CHICAGO — The San Diego Padres will spend the offseason questioning what went unsuitable.
The high-spending Padres had been eradicated from postseason rivalry on Friday evening in spite of a 3-2 win over the Chicago White Sox, a finality that caused Manny Machado to provide teammates a postgame pep communicate.
“We did what we were supposed to do, but a little too late,” Machado stated. “We’re going to grow from this. … We’re capable of playing better baseball than we did this year.”
Juan Soto was once batting within the 7th inning when the Miami Marlins finished a 4-3 come-from-behind win at Pittsburgh for his or her 83rd win, making sure the Padres would now not get one of the crucial NL’s 3 wild-card berths.
In spite of profitable 12 in their week 14 video games, the Padres (80-80) may just now not conquer a most commonly slow efficiency via a star-filled crew that began the season with the most important leagues’ third-highest payroll at just about $258 million. A 1-9 skid in early Would possibly dropped the Padres beneath .500 — San Diego latter had a profitable file on Would possibly 10.
“We know we had a tough year and left a lot on the table,” supervisor Bob Melvin stated. “All we can do at this point in time is win games and create a good feeling.”
This marks simply the second one occasion within the wild-card day (since 1995) that the groups with the lead 3 payrolls (New York Mets, New York Yankees and Padres) all ignored the playoffs. It additionally came about in 2008 with the Yankees, Mets and Detroit Tigers.
Nick Martinez (6-4) allowed two hits in 5 scoreless innings with a season-high 8 strikeouts for San Diego.
“It’s disappointing,” Martinez stated. “There’s lessons to learn from this year; good lessons and bad lessons. Just remember this taste and come out with some hunger for next year.”
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