Tatis Jr. steals home as Padres beat AL-East leading Orioles

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Published 17.08.2023

Tatis Jr. steals home as Padres beat AL-East leading Orioles

SAN DIEGO (AP) — Fernando Tatis Jr. stole residence within the seventh inning to affect a sellout crowd at Petco Park and massive league ERA chief Blake Snell pitched six sturdy innings because the San Diego Padres beat the Baltimore Orioles 5-2 Wednesday evening to take two of three from the very best workforce within the AL.

Two batters after Trent Grisham homered to present the Padres a 4-2 lead, Tatis singled, stole second and took third on pitcher Cionel Perez’s throwing error. With Juan Soto batting, the left-handed Perez had his again turned and Tatis took a couple of steps, started jogging after which broke right into a dash to simply steal residence. Perez was so shocked he didn’t try to throw residence.

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Tatis slid throughout the plate and leaped in pleasure. He hugged Jake Cronenworth on the highest step after which went the size of the dugout high-fiving and hugging teammates.

“It felt amazing to be able to do that,” said Tatis, who has had some unreal baserunning exploits in his five seasons in the big leagues. “I definitely enjoyed it and was going crazy when I did it.”

Tatis mentioned he seen that Perez was taking as a lot time as he might on his first pitch to Soto, “most likely making an attempt to execute towards among the best hitters in baseball. Second time round I took simply benefit straight away and I simply went for it.

“I was trying not to call attention since the beginning with a small lead and the third baseman was a little bit far,” Tatis mentioned. “As soon as I saw he got engaged and start setting, I took my first four steps and I saw he was still looking down and when he saw me I was already past home.”

Said supervisor Bob Melvin: “I kid with him that he’s a witch and he rides his broom around the bases and that’s pretty much what happened there. When he takes off, everybody just gets nervous. Very rarely are you going to see that.”

Snell was within the clubhouse when Tatis stole residence. “Everyone up right here was simply as excited as him. That’s what he does. He’s an unreal expertise and I’m pleased he’s on my workforce. He can do all the pieces. None of this surprises us anymore. I don’t get shocked as a result of I count on him to do loopy issues and issues that individuals can’t do.”

In the eighth, Cronenworth went airborne to make a spectacular catch of Adley Rutschman’s liner.

Snell (10-8) noticed his ERA tick up from 2.63 to 2.65 as he allowed two runs and simply three hits whereas placing out 5 and strolling two. His solely massive mistake was permitting Ryan Mountcastle’s solo homer to left with one out within the sixth, his sixteenth, that pulled the Orioles to 3-2.

The inconsistent Padres gained for simply the fourth time in 11 video games. They haven’t performed as much as the expectations that include having baseball’s third-highest payroll and an look within the NL Championship Series final fall and are struggling to remain within the wild-card race. They entered the evening in fourth place within the NL West, 16 video games behind the Los Angeles Dodgers.

Snell additionally allowed a run within the first when Rutschman hit a leadoff single, superior on a wild pitch and a fly ball to proper subject and scored on Anthony Santander’s sacrifice fly.

Josh Hader pitched the ninth for his twenty seventh save.

The Padres took a 3-1 lead within the third with some small ball, hitting 4 singles and drawing a stroll towards Dean Kremer (11-5). Tatis, Xander Bogaerts and Cronenworth every hit an RBI single.

Kremer allowed three runs and 5 hits in six innings.

TRAINER’S ROOM

Orioles: OF Aaron Hicks wasn’t within the lineup for a second straight sport after experiencing again soreness Monday evening in his first sport again from a stint on the injured checklist. He’s listed as day after day.

UP NEXT

Orioles: RHP Kyle Gibson (11-7, 4.89 ERA) is scheduled to start out Friday evening within the opener of a three-game sequence at Oakland.

Padres: This 10-game homestand continues Thursday evening with LHP Rich Hill (7-12, 5.17) scheduled to start out the opener of a four-game sequence towards the Arizona Diamondbacks, who will counter with Zac Gallen (12-5, 3.24), a number one contender for the NL Cy Young Award.