The Atlanta Braves can look ahead to 2025 and put an injury-plagued season to bed.

Kyle Higashioka homered and Manny Machado and Jackson Merrill added two RBIs apiece during a five-run second inning in what may have been Max Fried’s last Braves start to help the San Diego Padres clinch their National League wild-card series with a 5-4 victory over the visiting Braves in Game 2 of their best-of-three series Wednesday night.

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