Padres bats go quiet in game 1, ruin Darvish's brilliant start
The Padres dropped game 1 of the NLCS to the Phillies despite pitching well and playing good defense. These things happen when you don't score any runs.
Welp, it happened. The San Diego Padres were favorites instead of underdogs for the first time all playoffs and they seemed to lack urgency in game 1 of the National League Championship Series. Either that or they were just completely overwhelmed by a great game from Philadelphia Phillies SP Zack Wheeler.
Two things are definitely true. One, you can’t win a baseball game without scoring a run and the Padres went scoreless. In fact, they only got 1 hit the entire game and it was a single from Wil Myers. Two, Yu Darvish was brilliant and nobody will remember it because the team lost the game.
Darvish had one pretty-good pitch hit over the wall for a solo HR by Bryce Harper and one mistake pitch hit to the moon by Kyle Schwarber. Outside of that, he was unhittable in a way that the commentators were talking about all night long.
But we knew this Padres offense could go quiet at Petco Park and we probably should’ve expected it was going to happen in at least one game this postseason. Now it has and the Padres have less than 24 hours to put the pieces back together before facing another terrorizing pitcher: Austin Nola’s brother, Aaron Nola.
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