Padres put up big numbers
TORONTO — Austin Hedges connected for a grand slam and the Padres hit a franchise-record seven home runs to romp past the Blue Jays 19-4 Saturday for their fifth straight win.
Wil Myers and Hunter Renfroe each hit two home runs and Ian Kinsler and Eric Hosmer also homered. The previous team record was six, set in Cincinnati on July 17, 1998.
Hedges hit his first career slam and drove in five runs. Myers went 2-for-2, drove in four and scored four times, and Renfroe had four hits, scored four and drove in three.
Myers hit the teamrecord seventh homer in a five-run eighth that included homers by Hosmer and Renfroe off Sam Gaviglio.
The Padres nearly matched the franchise record of 20 runs, done twice and most recently in Montreal in 2001.
San Diego put two on and two outs in the ninth against Luke Maile, a catcher who pitched the final inning. Hedges, the San Diego catcher, took three strikes to end the inning. Maile began the inning by getting Renfroe to look at strike three.
Rookie Cal Quantrill (1-2), from nearby Port Hope, Ontario, and the son of former Blue Jays and Pa d re s p i t c h e r Pa u l Quantrill, went six innings to earn his first majorleague win in his fourth career start. The righthander struck out nine while surrendering three earned runs.
Rookie Josh Naylor, from nearby Mississauga, Ontario, had given the Padres a first-inning lead with his first big-league hit in his second career game, an RBI double.
OF George Springer went on the 10day injured list Saturday with a left hamstring strain. Springer suffered the injury trying to make a sliding catch on a foul ball in the eighth inning Friday against the Red Sox. Springer was playing in his first game back after missing the previous four with a stiff back. Springer is batting .308 this season with 17 home runs and 43 RBIs. Houston recalled OF Derek Fisher from Triple-A Round Rock to take Springer’s spot on the roster.
Mike Yastrzemski, the grandson of Hall of Famer Carl Yastrzemski, was called up and put in the starting lineup to make his major-league debut against the Diamondbacks. The younger Yastrzemski was hitting .316 with 12 home runs and 25 RBIs in 40 games with Triple-A Sacramento. The 28-year-old Yastrzemski was originally drafted by the Orioles in 2013 and played 703 games with 2,600 at-bats in the minors.
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Pa t r i c k Corbin pitched a four-hit shutout, Yan Gomes hit a three-run double in the fourth inning and the Nationals beat the Marlins 5-0. Corbin (5-2) faced the minimum through five innings while allowing two singles. The left-hander retired 10 straight batters from the end of the second until allowing a leadoff single in the sixth to Miguel Rojas. He struck out five and walked one, needing 116 pitches to get through nine innings. Corbin last pitched a complete game April 17, 2018 while with Arizona. Gomes’ three-run double to right field capped a five-run fourth inning for the Nationals, who have taken the first two of the four-game series against the Marlins. Washington has yet to win three straight games this season.
Addison Russell homered at Wrigley Field for the first time since he was suspended for violating baseball’s domestic violence policy, leading the Cubs to a wild 8-6 victory over the Reds. With the wind blowing out at the iconic neighborhood ballpark, Albert Almora Jr. and Jason Heyward also connected to help the NL Central-leading Cubs rebound from their disappointing loss in the series opener Friday. Tyler Chatwood gave the weary bullpen a lift by working the ninth for his first save since 2017. Russell finished with three hits. He was optioned to Triple-A Iowa after completing his suspension this month, but he was recalled May 8 and hit his first homer of the season May 15 at Cincinnati.
Luke Voit put on quite a power show for his big rooting section at Kauffman Stadium. With 60 family members and friends in the stands, the Missouri native hit a 470foot, go-ahead home run in the seventh inning that sent the Yankees past the Royals 7-3 in the first game of a split doubleheader. Voit grew up near St. Louis, was drafted by the Royals out of high school, went to Missouri State and made his major-league debut with the Cardinals. “To hit the farthest home run I’ve probably ever hit in front of them is pretty surreal,” Voit said. His two-run drive helped the Yankees win their sixth in a row.
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