The deciding contest of three-game series have proved difficult thus far this season for the upstart San Diego Padres.

They play another one Sunday afternoon as the Padres host the Arizona Diamondbacks at Petco Park for the final time the shortened 60-game season.

The Padres are 5-0 in series openers this season. Saturday night they fell to 1-4 in the second game of series after a 3-2 loss to the Diamondbacks. And they have lost their last two rubber matches, to the Dodgers and Rockies.

“We’re doing good at winning the first games of series,” Padres manager Jayce Tingler said. “But to be a winning team, you have to win series. We haven’t cashed in our chances.”

To win this series, the Padres will have to again beat Madison Bumgarner on Sunday. But the MadBum of 2020 is not the MadBum who dominated the Padres as a member of the San Francisco