Good morning from Milwaukee,

The Padres have come to believe in what Mike Shildt and A.J. Preller believe — that you can play postseason baseball for an entire regular season.

“I mean, you don’t, right?” Tyler Wade said of literally having the same level of intensity required in October for the six months leading into it. “Sometimes you don’t. But it’s just the mentality going into the game. Like, where you don’t have to flip the switch to get more in you. It’s just like, ‘All right, our switch is flipped.’ And then now you’re rolling.

“That’s just our game. We focus on the little things. …. We want to treat every game like it’s a playoff game. So when that crunch time comes, it’s just the same game and you don’t have to change the way you play.”

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