Padres defeat Phillies and Ranger Suarez to avoid going on a winless road trip.
The Padres as a club may be compared to that term at different stages throughout a season that has been up and down.
And with a real sigh, it might be remarked at the end of a challenging week on the East Coast: What a journey.
After a terrible road trip, the Padres won 5-2 over the Phillies on Wednesday, so at least they could unwind and smile on their way home.
Quite happy.
Fernando Tatis Jr. remarked, “It was excellent because we could rebound the very last game.” “But at this point, we shouldn’t be content with that.”
But if you’re going to win one out of six games, it’s going to come in
Naturally, this road trip hasn’t been our greatest, catcher Kyle Higashioka remarked. “But ultimately, I believe you’re going to have to grind it out in every game against the Phillies.” Therefore, it’s at least a step in the right way that we were able to ultimately take one from them this season. since they are among the league’s elite teams.
After seven innings, Matt Waldron gave up one run. Jackson Merrill persisted in hitting long balls. In the eighth, Luis Arraez broke a 1-1 deadlock. Higashioka’s first triple of the season cleared the bases.
The Padres’ win ended a five-game losing streak and prevented them from going on their first winless trip of six games or more since 2009.
Waldron’s knuckleball rattled the Phillies from the outset, who produced 31 hits in the first two games of the series and had the best hitting average and second-best OPS in the National League going into Wednesday’s game.
They were shaking their heads and whining over called strikes they believed to be balls even as they loaded the bases on a walk, a double, and a hit batter in the first inning.
“I’m not even sure if he understands what it’s going to do,” Bryson Stott of the Phillies said to the reporters in the team’s clubhouse. “After hitting (Alec) Bohm once, he will toss it in the opposite batter’s box in the same location. Just a challenging pitch.
Waldron would only permit four.In his seven innings against the Phillies, he became the first pitcher of the season to give up only one run and prevent them from being the first club in the National League reach 50 victories.
After Waldron outperformed big league ERA leader Ranger Suarez, Merrill referred to him as “a beast.”
With two outs in the second inning, Merrill hit his third home run of the trip, giving the Padres their third lead in the previous six games.
Suarez, who left the game knotted at one after six innings, would not allow them to score again.
Merrill also contributed to the Padres obtaining their subsequent advantage. In the eighth inning, Orion Kerkering struck him with a pitch. Merrill relocated.
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