the aerial with his close fist arsenic helium pulled into 2nd basal connected the propulsion home. Soto, acquired from Washington successful a blockbuster commercialized Aug. 2, slid location headfirst and jumped up and cheered.
Tim Hill got the win.
After the archetypal rainfall delay, fans were amped up successful anticipation of Musgrove pitching his hometown Padres into the NL Championship Series. The large right-hander from suburban El Cajon, a first-time All-Star successful 2022, was the archetypal Padres pitcher from San Diego to marque a postseason commencement successful his hometown.
But Anderson outpitched Musgrove, holding the Padres to 2 hits done 5 innings.
The Dodgers took a 2-0 pb successful the third. Mookie Betts walked with 1 retired and Trea Turner scorched a grounder past 3rd baseman Machado, who has carried the Padres overmuch of the season, to determination Betts to third. Freeman, who helped the Braves triumph the World Series past twelvemonth earlier signing with the Dodgers arsenic a escaped agent, doubled down the close tract enactment to bring them some in.
Will Smith deed a sacrifice alert against Steven Wilson with the bases loaded successful the seventh for a 3-0 lead, but Hill prevented further damage.
The Dodgers were near with a monolithic disappointment. Manager Dave Roberts predicted during outpouring grooming that they would triumph the World Series. They won the NL West for the ninth clip successful 10 seasons and finished 22 games up of San Diego. The Dodgers went 14-5 against the Padres successful the regular play and had won 9 consecutive regular-season bid against them.
Musgrove was trying for his 2nd consecutive playoff series-clinching win. On Sunday night, helium dominated the New York Mets astatine Citi Field, allowing conscionable 1 deed and 1 locomotion successful 7 innings successful a 6-0 triumph that sent the Padres to the NLDS.
He gave up 2 runs and six hits successful six innings against the Dodgers, struck retired 8 and walked three.
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