The first of those two hits - a two-out single by Matt Carpenter that scored Soto, who had doubled with one out - stopped a scoreless streak at 11 innings and gave the Padres a 1-0 lead in the fourth. If he wasn’t ebullient as he said that, it was because the Padres not named Soto or Machado totaled three hits, and the Padres went 2-for-10 with runners in scoring position. “We certainly have the ability to do that in the middle of the order,” Melvin said. As was Machado going 2-for-5 with a home run, adding on to turn what would have been a wild escape into a comfortable cruise. So Soto hitting two doubles in a 4-for-4 night was encouraging. 96 per game that ranked eighth lowest in the majors in that span and included a six-homer game at 7,349 feet above sea level in Mexico City. They had hit 24 home runs in their past 25 games, a rate of. They entered Tuesday averaging just more than 1.1 runs a game after the sixth inning, tied for sixth fewest in the majors. ![]() Big ball from the big boys is something the Padres need. Small ball is something Padres manager Bob Melvin appreciates, for sure. ![]() ![]() Said Tatis: “I always say when we play small ball, long ball comes by itself.” reached on a fielder’s choiuce, stole second base and went to third on a wide bounced throw by Twins catcher Christian Vazquez error and then scored when Vazquez’s pick-off throw to try to nab him at third base bounced off his back and rolled toward the unmanned dirt at shortstop. Ha-Seong Kim led off the seventh by reaching on a throwing error, stole third without a throw because no one was covering the bag and scored on Austin Nola’s squeeze bunt to break a 1-1 tie.
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