PEORIA, Ariz. \u2014 The Padres beat the White Sox 13-6 on Thursday night at Peoria Stadium.<\/p>\n
Batter\u2019s box: Gavin Sheets homered for the second straight game and also singled twice. After beginning the spring 1-for-8, Sheets is batting .310 (9-for-29) with three home runs over his past 10 games. \u2026 Fernando Tatis Jr. hit an RBI double and walked twice in his first game back from the World Baseball Classic. \u2026 Manny Machado, also playing in his first game since returning from the WBC, went 0-for-3. \u2026 Jake Cronenworth was 2-for-3 with a double and two walks and is 8-for-19 (.421) with five walks in seven games in the lead-off spot this spring. \u2026 Xander Bogaerts was 2-for-3 and is batting .318 (7-for-22) this spring. \u2026 Ty France hit a three-run homer as part of the Padres \u2018 seven-run eighth inning. France, competing for a roster spot as a non-roster invitee, is batting .341 (14-for-41).<\/p>\n
Balls and strikes: Michael King allowed his seventh, eighth and ninth home runs of the spring and a total of six runs on nine hits in five innings. King finished with a 10.19 ERA in his five Cactus League starts (17\u2154\u00a0 innings). \u2026 With help from Bradgley Rodriguez stranding the runner he inherited, left-hander Kyle Hart still has yet to allow an earned run this spring. Hart allowed two hits in 1\u2153 innings and has allowed just one unearned run in seven Cactus League appearances (13\u2153\u00a0 innings). \u2026 Rodriguez struck out two and walked two but left the bases loaded in the seventh inning. He has allowed one run in 8\u2154 innings this spring. \u2026 Wandy Peralta, who pitched just two innings for the Dominican Republic in the World Baseball Classic, worked a scoreless inning. \u2026 Jeremiah Estrada pitched a scoreless ninth inning and has not allowed a run in 8\u2154\u00a0 innings this spring.<\/p>\n
Extra bases: Catcher Freddy Fermin entered the game having been successful on 12 of his 14 ABS challenges. He was 0-for-2 Thursday night. \u2026 Cronenworth, Fermin, Sheets and center fielder Jackson Merrill played nine innings.<\/p>\n
On deck: The Padres play a pair of split-squad games on Saturday. Nick Pivetta starts against the Rockies at Peoria Stadium while left-hander Marco Gonzalez starts against the Dodgers at Camelback Ranch. Both games start at 6:10 p.m. PT.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PEORIA, Ariz. \u2014 The Padres beat the White Sox 13-6 on Thursday night at Peoria Stadium. Batter\u2019s box:…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":633016,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2407],"tags":[5,853,4,43,137,18,4339,4338,185],"class_list":{"0":"post-633015","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-latest-headlines","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-padres","12":"tag-san-diego","13":"tag-san-diego-padres","14":"tag-sandiego","15":"tag-sandiegopadres","16":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116259768563019480","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633015","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=633015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633015\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/633016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=633015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=633015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=633015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}