Brewers Edge Padres 3-2 in NLDS Opener that Features Bizarre Play in 9th Inning – WTOP News
Ty France’s deep drive hit a roof cable and fell into Jackson Chourio’s glove, and replay upheld the out after a Padres challenge.
- American Family Field hosts the National League Division Series starting Saturday, Oct. 3, as the Milwaukee Brewers face the San Diego Padres, who swept the Chicago Cubs in the wild-card round.
- Milwaukee enters the postseason with a league-best 103 wins, hosting a streaking Padres squad that dominated the wild-card round by winning both games against the Cubs.
- San Diego won the regular-season series 4-2 against Milwaukee, though the Brewers boast the majors' best pitching staff led by National League Cy Young Award favorite Jacob Misiorowski, who starts Game 1.
- Padres third baseman Manny Machado stated, "We feel great right now, but we're not done," reflecting the team's championship ambition ahead of facing the top-seeded Brewers.
- This best-of-five series continues Sunday in Milwaukee before shifting to Petco Park, with the winner advancing to the National League Championship Series scheduled for October 11.
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Ty France's baton seemed to flip the score in the ninth, but ended up in Jackson Chourio's glove after impacting the stadium ceiling
Brewers get big assist from their ballpark roof to beat Padres 3-2 in NLDS opener
By Associated Press Milwaukee (AP) — As soon as he swung the bat, Ty France believed he had hit a two-run homer to put the San Diego Padres ahead in the ninth inning of their NL Division Series opener against Milwaukee. Brewers manager Pat Murphy figured France’s drive was heading foul instead. Neither was correct.
Ty France And The Padres Thwarted By Good Old Reality
Ty France talks like a guy who is pretty sure he'd socked a game-winning dinger. "I stood there and watched it, and it was going," France said Saturday, of his ninth-inning moonshot. "It was staying fair." The ball did, in fact, stay fair: Soaring down the left field line, France's fly bonked off a roof cable and dropped, well inside fair territory and directly into the glove of Milwaukee's Jackson Chourio, for San Diego's second out of the nint…
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