The Padres closed out an unsightly recreation Thursday with a phenomenal defensive play in the highest of the twelfth inning and Xander Bogaerts’ walk-off grand slam in the underside half for a 7-3 victory over the visiting Colorado Rockies.
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Bogaerts got here to bat with the bases loaded after a sacrifice bunt by Fernando Tatis Jr. and intentional walks to Jackson Merrill and Manny Machado.
Before that, second baseman Jake Cronenworth and Luis Campusano teamed up for a play that needed to be executed completely in order to achieve success.
With a runner on third and one out, Colorado’s Brenton Doyle grounded a ball up the center that Cronenworth fielded on the sting of the grass and threw house to the precise spot it wanted to be for Campusano to catch the ball and tag out Willi Castro as he slid by.
David Morgan, who had gotten the ultimate two outs in the eleventh inning, then completed off the highest of the twelfth.
Both groups scored a run in every of the primary two additional innings.
The Rockies took their second lead on Brett Sullivan’s leadoff double in the eleventh earlier than Jeremiah Estrada and Morgan labored out of that jam.
Gavin Sheets led off the underside of the eleventh with a single that moved Bogaerts, the automated runner, to 3rd earlier than Nick Castellanos lined out and pinch-hitter Ramón Laureano struck out. Campusano then turned in his first little bit of heroics, lining a single to left discipline to tie the sport.
The Rockies scored in the tenth on Tyler Freeman’s single and the Padres on Machado’s sacrifice fly with the bases loaded.
The Rockies went forward for a second time when Sullivan doubled in the automated runner main off the eleventh in opposition to Estrada.
Estrada, who had labored the tenth, walked a batter and obtained the primary out of the eleventh with a strikeout earlier than being changed by Morgan. Morgan completed off the highest half of the inning with a groundout and a strikeout.
The Padres’ fifth victory in six video games put them over .500 (7-6) for the primary time this season.
Padres starter Randy Vásquez fell one out shy of his third high quality begin of the season, strolling off the sector to a loud ovation after permitting one run in 5⅔ innings.
It was by far his most laborious outing of 2026.
Vásquez has discovered a couple of additional ticks on his fastball over the course of final season. He has developed a deeper belief in his appreciable variety of different choices.
He completed final season and started this one by putting out extra batters and having fewer batters attain base. Thursday was his second recreation this season with eight strikeouts, double the variety of instances he did it in his first 51 profession begins.
But he has in his past two begins additionally returned to being the visitors cop.
Fortunately for him and the Padres, he’s fairly good at retaining the baserunners he permits from making it house.
Vásquez didn’t make it by any of the six innings he started with out at the very least one Rockies batter reaching base. He obtained assist in the second inning when catcher Freddy Fermin threw out a runner attempting to attain and assist in the fifth inning when the Rockies’ Jake McCarthy unsuccessfully tried to show a single right into a double.
The Rockies made Vásquez throw a variety of pitches from the beginning, together with on their two nine-pitch strikeouts in the primary two innings.
He threw simply 10 pitches in the third inning, however considered one of them was hit 408 ft and over the wall in heart discipline.
The Padres tied the sport in the underside of the inning on singles by Fermin and Cronenworth and a sacrifice fly lined to left discipline by Tatis.
They flubbed their different two possibilities at scoring earlier than additional innings — the sixth when Machado was gifted two bases and in the eighth when Tatis walked and stole second base earlier than being picked off there proper earlier than Machado singled.
