Tyler Wade scored the winning run on a wild pitch in the bottom of the 11th inning Monday night as the San Diego Padres edged the visiting Miami Marlins 4-3.
Wade pinch-ran for Manny Machado at third after Gavin Sheets started the inning by grounding out to second, moving Machado up 90 feet. Miami used a five-man infield with Xander Bogaerts batting, but Cade Gibson (0-2) intentionally walked him.
With Jake Cronenworth hitting, Gibson bounced a breaking ball to the right of catcher Liam Hicks. Wade took off from third and scored on a close play.
Adrian Morejon (2-2) pitched a 1-2-3 top of the 11th as the Padres to earned their first extra-inning triumph in four attempts this year. San Diego earned its third win in four games overall.
Jesus Sanchez and Connor Norby each had two hits and an RBI for the Marlins, who had won their previous two games.
San Diego forced extra innings after Machado led off the eighth with a homer to left-center, his sixth of the year and third in four games, against reliever Calvin Faucher. Machado’s homer traveled an estimated 406 feet left both starting pitchers with a no-decision.
Miami’s Ryan Weathers lasted 5 2/3 innings, permitting three hits and two runs, both unearned, with three walks and six strikeouts. San Diego’s Randy Vasquez pitched a season-high 6 1/3 innings, yielding six hits and three runs while walking one and fanning five.
Vasquez experienced all of his trouble in the first two innings. He trailed 1-0 just two hitters into the game as Jesus Sanchez singled and Agustin Ramirez followed with an RBI double. Connor Norby tacked on a two-out single that cashed in Ramirez.
Sanchez made it 3-0 in the second when he drilled his third homer of the year to right-center. That was the last hit Vasquez allowed in his 89-pitch stint.
Meanwhile, Weathers stifled his old team until his new team made him get four outs in the fourth. Bogaerts singled with two outs and swiped second. Norby then committed a throwing error on Jake Cronenworth’s bouncer to third that should have ended the inning.
After Luis Campusano coaxed a walk to fill the bases, Jose Iglesias ripped a double just inside third base, scoring Bogaerts and Cronenworth.
–Field Level Media
