SAN DIEGO — The Cincinnati Reds had misplaced their final 9 video games at Petco Park. Jonathan India and Alexis Díaz made positive the streak didn’t attain 10.
India singled within the go-ahead run on Luis Garcia’s first pitch of the tenth inning and the Reds beat San Diego 2-1 Tuesday evening to snap the Padres’ three-game successful streak.
India’s single to left off Garcia (1-3) introduced in automated runner Matt Reynolds.
Díaz then impressively shut the door on the Padres. He walked Trent Grisham opening the underside of the inning to provide the Padres runners on first and second, however then retired superstars Fernando Tatis Jr. on a strikeout, Manny Machado on a fly ball to left and Juan Soto on a known as third strike to earn his fifth save.
“I’ve said so many times, our team is real gritty,” India stated. “Even the umpire tonight, actually said it to me, in the second inning he came up to me and said, ‘I love watching your team play.’ I was like, ‘Thank you for noticing,’ because that’s the team we are. We don’t stop fighting. We’re a gritty team and we’ll fight with anyone and we’ll fight to the end.”
India stated he hasn’t been swinging the bat nicely the final week. “You can’t hand over. You’ve received to maintain going, you’ve received to maintain preventing. That’s what I’m battling proper now. Once I discover my swing once more, it’s going to be actually exhausting to get me out.
PHOTOS: India’s RBI single in tenth lifts Reds over Padres, 2-1
“I had to come up big for my team in that situation. I stepped up and I did my job.”
Manager David Bell stated it was pleasing watching Díaz blow by the guts of the order of the staff with baseball’s third-highest payroll.
“What a great challenge. I saw it in his face. He wanted to be out there,” Bell stated. “As a fan of baseball, it was hard for me to watch it that way, but I was. I was enjoying seeing that level of those hitters, great hitters, but Alexis believes in himself, he had to make pitches, he challenged them, threw some great sliders, some great fastballs and came out on top tonight.”
Manager David Bell stated Díaz “needed
Derek Law (1-4) pitched the ninth for the win.
Michael Wacha held the Reds to 2 hits in six shutout innings and Nick Martinez pitched an ideal seventh earlier than Cincinnati tied it 1-1 with two singles within the eighth. TJ Friedl singled with one out, stole second and scored on Jake Fraley’s two-out base hit to proper.
Soto, heating up after a sluggish begin, doubled in Manny Machado with two outs within the third. Soto scorched a ball simply truthful down the road and and into the correct subject nook to usher in Machado, who was aboard on a two-out single. Soto hustled into third on the throw dwelling and was stranded.
He doubled once more within the sixth, his third straight multi-hit recreation and ninth this season. He had a two-run double in Monday evening’s 8-3 win. He has 4 extra-base hits in his final 4 video games – three doubles and a homer – after having none in his earlier seven video games. Soto leads the majors with 28 walks.
Tatis went 0 for five with two strikeouts to finish his nine-game hitting streak. He returned April 20 from an 80-game PED suspension.
Wacha received out and in of hassle within the first. He retired the facet with runners on second and third after Jonathan India reached on Machado’s fielding error and Friedl blooped a single to left.
Cincinnati’s Graham Ashcraft allowed one run and 6 hits in six innings to decrease his ERA from 2.10 to 2.00.
PINATA PARTIES
Starting with Saturday’s 16-11 win towards San Francisco in Mexico City, the Padres have celebrated every of their final three wins with clubhouse piñata events, with the participant of the sport – Nelson Cruz, Matt Carpenter and Ha-Seong Kim, respectively – taking whacks at papier-mâché figures full of sweet whereas carrying a sombrero as their teammates dance round. “It is entertaining to watch,” supervisor Bob Melvin stated. “It’s great to see because anytime you win a game you should feel good about it. I think we’ve taken our celebrations maybe to another level.” Tatis purchased the sombrero on the staff resort Friday evening and it’s positioned on the pinnacle of any participant who hits a house run.
TRAINER’S ROOM
Padres: SS Xander Bogaerts received the evening off. Melvin tried to provide him Monday evening off, however “he wanted to be out there for Tati,” he stated, referring to Tatis’ first dwelling recreation since Sept. 26, 2021.
UP NEXT
RHP Luis Cessa (1-3, 9.55 ERA) is scheduled to begin Wednesday’s collection finale towards Padres RHP Seth Lugo (2-2, 3.58).
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