Jake Cronenworth and Elias Diaz homered, Fernando Tatis Jr. had four hits and scored three runs, and the visiting San Diego Padres salvaged the final game of a three-game set with a 8-2 victory over the Arizona Diamondbacks on Sunday.
Nick Pivetta (7-2) gave up two runs and two hits in seven strong innings for his second victory since April 29. He struck out nine, one short of a season high, and walked one.
Cronenworth extended his season-high on-base streak to 13 games, Manny Machado had two RBIs and Diaz and Gavin Sheets had two hits apiece. The Padres had lost four of five.
Eugenio Suarez homered for the third time in four games for the D-backs, who tied a season-low with three hits and had a five-game winning streak broken. Ketel Marte was 0-for-4 to break his 26-game on-base streak.
Arizona starter Merrill Kelly (6-3) gave up four runs on seven hits in five innings, with seven strikeouts and one walk. He extended his streak of 18 consecutive scoreless innings before the Padres broke a scoreless tie in the fourth.
Sheets walked to open the fourth and scored on Xander Bogaerts’ double. Cronenworth followed with his fifth homer of the year after working a 10-pitch at-bat that included five two-strike foul balls.
Tatis led off the fifth with a single and scored on Luis Arraez’s double for a 4-0 lead.
Pivetta retired the first 12 he faced, striking out five, before Josh Naylor walked on a 3-2 pitch to lead off the fifth.
Suarez followed with a 437-foot homer to cut the deficit to 4-2. Suarez has three homers and 10 RBIs in the last four games.
Diaz doubled off Tayler Scott to open the seventh and scored on Tatis’ double. Tatis stole third with one out and scored on Machado’s groundout for a 6-2 lead. Diaz homered and Machado singled in Tatis in a two-run ninth.
The Padres placed center fielder Jackson Merrill on the concussion list before the game after he took a hard tag to the head while attempting to steal second in the seventh inning on Saturday. Trenton Brooks was purchased from Triple-A El Paso to take the roster spot.
–Field Level Media
