Xander Bogaerts, Juan Soto and Ha-Seong Kim hit house runs and Joe Musgrove threw seven sturdy innings to steer the San Diego Padres to a 13-3 victory in opposition to the Washington Nationals on Friday evening.
The superstar-laden Padres, who’ve struggled on the plate many of the season to tumble into fourth place within the NL West, scored in double digits in consecutive video games for the primary time this yr. They received 10-0 at San Francisco on Thursday to keep away from a four-game sweep.
Bogaerts hit a three-run shot, Soto linked to drive in two runs and Kim hit his first profession leadoff homer. Soto and Kim every had three RBIs.
“It just felt great tonight,” supervisor Bob Melvin stated. “It’s a Friday evening, you realize it’s going to be packed and we haven’t actually placed on a present like this with this many runs. Coming off our final homestand we performed fairly nicely. Hopefully we’re getting our legs right here and taking part in loads higher at house. Ball’s leaping a bit of extra it looks like proper now at house too, and that’s a part of our recreation.
“These fans deserve a good show; glad we did it tonight.”
Bogaerts, the $280 million shortstop who has been bothered by a sore left wrist, capped the six-run fifth inning with a two-out shot into the left-field seats off Patrick Corbin, his eighth. His final homer got here precisely a month earlier, at Washington. Kim hit a two-run single and Manny Machado had an RBI groundout that inning.
Kim drove Corbin’s third pitch over the fence in straightaway middle subject, his seventh.
“He’s kind of an engine for us,” Melvin stated of Kim. “You put him at the top and now our lineup looks deep all the way to the bottom.”
Said Kim: “If you’re leading off, you get a lot of at-bats. That could put pressure on myself, but I try not to think about it. Just be solid, try to get good at-bats all the time.”
Musgrove (6-2) received his third straight begin and fifth straight resolution over six begins. He held the Nationals to 1 run and 6 hits, struck out seven and walked none.
“It looked like the ball was jumping out of his hand better,” Melvin stated. “All his pitches were working.”
Soto homered within the eighth, his 14th. He additionally had an RBI double within the four-run seventh, when Nelson Cruz hit a two-run single and Trent Grisham an RBI double.
Corbin (4-9) allowed seven runs and 7 hits in 5 innings.
Michael Chavis homered within the ninth for the Nationals.
TRAINER’S ROOM
Padres: Melvin stated RHP Michael Wacha has shoulder fatigue and can skip his scheduled begin Saturday evening. … 1B Jake Cronenworth got here out after getting hit by a pitch within the seventh.
UP NEXT
Nationals RHP Josiah Gray (4-6, 3.64 ERA) is scheduled to begin the center recreation of the sequence in opposition to RHP Matt Waldron, a knuckleballer who’ll be making his huge league debut in Wacha’s place.
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