San Diego Padres at Arizona Diamondbacks

The Padres evened their series in Arizona with a 9-4 victory on Tuesday night, moving back within a game of the D-backs for the final Wild Card spot in the National League. Here’s some reaction from Chase Field: **Back to a standard rotation?** “Pitching chaos” worked when it had to. For two weeks leading up to the Trade Deadline, the Padres got by using bullpen games to cover three-fifths of their rotation spots. They won enough of those games to justify buying at the Deadline -- then added Casey Mize and Robbie Ray. After a performance like this one from Randy Vásquez, it’s fair to wonder if the Padres might be done with that strategy entirely. Mize and Ray will join a rotation with Michael King and Walker Buehler already filling two spots. Vásquez, meanwhile, seems ready to re-assume his rotation place after a brief stint in the bullpen. He was excellent on Tuesday, allowing just two hits over six scoreless innings.