Padres-Cubs wild-card series kicks off with Bill Murray, rowdy crowd

Who you gonna call? Well, it appears the Cubs summoned Ghostbusters star Bill Murray to Petco Park Tuesday for Game 1 of the National League wild-card series against the Padres.Murray was spotted in the crowd as a sea of yellow dominated the seats in San Diego.

Murray is a lifelong Chicago fan and has famously said he was “baptized a Cubs fan” since birth.At Wrigley Field, he is a regularly attendee and has been seen signing during the seventh-inning stretch and celebrating wtih the team.

Murray celebrated the team’s historic 2016 World Series championship, where he even joined the players in the locker room with champagne.The legendary actor even traveled to Japan for last year’s season opening series at the Tokyo Dome between the Cubs and Dodgers.

On Tuesday, Murray was locked in for the wild-card series.He likely wasn’t very happy with how the first inning panned out for Chicago as Padres ace Michael King had an impressive 1-2-3 inning and Fernando Tatis Jr.

proceeded to homer on the first pitch off Matthew Boyd in the bottom half of the frame.Regardless of the outcome, Tuesday’s playoff atmosphere was electric in San Diego as fireworks flew before first pitch and the crowd was already raucous before the game began....