Machado’s double caps Padres’ comeback win over Braves
Manny Machado’s two-run double in the eighth gave San Diego the lead and the Padres rallied from a five-run deficit to beat the Atlanta Braves 6-5 on Monday in the first game of a split doubleheader.
The Braves blew a 5-0 lead, wasting a strong start from Reynaldo López, in their fourth straight loss, their longest losing streak of the season. Machado’s double off Joe Jiménez (1-1) drove in Jurickson Profar and Jake Cronenworth to cap a four-run inning. Cronenworth earlier singled in two runs in the inning.
Marcell Ozuna and Matt Olson hit back-to-back homers in the third inning for Atlanta, which had 12 hits after being held to a combined two runs and 11 hits while losing the first two games of the series.
In other news, former Boston Red Sox pitcher Austin Maddox was arrested in Florida as part of an underage sex sting, authorities announced Monday.
Maddox was one of 27 people arrested as part of a multi-agency operation late last month, Jacksonville Sheriff T.K. Waters said. They are accused of soliciting sex over the internet from people who they believed were children, officials said. Maddox, 33, began communicating with an undercover agent pretending to be an underage girl on April 28, an arrest report said. He expressed his intent to have sex with the girl even after she told him that she was 14, officials said.
Maddox is charged with four felony counts and is being held on a $300,000 bond.
Maddox played college ball at Florida and was drafted by the Red Sox in 2012.
ELSEWHERE Auburn’s Battie hurt in Florida shooting
Auburn running back Brian Battie has been hospitalized following a weekend shooting in Sarasota, Fla., where his brother was killed and three others injured.
The Sarasota County Sheriff’s office said they responded to a strip mall at about 3:30 a.m. Saturday, finding a large crowd and multiple shooting victims in the parking lot. The office said in a statement that Tommie L. Battie IV was pronounced dead at the scene. Four others were taken to hospitals.
College basketball: Seimone Augustus, who led LSU to three straight NCAA Final Fours from 2004-06 and won three Olympic gold medals, will return to the Tigers as an assistant, coach Kim Mulkey announced Monday. Augustus was the Associated Press national player of the year in 2006.
Auto racing: Kyle Larson reached the final round of pole qualifying of the Indianapolis 500 on Sunday.
Larson’s four-lap average of 232.846 mph was fifth in the sixcar shootout. He then traveled to North Wilkesboro, N.C., in time for the start of NASCAR’s AllStar Race. He finished fourth.
Ricky Stenhouse Jr. threw a right hook at Kyle Busch after the race that could result in a suspension.
Tennis: Rafael Nadal returned to Roland Garros on Monday to practice and try to figure out whether to compete at the French Open, a tournament he has won 14 times.