{"id":182821,"date":"2025-10-01T15:31:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T15:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/182821\/"},"modified":"2025-10-01T15:31:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T15:31:07","slug":"mlb-wild-card-live-updates-scores-and-latest-from-todays-games-starting-with-tigers-vs-guardians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/182821\/","title":{"rendered":"MLB Wild Card live updates: Scores and latest from today\u2019s games, starting with Tigers vs. Guardians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The sudden pop of back-to-back home runs by Seiya Suzuki and Carson Kelly lifted the Chicago Cubs to a 3-1 victory on Tuesday afternoon at Wrigley Field, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/6677658\/2025\/09\/30\/cubs-padres-tigers-guardians-score-results-takeaways-mlb-playoffs\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">pushing the San Diego Padres to the brink of playoff elimination<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The crowd of 39,114 remained relatively subdued through four innings as Chicago\u2019s offense stayed quiet against Padres starter Nick Pivetta. And then Suzuki and Kelly flipped Game 1 of this National League Wild Card Series with two huge swings.<\/p>\n<p>The last time the Cubs hit back-to-back homers in the playoffs was during their 2016 dream season, when Miguel Montero and Dexter Fowler did it against the Los Angeles Dodgers in Game 1 of the NL Championship Series.<\/p>\n<p>Now that the 162-game marathon has turned into a sprint, the Padres must quickly regroup or else their season could end on the first day of October.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The sudden pop of back-to-back home runs by Seiya Suzuki and Carson Kelly lifted the Chicago Cubs to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":182822,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,591,85],"class_list":["post-182821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182821\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/182822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}