September 30, 2025 • 11 mins
In this episode of the Dingers Podcast, we break down all the key moments from the Cubs’ big Game 1 win over the Padres in the NL Wild Card Series. From clutch hits to standout pitching performances, we recap everything that went right at Wrigley Field. Then, we turn our focus to Game 2, discussing the matchups, what the Cubs need to do to keep the momentum rolling, and the adjustments the Padres might make to stay alive. Can the Cubs close it out, or are we heading to a decisive Game 3? Tune in for all the playoff talk, analysis, and fan perspective you expect from Dingers.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
You're listening to The Dinger's Podcast, presented to you by
Tap Sports Network with your host Mitch, Jeff and Kevis.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Great to talk to the Cubs. All I need.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
God Dingers podcast is I'm their I'm your host, Mitch.
The Cubs take Game one versus the Padres three to one.
A great game at Wrigley Field.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
I am driving home from work after the game.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
What a great name, what a great way to start
the playoffs. Uh, we were in.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
A battle there for the first couple of innings.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
Uh. They pushed a runoff Bill Guards to the double,
Meryll with the double to drive or Meryl with the double.
Then Billguards to the double to drive in Meryl, but
they strained him at at third base. Uh, boyd were
did it out of the gym look good, looks sharp,
and Paveta was looking absolutely dominate his fastball at the
(01:08):
top of the zone. Cupstairs were really fooled by as
Austin fizz up but fastball up of the zone.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
He got a couple higher strike calls and.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
We were we were swinging already that me and PCA
look stilly into that bat.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
Cal Tucker's time he looked off.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
Uh, look pretty bleak there for a little bit, especially
when you know that the Potter's bullpen is waiting for you.
And we got to see that a little bit today
even though we were up, but we found a way
say y'all freaking Sayzuki gets on top of the ball,
stay hot, say because we're gonna need you hit the
(01:49):
home run.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
And that just kind of.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
Broke the tension because right after that, Carson Kelly hits
the olbron.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
They go back to him, back, let's go, and we're
up two.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
Make the move to Palencia, Glencia throwing gasts I'm a chado,
just burning him and then gets him out of back
door curveball.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
Just beautiful. But our bullpen from Palencia to U Kittrich.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
From the Pomerants and then Keller like our bullpen was
nails today. Nails, that's what we need. We showed that
we have a great bullpen as well. Yeah, we don't
have the Mason Millers that do that guy like, I
don't know how hitters hit off him, and that's probably
(02:37):
why they haven't this because he throws sliders at at
eighty nine that are wicked and then he gets you
with one hundred and three.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
You got no chance. Uh So if if we're down
and we know that.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
With with Mason Miller waiting, and they have some other
guys too that are really good, that we're gonna have
a bittle bell. That's why scoring those runs there in
the fifth, Like we need to get runs before the
fifth inning.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
Tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
Let's put it away tomorrow because I walk the Brewers.
I want the Brewers back. Uh.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
What great game. And then we add on in the eight. Gosh,
Nico freaking Horner.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
There's nobody on this team you trust in those situations.
No one you trust more than Nico Orner to get
a base hit or to hit a fly ball, sack fly,
doing the things that we need to do. I will
give it props to Matt Shaw, great sack fly or
sack bunt.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
To move runner over. Uh. Just the little things we
played sound to baseball. Defense was good. Danzy played a
great shortstop.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
Uh Dansny had a good game at the plate too,
like he was on the first of that like a
bush will hit a ball all the way to the
warring track.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
Just some great baseball Cubs played a great.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
Name even though like they're second, third, fourth, and then
you're like, oh man, this is gonna be tough, but
we we we we did the things that we need
to do to push the runs across, to score when
we needed to score.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
And going into tomorrow, you have to feel good.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
Yes, Dylan Ceese has absolutely owned the Chicago Cubs owned
the Chicago Cups.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
We do not have good stats against uh, Dylan Cease.
But I feel good with Imanaga and I think I
think they're gonna do a start. They haven't named it yet.
I don't know, maybe they have, I know councils. Having
his press conference right now, I believed I couldn't watch that.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
But like.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
I think iman idol left handed.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
You you see that the pottery struggle kidding against lefties.
