Padres 9, Royals 9
Batter’s box: Tommy Pham homered in his first two at-bats and finished the day 2-for-3. Pham is 11-for-20 since beginning the spring 0-for-17 while he worked to find the right contact lens combination . ... Luis Campusano had his team-high fourth double of the spring. The 22-year-old catcher walked twice in his four times up. He is batting .258 with a .361 on-base percentage in 36 plate appearances this spring. … Outfielder/first baseman Brian O’Grady, battling for what could be one bench spot, was 1-for-4 and has nine hits in his past 22 at-bats after starting the spring 0-for-12. … Outfielder/infielder Jorge Mateo, also trying to be on the roster, went 1-for-5 with a double and is batting .318/.426 in a team-high 54 plate appearances. … Tucupita Marcano almost had his second triple of the spring but was called out at third. Instead, he got his third double. … Padres pitchers haven’t even tried to put the ball in play much this spring but Joe Musgrove did twice on bunts. His first went for a single and the other a putout. … Catcher Juan Fernandez, who played at low-A Fort Wayne in 2019, hit his first home run of the spring.
Balls and strikes: Musgrove pitched into the fifth inning, allowing five runs on eight hits, two walks and a hit batter. … Emilio Pagan relieved Musgrove with two on and no outs in the fifth inning and allowed a three-run homer to Hunter Dozier on a slider that didn’t slide. That ended a streak of four scoreless innings for Pagan. … Michel Baez allowed a home run in the seventh inning. … Miguel Díaz allowed two runs in the ninth inning. The game ended when the Royals’ Emmanuel Rivera tried to turn his two-run double into a triple and was thrown out on a relay from right fielder Ben Ruta to first baseman Patrick Kivlehan to third baseman Pedro Florimon.
Extra bases: First baseman Eric Hosmer returned to the lineup after missing the previous two games with a stomach ailment. He went 1-for-3 and played five innings. … In what was arguably the first instance of new third-base coach Bobby Dickerson having a difficult choice to make on a send home, he went for it. And with an elusive slide, Kivlehan scored from second base on O’Grady’s single to center field.
On deck: MacKenzie Gore is scheduled to make his third start (fourth appearance) of the spring, 1:10 p.m. today against the Reds in Peoria. The left-hander, widely considered the top pitching prospect in baseball, has allowed two runs in six innings. A solid start could be a step toward showing he is ready to make the roster.