PHOENIX (AP) \u2014 Manny Machado had three hits and four RBIs, Randy V\u00e1squez threw six scoreless innings and the San Diego Padres jumped out to a big early lead in a 9-4 win over the Arizona Diamondbacks on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n
The Padres won for the ninth time in 11 games, moving one game behind the D-backs for the third and final National League wild-card playoff spot.<\/p>\n
Jackson Merrill had three hits and two RBIs, while Jake Cronenworth also had a three-hit night. V\u00e1squez (7-6) gave up just two hits and walked one while striking out one.<\/p>\n
The Padres jumped all over All-Star Eduardo Rodr\u00edguez in the first inning with leadoff hitter Fernando Tatis Jr. starting the game with a double to left. Machado followed with an RBI double before Merrill and Xander Bogaerts added run-scoring singles for a 3-0 lead.<\/p>\n
San Diego extended its advantage to 6-0 in the second, partly because of Arizona’s sloppy defense. Jase Brown reached on a bunt single when there appeared to be confusion on who was covering first base and Ketel Marte’s error on a grounder led to a pair of unearned runs.<\/p>\n
Rodr\u00edguez (10-4) gave up a season-high seven runs on 11 hits over 5 2\/3 innings, though only five of those runs were earned. The left-hander was coming off one of his best outings of the season, when he pitched eight innings in a 3-0 win over the Pittsburgh Pirates.<\/p>\n
Arizona’s Nolan Arenado and James McCann hit two-run homers in the seventh off Germ\u00e1n M\u00e1rquez to cut the deficit to 8-4. Geraldo Perdomo added two hits.<\/p>\n
Diamondbacks LHP Mitch Bratt (0-1, 5.23 ERA) will start on Wednesday against RHP Casey Mize (4-6, 2.70), who is making his San Diego debut.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHOENIX (AP) \u2014 Manny Machado had three hits and four RBIs, Randy V\u00e1squez threw six scoreless innings and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":770469,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2407],"tags":[5,399,756,920,1533,140,871,872,1198,95159,729,1527,37329,4,1028,9500,9501,43,95013,9496,9497,83120,39138,7940,137,18,4339,4338,1821],"class_list":["post-770468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego-padres","tag-baseball","tag-casey-mize","tag-eduardo-rodriguez","tag-fernando-tatis-jr","tag-geraldo-perdomo","tag-german-marquez","tag-jackson-merrill","tag-jake-cronenworth","tag-james-mccann","tag-jase-brown","tag-ketel-marte","tag-manny-machado","tag-mitch-bratt","tag-mlb","tag-nolan-arenado","tag-package-100024-ap-online","tag-package-100502-member-choice-sports-option","tag-padres","tag-padres-diamondbacks-score","tag-product-30599-ap-sports-news-s-wire-only","tag-product-32562-ap-online-other-sports-news","tag-product-40774-ap-arizona-sports-only","tag-product-40776-ap-california-sports-only","tag-randy-vasquez","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-padres","tag-sandiego","tag-sandiegopadres","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\/770468","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=770468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770468\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/770469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=770468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=770468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=770468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}