The San Diego Padres were banking on Yu Darvish's vast postseason experience to get them off to a good start in their winner-take-all National League Wild Card series against the Chicago Cubs at Wrigley Field. Alas, his stuff didn't match his resume and the Friars offense pulled another disappearing act in a 3-1 loss to the Cubs, bringing another Padres season to a disappointing end.

After working a quick 1st inning Darvish started the 2nd allowing two hits, plunked Carson Kelly with a pitch, and gave up an RBI single to Pete Crow-Armstrong to make it 1-0 Cubs. With the bases loaded and nobody out manager Mike Shildt pulled Darvish and went to Jeremiah Estrada, who walked Dansby Swanson to bring in a run before striking out Matt Shaw and getting Michael Busch to ground into a double play,

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