Adams homers twice as Nats down Padres
Matt Adams homered in consecutive innings, Trea Turner went deep in his first at-bat at Petco Park and Stephen Strasburg beat his hometown team again, leading the Nationals to an 8-5 victory at San Diego on Monday night.
Adams hit a towering two-run drive to right off Tyson Ross in the sixth and a three-run shot to right-center in the seventh off Matt Strahm, giving him 10 homers this year. It was his seventh career multihomer game and second in a week after he went deep twice against Pittsburgh last Tuesday.
Turner, San Diego’s first-round pick in the 2014 draft who did not play for the Padres, drove a 1-1 pitch from Ross an estimated 396 feet into the home bullpen in center field with one out in the first inning. It was his third of the season.
Turner walked leading off the sixth and scored the go-ahead run on Anthony Rendon’s double to left. Adams followed with his first homer.
San Diego made Turner the 13th pick overall in 2014 and then dealt him to Washington — along with Ross’ younger brother, Joe — that December in an 11-player, three-team trade that brought Wil Myers from Tampa Bay to San Diego.
Strasburg (4-3) improved to 7-2 in nine career starts against the Padres. He allowed three runs and six hits in seven innings, struck out five and walked one.
Strasburg went to West Hills High in suburban Santee and then pitched at San Diego State under Tony Gwynn before going to the Nationals as the top pick in the 2009 draft.
Jose Pirela had three hits and drove in a run for San Diego. Right fielder Travis Jankowski made a nice play against the wall to rob Washington’s Bryce Harper of an extrabase hit to end the eighth.
Twins 6, Cardinals 0:
Fernando Romero struck out nine in six innings in his second straight scoreless start to begin his major-league career, leading Minnesota at St. Louis. The victory was a season-high fourth straight for the Twins. St. Louis had its season-best five-game winning streak snapped, one night after finishing a weekend sweep of the Cubs at nearly 1 a.m. Central time.
Mets 7, Reds 6:
Jay Bruce hit a two-run homer against his old team, rounding the bases to a familiar “Bruuce” chant, and Adrian Gonzalez hit two solo shots for visiting New York. Billy Hamilton, Eugenio Suarez and Scooter Gennett homered for Cincinnati.
Cubs 14, Marlins 2:
Ian Happ homered from both sides of the plate, helping host Chicago stop a fivegame slide. The Cubs collected 15 hits after scoring three or fewer runs in 10 of the previous 11 games. Kris Bryant and Javier Baez connected, and Happ finished with five RBIs. The only downer for the Cubs was an early exit for Baez, who departed in the sixth with right groin tightness.
Rangers 7, Tigers 6:
Jurickson Profar hit a tie-breaking RBI triple, Nomar Mazara homered again and host Texas beat Detroit. Delino DeShields and Shin-Soo Choo both scored from first in the seventh. DeShields reached on a two-out error and then raced around the bases when Choo singled on a grounder that trickled off the outstretched glove of second baseman Dixon Machado into shallow right field. Profar followed with his big hit.