Padres, Cubs and Phillies enter final days with three different wild-card advantages originally appeared on The Sporting News. Add The Sporting News as a Preferred Source by clicking here. The National League wild-card race is no longer just about getting in. The order in which teams finish could decide where they play next week.

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“It was very important to us,” Chris Gwynn recalled Wednesday by phone. Gwynn lined a two-run double in the 11th inning, scoring Steve Finley and Ken Caminiti. Trevor Hoffman then struck out L.A.’s Chad Curtis to touch off the celebration.

The San Diego Padres’ record-setting change in ownership cleared its biggest remaining hurdle Monday. Major League Baseball owners unanimously approved the new ownership group led by José E. Feliciano and his wife and business partner, Kwanza Jones ...

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The San Diego Padres are here to stay. They only need one more win (and one Arizona Diamondbacks loss) to clinch the postseason on Tuesday night versus the Los Angeles Dodgers. Th