{"id":922078,"date":"2026-10-05T23:40:15","date_gmt":"2026-10-05T23:40:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/922078\/"},"modified":"2026-10-05T23:40:15","modified_gmt":"2026-10-05T23:40:15","slug":"padres-dismiss-mason-miller-pitch-tipping-speculation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/922078\/","title":{"rendered":"Padres dismiss Mason Miller pitch-tipping speculation"},"content":{"rendered":"

SAN DIEGO \u2014 Although the San Diego Padres<\/a> have plenty of concerns in the face of playoff elimination, they don’t believe Mason Miller tipping his pitches is one of them.<\/p>\n

Padres manager Craig Stammen dismissed the widespread online speculation after Game 2 of the NL Division Series that the Milwaukee Brewers could tell what was coming from San Diego’s vaunted closer when they rallied for two runs and a 4-3 victory in the ninth inning.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve got a crew of people that are dedicated to that every single day,\u201d Stammen said Monday at Petco Park. \u201cThat is their sole job. We\u2019re well aware of what\u2019s going on with our pitchers, well aware of what\u2019s going on with the Brewers pitchers and how they do things. It\u2019s part of our daily (regimen). The internet can go crazy and take things farther than they need to go. We feel good about our process within that situation.\u201d<\/p>\n

But the Padres are still smarting from Miller’s blown save, which put them in an 0-2 series hole.<\/p>\n

The All-Star closer threw only 21 of his 40 pitches for strikes over his two innings. The disciplined Brewers repeatedly laid off his sliders and errant fastballs while stringing together three walks in the ninth, followed by Jackson Chourio’s two-out, two-strike, two-run single that won the game.<\/p>\n

While Stammen didn’t flat-out confirm the Padres are sure Miller wasn’t tipping pitches, the manager downplayed the importance of the whole discussion.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve got a lot of guys on top of it, and we\u2019re not really worried about it,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Even while facing a possible quick end to their 91-win season, the Padres can take confidence from the fact they were one strike away from splitting the first two games with the majors’ best regular-season team.<\/p>\n

Heck, many fans believe they were one strike and one roof cable away from claiming two wins in Milwaukee.<\/p>\n

Instead, the Padres are on the brink of winter as they welcome the Brewers to Petco, where San Diego was largely outstanding all season. Game 3 is Tuesday night.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s not an easy job,\u201d Padres slugger Manny Machado said. \u201cIt\u2019s a tough road. You\u2019ve got to deal with a lot of adversity. Here we are once again with our backs against the wall. We\u2019ve overcome it once, and we can do it again \u2014 and we\u2019re going to do it again.\u201d<\/p>\n

Nick Pivetta takes the mound for the Padres in their must-win game, and the veteran right-hander is grateful to be in this situation after he missed nearly five months of the regular season with a right elbow injury. San Diego’s opening-day starter didn’t pitch in the majors between April 12 and Sept. 7 while working his way back.<\/p>\n

Pivetta believes the Padres have a roster capable of pulling off a comeback that’s been managed by only 10 of the 93 MLB teams to fall behind 0-2 in a best-of-five series.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have a bunch of professionals in this room, a lot of really great players who have played in amazing games, who have World Series rings, that you can rely on in these moments,\u201d said Pivetta, who pitched one-run ball into the fourth inning of their Wild Card Series-clinching win over the Cubs last week. \u201cJust coming together as a group is what I look forward to, and seeing us succeed as a group is going to be very special.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dustin May starts Game 3 for Milwaukee, and the Padres’ veterans know him better than most starters thanks to his several years with the rival Los Angeles Dodgers.<\/p>\n

San Diego has faced May in 16 previous appearances since 2019. May faced the Padres three previous times this season, even throwing a one-hitter against San Diego for the Cardinals in June.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve had some history with May, but we\u2019ve got to stick to our strengths, stick to what we\u2019ve been doing,\u201d Machado said. \u201cUltimately it\u2019s about getting that big hit in those big moments, and if we can, we\u2019ll be all right.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN DIEGO \u2014 Although the San Diego Padres have plenty of concerns in the face of playoff elimination,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":922079,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":["post-922078","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\/922078","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=922078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/922078\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/922079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=922078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=922078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=922078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}