{"id":665828,"date":"2026-04-06T04:19:47","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T04:19:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/665828\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T04:19:47","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T04:19:47","slug":"manny-machado-reacts-to-kicking-pickoff-throw-in-trending-video-as-padres-rally-past-red-sox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/665828\/","title":{"rendered":"Manny Machado Reacts to Kicking Pickoff Throw in Trending Video as Padres Rally Past Red Sox"},"content":{"rendered":"

San Diego Padres star Manny Machado helped spark a rally with an interesting tactic on Sunday against the Boston Red Sox. <\/p>\n

The third baseman kicked a pickoff throw into foul territory, moving up two runners, who eventually scored. Machado later hit a three-run homer that helped give San Diego an 8-6 win. <\/p>\n

Machado, a part-owner of San Diego FC, joked that he should play a different sport. <\/p>\n

“I think I picked the wrong sport,” Machado told reporters<\/a>. “FC should probably sign me up.”<\/p>\n

Machado also said he didn’t intentionally kick the ball. <\/p>\n

“Nah, I mean, I’m trying to get out of the way,” he said. “It was perfect timing. … I couldn’t be better than that.”<\/p>\n

Machado said he was trying to get out of the way of what he thought was a low throw. <\/p>\n

“I started low, obviously. So, I’m trying to decide if I’m going to slide or not, going back into the base. And then obviously, I saw the ball coming kind of down low so I kind of jumped up in the air. As I’m coming down and kind of my foot just came in, and I obviously hit it.”<\/p>\n

Whether intentional or not, it helped give the Padres a win in the rubber match as they improved to 4-5 on the year. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"San Diego Padres star Manny Machado helped spark a rally with an interesting tactic on Sunday against the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":665829,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2407],"tags":[5,4,43,137,18,4339,4338],"class_list":{"0":"post-665828","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-mlb","10":"tag-padres","11":"tag-san-diego","12":"tag-san-diego-padres","13":"tag-sandiego","14":"tag-sandiegopadres"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116355846881389696","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665828","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=665828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665828\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/665829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=665828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=665828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=665828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}