The San Diego Padres came back twice against Philadelphia Phillies Ace Zach Wheeler to beat the NL-East leaders 5-4 at Petco Park and take a 2-0 series lead and set themselves up to go for the sweep in tomorrow’s finale.
Manny Machado hit the go-ahead sacrifice fly, Jackson Merrill hit 2 home runs off Phillies’ ace Wheeler, tying the game both times, and the Padres’ bullpen- minus their 3 all-star relievers- slammed the door on the Phillies.
With having pitched back-to-back days, closer Robert Suarez, Jason Adam and Adrian Morejon
Jeremiah Estrada struck out Trea Turner, got Kyle Schwarber on a fly ball to left, and Bryce Harper to ground to 1st to close it out.
Yuki Matsui got Brandon Marsh to pop out with runners in 1st & 3rd and 2 outs in the 8th inning.
Machado drove in Fernando Tatis Jr., who had just gone from 1st to 3rd on Luis Arraez’s single with 1 out in the 7th.
Manny had just made a beautiful play to get Edmondo Sosa on a chopper to 3rd with the bases loaded to help rookie David Morgan get out of the jam.
Merrill’s 2nd homer tied the game at 4 in the bottom
of the 6th, sending the Petco Park crowd into a frenzy.
Merrill- who walked 3x in yesterday’s series opener- came into the game mired in a 5-53 slump, and he hadn’t homered since May 27th.
Sosa ripped a 2-out, 2-run single off Yu Darvish- making his 2nd start of the season- to give the Phillies a 4-2 lead.
Merrill’s 1st homer- an opposite field shot in the 2nd- tied the game at 2. Martin Maldonado singled in Jake Cronenworth- who had doubled-
Darvish gave the Ohiloies the early lead in the top of the 2nd inning, hitting Alec Bohm with a pitch, then throwing the ball away on Nick Castellanos’ grounder to the mound, allowing Bohm to score, then giving up an RBI single to JB Realmuto scoring Castellanos.
In the bottom half, Merrill snapped his career-worst slump with a 2-run home run scoring Gavin Sheets to tie the game at 2.
***** ‘LIVE’ Instant Reaction from Jim “GRIES” Grieshaber
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The Padres and Phillies play the 3rd and final game of this series tomorrow, with 1st pitch set for 1: 10pm PT to start the series.
Nick Pivetta (9-2, 3.07 ERA) will take the ball for the Padres against Christopher Sanchez (7-2, 2.59) for the Phillies.
We will be here right after the game with your PADRES POSTCAST, hosted by Jim "Gries" Grieshaber- 'LIVE' and FREE on YouTube right after the game, and uploaded wherever you get your audio content and ROKU right after the 'LIVE' show..
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