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Major League Baseball franchise in San Diego, California
The San Diego Padres are an American professional baseball team based in San Diego. The Padres compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the National League (NL) West Division. The team plays its home games at Petco Park in downtown San Diego. Founded in 1969 as an expansion franchise, the Padres adopted their name from the Pacific Coast League (PCL) team that arrived in San Diego in 1936. The name, Spanish for "fathers", honors the friars of the Franciscan order who founded Mission San Diego de Alcalá in 1769.
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Major League Baseball postseason series
The Division Series (DS) is the quarterfinal round of postseason play in Major League Baseball, featuring the American League Division Series (ALDS) and the National League Division Series (NLDS). Under the current format, the top-two division winners in each league play best-of-five series against the two winners of the Wild Card Series from each league. The winners of the Division Series then advance to the League Championship Series for their respective league.
More on Wikipedia ↗The Milwaukee Brewers have a chance to advance to the National League Championship Series on Tuesday.
MILWAUKEE -- It was center fielder Garrett Mitchell who said it last week, during a discussion about what makes this Brewers team believe it can be different than all of Milwaukee’s other seven postseason qualifiers in the preceding eight years. They all finished short of the World Series. Why should
Tom Verducci talks with Jackson Chourio following his walk-off heroics in Game 2, lifting the Milwaukee Brewers over the San Diego Padres to take a commanding 2-0 lead in the NLDS.