Good morning,

The interminable inevitability has come to pass.

The Padres clinched their spot in the playoffs.

It happened last night in one of the most 2025 Padres ways it could have.

They came back twice to win by one run in 11 innings after their sixth relief pitcher of the night escaped a jam and a player who neither began the season with the team nor started the game drove in a runner who had been moved over by a sacrifice bunt.

“This has been a tough road for this club,” Mike Shildt said as he stood in the middle of the Padres clubhouse addressing his players before they began spraying champagne and beer all over each other and pretty much every inch of the place. “This has not been an easy road at all. … This has been a grindy son of a b—h. And you guys are tough dawgs. You guy

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