After four thrilling, sometimes nausea inducing games, it all comes down the Game 5 between the two best teams in the league.

Garvey’s blast off Lee Smith in the bottom of the ninth inning on Oct. 6, 1984, was a transformational moment for a franchise that 40 years later is still looking for another one. That is the kind of moment that awaits the 2024 Padres on Friday. The Padres had to win the next day after Garvey’s historic blast to take the series from the Cubs.

The showdown between Los Angeles Dodgers rookie Yoshinobu Yamamoto and San Diego Padres veteran Yu Darvish in Game 5 of the NLDS on Friday will mark the first matchup between Japanese-born pitchers in MLB postseason history.