{"id":206781,"date":"2025-09-07T04:51:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-07T04:51:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/206781\/"},"modified":"2025-09-07T04:51:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T04:51:10","slug":"padres-edge-closer-to-nl-west-lead-with-10-8-win-to-snap-losing-streak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/206781\/","title":{"rendered":"Padres edge closer to NL West lead with 10-8 win to snap losing streak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/timesofsandiego.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/0.132250906017_sd_at_col.jpg?ssl=1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"780\" height=\"520\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/0.132250906017_sd_at_col.jpg\" alt=\"A man in a brown San Diego Padres uniform swings the bat from the left side with fans visible behind him.\" class=\"wp-image-342692\"  \/><\/a>First baseman Luis Arraez (4) hits a two-run single in the fifth inning during a game against the Rockies at Coors Field on Sept. 6, 2025 in Denver. (Photo by Dustin Bradford\/Icon Sportswire)<\/p>\n<p>Fernando Tat\u00eds Jr. hit a three-run homer to cap the Padres\u2019 six-run second inning, on the way to beating the Rockies 10-8 on Saturday and ending a five-game skid.<\/p>\n<p>Randy V\u00e1squez pitched six solid innings and Freddy Fermin, like Tatis, drove in three runs. <\/p>\n<p>The Padres finally gained on the Dodgers, moving to within a game of the NL West lead after LA, up 3-0 with two outs in the ninth inning, lost 4-3 at Baltimore.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s been a perfect time for the Padres to gain ground on the Dodgers, now losers of five straight. Trouble is, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlb.com\/padres\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Friars<\/a> kept losing too. Yet the stretch did not shake manager Mike Shildt\u2019s belief in his club.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe know what it takes to be successful and that\u2019s really important,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Vasquez (4-6) put a stop to the losing streak, allowing three runs \u2013 two earned \u2013 in his first start since Aug. 15. Robert Suarez gave up a solo homer in the ninth before securing his NL-leading 36th save.<\/p>\n<p>The Padres finished with 16 hits a night \u2013 Luis Arr\u00e1ez and Ryan O\u2019Hearn had three apiece \u2013 after getting only three in a 3-0 loss. Five came against McCade Brown (0-3) in the second inning, and the Padres had five more in a four-run fifth.<\/p>\n<p>Fermin had a two-run double before Tat\u00eds crushed his 20th home run in the second inning. Arr\u00e1ez added a two-run single in the fifth. Tat\u00eds\u2019 single, also in the fifth, was the 700th hit of his career.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>The Rockies rallied against Jeremiah Estrada in a four-run seventh, including a three-run shot by Jordan Beck, his 15th, to make it 10-7. Mason Miller restored order, giving up a hit and a walk in his inning-plus of work, though he had a scare.<\/p>\n<p>Colorado had runners on the corners with one out in the eighth. But pinch-hitter Y\u00e1nquiel Fernandez hit into an inning-ending double play.<\/p>\n<p>Dylan Cease (6-11, 4.81 ERA) takes the mound Sunday against Tanner Gordon (5-5, 6.07).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"First baseman Luis Arraez (4) hits a two-run single in the fifth inning during a game against the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":206782,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5134],"tags":[5229,1582,276,34547,43016,876,84403,3549,1306,7264,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-206781","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-diego","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-california","11":"tag-fernando-tatis-jr","12":"tag-luis-arraez","13":"tag-mike-shildt","14":"tag-nl-west","15":"tag-san-diego","16":"tag-san-diego-padres","17":"tag-sandiego","18":"tag-united-states","19":"tag-united-states-of-america","20":"tag-unitedstates","21":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","22":"tag-us","23":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115161221281969653","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206781\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/206782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}