{"id":37959,"date":"2025-09-22T10:22:31","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T14:22:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/tatis-jr-and-key-pitching-padres-one-step-away-from-playoffs\/"},"modified":"2025-09-22T10:22:31","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T14:22:31","slug":"tatis-jr-and-key-pitching-padres-one-step-away-from-playoffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/nationals\/tatis-jr-and-key-pitching-padres-one-step-away-from-playoffs\/","title":{"rendered":"Tatis Jr. and key pitching: Padres one step away from playoffs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">San Diego Padres Close to Playoffs After Beating White Sox<\/h2>\n\n\n<strong>Chicago.<\/strong> The San Diego Padres are one step away from securing their place in the postseason, after a crucial 3-2 victory over the White Sox at Rate Field. The match was highlighted by the power of Fernando Tatis Jr. and the solid performance of their pitching staff.\n\nTatis Jr. hit his 23rd home run of the season and the 150th of his career in the Major Leagues, a hit that extended the lead to 3-0 in the third inning and proved decisive for the final result.\n\nIn the mound, right-hander Michael King offered his best start since his return from the injured list in early September. King pitched 5 scoreless innings, recording four strikeouts, four walks, and four hits allowed. Adri\u00e1n Morej\u00f3n, a Cuban reliever, entered at a critical moment in the sixth inning to quell the threat from the home team and solidify his key role in the bullpen.\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MLB\/status\/1800505605283763366\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fernando Tatis Jr. hits a LONG homer for No. 23 \ud83d\ude24<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\nWith this victory, San Diego is on the verge of securing their spot in October. They could seal their qualification with two additional victories, or even with a victory combined with a Cincinnati defeat.\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>It was an important game for us, we felt it was another step towards what we want to achieve.<\/p><cite>Michael King<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\nThe Padres, who recently had a grand slam from Manny Machado and the outstanding performances of Ryan O&#8217;Hearn, seem to be at their best moment of the season, refining both their offense and their rotation for the postseason challenges.\n\nNow, San Diego focuses on completing the task and confirming its return to the playoffs, motivated by the good moment of its star core and the strengthening of its bullpen thanks to the consistency of Morej\u00f3n.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>San Diego Padres Close to Playoffs After Beating White Sox Chicago. The San Diego Padres are one step away from securing their place in the postseason, after a crucial 3-2 victory over the White Sox at Rate Field. The match was highlighted by the power of Fernando Tatis Jr. and the solid performance of their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[997],"tags":[916,7082,104,1019],"class_list":{"0":"post-37959","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-nationals","7":"tag-fernando-tatis-jr","8":"tag-michael-king","9":"tag-playoffs","10":"tag-san-diego-padres"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37959\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}