Padres’ last gasp: Odor’s 3-run HR in 9th sinks Nats
O’s score 8 in the 7th to stun Yanks on Wednesday
Rougned Odor hit a three-run homer off Hunter Harvey with two outs in the ninth inning Thursday, giving San Diego an 8-6 win over Washington and ending the Padres’ five-game losing streak.
Washington trailed 5-1 before a five-run seventh.
Jake Cronenworth and Juan Soto singled leading off the ninth. Harvey (2-2) struck out Xander Bogaerts and Matt Carpenter, and Odor homered on an 1-0 fastball, lining the ball just inside the rightfield foul pole.
Odor also hit a two-run double and had five RBIs, one short of his career high. He has homered in consecutive games and has 10 hits in his last 12 games as he subs for the injured Manny Machado.
Soto reached base five times on four walks and a single.
Drew Carlton (1-0) pitched a 1-2-3 eighth for his first decision in parts of three major league seasons. Josh Hader struck out two in a perfect ninth for his 13th save in 15 chances.
San Diego, which took two of three from the Nationals, had not won a series since May 1-3 against Cincinnati.
Down 5-1, the Nationals had seven straight hits against Tim Hill and Nick Martinez while batting around in the seventh. Ruiz’s pinch single caromed off the glove of Odor at second as the go-ahead run scored. Jeimer Candelario had an RBI double and Alex Call laid down a perfect bunt single to tie the game at 5-5.
Padres catcher Brett Sullivan tagged out Call trying to score on a pitch that got awat from the plate.
Padres starter Blake Snell rebounded from his worst start of the season, allowing one run and four hits over five innings while retiring 10 of 11 batters at one point. He gave up six runs May 19 in a 6-1 loss to Boston.
Grisham hit a two-run homer in the second off Jake Irvin, his fifth of the season and first since April 13.
Late Wednesday
Nationals 5, Padres 3: Alex Call had a two-run double in Washington’s four-run second inning Wednesday night, and the Nationals won. Washington starter Trevor Williams (2-2) went 5.2 innings. Carl Edwards Jr. and Hunter Harvey combined for 2.1 scoreless innings, and Kyle Finnegan worked a perfect ninth for his 10th save. They held the Padres to four hits.
Orioles 9, Yankees 6: Adam Frazier hit a three-run homer and pinch-hitter Gunnar Henderson had a go-ahead, two-run double in an eight-run seventh inning Wednesday night during Baltimore’s rally at Yankee Stadium, ending New York’s five-game win streak.
Gleyber Torres homered twice and drove in three runs, and Isiah Kiner-Falefa tripled and homered as the Yankees built a 5-1 lead against Tyler Wells.
New York’s bullpen entered with a major league-best 2.80 ERA, but Baltimore sent 12 batters to the plate in the seventh against Cortes and the bullpen, the Orioles’ highest-scoring inning this season. Baltimore has come from behind in 19 of its wins.
“Ton of fight. Ton of energy in our dugout,” Orioles manager Brandon Hyde said.
The franchise matched its most runs in an inning in a road game against the Yankees, on June 5, 1989, and by the St. Louis Browns on June 12, 1929, according to the Elias Sports Bureau.
“Don’t count us out. We’ll battle back. There’s no quit in this team,” Henderson said.
Cortes had allowed only Ryan Mountcastle’s fourth-inning homer before walking Anthony Santander leading off the seventh and giving up a single to Austin Hayes on a sharp grounder that could have been a double play but short-hopped under the glove of rookie shortstop Anthony Volpe and into left.
Frazier hit a fastball off the right-field foul pole, chasing Cortes.
Slumping James McCann and Jorge Mateo singled off Jimmy Cordero (3-2), and Henderson doubled down the right-field line for a 6-5 lead to end a 22 ⅓-inning scoreless streak for Yankees relievers.
Kyle Higashioka’s passed ball moved up the runner, Mountcastle followed with a sacrifice fly against Albert Abreu, and Santander and Hays hit RBI singles for a 9-5 lead.
Mike Baumann (4-0) pitched a 1-2-3 sixth.