{"id":194575,"date":"2025-07-22T11:43:20","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T11:43:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/194575\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T11:43:20","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T11:43:20","slug":"merrill-maldonado-deliver-rbi-hits-as-padres-beat-marlins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/194575\/","title":{"rendered":"Merrill, Maldonado deliver RBI hits as Padres beat Marlins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/timesofsandiego.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Opening-Day-18.jpg?ssl=1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"780\" height=\"439\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Opening-Day-18.jpg\" alt=\"Padres banner win lose\" class=\"wp-image-310621\"  \/><\/a>Padres banner. (File photo by Chris Stone\/Times of San Diego)<\/p>\n<p>Jackson Merrill and Mart\u00edn Maldonado had run-scoring hits in the second inning and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlb.com\/padres\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">San Diego Padres<\/a> held on to beat the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlb.com\/marlins\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Miami Marlins<\/a> 2-1 on Monday night.<\/p>\n<p>Merrill had an RBI single that scored Xander Bogaerts. Maldonado followed with a double down the left field line off Eury P\u00e9rez (3-3) that scored Merrill from first and put San Diego up 2-0.<\/p>\n<p>Miami\u2019s Kyle Stowers hit a solo homer off Padres starter Randy V\u00e1squez that made it 2-1 in the fourth. Stowers, who has an MLB-best 12 homers since June 22, connected on a 1-0 changeup and sent it 400 feet to left-center for his 22nd home run of the season.<\/p>\n<p>V\u00e1squez allowed one run on seven hits while issuing one walk and no strikeouts in 4 1\/3 innings. He left with a runner at first and one out in the fifth before Adrian Morejon (8-4) got the last two outs of the inning. Robert Suarez got the final three outs for his 29th save.<\/p>\n<p>P\u00e9rez struck out five and allowed two runs on five hits in five innings.<\/p>\n<p>Xavier Edwards had three of Miami\u2019s eight hits, but the Marlins went 0 for 5 with runners in scoring position.<\/p>\n<p>Key moment<\/p>\n<p>After Edwards reached on a single against V\u00e1squez, Morejon struck out Jes\u00fas S\u00e1nchez and got Otto Lopez to ground out to end the fifth.<\/p>\n<p>Key stat<\/p>\n<p>The Padres have played in 56 games this season that have been decided within two runs, including seven of their last 10, the second-most such games in the majors.<\/p>\n<p>Up next<\/p>\n<p>RHP Stephen Kolek (3-4, 4.24) will start Tuesday for the Padres against Miami\u2019s RHP Edward Cabrera (3-4, 3.61)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Padres banner. (File photo by Chris Stone\/Times of San Diego) Jackson Merrill and Mart\u00edn Maldonado had run-scoring hits&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":35629,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2407],"tags":[5,871,1525,58,4,43,7940,137,18,4339,4338,2022],"class_list":{"0":"post-194575","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-diego-padres","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-jackson-merrill","10":"tag-martin-maldonado","11":"tag-miami-marlins","12":"tag-mlb","13":"tag-padres","14":"tag-randy-vasquez","15":"tag-san-diego","16":"tag-san-diego-padres","17":"tag-sandiego","18":"tag-sandiegopadres","19":"tag-win"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/114896712774546018","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194575\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}