The Mercury News Weekend

Padres rip champion Braves behind Musgrove, Machado

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Joe Musgrove pitched 6 2/3 brilliant innings for his hometown Padres against defending World Series champion Atlanta, Manny Machado homered and tied his career high with five hits, and rookie C.J. Abrams hit his first homer for San Diego, which routed the Braves 12-1 in its home opener Thursday night.

The sellout crowd of 44,844 at Petco Park gave Musgrove a standing ovation as he came out of the game with two outs in the seventh and then roared after Machado hit a two-run homer with two outs in the bottom of the inning, his first.

Machado went 5 for 5, scored four runs, had two RBIs and stole two bases. Eric Hosmer had four hits while new designated hitter Luke Voit drove in three runs. BREWERS 5, CARDINALS 1>> Brandon Woodruff threw five shutout innings and Omar Narváez homered and doubled as Milwaukee opened its home schedule. Woodruff struck out two and allowed just three hits and a walk to bounce back from an uncharacte­ristically poor performanc­e in his first start, a 9-0 loss to the Chicago Cubs. The two-time All-Star worked 3 2/3 innings in the Cubs game and gave up seven runs, matching a career high.

CUBS 5, ROCKIES 2>> Seiya Suzuki stayed hot with an RBI double in a three-run first inning, Frank Schwindel homered and drove in two for Chicago in Denver. Suzuki extended his hitting streak to six games since joining the majors from Japan and drove in his 10th run when the Cubs collected five straight hits against Kyle Freeland (0-2).

MARLINS 4, PHILLIES 3>> Sandy Alcantara allowed two runs in 6 1/3 innings, Joey Wendle had two RBIs and Miami won its home opener.

PIRATES 9, NATIONALS 4>>Bryan Reynolds hit a two-run homer after settling his arbitratio­n case with a $13.5 million, two-year deal, helping host Pittsburgh overcome a threerun deficit.

YANKEES 3, BLUE JAYS 0>> Michael King escaped a bases-loaded, no-outs jam created by Aroldis Chapman to preserve New York’s win aat home.

MARINERS 5, WHITE SOX 1>> Jared Kelenic hit a two-run homer off the right-field foul pole in the second inning, and Seattle Mariners stopped a four-game losing streak with a victory in Chicago on a windy day when popups became adventures. Chicago scored in the fifth after Adam Engel’s two-out popup was blown from the middle of the infield into foul territory behind third base and dropped. Engel then reached second when his popup to the first-base side came back and kicked off the mitt of catcher Cal Raleigh for an error. Jake Burger followed with a popup over the mound that drifted to the left side and fell for an RBI single.

ATHLETICS 6, RAYS 3>> Cole Irvin pitched into the seventh inning for Oakland, which took three of four from the Rays in St. Petersburg, Fla.

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