On Thursday night, the Chicago Cubs punched their ticket to the NLDS after securing a 3-1 victory over the San Diego Padres. This game was very smooth-sailing for the Cubs for the most part, but the thousands of fans in attendance at Wrigley Field had to hold their breath for portions of the ninth inning, especially after Padres leadoff hitter Jackson Merrill hit a solo shot to trim the deficit to just two runs to start the bottom part of the inning.

After the Cubs rebounded to strike out Xander Bogaerts (in somewhat of a controversial manner), relief pitcher Brad Keller proceeded to hit two batters in a row, putting the tying run for the Padres on base. Nonetheless, Andrew Kittredge came in to save the day for the Cubs, as he forced a groundout from Jake Cronenworth (that moved the run

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