The Padres’ Fernando Tatis Jr., right, celebrates after hitting a two-run home run that also scored Luis Arraez during the first inning of Friday’s game against the Giants. The Mets and Braves won, which meant a tight four-team race for three available wild-card spots would have become even tighter had the Padres not followed suit.
Yes, the version of Cease able to work out of limited trouble while allowing just four hits and striking out 10 last night is what the Padres need going into the postseason. Ray and Snell pitch for the Giants, which meant the four pitchers in MLB history to reach 1,000 strikeouts in fewer than 850 innings were at Oracle Park last night.Brandon Lockridge got into his first major-league game last night, replacing Jurickson Profar on first base as a pinch-runner in the ninth inning.So he took off running and stole second base on Camilo Doval’s first pitch to Manny Machado.
The task over the next couple weeks for Lockridge, who was acquired from the Yankees on July 30 in exchange for reliever Enyel De Los Santos, is to show he can add value to a playoff roster. The Padres had 10 hits in each of Webb’s previous two starts against them, but the Giants won both games, with Webb limiting the damage by allowing three runs in six innings last Saturday and two runs in seven innings on April 7.
“We’ll evaluate how he throws and see how he is able to take that next step,” Shildt said “He’s starting over to a point. … He’s not starting from . It definitely has gone back in his throwing intensity.” “I’m not looking too much into the results of the last one,” he said. “It doesn’t feel good, but the odds I go out here and give up that much damage on pitches are not very high. My plan was working well until it wasn’t.”Luis Arraez extended his hitting streak to 11 games, tying his season high. He did so by getting three hits for the fourth time in the past five games. He is batting .468 during the streak.