Second win in nine games at Coors Field moves Padres back ahead of Phillies, keeps them two games up on Brewers
A pitcher they had punished here and in San Diego came within an out of a quality start.
Then the Padres had their best inning of the season at the place where they generally play the worst, scoring six runs in the seventh to open a seven-run advantage that led to a 9-3 victory.“We have confidence right now in each other,” Jurickson Profar said. “We know what we can do. And we are going to do it. We will find a way to do it right now. That’s the confidence that we have.”
“Today was a good one, a great bounceback from yesterday,” Manny Machado said, refering to the Padres’ 4-3 loss in Friday’s series opener. “We’ve just got to continue with it. ... Just try to get ready to play as good of baseball as we can for the next 10 to 15 days.”Six of the first seven Padres runs were scored by the first four batters in their lineup. Cleanup hitter Jake Cronenworth drove in three runs; Machado, batting third, drove in two.
The Padres went up 2-1 in the third on a leadoff double by Austin Nola and a double by Machado and single by Cronenworth with two outs. “I thought that was gonna be a triple for sure,” Darvish said through interpreter Shingo Horie. “Even Grish, I didn’t think he would make that one. But he did. That was that was a huge, huge catch.”
On Sunday, the teams meet for the final time this season. It will be the Padres’ final road game, as they finish the regular season with nine games at Petco Park.
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