Manny Machado and the San Diego Padres wrote their own Hollywood ending on the home field of their biggest rivals Tuesday night. San Diego stunned the Los Angeles Dodgers with a game-ending triple play to preserve a 4-2 victory over the NL West leaders that clinched a playoff spot for the Padres.

These Padres specialize in the dramatic. They win games they shouldn’t win. They’ve taken the NL West race to the wire, when nobody expected them to. But even by their standards, they turned that dram

The San Diego Padres clinched a playoff spot on Tuesday with a win against the Los Angeles Dodgers, making them the fourth National League team to secure their place in October. The Padres, who missed out on the postseason last year,