Padres' wild-card series roster will be built to try to cover every contingency in short series
“It’s just a two-game series,” Juan Soto said. “Just try to win those two games and move on; move on to the next level. That’s the mentality that we should have. Just go out there, don’t think to play three games, just to play two games and move on.”roster for their wild-card series, which begins Friday, will plan for the possibility of three games, which still makes setting a roster a far different exercise than during a 162-game season.
The Padres will need just three starting pitchers, but that doesn’t mean they won’t have four or even five on the roster. If they only carry 12 pitchers, they almost certainly cannot have both. If they did carry both, Craig Stammen would likely find himself off the roster. Grisham and Dixon began Monday’s 7-run eighth inning with consecutive doubles, but that marked the former’s first hit in his last 25 at-bats. Bell was hitless, extending his recent skid to 6-for-40. It wasn’t long ago both Nell and Grisham were in the starting lineup virtually every day. Now the Padres would just like them to get going enough to be viable options off the bench.They say it doesn’t matter which team they play.
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