Padres Struggle Towards Postseason, Casey Mize's Impact

Uh, the Padres trying to win enough games to hold on and, uh, kind of shut out Arizona from the possibility of a postseason. Well, they're sending out Casey Mize and boy, oh boy, what a difference a league makes because him against the American league is one thing. The national league is not fair at all that well to him. And listen, the Nats can hit, we know this. Eight is the number, it is Petco, don't get me wrong, but I don't know, can runs be coming here? They certainly looked at what Casey Mize, you get to play this mediocre division of the AL central for, you know, two thirds of your starts or whatever it might be. He gets to beat up on them or at least tread water somewhat effectively to get himself traded. Since the start of August, Joe Casey Mize comes in with a six, six, seven ERA over 27 innings. He has five strikeouts for nine years, three walks for nine years up to 2.67 home runs per nine. It's fair to say that the Nats lineup isn't as good as it once was earlier in the season. But James Wood is back, CJ Abrams is in there, Dylan Cruz is there, Dylan Lyle is still there. They are beating up on righties, the Nats are, and they still have power despite the fact that they can swing and miss an absolute ton. There's still enough power in that line of defense and the Padres on the other side to your point is, can we get some runs in this? The Padres are as hot as can be, and the Nats bullpen is terrible. It's absolutely atrocious. If the Padres can't score runs against the Nats, they don't deserve to make the postseason. It's going to be so interesting to see how this plays out. It's going to be a sweat. I don't think it'll be easy.