Manny Machado hit his 23rd home run and drove in three runs to help the San Diego Padres roll to an 8-1 win over the Colorado Rockies on Sunday.<\/p>\n
With the win, the Padres remained one game behind the Los Angeles Dodgers for first place in the National League West.<\/p>\n
Machado was one of four Padres players to hit a home run, with Jackson Merrill, Gavin Sheets and Ram\u00f3n Laureano each connecting on solo shots. San Diego had entered the day with 123 home runs as a team this season, the second-fewest in the majors.<\/p>\n
Merrill had three hits while Machado, Sheets, Jake Cronenworth and Freddy Fermin had two apiece for the Padres, who had lost nine of their previous 12 games.<\/p>\n
Dylan Cease (7-11) earned the win for San Diego, giving up four hits and one earned run in five innings. He struck out five.<\/p>\n
The loss was the Rockies\u2019 13th in their past 16 games and dropped them to an MLB-worst 40-103, tying the franchise record for most losses in a season.<\/p>\n
Colorado\u2019s Tanner Gordon (5-6) suffered his first loss in nearly a month after allowing six earned runs in 3 2\/3 innings. The 27-year-old right-hander gave up three home runs after surrendering just seven in his 11 previous starts this season.<\/p>\n
Key moment<\/p>\n
After an Ezequiel Tovar RBI single shaved the Padres\u2019 lead to 3-1, San Diego responded with a three-run fourth inning. The Rockies wouldn\u2019t get closer than five runs for the rest of the day.<\/p>\n
Key stat<\/p>\n
The Padres had 18 runs in the final two games of the series against Colorado after scoring just 12 runs in their previous five games combined.<\/p>\n
Up next<\/p>\n
Padres: San Diego returns home, where a yet-to-be-announced starter will face off Monday against LHP Nick Lodolo (8-7, 3.22 ERA) and the Cincinnati Reds.<\/p>\n
Rockies: RHP Chase Dollander (2-12, 6.77) will take on RHP Tyler Glasnow (1-3, 4.81) and the host Dodgers Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Manny Machado hit his 23rd home run and drove in three runs to help the San Diego Padres…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":127165,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,591,5135,1189,85],"class_list":["post-127164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-mlb","tag-padres","tag-san-diego-padres","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127164\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/127165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}