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Darvish dominates, Padres soundly beat Mets
The Padres had been reminded once more Tuesday what is feasible.
There may be incredible pitching and plentiful offense in the identical recreation.
The Padres scored 4 runs within the first two innings and three extra within the seventh en path to a 7-0 victory during which Yu Darvish allowed two hits in his seven innings.
“That’s the proper mixture,” second baseman Jake Cronenworth mentioned. “Yu provides us the unimaginable outing. Well timed hitting. (Jurickson) Profar leadoff homer to spark the whole lot. High quality at-bats, one by means of 9. It was an superior win.”
It was the Padres’ main league-leading 32nd high quality begin. It was simply the 15th time in these 32 video games they’ve scored greater than three runs.
“It felt slightly bit like opening night time the place we scored early after which saved scoring,” supervisor Bob Melvin mentioned, referring to the Padres’ 12-1 victory over the Braves within the April 14 dwelling opener.
That recreation was the one different time this season the Padres scored 4 or extra runs within the first two innings.
“When you have got a man like Yu on the mound, you get a few runs early and you are feeling actually good,” Melvin mentioned. “Particularly when he will get off to a superb begin, he’s throwing all his pitches, throwing them for strikes, not strolling anyone. After which so as to add on like that, it’s nice.”
Tuesday was simply the fourth time this season the Padres scored three or extra runs in two separate innings. The primary time was the house opener. Additionally they did it Could 22 in San Francisco and Sunday in Milwaukee.
“The offense did an excellent job of scoring runs,” Darvish mentioned.
And the right-hander once more did fairly a job of not permitting them.
It was the second time this season Darvish (5-3) threw seven scoreless innings and the fourth time he went a minimum of six innings with out permitting a run.
He didn’t permit a success till a two-out single within the sixth inning.
It was the second time this season Darvish went a minimum of that far in a recreation with out permitting a success. The opposite was on opening day, when he was pulled after six hitless innings. It was the fourth time this season a Padres pitcher has taken a no-hitter a minimum of that deep, together with Joe Musgrove going 7 2/3 innings earlier than permitting a success Friday in Milwaukee.
Tuesday was the Padres’ seventh shutout of the season, tied for third most within the majors.
After by no means main in Monday’s 11-5 loss to the Mets, the Padres got here out scorching Tuesday when Profar, the Padres’ leadoff hitter, launched a house run to proper area off Taijuan Walker.
Successive singles by Eric Hosmer and Nomar Mazara started the second inning. Trent Grisham drove in Hosmer with a one-out single, and Cronenworth adopted Profar’s two-out stroll with a bases-loaded single to attain two extra.
Three walks, Manny Machado’s bases-loaded single and Luke Voit’s sacrifice fly accomplished the scoring.
The Padres had simply six hits, however three of their six walks became runs.
Darvish navigated a circuitous route.
Darvish hit three of the primary 5 batters he confronted — one within the first inning and two within the second.
Three pitches later after he hit Pete Alonso on the hand to start out the second inning, Darvish hit Jeff McNeill on the entrance foot.
Darvish struck out the subsequent two batters and obtained out of the inning with a groundout. The Mets wouldn’t attain base once more till Mark Canha’s gentle liner into left area with two outs within the sixth.
Eduardo Escobar’s two-out double within the seventh was the one different hit off Darvish. Adrian Morejón, who had Tommy John surgical procedure final April, completed labored two good innings in is first main league recreation since April 11, 2021.
“To have the ability to add on three runs within the seventh to present Morejón a shot to come back within the recreation and end it out,” Melvin mentioned, “that was large for him.”