{"id":183792,"date":"2025-10-02T00:28:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T00:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/183792\/"},"modified":"2025-10-02T00:28:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T00:28:08","slug":"mlb-playoffs-2025-wild-card-scores-news-live-updates-as-guardians-padres-force-a-game-3-red-sox-look-to-advance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/183792\/","title":{"rendered":"MLB playoffs 2025: Wild card scores, news, live updates as Guardians, Padres force a Game 3, Red Sox look to advance"},"content":{"rendered":"

[Tuesday’s wild-card schedule<\/a> | Guardians-Tigers<\/a> | Padres-Cubs<\/a> | Live blog<\/a>]<\/p>\n

After an exciting first day of action<\/a>, the MLB playoffs are back in full force Wednesday. Eight teams once again take the field, fighting to advance or remain in contention for a World Series title. If Wednesday’s first game was any indication, fans are in for a fantastic day of baseball.<\/p>\n

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The Padres blanked the Cubs in Game 2 to force a deciding Game 3 on Thursday.<\/p>\n

San Diego came out with its back against the wall, down 1-0 to Chicago in this three-game wild-card series, and answered the call. Dylan Cease got things off to a solid start for the Padres, going 3 2\/3 innings while giving up 3 hits and 0 runs and striking out 5 batters.<\/p>\n

The Padres’ offense did its part, scoring in the first inning on a Jackson Merrill sacrifice fly that brought in Fernando Tatis Jr. and tacking on with a fifth-inning blast from Manny Machado that made it 3-0. The Cubs\u2019 bats had no pop Wednesday, as they managed just four hits in the contest.<\/p>\n

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Chicago went through six pitchers in the game, with Shota Imanaga relieving opener Andrew Kittredge and lasting 4 innings while giving up 2 earned runs on 3 hits, with 3 strikeouts on 67 pitches.<\/p>\n

Mason Miller was brilliant in 1 2\/3 relief innings for San Diego, notching five straight strikeouts and the fastest postseason pitch<\/a> in pitch-tracking history. Robert Suarez finished off the game with a four-out save, giving up just one hit on 18 pitches.<\/p>\n

In the MLB postseason, an unknown player can become a legend with one swing. Despite being the No. 9 hitter, it was Brayan Rocchio who rose to the occasion Wednesday<\/a> and lifted the Guardians in Game 2. In what \u2014 to that point \u2014 had been a game bereft of offense, Rocchio smacked a 99.9-mph fastball from Troy Melton into the right-field bleachers for a go-ahead solo home run in the bottom of the eighth.<\/p>\n

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That hit sparked a Guardians rally. Steven Kwan added a double, and Daniel Schneemann followed with a double of his own to give the Guardians a late 3-1 lead. A few batters later, Bo Naylor smacked a three-run homer to put the game out of reach. Guardians closer Cade Smith kept the Tigers off the board in the ninth to secure the 6-1 victory.<\/p>\n

Until that offensive explosion, it was a tight, low-scoring affair in Game 2. That should make for an excellent winner-take-all Game 3 on Thursday.<\/p>\n

Follow along with Yahoo Sports as we cover all the action on Day 2 of the 2025 MLB playoffs.<\/p>\n

MLB playoff bracket, wild-card schedule for Game 2<\/p>\n

No. 3 Cleveland Guardians 6, <\/a>No. 6 Detroit Tigers 1<\/a>
No. 5 San Diego Padres 3, No. 4 Chicago Cubs 0<\/a>
No. 5 Boston Red Sox vs. No. 4 New York Yankees<\/a>, live on ESPN
No. 6 Cincinnati Reds vs. No. 3 Los Angeles Dodgers<\/a>, 9:08 p.m. ET on ESPN<\/p>\n

MLB wild card Game 2 live blog<\/p>\n

Follow along with Yahoo Sports for live updates, highlights and more as the wild-card round continues Wednesday:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"[Tuesday’s wild-card schedule | Guardians-Tigers | Padres-Cubs | Live blog] After an exciting first day of action, the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":183793,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[33140,64,63,102026,5156,117619,16828,5158,5257,5258,105111,5260,6108,54362,16077,1187,54363,10682,591,107381,2704,33451,5886,1189,16073,85,16082,117618,117620,92227],"class_list":["post-183792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-andrew-kittredge","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-bo-naylor","tag-boston-red-sox","tag-brayan-rocchio","tag-cade-smith","tag-chicago-cubs","tag-cincinnati-reds","tag-cleveland-guardians","tag-daniel-schneemann","tag-detroit-tigers","tag-dylan-cease","tag-fernando-tatis-jr","tag-jackson-merrill","tag-los-angeles-dodgers","tag-manny-machado","tag-mason-miller","tag-mlb","tag-mlb-postseason","tag-new-york-yankees","tag-robert-suarez","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-padres","tag-shota-imanaga","tag-sports","tag-steven-kwan","tag-the-cubs","tag-troy-melton","tag-wild-card"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183792","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=183792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183792\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/183793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}