CHICAGO — Two pitches turned Nick Pivetta’s dominant start into a loss on Tuesday afternoon.

And truth be told, he only wanted one of them back: Seiya Suzuki’s fifth-inning homer on a 2-1, middle-in fastball for a 424-foot shot to tie the game.

As for the 2-2 fastball above the zone that Carson Kelly hit over the wall in left, “that’s a head-scratcher,” Pivetta said after the Padres’ 3-1 loss to the Cubs in Game 1 of the NL Wild Card Series.

“It’s a hats-off-to-him kind of situation,” Pivetta said. “He took a really interesting swing on the fastball before that, on the down-and-away (pitch). So I just figured attack him again with the fastball. He was able to put a good swing on it.”

Pivetta allowed just one other hit, a first-inning single that he stranded with two punchouts. After

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