San Diego Padres vs Cleveland Guardians Prediction: Padres are favored

Thursday's Major League Baseball action from Petco Park features a matchup between the Cleveland Guardians and the San Diego Padres. This will be the second game in a trilogy consisting of three total entries. The Padres took the first game of the series on Tuesday and won by a score of three runs. 

Over the course of the weekend, the San Diego Padres were successful in winning two of three matches against the Colorado Rockies. The San Diego Padres scored five runs in the first two innings of their game on Tuesday, which helped them win. In the start, Joe Musgrove worked for six innings, allowing three earned runs on seven hits while walking one batter. The San Diego Padres have a record of 3-9 in their past 12 games played in game two of a series, and they have a record of 11-4 in their last five games played on Thursday. The total has gone under in eight of San Diego's last nine games played on Thursday.

This past weekend, the Cleveland Guardians competed against the Astros and emerged victorious in two of the three games. On Tuesday night against the Padres, Cleveland fell by a score of 6-3 despite having more hits (9-8) than their opponent. Tanner Bibee, who started the game, went four innings, allowed six earned runs on eight hits, and walked two batters. The Cleveland Guardians have a record of 19-9 in their last 28 games played on Thursday and a record of 4-9 in their last 13 games played against teams from other leagues. The Cleveland Guardians have a losing record of 0-8 in their previous eight attempts in game two of a series.

Regardless of the outcome, we should have a good opening skirmish here nonetheless. Wacha just finished a win against Seattle in which he pitched 6.0 scoreless innings, allowing only two hits and one walk. Regarding Civale, in his most recent two outings, he has allowed just two earned runs on eight hits while walking four batters for a total of 10.2 innings pitched. The Padres were able to get to Bibee early in their game against the Guardians on Tuesday, but they were unable to get much going against the Guardians bullpen (4.0 innings; no hits, no earned runs; one walk; three strikeouts). In this situation, San Diego is going to need to play their best game possible, but I still believe they will prevail.