SAN DIEGO — Behind a season-high 4 dwelling runs off Yu Darvish, two of which got here off the bat of Carlos Santana, and Quinn Priester’s strong begin, the Pirates shocked the Padres on Monday evening at Petco Park, 8-4.
“It’s great,” mentioned Priester, who recorded his first Major League win. “Definitely want to enjoy it. Really fun. It’s great to have it against a team like that. A lot of really good players. It just goes to show me that I compete.”
After permitting seven runs in his Major League debut every week in the past towards the Guardians, Priester allowed 4 runs throughout 5 1/3 innings towards San Diego’s star-laden lineup, three runs coming through two dwelling runs by Ha-Seong Kim.
Priester, 22, is ranked because the Pirates’ No. 4 prospect by MLB Pipeline, however he wasn’t the one rookie checking off a “first” on Monday evening.
In the fourth inning, Liover Peguero, 22, put simply sufficient barrel on Darvish’s sweeper to ship a 91.2-mph, 337-foot homer over the left-field fence. Peguero is rated Pittsburgh’s No. 7 prospect.
In the seventh inning, catcher Endy Rodríguez threw out the primary runner of his profession, firing an ideal 82.3 mph throw to second base to beat Kim’s steal try. Rodríguez — the Bucs’ No. 3 prospect — had a pop time of 1.81 seconds on the throw; for reference, Phillies star J.T. Realmuto leads the Majors with a pop time of, coincidentally, 1.81 on throws to second base.
“It’s a blast. It really is,” Priester mentioned. “It’s awesome to see. You can’t help but get so excited. I’m in the dugout really trying to stay composed and stay focused, do my job at hand. But when Peggy hits a homer and Santana hits his second. … It’s electric stuff to be a part of. It’s stuff that I’ve been seeing personally for the last few years. Guys just doing what they do.”
While Peguero, Priester and Rodríguez knocked a number of accolades off their bucket lists, Santana loved a multi-homer recreation for the sixteenth time in his Major League profession, with each dwelling runs coming off Darvish. Along with the roundtrippers, Santana slapped an opposite-field double and drew a stroll.
Suwinski added to his already career-high complete with a solo shot, his twenty first dwelling run of the season.
“This was supposed to be my day off today,” Santana mentioned. “Shelty gave me off today, but something happened to [Ji Man] Choi and he could not play. Shelton asked me today if I could play. I said, ‘Yes, 100%.’”
Added supervisor Derek Shelton, “We performed an entire recreation. I believe there was a variety of nice issues that occurred, beginning with Quinn. He provides up a homer to the primary hitter after which bounces again and continues to execute pitches. I assumed [that’s] actually encouraging for a younger child on this environment, so very pleased.”
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