San Diego’s Fernando Tatis Jr. sprinted residence on a wild pitch by Pittsburgh nearer David Bednar within the high of the ninth inning to carry the Padres previous the Pirates 2-1 at wet PNC Park on Saturday evening.
Tatis, who exited Friday evening’s win within the third inning after taking a 93 mph pitch off his left forearm, led off the ninth with a double. The 2-time All-Star stole third and took off when a pitch from Bednar (0-3) to Xander Bogaerts skipped in entrance of catcher Joey Bart. The ball squirted to Bart’s proper and Tatis’ slide simply beat Bart’s lunging tag to present the Padres their fourth straight victory.
It was a milestone evening for Tatis, whose stolen base within the ninth was the a centesimal of his profession. The 26-year-old additionally has 135 residence runs since his main league debut in 2019, making Tatis the twenty seventh energetic participant to affix the 100 HR-100 SB membership.
Manny Machado hit his third homer of the season for San Diego, which received regardless of managing simply three hits. Jason Adam (3-0) labored an ideal eighth. Robert Suarez walked Oneil Cruz with one out within the ninth, however Bryan Reynolds lined out to Bogaerts at quick and Bogaerts doubled off Cruz at first to finish it as Suarez picked up his thirteenth save.
Pirates starter Bailey Falter dominated the Padres for seven innings. The left-hander restricted San Diego to 2 hits and at one level retired 11 straight earlier than Machado’s blast over the left subject wall with one out within the seventh tied the sport.
Cruz singled residence Alexander Canario for Pittsburgh’s solely run. Cruz additionally walked 4 occasions. Ke’Bryan Hayes had two of the Pirates’ six singles. Pittsburgh didn’t report an extra-base hit whereas dropping for the sixth time in seven video games.
Via 31 video games, Tatis is batting .342 this season, which ranks second within the NL.
The Related Press contributed to this report.
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