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In the National League West, five of the teams battled for the divisional championship - with only the expansion team, the San Diego Padres, failing to be a contender. The remaining five teams were separated by as few as one-and-one-half games in the standings on August 18, despite the Houston Astros having lost 20 of its first 24 games.
This was the second postseason meeting between the Padres and Braves. They last met in the 1998 NLCS, which the Padres won before ultimately losing in the World Series. The Padres won the regular season series against the Braves 4–3. The Padres swept the Braves to return to the NLDS for the third time in five years.
The Padres' Robert Suárez closed out the Braves with a 1-2-3 inning in the top of the ninth to sweep the series and send the Padres to the NLDS to face their division rival Los Angeles Dodgers. With the loss, the Braves were eliminated in their first round of the postseason for the third straight year, as they lost the NLDS to the Phillies the ...
The San Diego Padres held off the Atlanta Braves with a 5-4 win to finish a two-game sweep in the National League wild-card series on Wednesday, setting up an NLDS showdown with the rival Los ...
The 1998 National League Championship Series (NLCS), to determine the champion of the National League in Major League Baseball’s 1998 postseason, was played from October 7 to 14 between the East Division champion and top-seeded Atlanta Braves and the West Division champion and third-seeded San Diego Padres. The Braves entered the playoffs for ...
Kyle Higashioka's solo homer started a five-run rally against an ailing Max Fried with two outs in the second inning, and the San Diego Padres held on to sweep the Atlanta Braves with a 5-4 ...
Braves vs. Padres underway in San Diego. Michael King starts for the Padres against the Braves, with 21-year-old AJ Smith-Shawver getting the nod for Atlanta.
The NLDS is a best-of-five series where the divisional winner with the best winning percentage in the regular season hosts the winner of the Wild Card Series between the top two wild card teams in one matchup, and the divisional winner with the second best winning percentage hosts the winner of the other Wild Card Series between the lowest-seeded divisional winner and the lowest-seeded wild ...