As it had seemed would be the case for some time, the Padres found out Saturday they will begin the postseason away from San Diego.

“Road warriors,” Ryan O’Hearn said Saturday afternoon. “We’re going to Chicago to win.”

They might have to do it with a new backup catcher and with a pitching plan that seems tenuous.

But they know where they will have to do it.

The Cubs teased the Padres by losing six of their seven games between last week and this one, making it seem possible Petco Park would be where the two teams faced off in a best-of-three series beginning Tuesday.

But it was never probable.

All it did was delay the Padres packing.

“When you looked at it, they had a home game and had to lose the next two,” Gavin Sheets said. “For me, I had in my head that we were going to Wrigley.

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