{"id":1926923,"date":"2026-08-07T00:38:17","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T04:38:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1926923"},"modified":"2026-08-07T03:14:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T07:14:07","slug":"padres-beat-diamondbacks-5-1-to-close-within-a-game-in-nl-wild-card-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1926923","title":{"rendered":"Padres beat Diamondbacks 5-1 to close within a game in NL wild-card race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PHOENIX (AP) \u2014 Jackson Merrill and Ty France both had two hits and an RBI, four relievers combined for five scoreless innings and the San Diego Padres beat the Arizona Diamondbacks 5-1 on Thursday night to improve their position in the National League playoff race.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wral.com\/news\/ap\/827f3-padres-beat-diamondbacks-5-1-to-close-within-a-game-in-nl-wild-card-race\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here to read the full article<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PHOENIX (AP) \u2014 Jackson Merrill and Ty France both had two hits and an RBI, four relievers combined for five scoreless innings and the San Diego&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":1926924,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1926923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured-stories","wpcat-79-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1926923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1926923"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1926923\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1926925,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1926923\/revisions\/1926925"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1926924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1926923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1926923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1926923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}