It wasn’t surprising when Padres manager Mike Shildt told the media Michael King, Joe Musgrove and Dylan Cease were getting the starts in the Wild Card series. But what was a little surprising was that they’re pitching in that order.
King (2.95 ERA) has been the most consistent starter this season and was next up out of those three to pitch since he didn’t throw over the weekend in Arizona so that makes sense. However, he had the bullpen experience that Yu Darvish didn’t so perhaps they’d go with Darvish in one of the games and have King there in case one of the starters didn’t have it out of the gate.