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Virtually everything we talk about at this point has to be viewed through the lens of the playoffs.

In that light, it may prove incredibly important that the Padres won last night.

The victory made it still possible that they host the Cubs in next week’s wild-card series. (The Padres must win their remaining two games and have the Cubs lose their remaining two games. Otherwise, they will play at Wrigley Field.)

But also considering the playoffs, it was not great that Yu Darvish allowed two home runs and relied on outs on the bases to get out of three of his five innings last night.

That was the main focus of my game story ( here ) from the Padres’ 7-4 victory over the Diamondbacks.

Padres manager Mike Shildt seemed perplexed as to why there would be questions about Da

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