The San Diego Padres scored early for a change on Monday.<\/p>\n
That did not keep them from having to play catch-up against the Chicago Cubs and hold on for the win.<\/p>\n
Manny Machado doubled twice in a three-hit game, Ty France drove in four runs and the Padres survived rare misfires from both Randy V\u00e1squez and Mason Miller in a 9-7 win in front of a crowd of 41,478 at Petco Park.<\/p>\n
Miller allowed three hits \u2014 one that looked like a foul ball when France picked it up outside of the chalk to start the ninth \u2014 while giving up two runs in a non-save situation to see his franchise-record scoreless streak snapped at 34 2\/3 innings.<\/p>\n
Machado\u2019s two doubles upped his career total to 400, but he exited after a sixth-inning groundout \u2014 three innings after he appeared to pull up lame with discomfort in his left leg after sliding into second base with his first double.<\/p>\n
France went 2-for-3 with a double, a triple and four RBIs \u2014 his most in a game since September 2022 \u2014 and Fernando Tatis Jr. and Xander Bogaerts both finished with two hits as the Padres out-hit the Cubs 14-8 in a comeback that was required even after ambushing Cubs left-hander Matthew Boyd.<\/p>\n
A three-run first inning equaled the three runs that the Padres scored in the first inning through the first 27 games.<\/p>\n
Ram\u00f3n Laureano walked to start the game and advanced to second base on Tatis\u2019 groundout before Jackson Merrill pulled a one-out single to left to send him home. After Machado singled, Miguel Andujar walked with two outs to load the bases for France, who lined a ground-rule double to left field to open a 3-0 lead.<\/p>\n
The first of Machado\u2019s two doubles led to a run in the third inning via an RBI groundout from Andujar. The second chased Boyd from a game with an entirely different feel than the last time he faced the Padres, when Laureano\u2019s broken finger kept him from the lineup last fall in the NL wild-card series.<\/p>\n
A lefty-dependent lineup scored just five runs in three games, with Boyd starting the series with one run allowed over 4 1\/3 innings.<\/p>\n
On Monday, Boyd was chased after four-plus innings with five runs allowed on eight hits and two walks.<\/p>\n
Ben Brown relieved Boyd and recorded the first two outs before a passed ball allowed Machado to take third base. France then walked and swiped second, and Nick Castellanos cashed both runners in with his first hit since April 11.<\/p>\n
Granted, he played in just five games since \u2014 and not once in Mexico City\u2019s altitude \u2014 but Castellanos\u2019 single snapped a 0-for-19 rut and gave the Padres a 6-5 lead.<\/p>\n
France\u2019s triple down the third-base line plated two insurance runs in the seventh inning. Gavin Sheets, who replaced Machado in the lineup, added a solo shot in the eighth inning.<\/p>\n
The Cubs\u2019 five runs off V\u00e1squez were all scored via home runs. He\u2019d allowed just one long ball in his first five starts, but V\u00e1squez was tagged for a solo shot in the second inning from Seiya Suzuki and then Mois\u00e9s Ballesteros\u2019 grand slam in the third, with all the traffic accumulating after V\u00e1squez recorded the first two outs of the inning.<\/p>\n
Alex Bregman walked, France couldn\u2019t cleanly field a ball to his right off the bat of Ian Happ and Suzuki loaded the bases with a sharp single to left.<\/p>\n
V\u00e1squez\u2019s next pitch was a belt-high slider on the inside edge of the plate, and Ballesteros yanked it out to right field to give the Cubs a 5-3 lead.<\/p>\n
The five runs were a season-high for V\u00e1squez, who still completed five innings before giving way to the bullpen.<\/p>\n
V\u00e1squez (2.94 ERA) struck out four while allowing five runs on five hits and three walks. He threw 71 of his season-high 106 pitches for strikes.<\/p>\n
The bullpen took it from there, with Adri\u00e1n Morej\u00f3n recording five outs, Jason Adam fetching four and Miller getting the last three after the end of his franchise-record scoreless streak.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The San Diego Padres scored early for a change on Monday. That did not keep them from having…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":758297,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5124],"tags":[960,1271,5386,1818,1822,67238,14420,1306],"class_list":["post-758296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-chicago","tag-chicago","tag-chicago-cubs","tag-il","tag-illinois","tag-mlb-baseball","tag-moises-ballesteros","tag-petco-park","tag-san-diego-padres"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116480783723471248","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758296","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=758296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758296\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/758297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=758296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=758296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=758296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}