Manny Machado homered two times Saturday to lend a hand the San Diego Padres stretch their profitable streak to 5 video games with an 11-1 victory over the host Boston Pink Sox.
Machado hit a two-run house run within the 3rd and added a three-run homer within the 5th. He has 10 house runs this season.
San Diego additionally won a solo house run from Jackson Merrill (his twelfth), and a two-run homer from Brett Sullivan (his first). The Padres have 20 house runs of their closing 10 video games.
3 of the 4 house runs have been hit in opposition to Boston starter Tanner Houck (7-6), who grew to become 28 on Saturday. Houck had allowed two house runs in 103 1/3 innings this season getting into Saturday’s recreation.
Houck surrendered 8 runs (seven earned) on 9 hits in 4 1/3 innings. He started the day main the American League in ERA (2.18), however his ERA rose to two.67.
San Diego starter Michael King (6-5) tossed six innings to earn the win. The proper-hander gave up a run on 5 hits, struck out six and walked one.
Jarren Duran accounted for Boston’s scoring by way of hitting his 8th house run, a solo shot within the 6th.
Duran made a fielding error in heart box on a unmarried by way of Ha-Seong Kim that allowed Donovan Solano to attain and put the Padres up 1-0 in the second one inning.
Machado’s two-run house run gave the Padres a 3-0 lead within the 3rd, and Merrill’s house run — his 2d in as many video games — made it 4-0 within the fourth.
The Padres scored six runs within the 5th. The inning integrated an RBI unmarried by way of Jake Cronenworth, Machado’s three-run homer and Sullivan’s two-run house run.
Sullivan hit his house run in opposition to left-hander Bailey Horn, who used to be making his primary league debut.
After Duran were given the Pink Sox at the scoreboard, Merrill’s RBI double within the 8th drove in Cronenworth with the sport’s ultimate run. Merrill and Luiz Arraez every had 3 of San Diego’s 16 hits.
–Box Degree Media
