Earlier this week at Wrigley Field, they sandwiched a 5-3 win with a pair of losses. Before Saturday, they had scored two or fewer runs in 12 of their first 27 games. But the Padres, after his season debut last week, had continued to produce intermittently. Tatis’s recent return from suspension was heralded as the likely ignition of a sputtering offense. said, “of course, we’re gonna take it to San Diego.”
“If we’re gonna keep rolling,” Fernando Tatis Jr. “It’s definitely coming out tomorrow,” said Manny Machado, one of 10 hitters to homer for either team and the only one to do so twice. The new celebration figures to follow the Padres back home after this weekend. After each home run, for instance, they crowned the conquering hitter with a mariachi-style sombrero. Along the way, they reveled in the atmosphere supplied by a heavily pro-Padres crowd that had eagerly awaited San Diego’s contingent of Latin American talent. The Padres ended the first of two international showcases with season highs in runs and hits (17), on two separate occasions launched back-to-back homers, and saw each of the top five hitters in the lineup go deep. The most talented and most expensive offense in team history entered the game performing 11 percent worse than the league average, according to Weighted Runs Created Plus.
HIGH ALTITUDE PROFESSIONAL
He continued watching from the dugout as the Padres’ star-laden but underachieving lineup experienced catharsis with an opportunistic display in perhaps the most extreme environment in all of professional baseball. He surrendered seven earned runs, his most in a game since 2019, and served up three home runs, matching a career worst.
Musgrove went just 3 1/3 innings before manager Bob Melvin pulled him. That's tied for the most players with a HR in a game in MLB history, with: TEN different players have homered in this game (including Manny Machado twice) “I can’t say I love pitching here,” Musgrove said afterward, “but that was one of the funnest games I’ve ever been a part of.” In a 16-11 demolition derby, Musgrove’s Padres out-swatted Manaea’s Giants, six home runs to five, en route to a somewhat disorienting but nonetheless exhilarating victory. Saturday demonstrated just how formidable that task can be at the highest altitude the major leagues have ever seen. “There’s a lot of excitement for it, but I think we’re both focused on the task at hand,” Musgrove said. Of course, in the first major-league regular-season game in the Mexican capital, he and Manaea intended to put on a show. Musgrove estimated Friday that about half of the group was traveling from various locales to experience another form of history. Since their offseason adventure, Musgrove and Manaea have maintained a roughly 30-person text chain with the fellow passengers they befriended en route to Antarctica. For the sake of perhaps the most protected environment on Earth, it was a good thing no professional hitters tagged along. With the fastest pitch ever recorded in Antarctica, they did both.Ī small but not irrelevant footnote from their excursion: The polar continent has an average elevation of 8,500 feet. Late last fall, the two men trekked to one of the planet’s most extreme habitats intending to set a world record and raise awareness for the Challenged Athletes Foundation. The novelty of the stage might have made it easy to forget that, not five months ago, Musgrove achieved a different kind of first by flinging an 86 mph four-seam fastball into Manaea’s glove.
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