For the Padres, Friday night’s game came down to two back-to-back pitches.
Blaine Crim drove a three-run home run an estimated 439 feet on the first, from JP Sears, and Kyle Farmer homered on Sears’ next pitch to carry the last-place Rockies past the playoff-contending Friars 4-2 Friday.
With the homers, the Rockies scored for the first time in five games in San Diego this season. Colorado, which has the worst record in the majors at 41-107, was outscored 16-0 in a three-game sweep in April and opened this four-game set with a 2-0 loss Thursday.
The Padres stayed 2 1/2 games behind the Dodgers in the NL West and four games ahead of the Mets in the race for the second of three NL wild cards. L.A. and New York both lost Friday, the Dodgers on a 10th-inning grand slam.
Sears (8-11) struck out seven through three innings before allowing singles to Hunter Goodman and Jordan Beck opening the fourth.
With two outs, Crim, a 28-year-old rookie, drove the first pitch he saw into the second deck in left field. It was his first big league hit.
Farmer hit Sears’ next pitch an estimated 408 feet into the Padres’ bullpen in left center.
That runs erased a 1-0 Padre lead. Manny Machado had hit a 415-foot home run off Tanner Gordon (6-6) with two outs in the first for his first hit in five games. It was his 24th.
Gordon allowed two hits in six-plus innings, struck out nine and walked one. He retired 16 straight batters at one point. Fernando Tatis Jr. had the toughest time with Gordon, striking out four times.
The Padres, though, scored a run in the bottom of the ninth, after a single by Machado, a double by Gavin Sheets and a RBI ground out by Ramon Laureano. With Jackson Merrill, who walked, at first, and Sheets at third, Ryan O’Hearn came up and took the first pitch low.
But he swung at the next three pitches from Victor Vodnik, including a changeup that was outside, to end the Friars’ hopes.
Dylan Cease is set to face the Rockies’ Bradley Blalock (1-4, 8.62 ERA) Saturday at Petco Park.
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