The Padres turned things around quickly against Logan Webb with three runs in the seventh inning and held on for a 4-1 victory.<\/p>\n
Now they might be on the verge of something truly rare.<\/p>\n
With the win, the Padres could move to within a game of the Dodgers in the National League West, a division the Padres have not won since 2006 and have not led this late in a season since 2010.<\/p>\n
The Dodgers, who entered Monday two games up on the Padres, were trailing the Angels in the eighth inning when Robert Suarez got the final out against the Giants.<\/p>\n
Monday was the first of 13 consecutive games against the Giants and Dodgers, who they play this weekend in Los Angeles before hosting them next weekend.<\/p>\n
This stretch represents an opportunity to pass the Dodgers and all but extinguish any playoff hopes for the Giants, whose 59-60 record has them 4\u00bd games out of the final wild-card spot with the Reds and Cardinals between them and that spot.<\/p>\n
Neither the Padres not Giants scored for five innings Monday. Both did in the sixth.<\/p>\n
The Padres went up 1-0 on doubles by Fernando Tatis Jr. and Jackson Merrill in the top of the inning. The Giants tied it on Rafael Dever\u2019s two-out homer in the bottom of the inning halted a streak of 10 consecutive batters retired by Yu Darvish in the bottom.<\/p>\n
Seven pitches into the seventh, the Padres led by three runs.<\/p>\n
Gavin Sheets began the inning with a double lined to right field on an 0-2 pitch. With Bryce Johnson pinch-running, Jake Cronenworth broke the 1-1 tie with a single. And on the first pitch he saw Freddy Fermin drove a sweeper left in the heart of the strike zone down the left field line and just over the wall.<\/p>\n
Jeremiah Estrada took over for Darvish and worked a scoreless seventh. Mason Miller struck out the three batters he faced in the eighth. Suarez retired the side in order in the ninth.<\/p>\n
The three-run margin made for the relatively rare game not decided by one run when the Padres visit Oracle Park.<\/p>\n
Of the 43 previous games between the teams here since 2020, 21 were decided by a single run. That included all four games they played in June.<\/p>\n
Both starting pitchers did their part to make it close.<\/p>\n
Of Webb\u2019s first 12 outs, 10 were groundballs. The other two were strikeouts.<\/p>\n
It took 15 batters for the Padres to put a ball in play that was not on the ground.<\/p>\n
That was Xander Bogaerts\u2019 pop fly caught by Giants shortstop Willy Adames for the first out of the fifth inning.<\/p>\n
That followed a single grounded up the middle by Merrill, and it was followed by Sheets blooping a single that fell between second baseman Christian Koss and right fielder Drew Gilbert.<\/p>\n
A fielder\u2019s choice grounder by Cronenworth and a groundout by Fermin ended the inning.<\/p>\n
The Padres immediately got a runner in scoring position again in the sixth when Tatis led off by driving a double to the gap in right-center field.<\/p>\n
A groundout by Luis Arraez and strikeout by Ryan O\u2019Hearn , sandwiched around a Manny Machado walk, brought Merrill to the plate. And his third hit of the night, a double lined through the right side of the infield, broke the scoreless tie before Bogaerts grounded out to second base to strand Machado and Merrill.<\/p>\n
It was the first run the Padres had scored against Webb at Oracle Park this season.<\/p>\n
He had shut them out over eight innings on June 2 in a game the Padres won 1-0 in the 10th.<\/p>\n
Darvish did not immediately match Webb\u2019s dominance, but his seventh start of the season was a gem.<\/p>\n
He got through the first inning in eight pitches.<\/p>\n
He threw nine to the first batter in the second and 34 in all before stranding runners at first and second after a pair of singles.<\/p>\n
Darvish got out of the third with help from Merrill throwing out Drew Gilbert at third base after a stolen base and a throw into center field by Fermin, the Padres\u2019 catcher.<\/p>\n
A seven-pitch fourth inning followed for Darvish, and he struck out the three batters he faced in the fifth on 16 pitches.<\/p>\n
That put him nine shy of his season high, thrown in his second start back on July 12.<\/p>\n
He would need just 10 to finish the sixth inning, though his ninth pitch of the inning was the one Devers launched over the wall in left-center field.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN FRANCISCO \u2014 Monday night was progressing toward a familiar finish between the Padres and Giants at Oracle…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":244085,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2288],"tags":[2315,2309,5,2316,2323,2314,2317,2313,2423,2325,2337,2335,57,19,2310,2328,2304,2318,2308,2319,4,2305,2303,2307,66,185,2339,2560,2350,2311,2312],"class_list":{"0":"post-244084","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb-postseason","8":"tag-athletic-sports","9":"tag-ball-and-bat-games","10":"tag-baseball","11":"tag-baseball-competitions","12":"tag-baseball-events","13":"tag-baseball-finals","14":"tag-baseball-games","15":"tag-baseball-playoffs-and-champions","16":"tag-baseball-rules","17":"tag-baseball-teams","18":"tag-batted-ball","19":"tag-home-run","20":"tag-los-angeles-dodgers","21":"tag-major-league-baseball","22":"tag-major-league-baseball-competitions","23":"tag-major-league-baseball-playoffs","24":"tag-major-league-baseball-postseason","25":"tag-major-league-baseball-seasons","26":"tag-major-league-baseball-teams","27":"tag-major-league-baseball-teams-seasons","28":"tag-mlb","29":"tag-mlb-playoffs","30":"tag-mlb-postseason","31":"tag-outdoor-sports","32":"tag-san-francisco-giants","33":"tag-sports","34":"tag-sports-competitions","35":"tag-stolen-base","36":"tag-strikeout","37":"tag-team-sports","38":"tag-turf-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244084","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=244084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244084\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/244085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}