Manny Machado’s two-run homer within the backside of the ninth inning Friday evening lifted the San Diego Padres to a 10-8 win over the visiting Arizona Diamondbacks.
Arizona overcame a 7-2 deficit within the prime of the ninth. Alek Thomas whacked a grand slam off nearer Robert Suarez with one out to drag it inside a run. After Corbin Carroll doubled with two outs, pinch-hitter Randal Grichuk drilled a two-run homer to provide it a one-run lead.
However Diamondbacks nearer Paul Sewald (0-2) could not even get an out within the backside of the inning. Jurickson Profar led off with a game-tying homer to proper, his thirteenth of the 12 months. After Jake Cronenworth labored a stroll, Machado lofted his twelfth homer into the left-center-field bleachers.
Stephen Kolek (3-0) obtained the final out of the highest of the ninth to earn the win as San Diego received for the twelfth time in 15 video games in entrance of a Petco Park-record crowd of 47,171.
San Diego took the lead throughout a four-run fourth inning. Jackson Merrill gave it a 3-2 edge by lining a two-run triple to the best area nook that scored Cronenworth and Machado.
David Peralta adopted with an RBI double down the best area line that cashed in Merrill, then scored when Kyle Higashioka grounded a two-out single to left.
Higashioka made it 7-2 within the sixth when he cracked a two-run homer to left-center off reliever Joe Jacques.
Merrill knocked within the Padres’ first run within the second on a groundout to brief that plated Machado, who led off with a double and reached third on Donovan Solano’s infield out.
Arizona initiated scoring three batters into the sport. Carroll led off with a double and trotted residence one out later when Joc Pederson belted a two-run homer to heart, his thirteenth of the season.
Neither starter was concerned within the resolution. Slade Cecconi labored 4 2/3 innings for the Diamondbacks, allowing eight hits and 5 runs with a stroll and two strikeouts.
San Diego’s Randy Vasquez pitched 6 1/3 innings, scattering six hits and permitting two runs. He walked one and fanned six.
–Discipline Degree Media
