{"id":269386,"date":"2025-10-01T14:32:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T14:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/269386\/"},"modified":"2025-10-01T14:32:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T14:32:10","slug":"mlb-picks-padres-vs-cubs-wild-card-game-2-predictions-props-best-bets-for-wednesday-oct-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/269386\/","title":{"rendered":"MLB picks: Padres vs. Cubs Wild Card Game 2 predictions, props, best bets for Wednesday, Oct. 1"},"content":{"rendered":"

The San Diego Padres<\/a> face a do-or-die Game 2 after losing Game 1 of their Wild Card series with the Chicago Cubs<\/a> 3-1 on Tuesday. San Diego now turns to Dylan Cease<\/a> to keep the team alive for a potential Game 3, while Chicago surprised many onlookers by announcing that reliever Andrew Kittredge<\/a> would serve as an opener on Wednesday. First pitch for Game 2 is scheduled for 3 p.m. ET, and the game will be shown nationally on ABC.\u00a0<\/p>\n

If you’re looking to get into MLB betting<\/a> and want the latest Cubs vs. Padres odds, projections and player props<\/a>, be sure to check out the SportsLine Projection Model<\/a>, which simulates every MLB game 10,000 times.<\/p>\n

Cease (8-12, 4.55 ERA) finished the regular season sixth in strikeouts with 215 but saw his home runs per nine innings spike to 1.13, the highest it’s been in a full season of work. A worrying 11.9% of his fly balls went over the wall. Wrigley Field hasn’t been quite as much of a launching pad in recent years, but it can still get hitter-friendly in a hurry if the wind is blowing out.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, this was projected to be Shota Imanaga’s<\/a> day to start for the Cubs, but manager Craig Counsell has opted to open with Kittredge (3.40) instead. Imanaga may yet factor into the game in some way, perhaps as a bulk arm behind Kittredge, but it’s admittedly peculiar to see Counsell take this route. Imanaga’s 4.70 ERA in the second half may have something to do with it.<\/p>\n

At FanDuel Sportsbook<\/a>, Cease is set at over\/under 6.5 strikeouts for Wednesday, with the Over priced +126 and the Under at -172. The model rates the Over 4.5 stars out of 5, as it projects Cease to notch 6.9 strikeouts.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Michael Busch<\/a> (+450) is the favorite to hit a home run at FanDuel<\/a>. He’s followed by Fernando Tatis Jr<\/a>. (+460), Manny Machado<\/a> (+480), Kyle Tucker<\/a> (+560), Seiya Suzuki<\/a> (+560), Ian Happ<\/a> (+600), Jackson Merrill<\/a> (+600), Pete Crow-Armstrong<\/a> (+680) and Gavin Sheets<\/a> (+750).<\/p>\n

Check out the model’s best bets for Padres vs. Cubs Game 2 on Wednesday.\u00a0<\/p>\n

SAN DIEGO PADRES at CHICAGO CUBS\u00a0| 10\/1 | 3:00 p.m. ET<\/strong><\/p>\n

Money line
<\/strong>Pick: Cubs -118
Chicago wins in 53% of simulations<\/p>\n

Run line
<\/strong>Pick: Cubs +1.5 (-208)
Chicago covers in 70% of simulations<\/p>\n

Over\/Under<\/strong>
Pick: Over 6.5 (-122)
The Over hits in 74% of simulations<\/p>\n

Projected score: Cubs 4.6, Padres 4.5<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The San Diego Padres face a do-or-die Game 2 after losing Game 1 of their Wild Card series…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":269387,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[62487,140184,17530,1271,140174,140176,140179,140181,67720,140183,34547,140185,5604,7791,5605,22892,5606,1266,121400,121398,120397,140178,121399,140177,140180,140175,140182,1277,1306,8753,5435,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-269386","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-andrew-kittredge","9":"tag-best-mlb-props","10":"tag-betting","11":"tag-chicago-cubs","12":"tag-cubs-odds","13":"tag-cubs-padres-game-2-picks","14":"tag-cubs-padres-prediction","15":"tag-cubs-props","16":"tag-dylan-cease","17":"tag-dylan-cease-props","18":"tag-fernando-tatis-jr","19":"tag-gavin-sheets","20":"tag-ian-happ","21":"tag-jackson-merrill","22":"tag-kyle-tucker","23":"tag-manny-machado","24":"tag-michael-busch","25":"tag-mlb","26":"tag-mlb-bets","27":"tag-mlb-odds","28":"tag-mlb-picks","29":"tag-mlb-playoffs-picks","30":"tag-mlb-predictions","31":"tag-padres-cubs-game-2-picks","32":"tag-padres-cubs-prediction","33":"tag-padres-odds","34":"tag-padres-props","35":"tag-pete-crow-armstrong","36":"tag-san-diego-padres","37":"tag-seiya-suzuki","38":"tag-shota-imanaga","39":"tag-sports","40":"tag-united-states","41":"tag-unitedstates","42":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269386","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=269386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269386\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/269387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}