![]() ![]() “We’ve been battling all year, we’ve been battling for the last month-and-a-half,” Machado said. Josh Hader worked a scoreless ninth for his 35th save of the season and sixth with the Padres. ![]() The White Sox scored a run against Pierce Johnson in the eighth before Nick Martinez relieved him with two outs and a man on first and ended the inning with a pick-off at second base. Robert Suarez worked a scoreless seventh. Machado added a home run in the seventh inning. After Joe Kelly struck out Kim, Austin Nola lined a single to center field that drive in Drury. Croney’s home run felt like more than a two-run home at the time based on the fact that both pitchers were pitching that well.”īrandon Drury and Bell followed with walks, which brought Cease’s night to an end. “When you have a really good starter like that, that you’re trying to chase, one swing of the bat can be huge in a close game,” Padres manager Bob Melvin said. Cronenworth, who said he noticed while watching Machado’s at-bat from the on-deck circle that the Marlins were rallying, followed by sending a 1-2 slider just over the wall in right field. That was it until Manny Machado led off the sixth inning by grounding a single up the middle. Josh Bell beat out a dribbler to the mound for a single with two outs in the fourth inning, and Jurickson Profar extended his hitting streak to nine games with a line drive single to right field in the fifth. Andrus followed with a line drive single to left field before Clevinger retired the next two batters to finish his night.Ĭease, second in the major leagues with a 2.06 ERA entering the game, walked Cronenworth in the first and Ha-Seong Kim in the second. Between the two hits, Clevinger retired 16 straight batters on a total of 50 pitches. His sixth home run in 49 games with the Padres sailed a projected 402 feet and bounced in the storage area in front of the batter’s eye beyond center field.Ĭlevinger, who began the season late and has pitched with a sprained right MCL all season, did not allow another baserunner until Josh Harrison lined a single to left field with one out in the sixth inning. On the third pitch of the bottom of the first, Soto tied the game. On the second pitch from Mike Clevinger, Elvis Andrus launched a home run off a water bottle sitting on a table in the Padres’ bullpen beyond the wall in left-center field. The Padres were trailing almost as soon as their game began. Their magic number of three entering play Saturday was unchanged from Wednesday. They scored four runs while losing the next three games. They really had not done much since coming home.Īfter taking the final two games of a series at Coors Field, they returned to beat the Dodgers 5-4 with a walk-off walk in the 10th inning Tuesday. The score at Petco Park was 1-1 and the Padres had not done much against White Sox starter Dylan Cease as the bottom of the sixth inning began. The Phillies (85-73) hold the sixth (final) playoff spot, two games behind the Padres and a game ahead of the Brewers. Thus, Saturday’s victory trimmed that “magic number” to one. Since they hold the tiebreaker by virtue of having beat the Brewers four of the seven times they played this season, the Padres (87-71) must reach a victory total that matches the maximum number the Brewers (84-74) can reach. The Brewers are the second of the two teams chasing the Padres in the race for the two available National League playoff spots. “Especially as close as they were apart, as close in time,” Cronenworth said, “that was pretty awesome.”Įven before the sixth inning had ended at Petco Park, by which time the Padres had extended their lead to 4-1, the Marlins had finished off the victory. Not even a minute after Jake Cronenworth’s two-run homer had cleared the right-field wall at Petco Park to give the Padres a 3-1 lead in the sixth inning, the Marlins scored two runs to take a 4-3 lead over the Brewers in the ninth inning of their game in Milwaukee.
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