Manny Machado hit a walk-off grand slam on a full-count pitch with one out in the 10th inning Wednesday night, giving the host San Diego Padres a 6-3 win over the Texas Rangers.
With Jurickson Profar on second to start the inning, representing the tying run, Texas reliever Rafael Montero (0-1) walked Trent Grisham and Fernando Tatis Jr. after pinch hitter Greg Garcia had bunted Profar to third.
Machado then drove his sixth career walk-off homer into the second deck in left. It was also the Padres’ third grand slam, and third win, in as many days against the Rangers.
“I think it’s a little day-to-day,” Padres manager Jayce Tingler said of a bullpen that had the fourth-highest ERA (6.08) in the majors.
“The roles are kind of changing with matchups and who’s up, who’s down, who needs a day off. I do think that something we’ll probably be doing going forward.”
Tim Hill (1-0) got the victory despite entering with runners on base in the top of the 10th and permitting the go-ahead run to score.
The Rangers took a 3-2 lead in the top of the 10th when Willie Calhoun drove home the tiebreaking run with a two-out, bases-loaded, 45-foot single in front of the plate. Texas had loaded the bases with no ones when Padres reliever Cal Quantrill hit Derek Dietrich with a pitch and then bobbled Jose Trevino’s sacrifice bunt for an error.
Hill entered and struck out pinch hitter Rob Refsnyder and Danny Santana before Calhoun topped the ball in front of the plate. Padres catcher Austin Hedges was unable to field it as Nick Solak scored. Calhoun suffered a leg injury on the play and left the game. The Padres were leading 2-1 before Joey Gallo hit his seventh homer of the season while leading off the ninth against Matt Strahm.
That removed dueling right-handers Chris Paddack of San Diego and Lance Lynn of Texas as the pitchers of record. Lynn allowed two runs on eight hits and no walks with six strikeouts over eight innings. He threw 111 pitches, and the two runs came on solo homers in the third by Profar and Tatis. Profar tied the game with his second homer in as many nights against his former teammates while leading off the inning. Lynn retired the next two Padres before Tatis homered on a one-ball offering, the drive to straightaway center covering 419 feet and giving the 21-year-old shortstop his major-league-leading 12th homer in his 26th game.
With two outs in the second inning, Jake Cronenworth hit a bloop double off Lynn, ending a streak of 33 at-bats against Lynn without allowing a hit over a run of 10 2/3 innings. Lynn gave up two hits before retiring a hitter in his last start at Colorado on Aug. 14, then finished with a two-hitter.
Rougned Odor had given the Rangers the when he homered to right on a one-strike curve from Paddack with one out in the second. Paddack allowed one run on four hits and two walks with five strikeouts in six innings.
Astros sock four homers, rout Rockies
Kyle Tucker tripled twice and homered among his four hits, Martin Maldonado, Carlos Correa and George Springer also homered, and the Houston Astros beat the Colorado Rockies 13-6 on Wednesday night in Denver.
Correa had three hits and Springer, Maldonado, Jose Altuve, Abraham Toro and Taylor Jones had two hits each for Houston, which has won seven straight. Tucker had four RBIs, Correa drove in three runs, and Jones knocked in two.
Astros third baseman Alex Bregman left the game in the fourth inning after apparently injuring his right leg on a double to right. Toro replaced him.
Matt Kemp, Chris Owings and Raimel Tapia had two hits each for Colorado, which has lost eight of its past 10.
Correa led off the fifth inning with a home run, his third of the season, off Ryan Castellani (0-1) to snap a 1-1 tie. Tucker tripled to right and scored on Jones’ first major league hit, a single.
Houston extended the lead in the sixth and chased Castellani. Tucker greeted reliever Jeff Hoffman with another triple to score two, and Jones followed with a single to make it 6-1.
Castellani allowed five runs on eight hits and a walk while striking out one in 5 2/3 innings.
The Astros tacked on four more in the seventh inning. Springer led off with a double, moved up on Altuve’s single and scored on Toro’s single. One out later, Yuli Gurriel doubled home two more. After Ashton Goudeau replaced Hoffman, Gurriel scored on Correa’s single.
Springer hit a solo homer in the eighth before Colorado got two in the bottom of the inning on Drew Butera’s RBI double and Tony Wolters’ run-scoring single. That ended the night for Framber Valdez (2-2), who allowed three runs, one earned, on seven hits and a walk in 7 2/3 innings. He struck out five.
Tucker capped his night with a two-run homer in the ninth, his third. The Rockies scored three in the in the bottom of the ninth on Owings’ RBI single and Brendan Rodgers two-run single.
Colorado went ahead 1-0 in the second when Kemp reached on a one-out single, moved to second on Valdez’s throwing error and came home on Tapia’s single. Maldonado tied it with a solo home run in the third inning, his third of the season.
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