San Diego Union-Tribune

Padres 7, Rockies 1

- KEVIN ACEE

Batter’s box: Trent Grisham was 2-for-3, hit his second home run of the spring and walked. He entered the game having gone hitless in his previous 14 at-bats. … Jake Cronenwort­h was 3-for-4 and is batting .419 (13-for-31) this spring. … Ha-Seong Kim singled twice and doubled in his three at-bats in his first game back from the World Baseball Classic. … Austin Nola was 1-for-2 with a walk. The catcher is batting .360 with a .467 on-base percentage in 30 plate appearance­s this spring. … Fernando Tatis Jr. was 0-for-2 with a sac fly and a walk.

Balls and strikes: Michael Wacha worked from behind a lot but pitched 31⁄3 innings, allowing just one run on four hits and a walk. He struck out five. Wacha was pulled with one out in the third inning before returning to throw a perfect fourth. … Tim Hill pitched a perfect inning. … Moises Lugo, who spent most of last season in Double-A but made 11 appearance­s in Triple-A, threw his sixth scoreless inning of the spring. … Steven Wilson had runners at first and second after a double and a walk in the ninth before the game ended on a double play when Luis Liberato made a catch as he crashed into the wall and threw into second base to double up the runner. Extra bases: The Padres’ first two innings ended on double plays, one on a line drive by Cronenwort­h and the other on a grounder by Matthew Batten. … Nola’s throw was good enough to have prevented Yonathan Daza from stealing second in the first inning, but Ha-Seong Kim had the ball pop out of his glove. … Kim and shortstop Xander Bogaerts both made plays for outs in which they ran a ways to their left to field a grounder, did a full turn and threw to first base. … Padres President of Baseball Operations A.J. Preller took in most of the game from the eighth row behind home plate At Salt River Fields in Scottsdale, seated next to his mother.

Blake Snell makes his third spring start at 6:40 p.m. vs. the Mariners at Peoria Stadium. Robert Suarez and Josh Hader also are scheduled to pitch.

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