{"id":805597,"date":"2026-09-15T11:57:26","date_gmt":"2026-09-15T11:57:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/805597\/"},"modified":"2026-09-15T11:57:26","modified_gmt":"2026-09-15T11:57:26","slug":"padres-stretch-winning-streak-to-8-as-machado-and-tatis-homer-in-8-7-victory-over-rockies-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/805597\/","title":{"rendered":"Padres stretch winning streak to 8 as Machado and Tatis homer in 8-7 victory over Rockies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DENVER (AP) \u2014 Manny Machado and Fernando Tatis Jr. homered, helping the San Diego Padres beat the skidding Colorado Rockies 8-7 on Monday night to match their longest winning streak this season at eight games.<\/p>\n<p>San Diego (82-68) stayed 2 1\/2 games ahead of Arizona for the final National League wild card and clinched a fifth straight winning season for the first time in club history.<\/p>\n<p>Colorado has lost eight games in a row for the first time since August 2025 and is 5-21 since Aug. 16. The Rockies (55-95) must win at least eight of their last 12 games to avoid becoming the first team with four consecutive 100-loss seasons since the New York Mets from 1962-65.<\/p>\n<p>San Diego is 9-1 against the Rockies this season and has won 19 of the past 23 meetings.<\/p>\n<p>San Diego, which was outhit 14-13, led 6-1 in the fifth inning only for the Rockies to close to 6-5 in the sixth. Each team scored a run in both the seventh and eighth.<\/p>\n<p>Mason Miller pitched a one-hit ninth for his 37th save in 39 chances. He is tied for the NL lead with St. Louis Cardinals closer Riley O\u2019Brien.<\/p>\n<p>Machado hit his 28th homer this season and the 397th of his career in the first, but TJ Rumfield had a tying single in the bottom half. Jake Cronenworth hit a go-ahead single in a four-run Padres second that included Freddy Fermin&#8217;s sacrifice fly and Tatis&#8217; two-run homer, a 449-foot drive.<\/p>\n<p>San Diego got run-scoring singles by Jackson Merrill in the third inning and Ty France in the seventh. Dustin Harris added an RBI double in the eighth. Merrill had his 14th three-hit game this year, tying his career best.<\/p>\n<p>Casey Mize (6-9) allowed two runs and eight hits in five innings for his second win since being acquired from Detroit on Aug. 3.<\/p>\n<p>Mize had no strikeouts for just the fourth time in 111 big league starts.<\/p>\n<p>Tomoyuki Sugano (12-10) gave up six runs and eight hits in five innings, dropping to 0-5 in his last six starts.<\/p>\n<p>Padres RHP <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlb.com\/rockies\/roster\/probable-pitchers\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Walker Buehler<\/a> (8-6, 4.61 ERA) faces Rockies LHP Kyle Freeland (4-10, 6.37) in the second game of the series Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>This story has been corrected to fix the spelling of Tatis&#8217; name.<\/p>\n<p>See AP\u2019s full MLB coverage here<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DENVER (AP) \u2014 Manny Machado and Fernando Tatis Jr. homered, helping the San Diego Padres beat the skidding&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":805398,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2405],"tags":[5,399,167,52,4316,37403,920,2127,871,872,1527,1101,4,9500,9501,7837,9496,9497,39138,83038,21752,168,137,3197],"class_list":["post-805597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-colorado-rockies","tag-baseball","tag-casey-mize","tag-colorado","tag-colorado-rockies","tag-coloradorockies","tag-dustin-harris","tag-fernando-tatis-jr","tag-freddy-fermin","tag-jackson-merrill","tag-jake-cronenworth","tag-manny-machado","tag-mason-miller","tag-mlb","tag-package-100024-ap-online","tag-package-100502-member-choice-sports-option","tag-padres-rockies-score","tag-product-30599-ap-sports-news-s-wire-only","tag-product-32562-ap-online-other-sports-news","tag-product-40776-ap-california-sports-only","tag-product-40777-ap-colorado-sports-only","tag-riley-obrien","tag-rockies","tag-san-diego","tag-ty-france"],"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\/805597","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=805597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805597\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/805398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=805597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=805597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=805597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}