They struggled with power rance, they struggle against boyd uh
even like Merrill's ball they hit down the line like
he hit barrel.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
That ball up the win. Ball that was hit hard
today by the Padres was Bogart's double. That was a
good hit. Everything else saw contact.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
And so going into tomorrow, you're looking like, let's just
repeat same line up, get it out there. I would
like to see moyce'ss sterios getting in at bat for Tucker.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
Tucker's timing is just off. He does not have his
timing down to be able to oh help this team.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
Like the second time Verse Pavett, I felt like or
third time three, I felt like they should have put.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
Boy a stereo said the DH. That's just me.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
Maybe he'll get a chance tomorrow. I just think he
has better back to ball skills. I think late in
game they're gonna use him, especially if it's a tie
game or if they're down and they have an opportunity
to push a run across.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
There's guys on base. Boys sterios is getting it that
at bat.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
I feel totally calfit that Colse's gonna make that move
when needed to get a run in, just because Boyss
can can handle the bat a little bit better right now.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
And I think it's just his timing's off. Call Tedder's time, he's.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
Not there, like.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
It just isn't like and it's gonna take some time.
Like he was hurt. I don't know what he did
to how he I know they said he couldn't run,
but he was throwing and hitting. I don't know how
much he is hit. So I would like boys to
us to get some at bats.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
But man, I feel good about tomorrow, Evenaga is gonna
be I think even Aga is gonna shine under the lights,
That's what I think. Yes, he might give up a
run or two, he might give up a home run,
but like the man, it might be the perfect picture
because that's all he gives up his home runs for
(06:48):
his runs, then gives up Potter's don't hit a lot
of home runs, So maybe that's what we need.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
Hopefully, if the.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
Wind is gonna be blowing in again tomorrow, plead as
well in eight hour nine mile hour in and so
hopefully we can see that again. Michael Bush's home our
ball this first at bat would have been gone if
it wasn't for the wind. By what a great, great
day to be a Cubs fan. We needed that as
(07:18):
a fan base, to get a win a home when
we haven't played at Wrigley with fans since twenty eighteen,
and then we.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
We get this like that's what we that's what we needed.
So I'm I'm.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
Shocked as we head into tomorrow that I think we're
gonna get a big day out of I'm gonna call
PCA PC struggled today, but I think.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
He's gonna get on. He's gonna get on cease.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
And I don't know what you do with with PCA
because Saligar full a light in game CD is defense.
But we need a better at fats out of PCA.
But I think he's gonna get on. I think Daisy
Swanson is gonna do what he's doing, and he's provided
(08:13):
some good at bads like today. I know he didn't
have a ton to show for it, but Dansby veteran
Ben there done that. He's a World Series champion. Like,
that's what we need out of our leaders. On the teeth,
Carson kelly Man for being his first postseason gay in
(08:39):
him doing that, getting on top of the high fastball
hitting just like a moonshot.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
There, like, let's freaking go. I'm all about it.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
Ah. I do not want to watch a game on
Thursday one because I'm a teacher.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
You not have to take tickets for a junior high
football game at four o'clock on Thursday. Well, today's game
didn't get over to it four thirty. That means that
I would miss the last half an hour. I ain't
missing it. I ain't missing a pitch. I watched it
in the game.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
Yes, during school, don't tell anybody some kids are watching
it with you. You But I think I made a Cubs
fan out of a kid. So I think I did
God's work, you know.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
So that's what we need from the Chicaugos.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
Let go Game two tomorrow, same time, same channel, lock.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
In, lock In.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
I started the day at school today walking through our
halls blaring gold Cups go and telling kids to lock in.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
It's playoff time. We live and die every pitch. It
was like it the.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
Feeling of twenty sixteen twenty seventeen, where you're like twenty eighteen,
like you're living and dieing every bitch.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
Twenty twenty it was like just weird. It was weird
season though that was the first year of our podcast.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
Was weird. But locking In it feels good like and
I I said this last night of the podcast, I
want to have a game at a regular time, during
school time, not during work time.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
Well, I can watch a game with my kids. So schkout, Cubbs.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
Let's wrap this series up tomorrow. End the Padres season.
And I think this is gonna end the Padres. They're
at a point where they're gonna have to make some
trades or make their sell off because they've spent so
much the last couple of years, they're gonna have to
do something. Their guys are getting older, so I think
(10:49):
we could just put the padres back into the cellar.
