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Padres beat Giants
SAN DIEGO — Luis Perdomo went from on the ropes to the winner’s circle for the San Diego Padres on Tuesday night.
Manuel Margot and Jabari Blash homered to back Perdomo’s six innings of solid pitching as the Padres beat the San Francisco Giants 6-3.
Perdomo (7-8) settled in after his pitch count climbed as he wiggled from jams in the first two innings.
“You could see that he was on the edge,” Padres manager Andy Green said.
In winning for the first time in his last four starts, Perdomo surrendered two runs (one earned) and eight hits. He struck out three and walked two in working at least six innings in his eighth straight start.
“He was too quick in the first inning and then in the second,” Green said. “Then he slowed himself down and for the rest of the game he was mostly good.”
The Padres prevailed for the eighth time in their last 11 meetings with the Giants. Margot’s fourth-inning blast, the rookie’s 13th of the season, gave the Padres their first lead of the game. Blash’s bash to lead off the fourth set the stage for the four-run inning.
Three Padres relievers finished off the Giants with Brad Hand handling the ninth for his 13th save.
The Giants lost for the fourth time in five games.
Matt Moore’s dreadful season continued. Moore (4-13) entered the game with the highest ERA (5.38) of any qualified NL starting pitcher. In 16 of his 27 outings this season, he has allowed at least four runs.
Despite some encouraging signs in his last three starts, it was a familiar script for Moore against the Padres. Moore was charged with five runs and eight hits, with a walk and a hit batter. He struck out two.
Blash crushed Moore’s 80 mph changeup in the fourth to tie the score at 2. His solo shot went 412 feet.
The big blow was Margot’s three-run shot, which came after Austin Hedges reached on a walk and Perdomo via a fielder’s choice.
Both Blash and Margot also delivered defensive gems in the outfield. Jose Pirela did as well when he leaped above the left-field fence in the eighth to rob Pablo Sandoval of a homer.
The Padres pulled within 2-1 in the second on Cory Spangenberg’s RBI infield single.
PHOENIX — The Arizona Diamondbacks roughed up a pitcher who almost threw a no-hitter last time out, then had to hold on as the best team in baseball rallied.
To finish it off, despite some tense moments from their closer, was a good sign that the Diamondbacks are back to playing the way they did early in the season.
A.J. Pollock hit a tworun homer and Arizona roughed up Rich Hill in his follow-up to a near nohitter for a 7-6 win over the Los Angeles Dodgers on Tuesday night.
“They are the runaway team in major league baseball and they were coming after us with everything they had, and we held on,” Diamondbacks manager Torey Lovullo said. “Those are the team moments that push you on to the next day.”
Hill (9-6) pitched nine hitless innings against Pittsburgh on Wednesday, losing the no-hitter and the game on Josh Harrison’s walk-off homer in the 10th.
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