Virus-depleted Padres beat Rockies behind Caratini s slam
Victor Caratini lined a two-out grand slam in the sixth, powering the virus-depleted San Diego Padres to a 5-3 win over the Colorado Rockies on Wednesday in a doubleheader opener.
The Canadian Press Victor Caratini , The Canadian Press
DENVER (AP) Victor Caratini lined a two-out grand slam in the sixth, powering the virus-depleted San Diego Padres to a 5-3 win over the Colorado Rockies on Wednesday in a doubleheader opener.
Second baseman Austin Nola a catcher pressed into infield duty following a flurry of roster moves made a game-saving, over-the-shoulder catch in shallow right to close out the game with the bases loaded in the seventh.
• You’re just gonna miss this pitch by a lot. It is so fast and moves so unnaturally. It looks easily in the strike zone out of the hand, and then it’s gone. At 101 mph. If you hadn’t known him before, you do now. Cleveland closer, Emmanuel Clase:
Emmanuel Clase, Silly 101mph Cutter. ✂️ pic.twitter.com/DXTjHaDYCA
• So far, the situation in San Diego is getting worse, with Fernando Tatis Jr. testing positive for COVID-19, and now also Wil Myers, plus all the guys out because of contacts:
To recap: Wil Myers and Fernando Tatis Jr. tested positive. Jorge Mateo, Jurickson Profar and Eric Hosmer (removed tonight due to contact-tracing protocols) join them on the COVID-IL. Both Tatis and Myers are asymptomatic. But that s 5/12ths of the Padres position players out.
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At Inside the Crown, David Lesky dissected the disastrous homestand from several angles:
As a whole, Royals starters went 33 innings and had a 7.64 ERA on the homestand. You obviously can’t do this, but take away Lynch’s start and that drops by more than two runs. My issue is that their bullpen let them down so badly. They came on needing to get one or two outs with runners on base in five of the seven games and ended up letting six out of eight inherited runners to score. That’s brutal. In the previous 26 games, they’d entered with 16 inherited runners and just four of them scored.