All the last who wanted to tomorrow by end again, but.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
Let's go Cubs. Great game, one, super fun.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
To watch, played a complete game. Can't say much better
than that. Can't say much more on that, so
Speaker 2 (11:14):
Thanks for listening and Google cups
You're listening to The Dinger's Podcast, presented to you by
Tap Sports Network with your host Mitch, Jeff and Kevis.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Great to talk to the Cubs. All I need.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
God Dingers podcast is I'm their I'm your host, Mitch.
The Cubs take Game one versus the Padres three to one.
A great game at Wrigley Field.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
I am driving home from work after the game.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
What a great name, what a great way to start
the playoffs. Uh, we were in.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
A battle there for the first couple of innings.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
Uh. They pushed a runoff Bill Guards to the double,
Meryll with the double to drive or Meryl with the double.
Then Billguards to the double to drive in Meryl, but
they strained him at at third base. Uh, boyd were
did it out of the gym look good, looks sharp,
and Paveta was looking absolutely dominate his fastball at the
(01:08):
top of the zone. Cupstairs were really fooled by as
Austin fizz up but fastball up of the zone.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
He got a couple higher strike calls and.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
We were we were swinging already that me and PCA
look stilly into that bat.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
Cal Tucker's time he looked off.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
Uh, look pretty bleak there for a little bit, especially
when you know that the Potter's bullpen is waiting for you.
And we got to see that a little bit today
even though we were up, but we found a way
say y'all freaking Sayzuki gets on top of the ball,
stay hot, say because we're gonna need you hit the
(01:49):
home run.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
And that just kind of.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
Broke the tension because right after that, Carson Kelly hits
the olbron.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
They go back to him, back, let's go, and we're
up two.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
Make the move to Palencia, Glencia throwing gasts I'm a chado,
just burning him and then gets him out of back
door curveball.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
Just beautiful. But our bullpen from Palencia to U Kittrich.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
From the Pomerants and then Keller like our bullpen was
nails today. Nails, that's what we need. We showed that
we have a great bullpen as well. Yeah, we don't
have the Mason Millers that do that guy like, I
don't know how hitters hit off him, and that's probably
(02:37):
why they haven't this because he throws sliders at at
eighty nine that are wicked and then he gets you
with one hundred and three.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
You got no chance. Uh So if if we're down
and we know that.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
With with Mason Miller waiting, and they have some other
guys too that are really good, that we're gonna have
a bittle bell. That's why scoring those runs there in
the fifth, Like we need to get runs before the
fifth inning.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
Tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
Let's put it away tomorrow because I walk the Brewers.
I want the Brewers back. Uh.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
What great game. And then we add on in the eight. Gosh,
Nico freaking Horner.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
There's nobody on this team you trust in those situations.
No one you trust more than Nico Orner to get
a base hit or to hit a fly ball, sack fly,
doing the things that we need to do. I will
give it props to Matt Shaw, great sack fly or
sack bunt.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
To move runner over. Uh. Just the little things we
played sound to baseball. Defense was good. Danzy played a
great shortstop.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
Uh Dansny had a good game at the plate too,
like he was on the first of that like a
bush will hit a ball all the way to the
warring track.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
Just some great baseball Cubs played a great.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
Name even though like they're second, third, fourth, and then
you're like, oh man, this is gonna be tough, but
we we we we did the things that we need
to do to push the runs across, to score when
we needed to score.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
And going into tomorrow, you have to feel good.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
Yes, Dylan Ceese has absolutely owned the Chicago Cubs owned
the Chicago Cups.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
We do not have good stats against uh, Dylan Cease.
But I feel good with Imanaga and I think I
think they're gonna do a start. They haven't named it yet.
I don't know, maybe they have, I know councils. Having
his press conference right now, I believed I couldn't watch that.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
But like.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
I think iman idol left handed.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
You you see that the pottery struggle kidding against lefties.
