King sets tone with no-hit bid in Padres' 'beautiful night of baseball'

Michael King set the tone in San Diego with a dominant outing as the Padres routed the Cubs 8-0 in Game 1 of the National League Wild Card Series. King carried a no-hitter into the seventh inning before Nico Hoerner’s one-out single ended it. The performance marked the longest individual no-hit bid in the postseason since Aníbal Sánchez reached 7 2/3 innings for the Nationals in the 2019 NLCS. San Diego jumped early with a first-inning home run by Xander Bogaerts and another from Manny Machado, the first time the Padres hit two homers in the opening inning of a playoff game. The crowd at Petco Park, with Blink-182 playing in the eighth, erupted again when Joe Musgrove returned in relief after nearly two years, despite loading the bases.