Kyle Higashioka, Jurickson Profar and David Peralta every homered Sunday to again up Matt Waldron’s two-hitter over 5 2/3 innings because the San Diego Padres powered previous the visiting Colorado Rockies 10-2.
Waldron (7-9) gave up only one run in his stint, strolling two and putting out seven as he beat Colorado for the second time this 12 months. The end result marked San Diego’s fifth straight collection win for the reason that All-Star break and places it right into a tie with Atlanta for the Nationwide League’s first wild-card spot.
Cal Quantrill (7-8) absorbed the loss, allowing three runs off 5 hits and three walks in 4 1/3 innings with two strikeouts. The Rockies managed simply 5 hits off 4 Padres’ pitchers and closed a 10-game street journey at 3-7.
Higashioka snapped a 1-1 tie within the backside of the fifth, lining his thirteenth homer into the left discipline seats, simply previous the leap of Sam Hilliard. Two batters later, Profar cracked his nineteenth homer over the fitting discipline wall.
Peralta broke the sport open within the sixth when he lined a three-run homer to right-center with Xander Bogaerts (hit batter) and Jackson Merrill (stroll) aboard. It was Peralta’s third of the season.
Merrill gave San Diego a 1-0 edge within the second when he drilled a 3-2 pitch to the wall in right-center for a double. Operating on the pitch, Bogaerts was capable of beat the relay throw house.
Colorado tied the sport within the fourth on Waldron’s solely mistake, a dangling sweeper that Brenton Doyle lofted to the left discipline seats for his nineteenth homer. The Rockies managed simply 4 different baserunners towards Waldron.
Colorado’s different run got here by way of Jacob Stallings’ solo homer, his seventh of the 12 months and second in as many video games, off Adrian Morejon within the seventh.
The Padres tacked on a run within the seventh when Manny Machado ripped a ground-rule double to attain Profar, then acquired three extra within the eighth. Jake Cronenworth’s double scored two and Machado added an RBI single.
–Discipline Degree Media