They struggled with power rance, they struggle against boyd uh
even like Merrill's ball they hit down the line like
he hit barrel.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
That ball up the win. Ball that was hit hard
today by the Padres was Bogart's double. That was a
good hit. Everything else saw contact.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
And so going into tomorrow, you're looking like, let's just
repeat same line up, get it out there. I would
like to see moyce'ss sterios getting in at bat for Tucker.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
Tucker's timing is just off. He does not have his
timing down to be able to oh help this team.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
Like the second time Verse Pavett, I felt like or
third time three, I felt like they should have put.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
Boy a stereo said the DH. That's just me.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
Maybe he'll get a chance tomorrow. I just think he
has better back to ball skills. I think late in
game they're gonna use him, especially if it's a tie
game or if they're down and they have an opportunity
to push a run across.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
There's guys on base. Boys sterios is getting it that
at bat.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
I feel totally calfit that Colse's gonna make that move
when needed to get a run in, just because Boyss
can can handle the bat a little bit better right now.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
And I think it's just his timing's off. Call Tedder's time, he's.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
Not there, like.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
It just isn't like and it's gonna take some time.
Like he was hurt. I don't know what he did
to how he I know they said he couldn't run,
but he was throwing and hitting. I don't know how
much he is hit. So I would like boys to
us to get some at bats.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
But man, I feel good about tomorrow, Evenaga is gonna
be I think even Aga is gonna shine under the lights,
That's what I think. Yes, he might give up a
run or two, he might give up a home run,
but like the man, it might be the perfect picture
because that's all he gives up his home runs for
(06:48):
his runs, then gives up Potter's don't hit a lot
of home runs, So maybe that's what we need.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
Hopefully, if the.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
Wind is gonna be blowing in again tomorrow, plead as
well in eight hour nine mile hour in and so
hopefully we can see that again. Michael Bush's home our
ball this first at bat would have been gone if
it wasn't for the wind. By what a great, great
day to be a Cubs fan. We needed that as
(07:18):
a fan base, to get a win a home when
we haven't played at Wrigley with fans since twenty eighteen,
and then we.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
We get this like that's what we that's what we needed.
So I'm I'm.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
Shocked as we head into tomorrow that I think we're
gonna get a big day out of I'm gonna call
PCA PC struggled today, but I think.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
He's gonna get on. He's gonna get on cease.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
And I don't know what you do with with PCA
because Saligar full a light in game CD is defense.
But we need a better at fats out of PCA.
But I think he's gonna get on. I think Daisy
Swanson is gonna do what he's doing, and he's provided
(08:13):
some good at bads like today. I know he didn't
have a ton to show for it, but Dansby veteran
Ben there done that. He's a World Series champion. Like,
that's what we need out of our leaders. On the teeth,
Carson kelly Man for being his first postseason gay in
(08:39):
him doing that, getting on top of the high fastball
hitting just like a moonshot.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
There, like, let's freaking go. I'm all about it.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
Ah. I do not want to watch a game on
Thursday one because I'm a teacher.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
You not have to take tickets for a junior high
football game at four o'clock on Thursday. Well, today's game
didn't get over to it four thirty. That means that
I would miss the last half an hour. I ain't
missing it. I ain't missing a pitch. I watched it
in the game.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
Yes, during school, don't tell anybody some kids are watching
it with you. You But I think I made a Cubs
fan out of a kid. So I think I did
God's work, you know.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
So that's what we need from the Chicaugos.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
Let go Game two tomorrow, same time, same channel, lock.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
In, lock In.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
I started the day at school today walking through our
halls blaring gold Cups go and telling kids to lock in.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
It's playoff time. We live and die every pitch. It
was like it the.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
Feeling of twenty sixteen twenty seventeen, where you're like twenty eighteen,
like you're living and dieing every bitch.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
Twenty twenty it was like just weird. It was weird
season though that was the first year of our podcast.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
Was weird. But locking In it feels good like and
I I said this last night of the podcast, I
want to have a game at a regular time, during
school time, not during work time.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
Well, I can watch a game with my kids. So schkout, Cubbs.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
Let's wrap this series up tomorrow. End the Padres season.
And I think this is gonna end the Padres. They're
at a point where they're gonna have to make some
trades or make their sell off because they've spent so
much the last couple of years, they're gonna have to
do something. Their guys are getting older, so I think
(10:49):
we could just put the padres back into the cellar.
All the last who wanted to tomorrow by end again, but.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
Let's go Cubs. Great game, one, super fun.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
To watch, played a complete game. Can't say much better
than that. Can't say much more on that, so
Speaker 2 (11:14):
Thanks for listening and Google cups
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