{"id":873435,"date":"2026-10-07T02:22:14","date_gmt":"2026-10-07T02:22:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/873435\/"},"modified":"2026-10-07T02:22:14","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T02:22:14","slug":"padres-place-mason-miller-on-paternity-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/873435\/","title":{"rendered":"Padres Place Mason Miller On Paternity List"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Padres will not have their star closer available for tonight\u2019s must-win Game 3. Major League Baseball announced they\u2019ve approved Mason Miller\u2019s<\/a>\u00a0placement on the paternity list. He\u2019ll miss at least tonight\u2019s game and can be away for a maximum of three days if the Padres extend the series.<\/p>\n

Wandy Peralta<\/a> has been activated to the roster as a temporary replacement. Peralta will be active for tonight\u2019s game and could remain on the roster for Game 4 if Miller still isn\u2019t available. Once Miller makes his return, Peralta will be deactivated for the remainder of the series.<\/p>\n

Miller had a dominant season, leading the National League with 38 saves while turning in a 1.67 earned run average over 66 outings. He fanned almost half his opponents, comfortably leading baseball with a 47.4% strikeout rate. Miller tossed a scoreless frame with two strikeouts against the Cubs to complete a sweep in the Wild Card Series.<\/p>\n

That made it all the more impressive that the Brewers were able to get to Miller on Sunday. San Diego called upon the big righty for a two-inning save. Miller entered holding a 3-2 lead and tossed a perfect eighth inning. He returned for the ninth with a chance to even the series but walked three of the first five batters he faced.\u00a0Jackson Chourio<\/a> laced Miller\u2019s 40th pitch of the night into center field for a two-run, walk-off single that put the Padres on the brink of elimination.<\/p>\n

Last night\u2019s travel day and the must-win nature of today\u2019s game meant Miller probably would\u2019ve been available tonight despite the high pitch count. With he and his wife welcoming their first child (h\/t to Annie Heilbrunn of The San Diego Union-Tribune<\/a>), it\u2019s likely that\u00a0Adrian Morejon<\/a> would be the top choice for a save situation. Of course, the game script could require Craig Stammen to turn to Morejon earlier in a leverage situation.\u00a0Bradgley Rodriguez<\/a> and\u00a0Jason Adam<\/a> could be other options for a save if the Padres use Morejon in the middle innings.<\/p>\n

Peralta worked 77 1\/3 innings of 3.61 ERA ball during the regular season, albeit with an unimpressive 15.6% strikeout rate. Traditionally a ground-ball specialist, Peralta had a career-low 45.6% grounder mark this season. He was scratched for the Wild Card Series as well. Morejon and Yuki Matsui<\/a> are ahead of him as lefty relievers on the depth chart, and it\u2019d be a surprise if Peralta gets any work unless the Padres win comfortably enough to preserve their leverage arms for Game 4.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Padres will not have their star closer available for tonight\u2019s must-win Game 3. Major League Baseball announced…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":873436,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[37886,99,216703],"class_list":["post-873435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-mason-miller","tag-sports","tag-wandy-peralta"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=873435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873435\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/873436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=873435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=873435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=873435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}