PEORIA, Ariz. \u2014 The Padres beat the Chicago Cubs 3-0 on Friday night at Peoria Stadium.<\/p>\n
Batter\u2019s box:<\/strong>\u00a0 Jake Cronenworth was 1-for-2 with a walk. After beginning the spring with one hit in his first eight at-bats, Cronenworth is 7-for-11 with two walks. \u2026 Miguel Andujar was 1-for-1 with a walk. He is batting .381\/.519\/.714 in 27 plate appearances this spring. \u2026 Nick Castellanos was 1-for-2 and is 5-for-8 during a three-game hitting streak. \u2026 Gavin Sheets went 0-for-3 and is batting .200 (3-for-15), but he did draw his team-high seventh walk of the spring. \u2026 Luis Campusano\u2019s third hit in 18 at-bats this spring was a bloop single to center field. \u2026 Ty France, who can play three infield spots, was 1-for-4 and is batting .381 (8-for-21) in his attempt to make the roster (or someone\u2019s roster) after signing a minor-league deal at the start of camp.<\/p>\n Balls and strikes:<\/strong> Two pitchers vying for what is likely one remaining job in the rotation pitched well. Germ\u00e1n M\u00e1rquez, who signed a one-year, $1.75 million contract as spring training began, became the first Padres pitcher this spring to work three scoreless innings. The right-hander threw just 35 pitches, allowed two singles and struck out three batters in his second Cactus League start. Left-hander Marco Gonzales, a veteran coming back from flexor tendon surgery and in camp on a minor-league deal, followed with another three scoreless innings. Gonzales worked around the lead-off batter reaching on an error in his first inning, a lead-off walk in his second inning and three hits in his final inning. \u2026 Adrian Morej\u00f3n struck out three of the four batters he faced in the seventh inning. \u2026 Jeremiah Estrada issued a two-out walk before getting his second strikeout to end a scoreless eighth. Estrada has faced 18 batters this spring. He has walked five and struck out six while allowing one hit. \u2026 David Morgan worked his third scoreless inning of the spring.<\/p>\n Extra bases:<\/strong> Cronenworth, playing shortstop for the second time in a Cactus League game, went to the ground to field a 104 mph grounder by Ben Cowles and make the throw to first base for the out. \u2026 Andujar, who has also started at first base and in left field, committed his first error of the spring in his second start at third base.<\/p>\n On deck:<\/strong> Right-hander Michael King will make his third start of the spring, 12:05 p.m. PT Saturday against the Cubs in Goodyear, Ariz.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PEORIA, Ariz. \u2014 The Padres beat the Chicago Cubs 3-0 on Friday night at Peoria Stadium. Batter\u2019s box:\u00a0…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":637857,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5134],"tags":[5229,1582,276,1370,1266,3549,1306,7264,62,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":["post-637856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-america","tag-ca","tag-california","tag-latest-headlines","tag-mlb","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-padres","tag-sandiego","tag-sports","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116185969762235138","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637856","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=637856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637856\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/637857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=637856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=637856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=637856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}