Ryan O’Hearn hit a grand slam, Luis Arraez and Jose Iglesias additionally homered and the San Diego Padres blanked the visiting Milwaukee Brewers 7-0 on Tuesday to realize floor within the playoff race on a number of fronts.
San Diego (87-71) moved inside 1 1/2 video games of the first-place Dodgers (88-69) within the Nationwide League West after Los Angeles fell 5-4 to the Arizona Diamondbacks on Tuesday.
The Padres are additionally inside 1 1/2 video games of the Cubs (88-69) within the chase for the highest NL wild card and home-field benefit in a possible first-round playoff collection between the groups. Chicago was a 9-7 loser to the New York Mets on Tuesday.
O’Hearn gave the Padres all of the offense they wanted when he turned on a dangling splitter from Bruce Zimmermann (0-1) within the backside of the primary. He lined it an estimated 366 toes into the fitting subject seats for his second profession slam and his seventeenth homer of the yr.
Arraez made it 6-0 within the second with a two-run homer off the fitting subject foul pole, his eighth of the yr. Scoring forward of him was Mason McCoy, who reached on a throwing error by second baseman Brice Turang.
On condition that early help, Randy Vasquez (6-7) turned in a stellar outing. Vasquez retired the final 14 batters he confronted as he gave up only one hit and two walks in seven innings, fanning three.
Christian Yelich’s single within the third was Milwaukee’s solely hit off Vasquez. Padres relievers Wandy Peralta and Yuki Matsui every threw one inning to shine off a four-hit shutout.
Zimmermann, making his first main league look since 2023 and his first begin since 2022, was charged with seven hits and 6 runs, 5 earned, in six innings. He walked two and struck out one.
Iglesias capped the scoring within the eighth with a solo blast to left-center off reliever Tobias Myers. It was Iglesias’ third homer of the yr.
The Brewers (95-63) stayed 2 1/2 video games forward of Philadelphia (92-65) within the race for the NL’s finest document after the Phillies misplaced 6-5 in 11 innings to the Miami Marlins.
–Subject Degree Media
