Record: 43-45, Pace: 79-83, 4th in NL West, 5th Place in NL Wild Card

Both Arizona and San Diego came into this game riding highs. For Arizona, they’d essentially swept the Dodgers (minus a bad pitch or two from Seawald – his first problematic showing all season!). San Diego meanwhile was riding the high of taking 2 out of 3 from the reigning World Champion Texas Rangers!

Carroll led the game off with a double. He scored when JOC HOMERED TO DEAD CENTER (AZ 2-0)! Gurriel also doubled but nothing else fun happened. Cecconi matched the offense’s vibe and shut down the Padres in the first! Sadly the offense couldn’t replicate in the second, going down in order. Cecconi was less sharp in the second, allowing a run on some small ball: Machado doubled and advanced to home on the next two outs (AZ 2-1). Vasquez again retired the side in the third. Thankfully Cecconi matched him.

Gabi and Suarez made some noise in the fourth, but Alek ended the fun with a groundout to third (but it wasn’t second, so progress?)… It came back to haunt the team though as Cecconi struggled the second time through the order. Jackson Merrill tripled two runs home (SD 3-2) and then scored himself when David Peralta doubled (SD 4-2). Cecconi struck Kim out, but Higashioka singled Peralta home (SD 5-2). After an infield single to Arraez, Cecconi ended the inning. Despite a Perdomo single, Carroll grounded into a double play and Marte ended the inning with his own groundout. Cecconi got the first two outs of the fifth on his own double play, but Suarez erred on a grounder, which ended Slade’s night in favor of Jacques. Thankfully he quickly ended the inning. The sixth was not fun for Arizona. HIGASHIOKA HOMERED IN THE BOTTOM HALF WITH A RUNNER ON (SD 7-2)! The bleeding stopped there.

The top of the seventh was another nothing showing for the Arizona bats. Castellanos kept San Diego from scoring. Newman hit for Pederson in the eighth, but San Diego countered with a pitching change and Newman struck out. Castellanos stayed on the mound for Arizona and handled the eighth without issue. The offense looked alive in the ninth as Gurriel and Moreno singled before McCarthy (hitting for Suarez) walked. ALEK THOMAS HIT A GRAND SLAM OFF NEW PITCHER SUAREZ (SD 7-6)! Perdomo then had a nice grounder that Arraez made a nice play on. But Carroll earned himself a hustle double so that Ketel Grichuk could bat. HE HIT A TWO RUN HOME RUN (AZ 8-7)! Newman kept the hit parade going, which also ended Suarez’s (SD Closer) night. Walker struck out to end the fun.

The defense for the bottom of the ninth was as intriguing as the choice to remove Marte with Herrera catching, Moreno to Third, Newman at second, McCarthy in right and Seawald on the mound. It did not go well. Seawald immediately gave up a GAME-TYING HOME RUN TO PROFAR (TIE 8-8). He proceeded to walk the next batter which set MACHADO UP TO WALK THE GAME OFF (SD 10-8)!

ARIZONA 8, SAN DIEGO 10 LOSS

Conclusion

As with many Cecconi starts, this game started well enough. He looked great the first time through the order. Then it rolled over. From there, it was all down hill on the pitching side. The bullpen wasn’t horrid. The offense had a first inning. Then they went home until the ninth where they loaded the based and forced San Diego to use their closer in a 7-2 ballgame. They had a PHENOMENAL showing, taking the lead back.

Grichuk got to be the big hero tonight, however it comes with some trepidation about Marte who looked both fine and a little worried in the dugout after being pinch hit for.

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Matt Waldron welcomes Brandon Pfaadt to Petco Park for the second game of the series. First pitch is at 6:40pm Arizona Time.

The body of 45-year-old Kelly Paduchowski was found by police on Friday after the woman went missing on Sunday, the Flagstaff Police Department said.

Police located Paduchowski’s body at about 10 a.m. but declined to specify where her body was found or who discovered it, citing an active investigation.

Police said the recovery efforts for the victim’s body were still active.

It comes after Flagstaff officers on Tuesday arrested the victim’s husband, Daniel Paduchowski, after authorities talked with family and witnesses and after processing evidence, police said.

Police announced the same day that the disappearance and subsequent investigation was considered a homicide case.

Kelly Paduchowski’s cellphone data placed the device in the Schultz Creek Trail area about 10:20 a.m. Sunday, police said while Daniel Paduchowski was observed in the same area about 11:30 a.m.

At approximately 12:13 p.m., the device was back at the couple’s Coconino Estates home, police said. Kelly Paduchowski’s white Mazda CX-5 and Daniel Paduchowski were seen about 1:30 p.m. at Campbell Mesa Trail Head, police said.

The Flagstaff Police Department announced a news conference on Friday at 4 p.m. with Chief Sean Connolly and officials with the Coconino County Attorney’s Office.

“Updates and additional information will be provided with questions being limited due to the ongoing investigation,” said Flagstaff police Sgt. Jerry Rintala.

Rintala said the victim’s family had been notified and asked for their privacy during the investigation.

Republic reporter Jose R. Gonzalez contributed to this article.

Former Republican Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer warned that Republicans should shift away from denying the results of recent elections, saying it is “ruining” the GOP.

Republicans in Arizona have faced several high-profile losses in recent years, including a slate of statewide candidates in 2022 and former President Donald Trump’s loss in the 2020 election. Since those bruising losses, the GOP has challenged the results but has been unsuccessful in showing that there were enough voter irregularities or fraud to overturn the results.

Brewer argued in an interview with the Guardian that people will refuse to instill their confidence in Republicans if they continue to claim past elections were stolen.

“The only thing that I know that has to be done is we need people to stand up and talk about it and move on. This is ruining the Republican Party at this point in time. It’s undermining our elections, and if we don’t stop it, the end is that people won’t vote. And who will that hurt if they don’t vote? It will hurt the Republican Party,” Brewer told the news outlet. “We need every vote that we can get at the polls.”

The former governor said that she thinks election denialism from Republicans stems from wanting to win, but she insists it is important to defend the system from “distrust.” Brewer also made a point to say that denying election results was not a GOP-only issue.

“It’s been on both sides. Don’t lay it just on the Republicans, but that happens to be the people that are doing it currently, because we lost the presidency. We had some heated races in Arizona and some of the losers claimed that they were stolen, and they went through all these court cases and they didn’t win and they didn’t have the proof. And evidently, they don’t trust our judicial system either,” the former Arizona governor said.

She also added that the “claims are just outrageous” and believes the level of election denialism is nearing a fever pitch ahead of the contentious primary in the state later this month and the general election in November.

Brewer said that she does not believe the 2020 election was stolen, and she also said that she will vote for Trump in November — noting he is the Republican nominee.

“He did a lot of good when he was president. I just hope that if and when he wins, that it doesn’t all evolve again. Of course, if he wins, then I guess they’ll think the election is okay,” the ex-governor said.

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Several Trump-aligned candidates in competitive races who said the prior presidential election was stolen lost their races in 2022.

In Arizona, 2022 Republican gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake repeatedly said the 2020 election was stolen and then said her loss to now-Gov. Katie Hobbs (D-AZ) was also the result of fraud. Lake is running for Senate in Arizona and will likely be the GOP nominee, but she has also toned down her talk of prior elections being stolen.