PITTSBURGH — San Diego‘s first half couldn’t have been way more disappointing. The Padres wasted a four-run lead in a 5-4 loss to Pittsburgh on Thursday that left San Diego with a 37-44 document on the season’s midpoint.

“I know from the outside it looks like a bunch of overpaid guys not performing,” Padres pitcher Joe Musgrove stated. “But sometimes there’s just no answer. We’re going through it right now.”

Henry Davis capped his first three-hit recreation with go-ahead single in a three-run seventh inning that rallied the Pirates to a three-game sweep, San Diego has misplaced 5 straight and eight of 10 since taking two of three from main league-best Tampa Bay.

The Padres, who started the season with Major League Baseball’s third-highest payroll at almost $258 million, are 10 1/2 video games behind first-place Arizona within the NL West and eight again for the final NL wild card.

“Look, we have to put these things away and we have to be mentally tough,” supervisor Bob Melvin stated. “At some point in time, we have to start over and understand this isn’t what we wanted. There’s nothing we can do about it. We need to have a big second half.”

Davis, the highest decide within the 2021 beginner draft, had two RBIs and raised his common to .351. He is 13 for 37 since his June 18 recall from Triple-A Indianapolis and has a seven-game hitting streak.

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“Just trying to be a tough out,” Davis stated. “There’s a lot of ways you can help the team. … Finding ways to make things happen, move the baton.”

The begin of the sport was delayed 45 minutes due to poor air high quality attributable to Canadian wildfires.

Nick Gonzalez started the comeback with a sacrifice fly within the fourth, and Davis reduce the deficit to 4-2 with an RBI single within the sixth.

Tim Hill (1-2) relieved Musgrove beginning the seventh and walked pinch-hitter Rodolfo Castro main off, and rookie Jared Triolo singled.

Jake Suwinski adopted with a dribbler down the first-base line and Hill made a rushed throw to first that bounced down the right-field line. Suwinski was credited with a run-scoring infield hit and Triola, who had been on second, scored on the error. An embarrassed Hill lined his face together with his glove.

“Everyone sees it. We feel it, for sure,” Musgrove stated. “But if you think this team is rolling over, you’re sorely mistaken. … It just feels like every loss that goes by just piles on and piles on, and piles on. We need to put a couple good games together here.”

Luis García relieved and retired Andrew McCutchen on a groundout. Davis then flared an opposite-field single into proper for a 5-4 lead.

Dauri Moreta (4-2) pitched a hitless inning. David Bednar acquired 4 outs for his sixteenth save in 17 possibilities, placing out Trent Grisham, Fernando Tatis Jr. and Juan Soto.

San Diego constructed its lead on Ha-Seong Kim’s sacrifice fly within the first, Grisham’s two-run homer within the second and Kim’s residence run within the fourth.

Musgrove allowed two runs and 7 hits in six innings. Pirates starter Luis Ortiz gave up 4 runs and 6 hits in 4 2/3 innings.

“There’s plenty of fight left in this team,” Musgrove stated. “We haven’t played our best ball yet. We’re sure not giving up yet.”

MASKED MAN

McCutchen, who was Pittsburgh‘s DH, wore a masks at first base after singling to left within the first inning.

TRAINER’S ROOM

Pirates: SS Oneil Cruz continues to progress in his restoration from breaking his left fibula on April 10, in keeping with director of sports drugs Todd Tomczyk. Cruz has began to play catch as much as 75 ft, sometimes going again to 90 ft. … OF Bryan Reynolds, on the 10-day injured record with low again irritation, hit earlier than the sport. He may very well be an choice to play within the coming days, Tomczyk stated.

UP NEXT

Padres: RHP Seth Lugo (3-4, 4.01) is in line to begin Friday’s sequence opener at Cincinnati. Lugo will begin instead of RHP Yu Darvish, who was scratched from a begin Tuesday in Pittsburgh due to an sickness.

Pirates: RHP Osvaldo Bido (0-1, 3.45) will take the mound Friday within the opener of a sequence towards Milwaukee.

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