Expert Predictions for Wild Card Series

The San Diego Padres and Atlanta Braves will meet within the Nationwide League Wild Card collection beginning Tuesday, Oct. 1.

The Padres and Braves will play a best-of-three collection, with the winner attending to face the Los Angeles Dodgers within the NL Divisional Collection.

The Padres are sending right-handed pitcher Michael King on the mound in Recreation 1 towards right-handed pitcher AJ Smith-Shawver.

In Recreation 2, right-handed pitcher Joe Musgrove is going through off towards left-handed pitcher Max Fried.

In Recreation 3, the Padres are sending right-handed pitcher Dylan Stop to the mound. The Braves haven’t but introduced their potential starter.

Recreation 1 of the Padres vs. Braves Wild Card collection on Tuesday begins at 5:38 p.m. PT/8:38 p.m. ET. It will likely be broadcast on ESPN.

Recreation 2 of the Padres vs. Braves Wild Card collection on Wednesday begins at 5:38 p.m. PT/8:38 p.m. ET. It will likely be broadcast on ESPN2.

The potential Recreation 3 of the Padres vs. Braves Wild Card collection on Thursday begins at 4:08 p.m. PT/7:08 p.m. ET. It will likely be broadcast on ESPN.

The Padres have the sting on this collection for a handful of causes. The Padres enter the matchup a lot more healthy, and are additionally considerably extra well-rested than Atlanta. The Braves needed to play a doubleheader on Monday towards the New York Mets to clinch a postseason berth.

The Braves are attempting to piece a rotation collectively, and are doing it with out their ace Chris Sale, the heavy favourite to win the NL Cy Younger award. Sale will not pitch this collection as he is been coping with again spasms. He was left off the postseason roster.

As for the Padres, they enter the collection as considered one of baseball’s hottest groups, and have their three finest pitchers from this season slated to begin.

The Padres will take Recreation 1 in convincing 7-3 trend. Then, the Braves will combat again in Recreation 2 due to a powerful begin from Fried en path to a 5-3 win. Nevertheless, it is going to be the Padres, behind Stop, taking Recreation 3 and transferring onto the NLDS, profitable the win-or-go-home Recreation 3 by a rating of 4-2.

That may arrange a rematch of the 2022 NLDS towards the division-rival Dodgers, who the Padres beat eight out of 13 instances this common season.