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I'm Kim.

Today is Thursday, September 26, 2024. And we begin with bottom of the ninth drama and an unprecedented

outcome in Major League Baseball on Tuesday night the San Diego Padres became

the first team in MLB history to clinch a playoff spot with a game-ending triple play.

With no outs, runners on first and second, and newly minted 50 slugger

Shohay O'Tani on deck, Dodger Miguel Rojas

grounded to Padre's third baseman,

Manny Machado, who started a rocket fire

around the horn triple play.

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