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Pads 6 @ Giants 5.
Tyler Austin, Brandon Belt, Brandon Crawford, and Yangervis Solarte each scored a run with Crawford adding an RBI. The big blast for the Giants came when Kevin Pillar hit a grand slam. Madison Bumgarner allowed 5 runs on 4 hits (2 home runs) with 1 walk and 3 strikeouts in 6 innings, Reyes Moronta (0-2, 2nd blown save) allowed 1 run on 2 hits with a home run in 1 inning. Wil Myers (1 RBI, 1 run scored, 1 home run) and Manuel Margot (1 RBI) each had 2 hits, Fernando Tatis Jr. had 2 runs scored and 2 RBI's with a home run, Eric Hosmer and Francisco Mejia each scored a run, and Franmil Reyes had a pinch hit 2 run homer in the 7th inning which turned out to be the game winning run. Eric Lauer (2-1) allowed 5 runs on 4 hits (1 home run) with 3 walks and 8 strikeouts in 6 innings, Brad Wieck (1st hold), and Craig Stammen (6th hold) combined for 1 hit and 3 strikeouts in 2 innings while Kirby Yates (6th save) had a walk and 2 strikeouts in a scoreless inning. The Rockies lost to the Braves 6-8, while the Dodgers were defeated in St. Louis 3-4. Los Angeles is 8-3 and a game up on the 7-4 Pads, D'Backs stay at 5-5 and get to 2.5 out, while the Rockies and Giants remain tied at 3-8 and 5 games off the Dodgers lead. The D'Backs open a home series with the Texas Rangers on Tuesday night.
Game 2 of the series was on Tuesday night. Joey Lucchesi (2-0, 0.00) started for the Pads against Derek Holland (0-1, 5.00) and unfortunately that did not go well.
Pads 2 @ Giants 7.
Myers (1 RBI), Hunter Renfroe (1 RBI, 1 run scored, 1 home run), and Margot each had 2 hits with Greg Garcia scoring the second Padres run. Lucchesi (2-1) allowed 7 runs on 7 hits with 2 walks and 4 strikeouts in 4 innings. Evan Longoria and Solarte each had 1 run scored and 1 RBI, Crawford and Buster Posey had 1 run scored each, Gerardo Parra scored 2 runs, Pillar had 1 run scored and 4 RBI's, and Austin had the 7th Giants RBI. Derek Holland (1-1) allowed 1 run on 5 hits (1 home run) with 2 walks and 9 strikeouts in 7 innings. The D'Backs walk off the Rangers 5-4, the Dodgers get shut out in St. Louis 4-0, and the Rockies lose to the Braves 7-1. Dodgers remain in first at 8-4 still 1 up on the 7-5 Padres, D'Backs are a game and a half back at 6-5, Giants improve to 4-8 and 4 back while the Rockies bring up the rear 5 games back at 3-9.
The rubber game and finale of the 3 game series is on Wednesday. Dereck Rodriguez (1-1, 5.23) starts for the Giants against Nick Margevicius (0-1, 1.80) for the Padres with first pitch slated for 3:45.
Great road trip, tough end of series loss in Arizona, but very difficult to sweep a 4 game series at home much less on the road so to go 3-1 was pretty good. So they come home to play the second worst in baseball Rockies (I think the Marlins entering play yesterday were percentage points behind) and are 9 outs away from getting swept, and this came the home series AFTER losing 2 of 3 to the D'Backs. Maybe they should just play the remaining games on the road or at least wear road jerseys and maybe bat first at Petco.
You know, the Padres are showing what they're capable of doing. They're surprising a lot of people early on, but that's a good thing.
Ted Leitner's got to be enjoying this....
In other seasons the Padres start bad and finish worse. This time around Spring Training quite well, started the season good, and are still competing for the 1st spot on their division. On past seasons the Padres would be at least 7 games behind by now. This was supposed to be a season to test out their prospects but so far they are doing pretty good.
Won 2 of 3 in Washington which was good. More good news: The 2 games they won were started by Stephen Strasburg and Max Scherzer. Now for the bad news.
They missed a huge opportunity for a sweep as they blew a 6-0 lead in the final game, and these are the games you come back and look at at the end of the season if you miss the playoffs. More bad news: After knocking the Nats starter out in the 3rd inning, they had 24 outs to play with the worst bullpen in the league....and they failed to score a single run. Even more bad news: Tatis left the game in the 10th with an injury
Padres could have swept the Dodgers if it wasn't because of the bullpen. 3 or 4 run leads only to be blown off by the relievers and lose the game by 1 run .
First time Opening Day Starter Chris Paddack (9-7, 3.33 last year) summed it up perfectly the other day: "We are tied for first with 60 games left to play." Game 1 of that 60 is tonight vs. Arizona, and with news of the expanded playoffs, both the D'Backs and Friars look to benefit with that. With the shortened schedule, every game plays out to about 2.7 wins in a 162 game regular season, so in this opening 4 game set if a team wins 3 of 4 that would be the equivalent of about a week and a half long winning streak; if one team sweeps the 4 game series that would be almost a 2 week long winning streak in an equivalent 162 game season, and might be hard to rebound from that 0-4 hole this year. Madison Bumgarner (6-7, 3.26 last year) makes his official debut for the D'backs after signing over from the West rival SF Giants in the offseason, while the Pads hand the ball to Paddack. Game time slated for 9:10.
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