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Diamars 11 OctOber 2022
Musgrove pitches hometown Padres past Mets 6-0 and into NLDS

NEW YORK (AP) — With gest spenders won 101 games party inside their clubhouse
a magnificent perfor- — second-most in franchise — dancing and dousing each
mance on a memorable history — but were unable other with booze in a loud,
night in Padres history, to hold off Atlanta in the NL raucous celebration.
Joe Musgrove brought this East after sitting atop the di-
one home for San Diego vision for all but six days. Musgrove grew up a Padres
and really stuck it to the fan in the San Diego suburbs
New York Mets. Relegated to the wild-card and pitched the franchise’s
round, New York never fully first no-hitter last year in his
The big right-hander brushed recovered. Max Scherzer got second start with the team.
off chants of “Cheater!” after rocked in Game 1 and, after
a bizarre spot check by um- the Mets won Game 2 be- He was working on a one-
pires on the mound, pitching hind Jacob deGrom to stave hitter and warming up for the
his hometown Padres into off elimination, they mus- sixth inning Sunday when
the next round of the playoffs tered almost nothing against Mets manager Buck Show-
Sunday with seven innings of Musgrove and finished with alter came out of the dugout
one-hit ball in a 6-0 victory one lonely hit. and spoke to first base um-
over the listless Mets. Tuesday — ensuring the Pa- They won a first-round pire Alfonso Marquez.
dres will play in front of their matchup against St. Louis in No. 3 starter Chris Bassitt
Trent Grisham hit an RBI sin- home fans in the postseason their own ballpark with no lasted just four innings, giv- The six umps huddled and
gle and made a terrific catch for the first time in 16 years fans permitted after the pan- ing up three runs and three then went to the mound.
in center field that helped the when they return to Petco demic-shortened 2020 sea- hits with three costly walks to Marquez, the crew chief, felt
Padres take the best-of-three Park for Game 3. son before being swept in the batters near the bottom of the Musgrove’s glove, cap —
National League wild-card Division Series by the even- order. even his ears — searching for
series 2-1. Austin Nola and It was the fifth time the Pa- tual World Series champion any unauthorized sticky sub-
Juan Soto each had a two-run dres won a playoff series — Dodgers. Pete Alonso’s leadoff single in stances.
single. and they took this one with- the fifth and Starling Marte’s
San Diego advanced to face out star shortstop Fernando For the Mets, a scintillat- walk to start the seventh were Marquez said the umpires
the top-seeded Los Ange- Tatis Jr., sidelined all season ing season ended with a the only baserunners permit- “found nothing.”
les Dodgers in a best-of-five by a wrist injury and PED whimper at home in front of ted by Musgrove in his first
Division Series beginning suspension. empty seats. Baseball’s big- postseason start. He was 0-5 Musgrove was allowed to
with a 6.33 ERA in five previ- continue, and he worked a
ous starts against the Mets. 1-2-3 sixth punctuated by a
pointed gesture toward the
Robert Suarez and Josh New York dugout.
Hader finished up with per-
fect relief. After the final out, The spin rate was up on all
Padres players and coaches six of Musgrove’s pitches
gathered for happy hugs and Sunday.
handshakes on the field as a
small but vocal throng of San Musgrove has said he feels
Diego fans dressed in brown uncomfortable wearing his
and yellow cheered and Astros championship ring
chanted “Beat LA! Beat LA!” after their cheating scandal
behind the team’s dugout. rocked the sport. He said he
wants “one that feels earned”
Then the Padres took the with the Padres.

Red Bull guilty of ‘minor’ budget cap violation, FIA says

PARIS (AP) — Formula financial regulations” in 2021,
One team Red Bull was but that any sanctions would
found to have breached be announced at a later date.
budget regulations last Going over the budget cap by
season, with the sport’s less than 5% is considered a
governing body saying minor breach.
Monday it was guilty of
“minor” overspending. Aston Martin was also
considered to be in breach of
The FIA announced the the regulations.
verdict of its investigation
into whether some F1 teams “The FIA Cost Cap
had violated the spending Administration is currently
regulations in 2021, when determining the appropriate
Red Bull driver Max course of action to be
Verstappen won his first taken under the Financial
title on the last lap of the last Regulations with respect to
race. Verstappen clinched Aston Martin and Red Bull
his second straight title at and further information
the Japanese Grand Prix on will be communicated
Sunday. in compliance with the
Regulations,” the body said
The governing body said in a statement.
Red Bull was “considered to the aim of creating a more Ferrari and Red Bull. to $135 million for 2023,
be in procedural and minor F1 introduced a budget cap level playing field in F1 and to excluding driver salaries and
overspend breaches of the of $145 million last year with reduce the spending might of It was scaled down to $140 engine costs.
powerhouses like Mercedes, million for 2022 and drops