BOSTON (AP) \u2014 Jackson Merrill had three hits, including a solo homer in the eighth inning that gave the Padres the lead, and San Diego rallied from a four-run deficit on Sunday to beat Boston 8-6 and send the Red Sox to their seventh loss in their last eight games.<\/p>\n
Manny Machado connected for a three-run homer and ex-Red Sox shortstop Xander Bogaerts also got three hits for the Padres.<\/p>\n
The Red Sox scored four in the third inning but San Diego got three in the top of the fourth after Machado kicked away a pickoff attempt \u2014 perhaps not unintentionally \u2014 to put runners on second and third. Machado’s first homer of the season in the fifth gave the Padres a 6-4 lead.<\/p>\n
Boston tied it in the seventh on Masataka Yoshida’s two-run double. It was his third straight hit after starting the season 0 for 10. Wilyer Abreu also had three hits for Boston.<\/p>\n
Padres starter Walker Buehler, the longtime Dodger who spent part of last season in Boston, was pulled with two outs in the four-run third. Ranger Suarez was pulled from his first start for the Red Sox at Fenway Park after giving up a leadoff single in the fifth.<\/p>\n
Jeremiah Estrada (1-1) was awarded the win after pitching a perfect eighth. Mason Miller worked the ninth for his fourth save.<\/p>\n
Tyler Uberstine (0-1) took the loss in his major league debut. He allowed Merrill’s homer as one of three hits and a walk, striking out two in 2 2\/3 innings.<\/p>\n
The Padres visit Pittsburgh for the start of a three-game series. RHP Germ\u00e1n M\u00e1rquez (0-1) will face Pirates right-hander Bubba Chandler (0-0) in the opener.<\/p>\n
Boston stays home for three games against Milwaukee, with Brayan Bello (0-1) going Monday night for the Red Sox against fellow righty Brandon Woodruff (1-0).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BOSTON (AP) \u2014 Jackson Merrill had three hits, including a solo homer in the eighth inning that gave…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":665266,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2407],"tags":[5,127,5172,707,140,871,3922,1527,792,1101,4,9500,9501,43,9496,9497,39138,83947,90,84749,137,18,4339,4338,58600,115,606,1821],"class_list":{"0":"post-665265","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-brandon-woodruff","10":"tag-brayan-bello","11":"tag-bubba-chandler","12":"tag-german-marquez","13":"tag-jackson-merrill","14":"tag-jeremiah-estrada","15":"tag-manny-machado","16":"tag-masataka-yoshida","17":"tag-mason-miller","18":"tag-mlb","19":"tag-package-100024-ap-online","20":"tag-package-100502-member-choice-sports-option","21":"tag-padres","22":"tag-product-30599-ap-sports-news-s-wire-only","23":"tag-product-32562-ap-online-other-sports-news","24":"tag-product-40776-ap-california-sports-only","25":"tag-product-40791-ap-massachusetts-sports-only","26":"tag-ranger-suarez","27":"tag-red-sox-padres-score-merrill-machado","28":"tag-san-diego","29":"tag-san-diego-padres","30":"tag-sandiego","31":"tag-sandiegopadres","32":"tag-tyler-uberstine","33":"tag-walker-buehler","34":"tag-wilyer-abreu","35":"tag-xander-bogaerts"},"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\/665265","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=665265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665265\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/665266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=665265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=665265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=665265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}