{"id":267041,"date":"2025-09-30T17:24:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T17:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/267041\/"},"modified":"2025-09-30T17:24:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T17:24:09","slug":"san-diego-padres-roster-set-wild-card-series-chicago-cubs-nbc-7-san-diego","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/267041\/","title":{"rendered":"San Diego Padres roster set Wild Card Series Chicago Cubs \u2013 NBC 7 San Diego"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Padres have decided on the 26 players they&#8217;ll use to try and win the best-of-three National League Wild Card series that starts on Tuesday at Wrigley Field in Chicago. The final tally is 14 position players and 12 pitchers:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>RHP (10):<\/strong> Dylan Cease, Yu Darvish, Jeremiah Estrada, Michael King, Mason Miller, David Morgan, Nick Pivetta, Bradgley Rodriguez, Robert Suarez, Randy V\u00e1squez<\/li>\n<li><strong>LHP (2):<\/strong> Adrian Morejon, Wandy Peralta<\/li>\n<li><strong>C (3):<\/strong> Luis Campusano, Freddy Fermin, Mart\u00edn Maldonado<\/li>\n<li><strong>INF (7): <\/strong>Luis Arraez<strong>, <\/strong>Xander Bogaerts, Jake Cronenworth,Jose Iglesias,Manny Machado, Mason McCoy, Ryan O\u2019Hearn<\/li>\n<li><strong>OF (4):<\/strong> Bryce Johnson, Jackson Merrill, Gavin Sheets, Fernando Tatis Jr.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Interestingly, the Friars are keeping three catchers on the roster for a short series and none of them is Elias Diaz, who&#8217;s become Nick Pivetta&#8217;s personal catcher. He injured an oblique muscle on Saturday and is not ready to go yet so Freddy Fermin will do a bulk of the work behind the plate. Luis Campusano and Martin Maldonado will serve as right-handed bat options off the bench because the Friars tend to skew a little lefty heavy.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, their Game 1 starting lineup against Cubs lefty Matthew Boyd features five left-handed hitters. Padres manager Mike Shildt is going with his best bats instead of playing matchups, which is a wise decision in the playoffs. The full order for Tuesday looks like this:<\/p>\n<p>1) Fernando Tatis Jr., RF<br \/>2) Luis Arraez, 1B<br \/>3) Manny Machado, 3B<br \/>4) Jackson Merrill, CF<br \/>5) Xander Bogaerts, SS<br \/>6) Ryan O&#8217;Hearn, DH<br \/>7) Gavin Sheets, LF<br \/>8) Jake Cronenworth, 2B<br \/>9) Freddy Fermin, C<br \/>SP Nick Pivetta<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Padres have decided on the 26 players they&#8217;ll use to try and win the best-of-three National League&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":267042,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5134],"tags":[5229,591,1582,276,138400,1266,8037,3549,1306,7264,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-267041","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-diego","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-baseball","10":"tag-ca","11":"tag-california","12":"tag-cubs-playoffs","13":"tag-mlb","14":"tag-padres","15":"tag-san-diego","16":"tag-san-diego-padres","17":"tag-sandiego","18":"tag-united-states","19":"tag-united-states-of-america","20":"tag-unitedstates","21":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","22":"tag-us","23":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115294415492577663","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=267041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267041\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/267042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}