{"id":163113,"date":"2025-09-23T05:59:05","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T05:59:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/163113\/"},"modified":"2025-09-23T05:59:05","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T05:59:05","slug":"freddy-fermins-11th-inning-single-sends-padres-into-the-playoffs-with-win-over-brewers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/163113\/","title":{"rendered":"Freddy Fermin’s 11th-inning single sends Padres into the playoffs with win over Brewers"},"content":{"rendered":"

SAN DIEGO (AP) \u2014 Freddy Fermin<\/a> singled in automatic runner Bryce Johnson<\/a> with one out in the 11th inning and the San Diego Padres<\/a> beat the three-time NL Central champion Milwaukee Brewers<\/a> 5-4 Monday night to clinch their fourth playoff berth in six seasons.<\/p>\n

Fermin, acquired from Kansas City at the trade deadline on July 31, drove the first pitch he saw from Grant Anderson<\/a> to center field. He tossed his bat aside and then tossed his helmet as he approached first base, setting off a wild celebration in front of a sellout crowd of 42,371 at Petco Park.<\/p>\n

The Padres pulled within 2 1\/2 games of the idle Los Angeles Dodgers<\/a> in the NL West race and 2 1\/2 games behind the idle Chicago Cubs<\/a> in the race for the National League\u2019s first of three wild card spots.<\/p>\n

The Brewers (95-62) clinched their third straight division title on Sunday and are headed to the playoffs for the seventh time in eight seasons. They are trying to clinch the NL\u2019s No. 1 seed.<\/p>\n

Jose Iglesias<\/a> bunted Johnson to third before Fermin delivered the winning hit. <\/p>\n

Each team scored a run in the 10th. The Padres left the bases loaded in their half of the inning. <\/p>\n

Three-time batting champion Luis Arraez<\/a> singled in the tying run with two outs in the seventh and emphatically pumped his fists toward the dugout on his bobblehead night. <\/p>\n

The Padres had fallen behind 3-1 in the second before Iglesias started the comeback with a leadoff homer in the fifth off ace Freddy Peralta<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Key moment<\/p>\n

Padres second baseman Jake Cronenworth<\/a> had a hand in all three outs in the 11th. He started a rundown that erased automatic runner Andruw Monasterio<\/a> at third base and then with the bases loaded fielded Jackson Chourio<\/a>\u2019s grounder to start a 4-3 double play. <\/p>\n

Key stat<\/p>\n

Arraez has driven in at least one run in four of the last five games with runners in scoring position.<\/p>\n

Up next<\/p>\n

Brewers LHP Bruce Zimmermann, selected Saturday from Triple-A Nashville, is expected to start against Padres RHP Randy V\u00e1squez (5-7, 3.94).<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

AP MLB: https:\/\/apnews.com\/MLB<\/p>\n

Bernie Wilson, The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN DIEGO (AP) \u2014 Freddy Fermin singled in automatic runner Bryce Johnson with one out in the 11th…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":163114,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":["post-163113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163113\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/163114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}