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Padres notes: loving the playoff look; pitching plans; Profar epitomized Friday’s discipline

How crazy is this season?

They changed the playoff format just a few hours before the first pitch was thrown in Washington, D.C., on Thursday.

Padres manager Jayce Tingler said he would have to wait to possibly have much opinion on the expansion from five to eight teams in each league making the postseason.

“Nothing changes for us,” he said. “It truly doesn’t. It’s the focus of day-to-day. We’ll look up at the end of 60 games. If it does anything, at the end of those 60 days it may allow for a little more breathing room.