Tatis delivers go-ahead hit, Padres beat Diamondbacks 5-4
By BERNIE WILSONJune 28, 2021 GMT
SAN DIEGO (AP) Ten games in front of mostly capacity crowds at Petco Park did wonders for the San Diego Padres.
Other than a dreadful showing against Arizona on Saturday night, the Padres gave their fans plenty to cheer about and in turn fed off that energy.
Fernando Tatis Jr. hit a go-ahead double during San Diego’s three-run rally in the seventh inning, and the Padres beat the Arizona Diamondbacks 5-4 Sunday to take two of three against the team with baseball’s worst record.
Trent Grisham hit three doubles and the Padres broke loose late to finish a 9-1 homestand that included a four-game sweep of Cincinnati and a three-game sweep of the defending World Series champion Dodgers.
By The Associated PressJune 28, 2021 GMT
Home Plate umpire Phil Cuzzi, right, talks with Seattle Mariners relief pitcher Hector Santiago during the fifth inning in the first baseball game of a doubleheader against the Chicago White Sox in Chicago, Sunday, June 27, 2021. Santiago was ejected by Cuzzi. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)
Home Plate umpire Phil Cuzzi, right, talks with Seattle Mariners relief pitcher Hector Santiago during the fifth inning in the first baseball game of a doubleheader against the Chicago White Sox in Chicago, Sunday, June 27, 2021. Santiago was ejected by Cuzzi. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)
CHICAGO (AP) Seattle reliever Hector Santiago became the first player to be ejected as part of Major League Baseball’s new foreign substance protocols when he was thrown out of Sunday’s 3-2 victory over the Chicago White Sox.
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SAN DIEGO The D-backs snapped a pair of losing streaks this past week, and on Sunday afternoon they were nine outs away from recording their first back-to-back wins since May 10-11.
The Padres, though, came alive in the seventh inning. They scored three times off Matt Peacock and hung on to beat the D-backs, 5-4, in the series finale at Petco Park.
The D-backs dropped two of three in the series and are now 0-15-1 in their past 16 series.
The Padres built a 2-1 lead behind the pitching of Yu Darvish before the D-backs managed to score three runs in the top of the seventh inning off Tim Hill to take a 4-2 lead.
Padres finish homestand on a high, edge Diamondbacks
Field Level Media
28 Jun 2021, 10:19 GMT+10
Fernando Tatis Jr. bounced a tie-breaking double over third in the bottom of the seventh Sunday afternoon as San Diego defeated the visiting Arizona Diamondbacks 5-4 in the rubber match of a three-game series.
The Diamondbacks had scored three runs in the top of the seventh with the aid of a Tatis throwing error to take a 4-2 lead.
But Jurickson Profar opened the bottom of the inning with a pinch-hit single against Arizona reliever Matt Peacock. Tommy Pham, who had opened the game with a home run off Diamondbacks starter Zac Gallen, singled putting Padres at first and third.
Arizona 4, San Diego 5: Blowpen Whiskeycap
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Good evening,and welcome to the Snakepit’s whiskey recap of the Arizona Diamondbacks at the San Diego Padres. Today, Zac Gallen toes the mound for the Diamondbacks, while Yu Darvish will start for the Friars. In a rather surprising turn of events, the Diamondbacks haded the Pads a rather convincing defeat, and on the road no loess. Merrill Kelly pitched six solid innings and the offense managed to bang out 10 runs, including two home runs. That brought an end to two more of Arizona’s more unsavory streaks. It ended the road losing streak at a record 24 games, and it also ended the home run drought at entirely too many innings.