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SAN DIEGO — It was always about the payoff in the playoffs. And on a hot October Wednesday afternoon when it appeared it had been blooped and bumbled away, the guys who became Padres in August came through. The trade deadline pickups picked themselves up and propelled the Padres to an 8-5 victory over the Phillies at Petco Park that evened the National League Championship Series at a game apiece. Josh Bell, Brandon Drury and Juan Soto, the latter two having contributed to a messy second inning that had the Padres down 4-0, drove in six of the Padres’ seven runs that flipped a four-run deficit …