Jackson Merrill\u2019s leadoff home run in the eighth inning lifted the visiting San Diego Padres to a series-clinching, 8-6 win over the Boston Red Sox on Sunday afternoon.<\/p>\n
Merrill went 3-for-5 with two RBI and three runs scored to lead San Diego, which banged out 12 hits and erased an early 4-0 deficit to claim the series. Manny Machado (2-for-4, three-run homer) and Xander Bogaerts (3-for-3, double) also had multiple hits.<\/p>\n
Jeremiah Estrada (1-1) was victorious following a scoreless inning of relief, and Mason Miller struck out the side to post his second save in as many days.<\/p>\n
Wilyer Abreu (double, triple, RBI, two runs scored) and Masataka Yoshida (3-for-4, two doubles, three RBI) combined for six of Boston\u2019s nine hits.<\/p>\n
Tyler Uberstine (0-1) lost his MLB debut for the Red Sox, allowing one run on three hits across 2 2\/3 innings.<\/p>\n
Boston lefty Ranger Suarez faced the minimum through 3 1\/3 innings, including inducing an inning-ending 1-6-3 double play off Merrill\u2019s bat in the first.<\/p>\n
The Padres also had consecutive runners cut down at second base to end the next frame, with Bogaerts being tagged out after looking to take an extra base on a two-out single to Gold Glove right fielder Abreu.<\/p>\n
In the third, back-to-back walks to Carlos Narvaez and Roman Anthony turned into runs and helped Boston get a four-run inning going. After a grounder moved both runners into scoring position, Jarren Duran knocked a two-RBI double into the right-field corner to open the scoring.<\/p>\n
Another productive out led Duran to third, and Abreu\u2019s triple down the right-field line moved the lead to 3-0, ending San Diego starter Walker Buehler\u2019s outing after 2 2\/3 innings. Yoshida then greeted reliever Kyle Hart with an RBI double.<\/p>\n
The visitors got back into the game during a three-run fourth, beginning with Fernando Tatis Jr. hitting a wall-ball double and scoring on Merrill\u2019s single to left. After a Machado single and a two-out walk, Nick Castellanos followed with a two-out hit to make it a one-run game.<\/p>\n
Luis Campusano\u2019s leadoff single in the fifth ended Suarez\u2019s day (four runs on six hits in four-plus innings). Reliever Greg Weissert struck out the first two batters he faced, but Merrill hit a two-out single before Machado\u2019s long ball.<\/p>\n
Boston leveled the score at 6-6 as Abreu and Yoshida hit back-to-back, two-out doubles after reliever Wandy Peralta entered the game in the seventh.<\/p>\n
Merrill flipped the score with his solo shot to left-center field in the eighth.<\/p>\n
Gavin Sheets started San Diego\u2019s ninth with a double into the center-field triangle and scored on a Tatis sac fly two batters later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jackson Merrill\u2019s leadoff home run in the eighth inning lifted the visiting San Diego Padres to a series-clinching,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":665246,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2375],"tags":[5,141,48,2542,4,89,2543],"class_list":{"0":"post-665245","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boston-red-sox","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-boston","10":"tag-boston-red-sox","11":"tag-bostonredsox","12":"tag-mlb","13":"tag-red-sox","14":"tag-redsox"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116354156162253920","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665245","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=665245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665245\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/665246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=665245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=665245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=665245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}