“We’re good, and we have to protect that and enhance it.”

Peter Seidler, Padres feel obligation to maintain commitment to winning sandiegouniontribune.com/sports/padres/…

The last of 54 Hot Lava episodes this season & probably some 250+ over last 5 Padres seasons that I did with Kevin Acee. Hope you enjoyed them a fraction as much as we did. (Our goodbyes, including special music, come at about 35:30.) Thank you all. hot-lava-padcast.simplecast.com/episodes/looki…

OK, here we go, after five seasons and hundreds of episodes, my final Hot Lava coming up live at 11 today (and later on podcast). Please join Kevin Acee and me for 'a very special Hot Lava' as the networks say. But we thought all of them were special. fb.me/e/2kuR4dFhS

Padres' only concrete plan for Tatis is to play him 'on the field' in 2023 sandiegouniontribune.com/sports/padres/…

Skip Schumaker being hired as Marlins manager is awesome because he’s a magnificent person, a smart baseball man, is respected by players — and because Miami was where he unloaded on Doug Eddings, pointing to players as he explained how the ump had wronged each guy.

For subscribers: Nine questions facing Padres as offseason gets underway sandiegouniontribune.com/sports/padres/…

First of two Hot Lava episodes this week is ready, with Kevin Acee going over what happened to Padres in NLCS with me (and who is to blame). hot-lava-padcast.simplecast.com/episodes/nlcs-…

We'll do two Hot Lavas this week ... today's will be a look back at Padres in NLCS. Kevin Acee joins me from Philadelphia live at 10 at the link or later on podcast. We'll be back Wednesday with one final episode on the overall season & the future. facebook.com/events/4940232…

The Grisham bunt attempt will attract headlines like fly paper, but it obscures the reason the Padres are out of the NLCS. Column: bit.ly/3eVTxqv #Padres

'I don’t even have the words for how hard it feels — I mean, the feeling of not getting to play anymore, because you want to keep playing.'

GOOSE COOKED: Padres' season ends on Bryce Harper's home run sandiegouniontribune.com/sports/padres/…

As a result of the Padres playing 12 postseason games, Fernando Tatis Jr. will be eligible to return after missing the first 20 games of 2023.

Bryce Harper's two-run homer has given the Phillies a 4-3 lead in the eighth inning and made this place lose its mind.

To recap:
Jake Cronenworth's lead-off 1B drives Zack Wheeler from game.
Seranthony Dominguez WP moves Cronenworth to second, and he scores on Josh Bell's 2B.
Jose Azocar pinch runs for Bell, moves to third on a wild pitch and scores on another wild pitch.
Padres 3, Phillies 2.

Seranthony Dominguez's third wild pitch of the inning scores Jose Azocar. Padres lead 3-2 in the middle of the seventh.
Yu Darvish is coming back out. So is the grounds crew to put some clay on this soaked infield and messy mound.

Josh Bell just tied the game with a double.
It's 2-2 in the seventh.
Josh Bell hasn't been great in the postseason, but he has some of the Padres' biggest hits.

Trent Grisham is 0-for-17 with nine strikeouts in the NLCS.

He was 4-for-8 with two HR and 0 K in WC Series.

He was 4-for-13 with a HR and 6 K in Division Series.

There's a hit.
A home run by Juan Soto has cut the Phillies' lead to 2-1.

Rhys Hoskins crushes a 3-0 cutter in the center of the zone for a two-run homer that puts the Phillies up 2-0 in the third.
Zack Wheeler has not allowed a baserunner today and has not allowed the Padres a run in his past 24.2 IP against them.

Yu Darvish has allowed lead-off batter to reach base in the first two innings and had that runner erased by a double play both times.
He has allowed a single, a walk and hit a batter and is through two innings in 23 pitches.

Zack Wheeler thrown 31 pitches in two perfect innings.