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Horwitz homered off Spencer Schwellenbach twice, and both were solo shots for the 26-year-old. He also drove in a run with a double in the fifth, and he’s now plated 32 runners to go with 11 homers. Six of those deep balls have come since the start of August, as he’s starting to drive the ball on a more consistent basis. It bodes well for Horwitz in the future, and fantasy managers should look to play the hot hand.

Michael Harris II’s two-run homer in the eighth made things interesting, but the Braves couldn’t overcome a five-run second inning that produced all of San Diego’s runs. Tatis went 4-for-6 with a homer in the brief series, and he is now 11-for-28 with four homers and a 7/7 K/BB ratio in the postseason during his career. The Padres will move on to face the Dodgers in the NLDS.

Higashioka started both games of the Wild Card series over Elias Díaz, and the Padres seem fully committed to him as their regular at this point. He’s 7-for-31 with three homers over four different postseasons, having previously split time with Gary Sánchez and Jose Trevino with the Yankees.

Harris hit a two-run homer off Jason Adam in the eighth to bring the Braves within one run, but that was the end of the scoring on the night. It’s obviously not the outcome Harris wanted, but it had to be a bit of a confidence builder personally, considering that he went 1-for-14 and 0-for-13 in his previous two postseasons. He was 5-for-8 this time around.

David Peterson will be ready to contribute behind him, if needed. Quintana is 0-1 with a 3.86 ERA in four starts and one relief appearance in the postseason in his career.

He was pulled with a 5-1 lead in the fourth inning tonight. Assuming that Musgrove misses additional time, Yu Darvish and Martín Pérez will round out the Padres’ four-man rotation going forward. It’s definitely a big loss, but with the way Pérez has thrown, it might not be a fatal one.

Mitchell hit the go-ahead shot off Phil Maton after Jackson Chourio tied the game with a homer earlier in the frame. It was Mitchell’s first career postseason homer after he was left off the Wild Card roster in 2023. He had previously entered the game as a pinch-runner, only to be caught stealing on a great throw from Francisco Alvarez. Milwaukee’s win means there will be at least one game on Thursday. Tobias Myers is expected to get the ball for Milwaukee, while the Mets will likely rely on Jose Quintana.

Montas’s own error led to the unearned runs, as an easy toss bounced off his glove as he was going to cover first in the second. Montas minimized the damage otherwise, giving up just the one earned run despite allowing six hits. Things looked rather bleak when Montas exited, but the Brewers pen pitched 5 1/3 scoreless innings in the comeback victory.

Manaea struck out four and walked none before leaving with a one-run lead. It was definitely his best postseason outing to date, even if it didn’t result in a win. He came in having gone 0-3 with a 15.26 ERA in two starts and one relief appearance lifetime in October. The first two of those were with the A’s, while the last came with the Padres in 2022.

Chourio homered off Sean Manaea to lead off the bottom of the first and later tied the game against Phil Maton in the eighth. Both were opposite field shots, with the first traveling 376 feet and the second going 398 feet. At 20, Chourio became the second youngest player ever with two homers in a postseason game. Andruw Jones had two in Game 1 of the 1996 World Series while still 19 years old.

That he gave up five runs also factored in, but these two things were probably connected, and while the Braves might have given Fried a chance to bounce back under other circumstances, they opted to go to Dylan Lee to begin the third tonight. Fried was drilled in the hip area by a Fernando Tatis Jr. comebacker in the first. He went on to escape a jam that inning, only to give up five runs in the next frame.