The day after the Padres came out on the wrong end of an intense game with the Dodgers, they enjoyed sweet revenge Tuesday in an 11-1 laugher at Petco Park.
Manny Machado had three hits and drove in five runs – matching his career RBI high – and Luis Arraez had three hits and scored four times as the Friars capitalized on Los Angeles’ lack of major league pitchers.
Dylan Cease (2-5) also got back on track, striking out 11 and yielding three hits over seven scoreless innings. He ended his 11-start winless streak and faced his biggest battle in the third, ending a bases-loaded jam.
Manager Mike Shildt called Cease’s performance a “great blueprint” for how he can dominate going forward, from throwing mostly strikes to getting quick outs.
“Hundred pitches, seven innings, that’s pretty much the recipe,” the skipper said.
The Dodgers won the clubs’ unusually late season opener 8-7 in a 10-inning thriller Monday, but the second game was barely competitive due to the defending World Series champs’ pitching woes.
The Dodgers have 14 pitchers on the injured list, and they handed this game over to Matt Sauer (1-1), who had been recalled from the minors to provide bulk innings. The Dodgers stuck to the plan even though Sauer struggled – he threw 111 pitches while giving up nine runs on 13 hits.
It got so bad for L.A. that utilityman Kiké Hernández pitched the final 2 1/3 innings. He allowed three hits and one earned run while throwing no pitch faster than 57 mph.
The Padres mounted their first rally with two outs in the third. Fernando Tatís Jr. drew a walk and scored on Arraez’s double to right. Machado singled home Arraez, extending his hitting streak to eight games, before scoring on Jackson Merrill’s triple to right.
Martín Maldonado hit the Padres’ only homer. Xander Bogaerts had a two-run single. They went up 11-0 in the seventh on Machado’s two-run single off Hernández to drive in Maldonado and Arraez.
Merrill looked back on Monday’s loss during the Padres’ post-game broadcast, but said the team had to let it go.
“It was a good game yesterday, you have to admit,” he said. “It was one of the best baseball games of the year. So, just overcome it and move forward to today.”
Things might bode well for the Friars again at 1:10 p.m. Wednesday – Randy Vásquez (3-4, 3.69 ERA) faces Justin Wrobleski (1-2, 7.20), who also is in the Dodgers’ rotation solely because of injuries.
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