Padres edge Rockies after combined no-hit bid ends in ninth
SAN DIEGO (AP) — If this was Blake Snell‘s ultimate begin for the San Diego Padres at Petco Park, it positive was a memorable one.
The NL Cy Young Award contender lowered his massive league-leading ERA to 2.33 and struck out 10 in seven sensible innings for the Padres, who took a mixed no-hitter into the ninth earlier than beating the Colorado Rockies 2-0 on Tuesday night time.
Snell, Robert Suarez and All-Star nearer Josh Hader completed with a two-hitter. Xander Bogaerts hit a two-run homer with two outs within the ninth to raise the Padres to their season-high sixth straight win.
San Diego supervisor Bob Melvin stated it wasn’t a troublesome resolution to take out Snell after seven innings.
“He was pretty realistic. He even said to me, `It’s going to be tough for me to finish nine.’ Over 100 pitches, seven innings, pretty good inning. It wasn’t that tough,” Melvin stated.
Snell, who has by no means gone eight innings within the majors, threw 104 pitches earlier than making method for Suarez, who labored an ideal eighth. Hader (1-3) got here on to start out the ninth and promptly allowed Brendan Rodgers’ leadoff single up the center.
“It’s just going to be a lot of pitches,” Snell stated when requested if he had wished to go longer. “I’m a man that understands my physique very well and understands the risk-reward of harm with pushing it. With how arduous I used to be throwing right now, it’s not value it.
“I understand a no-hitter’s an amazing accomplishment,” the 30-year-old lefty added. “It’s so hard to do. I understand that. I also understand how much I value health. It’s an individual accolade. It’s cool for the team, we get a no-hitter, but it’s cool when the bullpen comes in and you trust them.”
Snell walked 4 to extend his main league-high whole to 95.
“Fastball-changeup was really good. The curveball was a good put-away pitch,” he stated. “I didn’t use the slider that much. I didn’t feel I needed to. I just had a good mix. The fastball sets up everything and I was locating that pretty well.”
Snell is making an attempt to turn out to be the seventh pitcher to win a Cy Young Award in each leagues. He received the AL prize in 2018 with Tampa Bay.
“Got to finish the season,” he stated when requested how Tuesday night time’s begin would possibly assist his trigger. “I don’t look at that. I’ve got my next start against San Fran. I’ve got to be ready for that and they’re a good team and they’ve got a lot to play for.”
He’s anticipated to pitch Monday night time in San Francisco. He may then make a ultimate begin on the Chicago White Sox in the course of the season’s final weekend.
Snell is eligible at no cost company after the season and the Padres are excessive longshots to return to the playoffs. They’ve massively underperformed coming off an look within the NL Championship Series final 12 months and with a $250 million payroll, third-highest in baseball.
The Padres are 5 1/2 video games out of the third NL wild-card spot, with 4 groups forward of them and solely 10 video games left.
Center fielder Trent Grisham and proper fielder Fernando Tatis Jr. each made good operating catches within the sixth to maintain the no-hitter going, and Grisham made one other good seize within the seventh.
Joe Musgrove threw the Padres’ solely no-hitter on April 9, 2021, in his second begin along with his hometown staff.
Bogaerts homered off Tyler Kinley (0-3), his nineteenth.
“I thought it might go foul. I squared it up pretty good for being out in front, but I wasn’t sure,” Bogaerts stated.
Rockies right-hander Ryan Feltner made his first begin since being positioned on the injured listing May 14 with a cranium fracture. He was hit within the head by a line drive off the bat of Philadelphia’s Nick Castellanos the day past.
Feltner allowed two runs in 5 scoreless innings whereas placing out 5 and strolling two.
The Padres loaded the bases with one out within the eighth earlier than Jurickson Profar, who not too long ago rejoined the staff after being launched by the Rockies, grounded right into a double play.
TRAINER’S ROOM
Padres: Manny Machado was out of the lineup with tennis elbow that has restricted him to DH obligation this month. … 2B Ha-Seong Kim missed a 3rd straight sport with what Melvin described as a abdomen ailment.
UP NEXT
Rockies RHP Chase Anderson (0-5, 6.00 ERA) and Padres RHP Seth Lugo (7-7, 3.83) are scheduled to start out the collection finale Wednesday afternoon.
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