The Padres stayed alive with the 3-0 win in Game 2 and now it all comes down to the deciding Game 3. The Cubs and Padres announced their starting pitchers on Wednesday afternoon for Game 3 on Thursday. The Padres will have Yu Darvish start, and the Cubs will have Jameson Taillon start Game 3.

San Diego Padres reliever Mason Miller threw a record-breaking 104.5 mph fastball against the Chicago Cubs, the fastest postseason pitch since 2008.

CHICAGO — Pete Crow-Armstrong, the Chicago Cubs’ uniquely talented center fielder, did not bury the lede in his essay for The Players’ Tribune, hyping up Major League Baseball’s postseason tournament: “I feel like I’ve been f—in’ searching for something lately.”

Mason Miller's last two pitches to Seiya Suzuki in the seventh inning were clocked at 102.1 and 102.7 mph. Suzuki swung and missed at the last one for strike three. It turns out Miller was only warming up.

The Chicago Cubs and San Diego Padres are in the middle of Game 2 in the best-of-three National League Wild Card series.

An unexpected decision by the Cubs manager in the fifth inning of Game 2 gave the Padres a lead they did not relinquish.

Major League Baseball adopted the best-of-three format in 2022. Since then, the team winning Game 1 has won the series EVERY time. Winning two straight after losing the first would not seem to be so daunting, but it has proved to be just that.

David Ross, who served as the Cubs' skipper from 2020 to 2023, was fired in November of the latter year when Chicago stole Craig Counsell from the division-rival Milwaukee Brewers. In two offseasons since, Ross has been passed over by teams looking for new skippers, and his third attempt to find work is about to commence.