Against surprise 2025 standout Matthew Boyd on the mound for the Cubbies, San Diego took an early lead in this game when Xander Bogaerts rocketed a ball into the left-center gap for an RBI double. After gaining that lead in the top half of the second, Nick Pivetta and the Dads kept Chicago scoreless through their first four chances on offense.

San Diego’s win sets the stage for a decisive Game 3 Thursday. Yu Darvish takes the ball for the Padres and will be opposed by Jameson Taillon of the Cubs. The winner moves on to the Divisional Round against the Milwaukee Brewers.

CHICAGO – Cubs lefty Shota Imanaga spun around on the mound, grimaced and threw his head back, looking to the heavens. Manny Machado tossed away his bat and turned to his Padres teammates in the first-base dugout,

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The Padres showed that they're built for October with a dominant team performance with the season on the line.

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.

Before a 3-1 win against the Padres, more than one Cub remarked that the warm weather didn’t really feel like postseason baseball. By the end, the whole place reeked of October.

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