I sincerely hope you’re reading this because you didn’t stay up to watch the game.
Simply put, it was a tale of two lineups.
The Padres’ lineup grinded Guardians starting pitcher Aaron Civale into dust. He threw 95 pitches in 3.2 innings. To his credit, Civale only allowed a pair of solo home runs to Fernando Tatis Jr. and Manny Machado, both of which barely cleared the wall in left field. But he labored through nearly every at-bat, walking a batter in each of the first four innings. Civale exited with seven strikeouts to his name, but the Padres made him earn every one of those punch-outs.