PEORIA, Ariz. \u2014 The Padres lost 4-3 to the Dodgers and 9-3 to the Rockies in split-squad games Friday night.<\/p>\n
Batter\u2019s box: The Padres\u2019 regulars stayed in Peoria to face the Rockies while the team playing the Dodgers\u2019 regulars at Camelback Ranch was made up mostly of players competing for jobs. \u2026 The Padres\u2019 first hit against the Rockies was Jackson Merrill\u2019s two-out double in the fourth inning. Merrill has doubled in consecutive games. \u2026 Alex Verdugo subbed in as designated hitter, his first appearance in a Cactus League game since signing a minor-league deal with the Padres. He walked and flied out. \u2026 Minor-league catcher Rodolfo Duran hit his third home run of the spring. \u2026 Left fielder Ram\u00f3n Laureano was the only starter to face the Dodgers, and he hit his second home run of the spring. \u2026 Immediately before Laureano\u2019s homer, Bryce Johnson doubled. Johnson is the likely fourth outfielder at the start of the season. \u2026 Playing against the Dodgers, Nick Solak took over the team lead with his 15th hit. Solak, an infielder\/outfielder who has played 259 games in the major leagues, is in camp on a minor-league deal.<\/p>\n
Balls and strikes: Nick Pivetta, the Padres\u2019 presumptive opening-day starter, allowed a run in the third inning, three (two earned) in the fourth and another in the fifth. The Rockies got eight hits, including two home runs, against him in four-plus innings. Pivetta threw 71 pitches, which should put him in line to throw between 80 and 90 in his first start of the season. \u2026 Bradgley Rodriguez, working a second straight night, took over for Pivetta and threw a scoreless inning. The 22-year-old right-hander has allowed one run in 9\u2154 innings this spring. \u2026 Jason Adam, whose season ended on Sept. 1 when he suffered a ruptured quad tendon in his left leg, worked a 1-2-3 sixth inning in his Cactus League debut. He is expected to pitch again in Monday\u2019s spring finale before the Padres decide whether he is on the opening-day roster. \u2026 Jeremiah Estrada turned in his second scoreless inning in two nights. Despite walking seven batters, he has not allowed a run in 9\u2154 innings. \u2026 Left-hander Marco Gonzales started against the Dodgers and allowed one run in 3\u2154 innings. Gonzales, a veteran in camp on a minor-league deal, can opt out at the end of spring training. \u2026 Alek Jacob was charged with two runs in his two-thirds of an inning against the Dodgers. \u2026 Logan Gillaspie, who worked 6\u2154 scoreless innings over his first three appearances before being charged with nine runs in a game last Saturday, took over for Jacob with the bases loaded and allowed two runs to score before allowing one of his own the next inning.<\/p>\n
Extra bases: Jake Cronenworth batted lead-off for a second straight night and the eighth time this spring. He appears destined to begin the season as the Padres\u2019 lead-off batter when they face right-handed starters. In fact, the top seven spots in the order were the same Friday as they had been Thursday. Fernando Tatis Jr. batted second with Merrill, Manny Machado, Gavin Sheets, Xander Bogaerts and Miguel Andujar after that. \u2026 Playing their second straight game in the heat (98 degrees at first pitch), most Padres starters were out of Friday\u2019s game after five innings.<\/p>\n
On deck: Randy V\u00e1squez starts against the Brewers, 1:10 p.m. PT on Saturday in Maryvale, Ariz. Also scheduled to pitch are David Morgan, Adrian Morej\u00f3n, Ron Marinaccio and Mason Miller.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PEORIA, Ariz. \u2014 The Padres lost 4-3 to the Dodgers and 9-3 to the Rockies in split-squad games…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":634870,"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-634869","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\/116265352339265168","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634869","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=634869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634869\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/634870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=634869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=634869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=634869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}