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\nSan Diego Padres pitcher Germ\u00e1n M\u00e1rquez delivers during the first inning of a baseball game against the Pittsburgh Pirates in Pittsburgh, Monday, April 6, 2026.<\/p>\n
PITTSBURGH (AP) \u2014 Germ\u00e1n M\u00e1rquez is a winner with the San Diego Padres.<\/p>\n
The right-hander pitched five effective innings in Monday night\u2019s 5-0 victory at Pittsburgh. He allowed six hits, struck out four and walked one in his second start with his new team.<\/p>\n
It was his first win since June 18 for Colorado at Washington.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s been a while, man,\u201d M\u00e1rquez said.<\/p>\n
The 31-year-old M\u00e1rquez is trying to rebuild his career with San Diego. He won a spot in the team\u2019s rotation after agreeing to a minor league deal in February.<\/p>\n
M\u00e1rquez spent his first 10 seasons with Colorado, going 68-72 with a 4.67 ERA in 200 starts and three relief appearances. He missed most of the 2023 and 2024 seasons due to Tommy John surgery, and then struggled in his final year with the lowly Rockies.<\/p>\n
M\u00e1rquez went 3-16 with a 6.70 ERA in 26 starts in 2025. He recorded his first win of last season on May 11.<\/p>\n
Colorado finished with a 43-119 record, setting a franchise record for losses.<\/p>\n
M\u00e1rquez dropped his first start with San Diego when he surrendered four runs and eight hits in three innings in a 9-3 loss to San Francisco last week.<\/p>\n
He threw 92 pitches against Pittsburgh, 56 for strikes. He got some help from Gold Glove outfielder Fernando Tatis Jr., who cut down Ryan O\u2019Hearn when he attempted to score from second on Spencer Horwitz\u2019s single in the second.<\/p>\n
The Pirates put a runner on third with one out in the fifth, but M\u00e1rquez escaped the jam when he retired Brandon Lowe on a popup to third and Bryan Reynolds on a flyball to left.<\/p>\n
\u201cA couple breaks went his way, and then he finished strong, too,\u201d Padres manager Craig Stammen said. \u201cSo got that breaking ball going. That\u2019s key for him doing well.\u201d<\/p>\n
Nick Castellanos hit the first of San Diego\u2019s four RBI doubles. Jackson Merrill, Jake Cronenworth and Ram\u00f3n Laureano each had a run-scoring double as well to help the Padres win their third straight.<\/p>\n
Ron Marinaccio and David Morgan each worked two innings to finish San Diego\u2019s second shutout this season.<\/p>\n
Manny Machado scored a run and knocked in another with a groundout. Freddy Fermin scored twice, and Xander Bogaerts had two hits and a walk.<\/p>\n
Pirates rookie starter Bubba Chandler (0-1) threw 83 pitches, 35 for balls, over 4 1\/3 innings. He gave up three runs, five hits and four walks.<\/p>\n
Pittsburgh went 1 for 10 with runners in scoring position and lost at home for the first time this season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AP Photo San Diego Padres pitcher Germ\u00e1n M\u00e1rquez delivers during the first inning of a baseball game against…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":668801,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2402],"tags":[5,4,10,776,64,4297,18],"class_list":{"0":"post-668800","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pittsburgh-pirates","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-mlb","10":"tag-pirates","11":"tag-pittsburgh","12":"tag-pittsburgh-pirates","13":"tag-pittsburghpirates","14":"tag-san-diego-padres"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116364635701260608","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668800","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=668800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668800\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/668801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=668800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=668800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=668800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}