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The Padres enter an elimination game after going down 0-2 to the Dodgers in the NLDS.
After finishing the 2019 season with a 70-92 record, amidst all the injuries and underperformances, there was a sense that the Padres organization was on the cusp of being very good for a very long time. And the shortened 2020 schedule proved that to be true, but the Friars had terrible luck at the worst time.
With both Dinelson Lamet and Mike Clevinger going down right before the regular season ended, they needed both of them to make a deep postseason run.