Where to watch Braves vs. Padres: MLB Wild Card schedule, TV channel, postseason baseball stream

The Major League Baseball playoffs begin Tuesday with the four best-of-three Wild Card Series. The No. 4 San Diego Padres began their set with a win against the No. 5 Atlanta Braves on Tuesday at Petco Park in San Diego. They will decide on the finisher on Wednesday.

Whichever team wins this series will then face the Los Angeles Dodgers in the best-of-five NL Division series.

Here is the Wild Card Series schedule:

Where to see

Date: Wednesday, Oct. 2 | Time: 8:38 p.m. ET
Location: Petco Park (San Diego)
Channel: ESPN2 | Electricity: Fubo (Try for free)
Likely throwers: RHP Joe Musgrove (6-5, 3.88 ERA) vs. LHP Max Fried (11-10, 3.25 ERA)
Opportunities: ATL +100 | SD -120; over/under: 6.5

The Padres start Joe Musgrove in Game 2 with the NLDS in their sights. After AJ Smith-Shawver's emergency start in Game 1, necessitated by Chris Sales' back problems that kept him off the Wild Card Series roster, Max Fried will look to keep the Braves' season alive.

Now here are the storylines for each team that you need to know ahead of the Wild Card Series.

Brave: Atlanta hasn't secured a postseason berth until the 162nd game, and to put it mildly, their pitching is a mess right now. There will be no sales in the Wild Card Series and Max Fried will not be able to pitch on normal rest until Game 2. Reynaldo López, who started Game 1, pitched one inning out of the bullpen on Monday. Therefore, Smith-Shawver and perhaps Bryce Elder were given the nod to start the series. The Braves are reaching the limits of their pitching depth and will of course be without key players Ronald Acuña Jr. and Austin Riley. Both are out for the season due to injuries. After Monday's doubleheader, the Braves had to fly across the country to San Diego, so they will be a tired team lacking weapons. But they're in the postseason, and once you're in, you have a chance to win the World Series.

Padres: No team finished the regular season hotter than the Padres. San Diego has gone 43-19 in their last 62 games, a 122-win pace, and on paper they're awfully impressive. Cease, Darvish, King and Musgrove make up a formidable rotation, the bullpen is the deepest and strongest in baseball, and the lineup is sneakily deep with power and a ton of contact ability. Padres hitters struck out in just 17.6% of their plate appearances this season, by far the lowest rate in baseball. The Astros were a distant second with 19.3%. The Padres prevailed early and will go into the Wild Card Series rested. That doesn't guarantee anything, but it puts them in a good position for the series.