{"id":463301,"date":"2026-09-14T12:06:38","date_gmt":"2026-09-14T12:06:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/463301\/"},"modified":"2026-09-14T12:06:38","modified_gmt":"2026-09-14T12:06:38","slug":"first-round-preference-san-diego-padres","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/463301\/","title":{"rendered":"First round preference: San Diego Padres"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Earlier this week, we asked you to choose your preferred first round opponent for the Phillies. Your responses were this:<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">It\u2019s not surprising that the Padres would be the choice. It has always felt like the Phillies have played them well, regardless of where it is. Were those games to come to fruition, it would likely be in Philadelphia where the Phillies have dominated them in the past five years, going 12-4.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Based on how they have been lately against teams that have winning records, it\u2019s really not surprising that people would want to avoid the top tier of the National League until they absolutely have to.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Earlier this week, we asked you to choose your preferred first round opponent for the Phillies. Your responses&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":463302,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[182443,74,76,75],"class_list":["post-463301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-phillies-discussion","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=463301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463301\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/463302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=463301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=463301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=463301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}