Padres turn game-ending triple play to clinch a playoff spot.

The San Diego Padres celebrated a playoff berth on Tuesday night after successfully executing a triple play in the middle of the last inning to finish a 4-2 match against the Los Angeles Dodgers atop the National League West standings.

Last year, the team composed of Manny Machado and the Padres missed out on the playoffs, making the eighth postseason entry in the franchise’s history. With 5 fixtures left in the regular season, they can at least assure themselves of a wild card.

The Padres are two games behind L.A., with two more to play in their series at Dodger Stadium and chasing their first division championship since 2006. San Diego entered the meeting with a thumping 8-3 lead in the regular season encounters with the Dodgers and held the tiebreaker.

While the Padres were comfortably ahead by three runs in the ninth inning of the match on Tuesday night, Kiké Hernandez hit.

RBI single and closed the gap to 4-2, as well as putting the runners on the first and second bases.

Padres turn game-ending triple play

Miguel Rojas sent a grounder to Machado at third base, who stepped on the bag before completing the triple play and stepped on the bag to end the game.

It was the third time in 30 years that a game had ended with only the third recorded triple play and the first by the Padres since the franchise faced the Mets on June 10, 2010.

San Diego, which holds the best record in the Major League since the All-Star break (42-117), was the first team in baseball ever to get the Domonique O’Donovan award with a game-ending three outs.

The victory (91-66) broke the club’s streak of no more than 90 wins since 2010 and has ambitions to clinch the club’s maiden World Series trophy in memory of Peter Seidler, who was the team owner until and passed on at the age of 63 years last year.

Seidler’s loyalty and support were to the Dodgers. This is because he was Walter O’Malley, the former Brooklyn Dodgers owner who moved the team to the West Coast in 1958, grandson, and also to Peter O’Malley, who inherited the baseball team along with Seidler’s mother, Terry.

In 2022, the San Diego Padres snatched a wild card and made their way past the Mets and the Dodgers before becoming the unfortunate victims of the Philadelphia Phillies, who ended their NL title hope in the relevant finale.