The Riverside Press-Enterprise
Padres waste King's strong start, blanked by Brewers
Blake Perkins hit a single in the eighth inning to lead the Milwaukee Brewers to a 1-0 win over the San Diego Padres on Wednesday, spoiling a stellar start by Padres right-hander Michael King, who pitched a no-hitter through 6 2/3 innings.
The Brewers snapped a three-game losing streak while ending the Padres’ three-game streak.
It was the first time the Padres have been shut out since Aug. 22.
King (2-1) went a careerhigh 7 2/3 innings, throwing 109 pitches. He struck out 10 batters and walked two.
King didn’t allow a runner past first base until the eighth inning.
Brice Turang, singled, got his major league-leading ninth stolen base, and scored on Perkins’ single off Wandy Peralta.
“Wandy hadn’t given up a base hit to a right-handed hitter all year,” Padres manager Mike Shildt said. “It didn’t work out.”
Abner Uribe (2-1) helped preserve the shutout in the eighth after giving up a leadoff triple to Matthew Batten. Uribe retired the next three hitters, punctuated by a bare hand grab he made of Fernando Tatis Jr.’s groundball and throwing him out by a step for the third out.
Roundup of early Wednesday Games
YANKEES 6, TORONTO 4 >> Aaron Judge broke a 4-all tie with a two-run single in the ninth inning, Juan Soto and Giancarlo Stanton hit solo home runs and New York rallied to win in Toronto, avoiding its first sweep of the season.
ORIOLES 4, TWINS 2 >> Cedric Mullins hit a two-run homer in the bottom of the ninth inning to give the Baltimore a win at home and a three-game sweep of Minnesota.
ATHLETICS 6, CARDINALS 3 >> Esteury Ruiz homered for the second time in three games since being recalled from Triple-a, and Oakland beat St. Louis before a home crowd of 9,551 to avoid a three-game sweep.
GIANTS 3, MARLINS 1 >> Rookie Keaton Winn threw six solid innings of one-run ball and San Francisco won
its first series since 2016.
CUBS 5, DIAMONDBACKS 3 >> Cody Bellinger hit a goahead solo homer in the sixth inning, Mike Tauchman added an RBI double and Chicago won at Arizona.
RANGERS 5, TIGERS 4 >> Josh Smith’s pinch-hit double in the top of the ninth drove home the winning run as Texas topped error-prone Detroit.
METS 9, PIRATEES 1 >> Starling Marte hit his 150th career homer, powering New York over Pittsburgh and a home sweep of a threegame series.
in Miami
Pages' early wake-up
When the call came, Andy Pages slept through it.
It wasn’t until after midnight that Pages woke up and answered his phone. His Triple-a Oklahoma City manager Travis Barbary was on the other line telling him to pack up and head to the airport in the morning. The Dodgers had called him up to make his major-league debut on Tuesday night at Dodger Stadium.
“I don’t know what time the first call came, but the first call that I picked up was at midnight,” Pages said in Spanish. “I think they started calling me like at nine o’clock.”
Once he got the news, the Cuban-born Pages’ first call was to his mother, Juana Maria, in Cuba.
“She started waking up everyone that lives in our neighborhood and obviously she did cry,” Pages said. “But I told her to stay calm because we’re finally in the big leagues, which is where she’s always wanted me to be.”
Pages, 23, showed potential to get here the for
some time. But the outfielder’s career was sidetracked when he injured his left shoulder in his first game after being promoted to Triple-a last May. Pages showed in spring training that he had fully recovered, going 8 for 17 in seven Cactus League games.
At the time of his promotion, he was among the top three in the Pacific Coast League in hits (23, first), runs scored (16, second), OPS (1.146, third) and home runs (five, tied for third). He had an eightgame hitting streak going with seven multi-hit games, five home runs, 14 RBIS and 10 runs scored while going 18 for 35.
On Tuesday night, Pages lined the first pitch he saw as a big-leaguer into right field for a single. He came around to score on a singly by Austin Barnes. He went 1 for 4 in the 6-2 win over the Washington Nationals.
— Bill Plunkett
Darvish to DL
A couple days after appearing to dodge a big blow with first baseman Jake Cronenworth’s balky calf, the Padres will have to navigate their first significant injury situation of the season.
Right-hander Yu Darvish was placed on the injured list Wednesday with neck tightness. The move is retroactive to Monday, meaning the soonest Darvish can return is April 30.
Darvish said he began to feel the tightness “a little bit before” his start Sunday in Los Angeles against the Dodgers, in which he allowed three runs in five innings.
“It’s not bad,” he said. “I just need to take a little bit off. This afforded me a couple weeks.”