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Pads, Rockies set to play for wild card

  -- The Associated Press

DENVER (AP) The San Diego Padres and the Colorado Rockies finished the regular season tied for the wild card and will play one game tonight to determine who advances to play the Philadelphia Phillies in one National League Division Series starting Wednesday.

Tonight's playoff was set when the Padres were beaten by Milwaukee 11-6 yesterday and the Rockies stopped Arizona 4-3.

The one-game playoff is the first in baseball since the New York Mets beat Cincinnati in 1999. The Padres are going with 19-game winner Jake Peavy against Josh Fogg, who is 10-9.

The rest of the baseball postseason schedule looks like this:

The NL Central champion Chicago Cubs start Wednesday against West champ Arizona. The Cubs plan to start Carlos Zambrano against the D-Backs Brandon Webb in a matchup of 18-game winners.

Also Wednesday, it's AL West winner L.A. Angels visiting East champion Boston. The Angels go with 19-game winner John Lackey against the Red Sox 20-game winner Josh Beckett.

Thursday, the New York Yankees play at AL Central champion Cleveland. The Yanks are going with Chien-Ming Wang against the Tribe's C.C. Sabathia in a pairing of 19-game winners.

The National League batting race is going to extra innings. Matt Holliday went 1-for-3 on the final scheduled day of the regular season to leave his average at .340, three points higher than Chipper Jones' mark for Atlanta. But Holliday's Colorado Rockies forced a tiebreaker playoff against San Diego tonight that will count in the statistics.

In the American League, Detroit's Magglio Ordonez finished with a flourish, going 3-for-4 to wind up at .363.

Alex Rodriguez of the New York Yankees won his fifth AL home-run crown with 54. That's the third-most titles in AL history behind Babe Ruth's 11 and Harmon Killebrew's six.

Milwaukee's Prince Fielder won his first NL home-run crown with 50. He joined his father Cecil, who hit 51 for Detroit in 1990, to become the first father-son combo to both reach 50.

Rodriguez led the AL with 156 RBIs. Philadelphia's Ryan Howard led the NL with 136 RBIs.

A-Rod scored 143 runs, the most in the AL since Rickey Henderson's 146 in 1985. Philadelphia's Jimmy Rollins led the NL with 139.

Jose Reyes of the Mets led the major leagues with 78 steals, topping the NL for the third straight year. Tampa Bay's Carl Crawford and Baltimore's Brian Roberts tied for the AL lead with 50 steals.

San Diego's Jake Peavy has a 2.36 ERA going into Monday's tiebreaker and was set to win his second NL ERA title. John Lackey of the L.A. Angels won the AL ERA title at 3.01.

Boston's Josh Beckett went 20-7 to become the major leagues' first 20-game winner since 2005. He could be joined by Peavy, who is 19-6 going into Monday's tiebreaker.