Sep 7, 2025; Denver, Colorado, USA; San Diego Padres third base Manny Machado (13) celebrates with outfielder Fernando Tatis Jr. (23) after a two-run house run through the first inning in opposition to the Colorado Rockies at Coors Area. Necessary Credit score: Christopher Hanewinckel-Imagn Photos The legislation of averages and a weekend go to to Denver’s Coors Area served as a lucky convergence of occasions for the San Diego Padres.
Consecutive wins on Saturday evening and Sunday that noticed San Diego rating a complete of 18 runs, or six greater than it managed throughout a five-game dropping streak, pushed them inside a sport of the Nationwide League West-leading Los Angeles Dodgers.
And the Padres head house Monday evening for the beginning of a seven-game homestand with the primary of three video games in opposition to the determined Cincinnati Reds.
San Diego (78-65) even tapped into its dormant energy stroke Sunday for 4 homers throughout an 8-1 win. That included the staff’s longest homer of the yr, a 452-foot poke from Manny Machado within the first inning with Luis Arraez aboard.
Supervisor Mike Shildt took pleasure in seeing Machado and Jackson Merrill mix for 5 hits, 4 of them for additional bases, after not producing on the plate earlier this week.
“The again of the baseball card tells us they’re elite performers,” Shildt stated. “While you see them driving the ball the opposite manner, it tells you the strategy is true. Jackson (Merrill) was a triple away from the cycle, and it was good to see him doing that.”
Even with its longball explosion Sunday, the Padres rank twenty ninth out of 30 MLB groups with 127 homers. They’ve solely six gamers in double figures, and nobody has greater than Machado’s 23.
The Padres will begin Yu Darvish (3-5, 5.75 ERA) on Monday evening. The correct-hander final labored on Tuesday evening, struggling together with his command throughout a 6-2 house loss to Baltimore.
Darvish gave up six hits and 4 runs (three earned) in four-plus innings and 91 pitches with two walks and 6 strikeouts. He is 5-3 with a 3.09 ERA in 67 innings over 11 profession begins in opposition to Cincinnati.
The Reds counter with left-hander Nick Lodolo (8-7, 3.22), who final pitched on Aug. 27 in a 5-1 street loss to the Los Angeles Dodgers. He permitted 5 hits and 4 runs over 4 2/3 innings, strolling one and fanning six.
Lodolo, who was scratched from a scheduled begin Tuesday evening in opposition to Toronto as a result of sickness, is 1-1 with a 2.60 ERA in 17 1/3 innings over three profession outings in opposition to the Padres. That features a June 29 begin that noticed him enable one run in 5 1/3 innings of his staff’s 3-2 house win, though he did not get the choice.
Cincinnati (72-71) is coming off a 3-2 win Sunday over the visiting New York Mets that gave it a much-needed sequence victory. However the Reds path New York by 4 video games for the ultimate NL wild-card spot with 19 video games left.
Nevertheless, the sequence win has Cincinnati gamers feeling optimistic that they will nonetheless surge down the stretch and earn a spot within the October pressure-cooker.
“It is type of been the story all yr — discover ourselves in a tricky spot and discover a manner,” stated Reds left fielder Austin Hays. “We had a very unhealthy final two weeks. We have been taking part in loads higher baseball since then. We will have a cheerful flight on our option to the West Coast and do some good issues on the market.”
–Area Degree Media
